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The Secret Testament of John Shakespeare by Martin Lytton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Historical drama (on the boundary between a one-act and a full-length play). Single set. Lots of historical detail amidst a passionate story. |
Synopsis | William Shakespeare's wife drops in on her in-laws to mind her Father-in-Law while his wife visits a friend. The Informer James Langrake, who was responsible for the fall in Shakespeare senior's fortunes, calls in unannounced and nearly finds evidence to bring death to the household. |
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Sex And Curry by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 93 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length farce for an adult audience. |
Synopsis | Hannah's boyfriend has walked out, leaving her pregnant, but that's only the start of her troubles. Telling her parents that her gay flatmate is her fiancé and the child's father didn't solve the problem But Hannah is not the only one keeping secrets. |
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Shah Jahan by Subrata Das |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 16. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 31. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 160 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | At the discretion of the Producer Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length translation and adaptation of D.L.Roy's epic saga of the Mughal Empire. |
Synopsis | The retelling of last turbulent years of Shah Jahan's reign are brought to life in this powerful and gripping play, written in the spirit of a Shakespearean tragedy. |
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The Shelter Secrets by Deborah Heath |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Doubling possible for two characters, plus two offstage voices. |
Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length play, suitable for secondary age or youth theatre, with split staging to enable multiple rapid scene changes. |
Synopsis | Taking shelter from an air raid in their school's boiler room, four children swap secrets in the form of stories. They're surprised to find their tales all meet up and form a larger narrative, one that's completed by their teacher. |
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Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Vanishing Author by Peter John Cooper |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Six characters but only three actors required |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A mystery drama with a single set, doubling as Holmes' apartment and Doyle's consulting room. |
Synopsis | Conan Doyle is gradually taken over by his creation Sherlock Holmes, but then the attempt to kill off his creation, results in Holmes using all of his skills to escape death. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Speak Your Mind by George Freek |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A family drama (with comic moments). Single set. Structurally in two acts, but at 70 minutes, it offers the options of standing alone or being paired with a shorter piece. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Ever since her father died, Ruth has been concerned about her mother Mildred. Ruth's husband Richard has his worries too, as Ruth's reverence for her father's memory seems to cloud her judgment. An unexpected guest in the form of Richard's boss Harry turns a simple dinner party into a stage for confessions and accusations. |
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Starting All Over by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 111 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length play with a single setting. |
Synopsis | Daisy and Roz share a house in the country - since Roz's latest husband died and Daisy's divorce. But Daisy's daughter still wants her parents to reunite. The pair struggle to find their place in the community and the wider world... with an unexpected ending? |
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