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Busted by Kev Salter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy on a single police station set. |
Synopsis | You'd think working in a rural outback police station would be boring, but with a serial thief on the loose, these three cops get themselves mixed up in all sorts of trouble. Plus, their boiler's broken. |
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The Butterfly Lovers by Stefan Allan and Gill Baxter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Flexible chorus numbers possible. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A re-telling of an old Chinese folk tale, in many scenes, but with simple set requirements. |
Synopsis | As the only daughter of a family in need of Imperial favour, Ying has no choice about marrying Prince Wencai. But the unexpected death of her father puts her brother in charge of the family, and she can travel to school instead, meeting a new love. This is an adaptation of an old Chinese folk tale, dating back to at least the Tang Dynasty. It balances the traditional tale with an engaging style of dramatization. |
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Butterfly Shoes by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Humorous one-act fairy tale for kids, simple sets. |
Synopsis | An unheroic hero has to rescue a kidnapped granny from the clutches of a tribe of mountain Amazons, mainly, it appears, for the sake of the granny's shoes. |
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Bye Baby Bunting by Mark Green Winner of best original play at the Greater Manchester Drama Federation one-act play festival 2015. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characers' ages range from 7 - 13. |
Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A historical drama for children set in a collapsed mineshaft. |
Synopsis | In January 1839, seven children are working underground in the Lovers Bridge Colliery number four mine when they are trapped by a tunnel collapse. They stoically comfort each other in their fear as they wait for rescue which becomes less and less likely as time passes. |
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Bygone Pastures by S. J. Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act, humorous play suitable for 9-12 year olds. 4 minimal sets. |
Synopsis | Bygone Pastures is an old folks’ home in financial trouble. The owners have gone bankrupt, and the administrator needs half a million to keep it going. The movie star who’s moved in next door won’t help, but maybe her painting will... |
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The Cabbage Consortium by Jim Pinnock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single pub setting. |
Synopsis | A disparate group of pub regulars join forces to develop Harry’s sure fire money making scheme involving the cabbage futures market. Things go well until the Russian Mafia get wind of the machinations and the consortium find themselves in difficulties with the gangsters. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'The Cabbage Consortium' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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Café Fear by Paul John Matthews |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for three pieces of intermission music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act play, with elements of tragicomedy and strong language. |
Synopsis | Two newspaper reporters, Angela and Jim, are following up reports of an escaped patient from a local secure mental hospital. Stopping off at a café to ask directions, they are joined by Adriana, a prissy germaphobe and Roger, an annoying smart Alec. They soon realise that they have ended up in a very strange place. |
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Café Society by Colin Calvert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are vaguely middle-aged (whatever that means). |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play. Single cafe setting. A romantic comedy of an unexpected kind. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | Pauline is enjoying a long wait for her lunch in the rather run-down cafe that Luigi has inherited from his mother. When Patrick enters, she's not sure she wants to be disturbed, but they fall into an easy conversation - or so she thinks, until he disappears without any explanation. |
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Caiaphas by Mike Sparks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play which can be produced with minimal staging (so could easily be done within a church). |
Synopsis | The events of the last few days of Holy Week are shown from the viewpoint of High Priest Caiaphas and his family. |
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Call To Duty by Nettie Baskcomb Brown The original production won the Five Counties and Mercia division trophies and was a semi-finalist in 2014 All England Theatre Festival, winning adjudicator's award for excellence. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Award winning One Act play for youth theatre with various (simple) settings. |
Synopsis | Sam is bored by his school history and drama lessons about the First World War, but through his brother's console games, he learns more than he expected. The play vividly brings to life the bravery of ordinary soldiers who fought in World War One by merging modern virtual war games with the shocking reality of the WW1 trenches and using comedy and tragedy to take actors and audiences on an emotional, thought provoking journey. |
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