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| Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet by Bart Lovins |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. Designed to be played by a cast of 10 (doubling notes provided in the producer's script). |
| Run Time | Around 131 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length adaptation of Conan Doyle's detective novel, with continuous action through various settings, performed with ten actors and four chairs (props are mimed). |
| Synopsis | The game is afoot and mystery and murder abound! The year is 1881. The city is London. A man lies dead in an empty house, not a mark upon him and no clues - save for the word RACHE scrawled in blood on the wall above. Elsewhere, two young men - a former army doctor and a brilliant eccentric - meet for the first time. |
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| Shivers by Peter Harrison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Trilogy of one-act plays with a supernatural theme. Two interior sets plus the interior of an elevator cabin. A mixture of comedy and ghostly melodrama. |
| Synopsis | The three scripts - Falling Apart, All Hallows Eve and Knock Knock, Who's There? - are all available separately.
Whilst there is no set order to the plays, Falling Apart - with a couple trapped in a lift - might be performed front-of-curtain between the other two plays, which each require an interior setting with a practical window. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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| Showdown at Shuddering Heights by Anne Graham |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One optional M or F |
| Run Time | Around 77 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce, in three acts. |
| Synopsis | Faced with bankruptcy Ella, the owner of the isolated Bear Inn, takes to the bottle. An unexpected visitor arrives and the contents of his luggage - a plastic carrier bag - starts a madcap sequence of events. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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| The Siege of Manchester by Ben Alexander |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. 38 speaking roles plus an offstage voice, 2 non-speaking soldiers and various opportunities for crowds. Can be performed with a minimum of 12 actors, though 18 or more would be optimum. |
| Run Time | Around 125 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A historical thriller with various settings. |
| Synopsis | King Charles I, at loggerheads with his Parliament, is faced with rebellion. Lord Strange, Lord Lieutenant for Lancashire and a Royalist, attempts to take military command in Lancashire. Manchester, Protestant by persuasion and for Parliament, resists under the leadership of some of the deputy-lieutenants. The play recounts their resistance, culminating in Derby's siege of the town in September 1642. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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| The Snow Queen [Version 4] by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 28. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | In two acts, this is a new look at the Hans Christian Andersen tale. |
| Synopsis | When the Snow Queen breaks her magic mirror, shards fly out into the world. She'll only see herself as ugly in every mirror, unless she retrieves every last shard from the hearts and eyes of men... Kay has the last two shards and the Snow Queen takes him prisoner, so Gerda must rescue her love from the queen. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [Play] by Dave Jeanes |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The chorus is optional. The dwarves are all written male but have not been included in the count of definitely male characters. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full length play (with the option of music if a production wishes to add it!) This is not a British Pantomime version of the story, but fits much the same purpose - entertainment for a family audience. |
| Synopsis | The fairytale of the princess driven out by her wicked stepmother, finding refuge with a company of miners. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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| Soldjer by Pete Benson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Mixed-age cast, with the central character played at various ages. The chorus is flexible, but the author recommends five principals plus a minimum of 15 in the chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Drama. Structurally in two acts, but in length on the boundary between one-act and full-length. No set as such, but requires some specific staging. |
| Synopsis | Mike struggles against his contradictory upbringing - a father who encouraged him to question and learn about everything but faith - and finds his whole life affected. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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| Some People by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy thriller. Single (hotel lobby) set, made complicated by the presence of a functioning lift (or, at least, a functioning set of lift doors). Contains mild swearing (and eccentricity). |
| Synopsis | Things are busy enough at the Lucky Star Hotel, what with the lift being almost as unpredictable as the guests and staff, but now there are two jewel thieves returning to claim the loot they buried years before... under the kitchen floor! |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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| Sorry Charlie by Troy Shearer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Six on-stage characters, plus two off-stage voices that could be live or recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length farce with a single living-room set. |
| Synopsis | Charlie and Debra are going to steal a diamond from the boss of Charlie's boss's boss. But they are interrupted mid-robbery by a strange couple, so they impersonate the homeowners. Then another unexpected caller arrives - only to reveal himself as the real owner! Who can you trust? |
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| Sparring Partners by George Holmes |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. One offstage voice - could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Music suggestions for 10 pieces, for scene changes, are provided with the Producer's copy. No singing is required. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length comedy play with music suggested, to add jollity for the scene changes. |
| Synopsis | It's a busy weekend at Jolly's Spa, and the owner and manager, William Jolly, is struggling to keep things running. The plumbing is backing-up and the guests are coming to blows. Worse still, his mother is 'helping' him! |
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