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According To Rumour by Robert Scott
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Identical (f) twins do not appear onstage together, intended doubling. One offstage megaphone voice could be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A classic full length farce, staged in three acts, with a single set. |
| Synopsis | Carter can't remember exactly what happened last night, but the naked woman is the last person he wants his Mum to find in his flat. And there's the puzzling matter of the bag of money in his fridge... It's a fine tangle to be mixed up in! |
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According To Schedule by Robert Scott
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 101 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length, good old-fashioned farce. A stand-alone follow-up to According To Rumour |
| Synopsis | Nina is keen to show off her fiancé to her sister Pippa and brother Roger. Sadly, Pippa finds him all too familiar, and his mobster parents aren’t much of a hit with the family either |
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Act Naturally by Giles Scott
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy on two sets (community hall/park). |
| Synopsis | The Historic Sites Preservation Society is in financial trouble, and they need to do something about it quickly. Certainly a play seems like a good idea, especially when they save money by writing it themselves, but can they act? |
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The Affairs At Meddler's Top by Richard Coleman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A hilarious comic spoof of a murder mystery, set in the 1920s. (Two acts - but relatively short.) |
| Synopsis | A country house weekend is organised with a view to trapping a thief. Various tangled affairs are revealed, leading up to a murder. |
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| AKA Charlie by Frances A. Lewis |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A split-set one act play. |
| Synopsis | Veronica has plenty to cope with in her job as Dental Assistant, but when her jailbird brother Charlie asked for a place to stay, she can't refuse him. Sadly for Veronica, Charlie can't help using the Dental Practice as a useful place to run a few cons and build himself some stake money.
This script can tie in with another by the same author - Switched - but both work perfectly well as a stand alone pieces. |
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| Art for Art's Sake by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] A slick production could be completed in under 2 hours. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length colourful farce, centering on a wedding and a work of art! |
| Synopsis | As art dealer David Gibson prepares for the wedding of his daughter Samantha, he finds himself in a position to make a financial killing by arranging the sale of a valuable French Impressionist painting. Unfortunately the prospective buyer from Los Angeles, Mrs Delores Van Zuyl, insists on the work being authenticated by an expert. When the expert doesn't turn up David turns to his less than reliable step-brother to fill the gap. What David doesn't know is that Mrs Van Zuyl has her own agenda and it has little to do with French Impressionism. |
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| Artists Anonymous by John Passadino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Ralph's mother is an offstage voice and could, conceivably, be a recording. The pizza deliverer is silent and compatible with whatever gender range is open to the producer! |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single set. A sharp script with some interesting characters and real emotion in it. |
| Synopsis | Three long-serving writers meet up for their weekly writing meeting. Will this be the one where they finally crack the winning formula, or just the one where Ralph, living in his parent's basement again after his latest marriage break up, cracks? That was a lousy sentence, but this time they think they've come up with a winner... they'll fake the death of one of the writing team and use the publicity to sell a story at last! But who will get the chop for the sake of success? |
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| B & B by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun and frantic, short one act farce. |
| Synopsis | It's opening week for the Bay View Bed and Breakfast, but the owners aren't getting the idyllic escape from the rat race they hoped for. Guests are leaving as fast as they arrive, and the demands are almost as bizarre as the pets and habits of the ones who try to stay. |
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| Benny Manhattan And The Caponi Diamond by Carol Hill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. Variable chorus size as desired by the Producer. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Music suggestions for nine optional pieces are included with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A gangster farce in two acts, suitable for youth performers, with various settings. |
| Synopsis | The bumbling Manhattan gang, led by Benny Manhattan, get themselves embroiled in double crossings with the Caponi family. A bank robbery runs into difficulties when the Caponi diamond is inadvertently, or perhaps deliberately, included in the Manhattan's haul. |
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| Betrayal by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act farce which starts as a simple domestic comedy then turns into a heist story that has so many twists and reversals it's like watching a Samba competition. |
| Synopsis | Leonard is depressed by the arrival of Spring. Margaret says he's a boring bank manager, but by the end of the day he's planning to run away with the money from the vault and the woman next door. Trouble is, he's not the only one with his eye on the money and a fast getaway. |
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