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| The Little Watch Girl by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children which could be played that way or could all be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play based on Hans Christian Andersen's Little Match Girl. Single set. Props include a rather under-cooked roast goose. |
| Synopsis | A familiar Christmas story is given a major twist when a starving, freezing girl out on a snow Christmas Eve supplements her match selling income by stealing watches from passers by. She is visited by several visions to help her learn the true meaning of Christmas. |
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| The Loft by James Brosnahan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play, with plenty of challenges for the actors! (Contains mild swearing.) |
| Synopsis | An apartment building (the Loft of the title) is scheduled for demolition, and shares a few of the stories he has witnessed before the button is pressed. |
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| Love by John Collings |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. The chorus of dancers is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act romantic comedy drama with a single multi-functional set. |
| Synopsis | A young girl dreams of finding real love and breaking away from her dominant mother. |
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| Maintenance by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play. Single set (apartment interior). One or two adult themes (as you might deduce from the synopsis). |
| Synopsis | Sally just wants to sleep off her night shift, but Colin the maintenance man has other plans. As does Delores the call girl, Vincente the enforcer, Penelope the pregnant pizza lady and a host of other quirky characters... |
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| Matchmakers by Robert M. Barr |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. A range of ages and plenty of opportunity for characterisation. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full length play set in the Jewish community in 19th century Eastern Europe. Clever and funny, with a plot that twists and turns. Multiple locations, but easy to realise without elaborate scenery. |
| Synopsis | Reuven, the son of a Rabbi, is studying to be a Rabbi too. He needs a wife to support him, but also to prevent him being drafted into the Czar's army. Unfortunately he and his family have to move to another village where their matchmaker runs into another Matchmaker. |
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| Matt Freeman's San Antonio by Sandy Radford |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Drama, running somewhere on the boundary between a one-act and a full-length play, though structured in four acts. Multiple sets, but described very feasibly. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Matt is a playwright, but he's not happy with his level of success, either in his professional or his personal life. He decides to throw everything into a new play and a trip to San Antonio to try and recapture a lost love.
A play that plays with theatre to lead the audience on a journey through what is, what chould be, and what might have been. |
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| The Merry England Blues by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Three music tracks are suggested to accompany the action. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act comedy on two sets with basic folk dancing and music.
Warning: contains Morris Dancers. |
| Synopsis | The Merry England Folk Dancers are in decline. The town carnival procession could be their final opportunity to attract new members. In a riotous conclusion and against all the odds, they give it their best shot. |
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| Miss Glossop's Weekend Break by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Characters range from young adults to retirees. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Humorous one-act murder mystery. Single set. One act play. |
| Synopsis | A murder is committed at a small hotel, and Miss Glossop is on hand to demonstrate how easy it is to jump to the wrong conclusions. A second outing for the incompetent detective who first appeared in Miss Glossop Comes to Tea. (Note that this is not a sequel - the two plays function independently.) |
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Missing by Sue Bevan
Finalist in the Sky Blue Theatre International play-writing competition, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Voices of 7 parents may be off stage or recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A gritty one act play for youth theatre. |
| Synopsis | Tom's run away from home but finds he's spent his first night on Lizzie's 'turf'. Is she going to help him, or take his stuff? Perhaps Lizzie's idea of helping Tom isn't the same as his... |
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| Much Ado About W... by Leo Finn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short panto-like, adult-themed farce. |
| Synopsis | Quickfire gags, mistaken identities and outlandish new fashion designs confuse the King into believing his unmarried daughter, Princess Grace is pregnant. Is effeminate fashion designer Sir Pryze at the bottom of this? And what has assistant Watt been up to? |
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