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| A Cause for Division | Author | Stewart Boston |
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Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
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Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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Full length historical drama (with plenty of both). Single (period Scotish cottage) setting. Contains a small amount of mildly offensive language.
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David is a fiery son of Scotland, ready to serve Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) in the Jacobite uprising. His father John has a business to run and throws him from the house. Alexander is the elder son who stands by his father but doesn't turn his back on his rebel brother. A family at war in 1745.
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| A Day in the Life | Author | Gary Diamond & Ray Lawrence |
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Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Wide range of playing ages.
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| Run time |
Around 65 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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A long one-act (or short full-length) farce. Single set. Contains a small amount of mild swearing and a large amount of fun!
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A family gather for the reading of a late, but not lamented, step-Father's will. Unsurprisingly, there are surprises in store for the whole bunch.
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| A Fairy Tale Adventure | Author | Sophia Holder |
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Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 36. No chorus. Written to be performed by a mixture of (7 to 14) adults and (9 to 22) children. Could be done by a competent kids' group!
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Around 65 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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Family show, an alternative to British Pantomime, including some similar elements such as audience interaction. (Either a long one-act play, or a short two-act!)
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The Wicked Witch has changed the endings to all the Fairy Tales so that evil will triumph, and she's kidnapped the Fairy Queen to stop her reversing the spell. Only Hansel, Gretel and Paddy the Gingerbread man can save the tales.
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| A Fete Worse Than Death | Author | Richard James |
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Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
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| Run time |
Around 95 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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Full-length comic murder mystery. (The comedy comes from situation and character. The murder mystery is handled seriously.) Single simple set - a marquee at a village fete! Contains a small amount of mild swearing. (And a murder.)
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Actor Ray Martin is opening the village fete, playing on his fame as TV's Inspector Brady. Little does he know that ambition, infidelity and marrow envy will lead to murder, and he'll be left to solve the murder - without a script!
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| A Mug's Game | Author | Sarah Reilly |
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Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
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| Run time |
Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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Full-length play, posing question of inner versus outward beauty. Contains mild swearing and an Australian accent.
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Suzy is unhappy with her new life in the country and decides to host a dinner party. She invites her glamorous friend Alice whose reasons for recent plastic surgery splits the group. Her arrival with Suzy's husband causes cynical sister Jo to suspect foul play. As the wine flows, her usually quiet neighbour, Beth, to her husband's dismay, speaks her mind and there are shock announcements as innermost feelings are exposed. Add to this the new handsome neighbour moving in next door, there are comical scenes leading to life-changing results.
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| A Play on Words | Author | Matthew Lynch |
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Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Unusually, the characters include the Stage Crew, although these are non-speaking parts (they get as far as nodding and rolling their eyes).
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| Run time |
Around 105 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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Full-length comedy play set amidst rehearsals for a theatre production. Lots of good jokes, both verbal and visual. Contains mild swearing.
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Clifford Pratt-Shore is directing his masterwork, a play about Wordsworth's life and love. Sadly, his leading man is a yob, his Assistant Director is more of a hindrance and the Vicar uses the Hall as a petty cash fund. As for the bit-players Marvin and Benny, how could they be any use to him?
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| A Rose for Danny | Author | Kevin James Moriarty |
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Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Great opportunities for character acting!
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Around 105 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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Dramatisation of the lives of a dysfunctional Irish-American family. Contains swearing and drinking. (Not necessarily in that order.)
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An old man seems to have reached the end of his luck - his wife is dead, he's behind on the rent and his wealthy son-in-law doesn't want to take him in. Is it too late to repair his relationship with his two daughters and find some redemption?
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| A Spot of Murder | Author | Geoff Bamber |
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Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus.
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| Run time |
Around 100 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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Richly comic murder mystery play. Full-length play, single domestic set. Contains mild swearing and mild adult themes.
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When faded theatrical diva, Corrina Marcham, senses that she is in great danger, she calls in Detective Inspector Trench to investigate a murder that has't been committed yet - her own. With the suspects, marooned at the Marchams' isolated country house because of a storm, Corrina ensures that Trench's journey has not been wasted by conveniently dying. Has Corrina simply died of fright after an alarming Tarot card reading? Has she committed suicide in a bout of thespian depression, or has she really been murdered? And by who? Somebody with something to gain? Somebody with something to hide? Or simply somebody she had upset? Can Trench and the eager PC Pendlebury uncover the truth before they have to call in somebody else to do it properly?
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| A Taste of the Orient | Author | Vivienne Wilkes |
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Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 46. Chorus. Thirteen principals, four major cameos, eleven speaking roles from the chorus plus other non-speaking roles - lots of scope for doubling. Scope for dancers.
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| Run time |
Around 130 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
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Family show. Not quite a British Panto, but occupying a similar spot in a threatrical season! Includes two optional storytelling sequences (with roles which might be mimed by younger cast members).
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It's time for the 500th tea tasting festival in Linga Longa, but the Princess Rosy Lee is intent on escaping the confines of the palace instead. She ships out with the brave Captain Paddy Fields in search of the Temple of Gloom and the Two-handled Teapot of the Red River Demon.
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| A Very Roman Family | Author | Roger Hodge |
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Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. The seven minor roles can be shared by two actors.
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| Run time |
Around 115 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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Bawdy Roman farce! Contains a tiny amount of mild swearing (and lots of innuendo). A single set is implied - the courtyard of a Roman home in 235 AD.
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Titus Rambus is a senator, who intends to become emperor by means of assassination. He has chosen Formaggius Vastus to be the assassin in the mistaken belief that Formaggius, a seller of asses, has a brilliant army record. As if that were not bad enough for Formaggius, Emperor Severus has learned of the plot - but not the intended assassin - and he too engages Formaggius to bump-off his rival. Not only that, but Formaggius learns that after the deed the assassin will not survive for long. Can Formaggius save himself and his diverse family?
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