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| Hollingsborough Children's School Nativity Play by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. It is intended that adults play all the roles (despite there being only one or two roles in which the adults play adults). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Parody of a children's nativity play in which adults take the roles of the children |
| Synopsis | It's Nativity time again, and the kids are having the usual trouble - they can't keep the lines straight, can't pronounce the long words and want to wave at their parents as soon as they're onstage. This play will feel very familiar to a lot of people!
It should be emphasised that this is a parody and is not intended as a children's nativity play! |
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| Home Health by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy on a split set depicting two bedrooms. US English. |
| Synopsis | David, recovering from difficult surgery, is confined to bed. His elderly bedridden mother-in-law is in another bedroom. Wife Sue bounces back and forth taking care of both of them. The arrival of a home health nurse puts the cat amongst the pigeons as she and David get a little too close. |
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| The Honorable Knight by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Nothing remarkable in the characters (apart from the dragon, obviously). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light comedy, playing on the traditions of the knightly stories. Split-stage set, with one permanent location and the other half of the stage doubling for two other locations. |
| Synopsis | Before leaving his castle for the last time, Sir Gawain of the renowned Round Table reluctantly reveals a tale of his exploits that shows him in a less than favourable light. |
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| Honour Thy Father by Tony Matthews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Multiple settings, but all indicated by furniture. |
| Synopsis | Octogenarian Maurice, a fêted Shakespearean actor, famed for his Falstaff, has something of an over active libido and is causing difficulties for the ladies at Ivydene, the nursing home where he has lived since his stroke. His Falstaffian urges land son Theo, a minister of the church, with the unenviable task of dealing with Maurice's demands by fulfilling his request for the services of a prostitute. Needless to say this causes something of a furore amongst the beaurocrats in the Social Services Department and places Theo in a somewhat compromising position... |
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| Hope - A Monologue by Frank Flynn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act monologue. Single outdoor set (which can be implied rather than fully built). Written in Canadian English. |
| Synopsis | Young mother Hope waits in the park for a meeting that will change her life. She tries to comfort her tiny baby, though she has no new clothes, nor food for her. A very emotive piece. |
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Horseplay by Graham Jones
The precursor full-length version of this play won the Drama Association of Wales playwriting competition in 1980. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Compelling one-act drama. Single set - just a committee room table and chairs. Contains adult themes. |
| Synopsis | After a post-match celebration, three rugby players are accused of raping a girl. Through the old boys' network, the matter is dropped, but the club barmaid won't let it rest. Thanks to her persistence, one of the other members starts to see things in a different light too. |
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| Hot and Sweet by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. Single domestic set. |
| Synopsis | Janet is trying to persuade her mother Ivy, who is suffering from the first stages of Alzheimer's, to come and live with her. Janet's concerns are increased when she hears about a con man operating in the area. Ivy refuses to consider her daughter's request, stating that her late husband Harry will protect her. Janet responds by saying to her mother, 'He can’t look after you if he's not here'... but can he? |
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| Hotel Casablanca by S. J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One song Is suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act comedy on 4 minimal sets, suitable for youth theatre. |
| Synopsis | The Hotel Casablanca is unfortunately short on staff, just as Lady Chalfont arrives, trying to protect her necklace from a jewel thief. But will the thief be spotted in amongst the James Bond conventioneers and detective Sam Shovel? |
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| The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. The hound might be live or a special effect. (One other essential role takes no part in the action, but definitely needs to be there!) |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act rhyming humorous play, freely interpreting the original story. |
| Synopsis | A 'Pantocrime' in rhyming couplets, re-telling the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with comedy. |
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| Howard Does His Best by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The 10 'soldiers' are gender non-specific. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy suitable for performance by teens and chldren. |
| Synopsis | At the school dance, Howard, egged on by Wayne and Dave, sets out to cross the dance floor to ask Chardonnay (the most beautiful girl in the school) for a dance, but on the way various bits of his body begin to let him down. |
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