All the scripts described below can be read in full on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site (click on the titles).
Click on the "Price" links for details of the script prices and licensing arrangements.
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12hr Life by Robert Scott |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama for a cast of two and a minimalist setting. |
| Synopsis | Dylan should be going to a conference, but a chance encounter with Samantha and some forthright discussion, and he's playing truant and having the time of his life. Is it possible to live a life in one day? |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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22 Hardcastle Court by Gary Diamond |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters are four adults, with a range of ages, and two seventeen-year-olds (who like each other). |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Two sets (with the neat conceit that in moving out of her mother's house, Emily takes her sofa with her!), one of which requires a practical door. Contains some bad language (and lots of good language) and mild adult themes. |
| Synopsis | When Emily finally manages to move out of her Mother's house, she thinks her worries are over, but thanks to the flat's former owner, she has to contend with mysterious calls from Mr X as well as her mother's interruptions and an amorous pair of students wanting help with their play... |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Acting, It's Not Plumbing by Cheryl Barrett |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act character comedy - set in a theatre workshop, so there's scope for over-acting! Single set - a village hall! Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Jill is running a drama workshop in the community centre, but is it really just for the benefit of those taking part? Whatever her motivation, Paul, Amy, Chelsea, Bob, Sandra and Fay are having a whale of a time. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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The Affairs At Meddler's Top by Richard Coleman |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A hilarious comic spoof of a murder mystery, set in the 1920s. (Two acts - but relatively short.) |
| Synopsis | A country house weekend is organised with a view to trapping a thief. Various tangled affairs are revealed, leading up to a murder. |
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Aim by Terry Adlam |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short thriller - one act, single, simple set, few props. Contains violence and swearing. |
| Synopsis | Two men - the edgy Wolf and laid-back Dove - are waiting in a room to meet a third man. When their visitor arrives, he has an unexpected female companion, and all the plans seem to be going wrong. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Airfield by Bob Tucker |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play. Simple (minimal) staging. |
| Synopsis | Fred and Lucy seem to have stumbled onto a real fly-by-night outfit when they signed up with Young Yettie Airways to fly to Barcelona. No hospitality, no departure lounge, not even any seats, and now there are delays and they might have to fly via Dublin...or is there something else afoot? |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Albert by Janice Sampson |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] May be staged with an interval. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy drama. Structurally in two acts, but of one-act length. Contains swearing (and a coffin). |
| Synopsis | Before flying out to Sacramento to visit his ailing brother, Albert leaves a recording of a few confessions in case something happens to him. There has been a plane crash, and Albert's valedictory address is watched by his grieving son, daughter and sister, who learn a few surprising things, but are in for an even bigger surprise... |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Albert and His Women by Richard Hills |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The youngest character is aged 52. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Single domestic set. Contains one mild swearword (the play, not the set). |
| Synopsis | Albert's doing his best to set his 52 year old son Tom up with a female friend. Tom thinks it's to compensate for his lack of ability with women, since he never knew his mother, but actually Albert has other motives... |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Albert and More Women by Richard Hills |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single (London flat) set. (This uses the same characters and setting as 'Albert and His Women', but functions as an intependent play - thus they could be used together or separately.) Contains minor swearing. |
| Synopsis | Albert and his son Tom continue their search for women - Tom by taking Albert's tips and Albert by getting Tom out of the flat. But tonight they both get much more than they bargained for! |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Alekhine's Greatest Defeat by Vithal Rajan |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. Chorus. The characters include Ramanujan Varadachary, an old Indian story-teller - a sutradhari, as he is called in Indian drama tradition and his younger self in the 1920s. The (non-speaking) chorus comprises student chess players in 1920s Paris. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Split-stage set, simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
| Synopsis | Game One in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Varadachary, the story teller, relates how he witnessed Russian Grand Master Alexander Alekhine fall in love whilst losing a chess match in Paris to a beautiful student. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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