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Legacy by Lee Stewart |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 99 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy thriller with two settings. |
Synopsis | A dysfunctional family has arrived to hear the reading of Uncle John’s will disposing of his not insubstantial estate. Everyone is staggered by the provisos contained in the will but nevertheless decide to persevere. One of the family is determined to have it all and succeeds using shocking and nefarious means. |
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Mark Twain and Livy by Joseph P. Ritz |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Poignant full-length biographical play. Contains mild swearing (from an era when it was probably called 'cussing'). |
Synopsis | An elderly Mark Twain escorts us through the early days of his marriage to Livy Langdon, from their first night in their new house, through to the day they left it with their first child. An emotional and insightful play about two strong-willed characters. |
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Orville Station by Frank J. Avella |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One offstage role for voice announcement. |
Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length drama, with strong language, set in a railway station in New Jersey, U.S.A. |
Synopsis | Lenny is twenty five, a screenwriter wannabe, living in a small town in New Jersey. He has completed one script that was met with universal rejection and has allowed fear and his family to rule his life. Lenny usually hangs out with his two best friends from High School often catching the train to NYC, but this place has the notoriety of most train deaths per year, usually suicides. Here Chizzy meets up and befriends Lenny, triggering a major re-think for Lenny's life-purpose. |
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Right Move by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Four parts are offstage voices. Gill and Jack are on stage for most of the show, but there are never more than an additional 1M, 1F with them, hence it could be done by 4, though this might be a little frantic! |
Run Time | Around 123 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy in three acts. |
Synopsis | Gill and Jack are adjusting to their new home, but with most of their furniture still undelivered, it's not easy. And the phone doesn't work. And their neighbours are strange. Not to mention the dead body in the cellar... |
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Sherlock's Excellent Adventure by James Barry Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for four original songs provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. |
Style | Parody of Sherlock Holmes stories, visual jokes, theatrical jokes, wordplay. Not strictly a pantomime, but has some of the elements (including Mrs. Hudson as a pantomime dame) and could fit in a slot in the panto season. |
Synopsis | Lucy Matravers engages Holmes and Watson to resolve a dispute over a family will, bringing conflict with Holmes's arch enemy, Moriarty. |
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Shivers by Peter Harrison |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Trilogy of one-act plays with a supernatural theme. Two interior sets plus the interior of an elevator cabin. A mixture of comedy and ghostly melodrama. |
Synopsis | The three scripts - Falling Apart, All Hallows Eve and Knock Knock, Who's There? - are all available separately. Whilst there is no set order to the plays, Falling Apart - with a couple trapped in a lift - might be performed front-of-curtain between the other two plays, which each require an interior setting with a practical window. |
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Suite 145 by Paul Bovino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. There is no overlap between the characters in the four plays - which does not exclude the possibility that they are played by the same actors. |
Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Collection of 4 one-act plays, each with a single (New York apartment) setting. The plays function independently, so could be performed separately or together. Contains swearing (but only as an incidental attribute of character, situation and comedy). |
Synopsis | Four plays, linked by the setting - Suite 145 - a New York apartment address (although it is not necessarily the same building!) The plays take place in different eras, with different occupants and certainly different tastes in decor! |
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Talking in the Library by Jackie Carreira |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 86 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play with a single (library) setting. |
Synopsis | The disparate group of regulars at the library along with the librarian and his assistant discover things about each other, and perhaps more importantly themselves and their relationships, over the course of a few weeks. |
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Tea With Mrs Pankhurst by Ruth Urquhart & James Douglas |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. The minimum with doubling omits two non-speaking waitresses and has two actors playing the female principals and two playing the rest (both male and female roles). |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play, designed to be played without a formal set. |
Synopsis | The stories of Emmeline Pankhurst and Selina Cooper are compared in an attempt to judge who gave most to the cause of votes for women. The story is told in flashback, with minimal sets and audience interaction, mostly in the cake-eating sense. An educational journey through the history of British Women's Suffrage. |
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A Throw of the Dice by Ben Alexander |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One male character is voice-only and more suited to being pre-recorded than performed live. The hospital staff (surgeon, nurse and duty manager) are written female but could be either. |
Run Time | Around 104 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | 7 songs are suggested, to be played (but not performed by cast) at specified points in the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full-length thriller on a single (hospital waiting room) set. |
Synopsis | Henry, whose father is close to death, and Judy, whose husband has been seriously injured, meet for the first time one evening in a waiting room of a private hospital. During the course of a long night, they get to know each other sufficiently for Henry to be able to help Judy when her husband's two brothers arrive the following morning to intimidate her into signing away her rights to her husband's wealth. However, Henry has a hidden agenda. |
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