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Christ's Passion by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 21. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 76. Chorus. Casting very flexible (the Producer's Copy of the script includes a doubling table to demonstrate how the minimum casting can be achieved). |
Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Exactly what it says - a large cast passion play. |
Synopsis | The story of Jesus, from birth to death and resurrection. |
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Christmas Present by Jim and Jane Jeffries |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 16. Minimum total with doubling = 41. Minimum total without doubling = 51. No chorus. Aimed at a mixed company of adults and children. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Nativity play, but not one for young kids! A large cast piece, probably for a church group. Elements of comedy, but a serious core. |
Synopsis | A modern retelling of the Nativity - a faithfull following of the biblical accounts, give or take a couple of thousand years, featuring business tycoons, mobsters, fast food workers and homeless people, plus assorted Trekkies! |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Cinderella's Sisters... Happy Ever After? by Mark Billen |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 92 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A two act play (not a pantomime), for school-aged actors, with simple staging. |
Synopsis | In this sequel to Cinderella we see how the ugly sisters fare in their attempts to emulate their sister - who is now happily married to her handsome prince. Their brother-in-law is determined to rid the kingdom of their nastiness and some visiting pirates help him to achieve his aims! |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Clowns by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Two act play set in a bar and (unsurprisingly) a circus tent. |
Synopsis | It’s been years since Buttercup left the troupe to gain solo fame, but now he wants to get the old gang back together. He has to overcome a lot of reluctance, and some real anger before they agree, and then there's The Spectacle to deal with. |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Clutching at Straws by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 128 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Hilarious full-length English farce in the best Whitehall tradition. Single country-house living room set. |
Synopsis | Julia Benning is a pushy young businesswoman who is about to inherit her late uncle's company. However, first she needs to pass the scrutiny of her Aunt Celia. That includes assessing whether Julia's newly-acquired fiancé is going to be an asset - something he manifestly is not. Julia's solution is to borrow a substitute fiancé in the form of her friend Pippa's womanising brother. Throw in a lachrymose nurse, a jobbing solicitor and a couple who get the wrong address for their swingers' party, and Celia's house is set for a busy weekend. |
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Cold Front by Alan Robinson Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One character is a radio voice from offstage and could be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy with farcical overtones, in a remote hut setting. |
Synopsis | When Mike whisks Karen away to a remote cottage in the Scottish Highlands, he thinks he's planned the perfect birthday surprise. But things soon sour when the cottage turns out to be nothing more than a rusty tin shack, and the friends Mike has invited are people Karen can't stand. As tensions rise and temperatures plummet, they find themselves entombed in a blizzard, leading to frosty exchanges and those of a more amorous nature. |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Costa de los Fugitivos by John Furse |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 99 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length farce with a single Spanish hotel terrace setting. Some lines in Spanish, translations provided. |
Synopsis | Fugitive criminals Harry and Reg think they have found the ideal hiding place in an out-of-the-way Spanish hotel. But the peace is chaotically interrupted when English guests arrive and the past - from their old police nemesis to their wives - catches up with them. |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Counsellor Extraordinary by Stewart Boston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 91 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length historical drama with various settings. |
Synopsis | Set between 1598 and 1600, the play recounts the downfall of the Earl of Essex, once the aging Queen Elizabeth I's greatest favourite in the light of the differing attitudes of brothers Anthony and Francis Bacon towards Essex as their patron. Anthony served in the feudal manner, bound forever to his lord, right or wrong. Francis, the contemporary thinker, limited his allegiance and served save his loyalty to Queen and state. He finally stops supporting Essex during his trial for treason and it is Francis' skill as a prosecutor that leads to a guilty verdict and results in Essex being beheaded. |
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Curtain Up! by Adam Croft Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy, in two acts, with a simple setting. |
Synopsis | The Gerrysthorpe Amdram group are putting on a new play, but despite finding a cast, they may be in trouble. The village hall is going to be demolished to make way for Waitrose, so the performances have been moved up drastically! |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Daddy Dearest by George Douglas Lee |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 99 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The script ends with the cast singing and dancing the Italian wedding song Che La Luna. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full-length comedy with a single (living/dining room) setting. |
Synopsis | In this madcap comedy, a dysfunctional, extended American family finds itself stranded by a severe storm. Three generations try to weather the storm as recriminations flow between Harry’s ex-wife and his estranged current wife as well as his son and his wife’s confrontation with their landlord. And then Danny’s father shows up unexpectedly, having 'run away from home'. |
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