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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After the Matinee by Damian Trasler |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two characters (1M, 1F) are young adults, the other two middle-aged. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play, with panto actors outside a pantomime - reflective, gently humorous. |
| Synopsis | In between the Matinee and evening performances of the Panto an old hand explains Amateur Theatre to an enthusiastic Buttons. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Back in the Bookshop by Damian Trasler |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. Simple props - books! |
| Synopsis | People go into a bookshop and.. um.. buy books. Or not. (This is not a sequel to the TLC Creative sketch 'In the Bookshop', but it could very easily be the same store, whence the title.) |
| 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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Behind Closed Doors by Iris Winston |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute play. Single set (three separate apartments, but could be done in a minimal way). |
| Synopsis | Michael is trying to get some Christmas commitment from his lover, Harry is waiting for his son to collect him for their meal, and Herta just wants her daughter to phone. Three lonely Christmasses along the same corridor. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Bill, Emmie and the Queen of Tonga by Philippa Roberts |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters are two adults plus one with a playing age of late teens to twenty and one with a playing age of a younger teenager. (Could be done by a mixed company of adults and younger actors or by a youth theatre company.) |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play in which a small piece of real history illuminates a slice of family life. Single (simple domestic) set. |
| Synopsis | A couple have traveled from Tonga to see their own queen come to England, and to make sure that their niece and nephew watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Second on TV while their parents are in London. Unfortunately they are much more interested in the Tongan queen than in Elizabeth. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Camping by Bob Tucker |
| 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 = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute comedy play. Single, simple set (a camp site office). |
| Synopsis | A truculent campsite owner in France is giving some English clients the run-around and making a tidy sum. We discover he's not all he seems, except in the matter of his skulduggery. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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A Christmas Carol - The Real Story by Colin Calvert |
| 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 = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Two characters required for performance as a simple duologue, a further 7 (nominally 5F, 2M) required if the action is staged. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Essentially a duologue which could either be done without additional actors, (as an after-dinner piece) or be staged as a narrated mime. Minimal staging requirements. Makes no attempt to be 'politically correct'! |
| Synopsis | Two narrators tell the story of a modern day Scrooge who's having the wool pulled over his eyes by dishonest Bob Cratchit and his gang of cronies. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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COBRA 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 = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. Set in a meeting room. |
| Synopsis | A meeting of the top secret emergency response team covers some new threats... |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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The Coffee Shop by Ray Lawrence |
| 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 = 5. No chorus. Whilst the script specifies three characters, two of them are played in different eras, so could be done by different actors. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. Set in a coffee shop, but without need for any particular set. Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
| Synopsis | A coffee shop customer has another encounter with the tyranny of choice! |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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