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All the President's Turds by Bernard Scahill	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Whilst most of the characters are written male, adjustment would be easy. There are nominally five reporters in the Whitehouse press corps, but their lines could easily be combined. Run Time Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Fifteen minute comedy play - a parody of war-mongering and political coalition building. Synopsis The President of the USA needs a distraction as he comes up for re-election, so he 'finds' a new Al-Quaeda base, but he needs a coalition to lead. Bob and Jay can only find one country to go along with it - the newly formed Turdistan. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Baboushka by Peter Bond	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Whilst there is no formal requirement for a chorus, there are options for attendants for the Wise Men, and a choir. Run Time Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] Music There are places for a couple of carols during the performance. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. Style Short, charming dramatisation of the Russian Christmastide folk tale. Synopsis Baboushka welcomes the Three Wise Men into her spotless home as they pause overnight on their journey to Bethlehem. She is too busy cleaning her house to accompany them as they follow the star and subsequently spends the rest of her life searching for the Christ child. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
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.
Climateman! by Tom Jensen Shortlisted for Short & Sweet festival 2010, Melbourne. Authors royalties will go to Cool Earth (see coolearth.org), to sponsor rainforest in the Ashaninka tribal area of Peru to prevent logging.	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Run Time Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] (Length is very dependent on the amount of stage business and superhero posing!) Music None. Style Short play (or a long skit) presenting an absurd approach to the problems of climate change. Synopsis An eco-superhero saves the planet. Simple, really. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Crime Done in Rhyme by tlc Creative	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 = 9. No chorus. Run Time Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Rhyming skit (parody of Dr. Seuss) no set requirements, a few common props. Synopsis There's been murder afoot, but who can have done it? If there's a prize for rhymed mystery, this one has won it! The victim's a cat, but much more than that, He's a cat that has often been seen in a hat. A detective is called and a Mistress is found, (while the corpse of the cat is left there on the ground). It's funny, irreverent and won't take much time, and the best of it is, every line is in rhyme! Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Dancing Princesses by Peter Bond	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. The numbers are very flexible. There are three speaking princesses, but this could be reduced to 2. However, there is scope for a much larger number of (non-speaking) princesses and an equal number of dancing princes. Run Time Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Verse play, with some elements of panto, based on The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces or The Twelve Dancing Princesses (depending on which translation of the Brothers Grimm you prefer). Several locations, but no major set requirements. Synopsis A King offers the usual rewards (marriageable daughter, bits of kingdom, that sort of thing) for anyone who can discover why each of his daughters ruin a pair of shoes every night. Enter a wounded soldier and a helpful old lady to solve the mystery. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Duck by Bob Tucker	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 = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Three ducks, three swans and three hunters! Run Time Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Ten-minute comedy play. Single set (no real set requirements) Synopsis Three different varieties of duck are arguing about which is the true Duck, when they are united by the threatening behaviour of the ruling swans. Sadly, before their revolution can get off the ground, three duck hunters arrive. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
A Frog Too Far by Nicholas Richards	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children. Could be played by the same, or by a company of either. Run Time Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Short comedy play set in a classroom - represented by the teacher's chair and her story book. Synopsis Miss Primrose tries to tell her class their daily story - a tale of princess meets frog - with the aid of a small troupe of mimes. The children, shall we say, have bright enquiring minds... Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Great Moments in History, Number 3 by Jack Burgess	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. Run Time Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] Music Script includes a parody of the title song from Oklahoma. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. Style Musical skit, parodying the creative process! (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) Synopsis The Rogers and Frankenstein Story! Richard Rogers and his collaborator, Oscar Frankenstein III, ponder the creation of a new Broadway musical, whilst eating pizza. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Language Lessons by Nicholas Richards	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 = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. There are two consistent characters throughout (plus an offstage voice). The rest are brought on for each 'lesson' so the 'Englishman' could be played by a different character in each scene (and need not be male). Run Time Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Prologue and eleven short comedy skits with no requirements for set. Could be done as written (one continuous performance) or could be split across a sketch show as a running gag. (Contains caricatures, silly accents and foreign words!) Synopsis Polly and Glott present an informative (and amusing) look into the necessity for having some skill with a foreign tongue. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.

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