CONTACT:  nigelmanson66@gmail.com

GENRE: Comedy

CAST SIZE (M/F): 5F, 2M and 1GN with optional extras

LENGTH:  One act

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes but contains mild adult language

Sophia intrepidly seeks some friendly likeminded people to share convivial pleasantries to alleviate her loneliness, and places a personal add in the local newsagent’s window. To her surprise these people exist. After being introduced they eventually form a club and become amateur mourners as a sort of service to humanity. Alice leaves her husband for a successful funeral director with “insider information” about the best wakes to attend. As time goes on they become aware of veiled, funereal woman following them. Just who is the mysterious, mute in black they keep encountering? They are soon to be shocked to discover that “she” is none other than Alice’s husband Brian. And Emily is in for a shocking surprise herself at a stranger’s wake. Or is it a stranger’s? 

Available by post direct from the author by email at nigelmanson66@gmail.com or in three formats from Amazon books.

GENRE:  Seasonal Comedy/Farce

CAST SIZE (M/F):   2M, 6F

LENGTH:   Full length

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes but contains adult themes, some outdated phrases and 

mild adult language

The uneasy calm of Christmas festivities collapse into chaos when George Model (Pronounced Mo-Dell) accidentally swaps his risqué secret holiday snap album with his housekeeper’s death-mask photo collection. Thus, his desperate and hilarious attempts to swap it back, creates an air of havoc. Both Models have secret agendas for saucy extra-marital affairs during the Christmas Eve carol service - but, the Spanish housekeeper from next door, and the arrival of Aunt Sophie and Melissa’s mother Hilary, (Who have saucy agendas of their own with the gigolo gardener Greg.) throw the best made plans into disarray.

This play is available by post direct from the author (UK only.) contact by email at nigelmanson66@gmail.com or from online in three formats on Amazon books.

GENRE:  Comedy Drama

CAST SIZE (M/F):   3M, 5F and 5GN

LENGTH:   Full length

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes but contains some mild adult language and some outdated ideology

Pearl’s hopes for her August Bank Holiday come to nothing; driving her to despair when the neighbours are accidentally locked out of their house and ask to borrow Pearl’s kitchen to complete a baking order for the women’s institute; thus nearly burning the place down. Neil is secretly hiding in Pearl’s house from his over-protective mother. Pearl’s father’s strange toilet paper habits lead to unpleasant lavatorial blockages. And as a consequence, the inhabitants of the close believe there is a serious communal drain blockage, prompting Pearl and her husband Jim, to invite the residents of their close to use their amenities as an emergency measure for the weekend. This leads to unbearable tensions and explosive home truths sprout from all directions. But can Pearl and Jim save their holiday time and their marriage before it’s too late?

This play is available by post direct from the author (UK only.) contact by email at nigelmanson66@gmail.com or from online in three formats on Amazon books.

GENRE: Drama

CAST SIZE (M/F): 1M, 1F and 1GN

LENGTH:  One act

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    No - themes of child trauma and abuse

Rufus is suffering from a psychiatric crisis and is trying to come to terms with the abuse he witnessed and suffered from as a child. A psychiatrist sits patiently asking all the right questions that challenges his perception of what he was and is going through. However, all is not as it seems in this psychiatric hospital when we discover a potential lethal twist at the end. 

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GENRE:  Comedy Whodunnit

CAST SIZE (M/F):   3M, 10F

LENGTH:   Full length

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes but contains mild gore and mild adult language

A comical whodunnit. It is summer fete day in the Norfolk village of Clenchwarton. The summer fruit compote competition; among others, is being fiercely fought between the villagers who strive to pick up the coveted “Madeleine Craddock” Golden Spoon Trophy. At first all is well, but then, horror strikes with a series of mysterious accidents and murders. If the Norfolk police can’t solve the conundrums, then who can? Perhaps clairvoyant messages from beyond the grave will be able to assist the local super sleuth in the capturing of the perpetrator?

This play is available by post direct from the author (UK only.) contact by email at nigelmanson66@gmail.com or from online in three formats on Amazon books.

GENRE:  Comedy Whodunnit

CAST SIZE (M/F):   6M, 7F and 1 GN

LENGTH:   Full length

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes but contains some mild adult language

May Day celebrations in the quaint, fictional, Norfolk village of Spittle Norton are ruined, when, just as the preparations for the maypole dance celebrations are to start, they discover the village maypole has been stolen overnight! For some villagers; ancient folklore decrees that the village capers will be cursed if the pole is ever interfered with. This was never a more ubiquitous an idea, as when the pole is found and returned, sudden unsettling and gruesome murders start to unfurl. Local police inspector, Ermintrude Schlopps, arrives in the hope of bringing the perpetrator, or perpetrators, to book.

This script is available by post direct from the author (UK only) email direct to nigelmanson66@gmail.com or online from Amazon books in three formats.

GENRE:  Comedy Whodunnit

CAST SIZE (M/F):   7F, 1M

LENGTH:   Full length

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes but contains some mild adult language

There are malevolent, ghoulish spirits afoot, administering a devastating night time blight in the parish of Clenchwarton. At least, that’s what the ladies of the Clenchwarton Horticultural Society believe, after they discover, to their horror, their prized plants and vegetables are being “murdered” one by one by a mysterious, malicious entity after dark. Who, or what, is to blame for these wicked, cowardly, crimes? And for what purpose? But, more importantly, whose prized exhibits will be next?

This script is available by post direct from the author (UK only) email direct to nigelmanson66@gmail.com or online from Amazon books in three formats.

GENRE: Comedy Drama

CAST SIZE (M/F): 3M 3F

LENGTH:  One act

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes but contains some mild adult language

The Carter family and their next-door neighbours are, somewhat inadvertently, obliged to face up to some moral dilemmas after Penny Carter’s sister pays an unexpected visit to the family home on the day before her father dies. 

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GENRE: Drama

CAST SIZE (M/F): 3F, 2M and 2GN

LENGTH:  One act

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes but contains some mild adult language

In 1985 Charles falls for a stranger purporting to be an old girlfriend from his schooldays. She is beautiful, charming and mesmerizing. However; he unwittingly finds himself engulfed in a web of deceit and deception that ultimately leads to the death of his mother and the loss of everything he thought he owned. The startling horror is unveiled when he discovers that the “love of his life” has vanished leaving him penniless and evicted from his family home, and the police produce startling evidence that he had been living with a serial felon. This is his story. 

Available by post direct from the author by email at nigelmanson66@gmail.com or in three formats from Amazon books.