All the scripts described below can be read in full on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site (click on the titles).
Click on the "Price" links for details of the script prices and licensing arrangements.
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Across The Road by Peter Lancaster Walker |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch. Single set. Several domestic props - at least at the start of the play. |
| Synopsis | Mary and Henry are having a quiet afternoon at home, when Mary spots some strange goings on next door. It's a pity she doesn't keep a better eye on her own house... |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Across The Universe by Robert Scott |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. In addition to the named characters there is an offstage voice that might be live or recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | Two co-workers in a search for Extra Terrestrial Life establishment discuss the value of their work. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Are We There Yet? by Damian Trasler |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two adults and one child. The child is written as a boy, but could easily be chaged into a girl. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An allegorical sketch about Advent! (Minimal staging requirements) |
| Synopsis | A family explore a different way to start their holiday. A play with an Advent theme. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Bears Don't Cry by Charles Alverson |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are a six-year-old girl (who might be played by any age!), a bear, a lion and two off-stage voices. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A charming short play for an audience of children with five woodland scenes and a theme of friendship. (The script might be performed by kids or by adults or by a mix!) |
| Synopsis | Young girl Shanni, separated from her bear hunter Daddy, is lost in the woods. She is befriended and cared for by Bear and a touching and deep friendship develops between the pair. [Our editor wished to stress that this script is not a reliable guide to the behaviour of ursines.] |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Birds, Bees and Gooseberry Bushes by Ray Lawrence |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One adult and two teenagers. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch, no set requirements, simple props |
| Synopsis | A father struggles to overcome his embarrassment long enough to explain the facts of life to his teenage son while they are on holiday. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Bomber Command by TLC Creative |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The script specifies the characters as two male and one female, however if gunner Jenkins is female, there's no reason why the rest could not be played so. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by David Lovesy and Brian Two.) |
| Synopsis | The Pilot and Flight Engineer of a Lancaster Bomber face trouble from 'the passengers' in the back! |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Break Both Legs by TLC Creative |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. There is no formal chorus, but the sketch is about a theatrical rehearsal, so there could be other actors around. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent. |
| Synopsis | As all actors know, there are plenty of superstitions linked to the theatre... |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Bright - A Play About Heaven by David Webb |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play with a Christian theme delivered in a direct style. No specific set - requires only a bench. |
| Synopsis | A man suffering after his second heart attack meets a friend in a beautiful garden, where the air makes him feel better than the doctors have managed. Then he remembers that friend was badly hurt in an accident and begins to realise where he is. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Cash in the Attic by TLC Creative |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst the characters are written male, this is a comedy sketch and the author would not be alarmed if women were cast! |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by Mark Niel.) |
| Synopsis | It's another edition of 'Cash in the Attic' and the team find some amazing items in Herr Schutzstaffel's house. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Casual-ty by Jack Burgess |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Five-minute sketch spoofing surgical soap opera. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) |
| Synopsis | An operation is in progress, and the outlook for the patient is bleak... |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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