New Full-Length Plays from Lazy Bee Scripts

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On this page you can find a list of our most recently published scripts (those published inthe last 60 days) with run times above 60 minutes (generally in 2 acts or more).
This excludes Musicals.  and British Pantomimes (For more choice, go to the Full-Length Plays home page.)

All the scripts described below can be read in full on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.
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However, all the scripts on this site are copyrighted. They may not be printed, quoted or performed without the permission of Lazy Bee Scripts.
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Trussed

Published
3 May 2012

AuthorJPS Yates
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The ninth character is an offstage female voice. This could be recorded, but would be better played live as it is a phone interaction with an onstage character.
Run time Around 120 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Two act comedy with two domestic sets - one in each act - which are the mirror immage of each other! Contains swearing.
Synopsis As if being burgled wasn’t bad enough, Graham can’t get the police to come round, or his insurance adjustor to pay out on the claim. But is staging another burglary really the answer? It seems not, although with help from his wife and the neighbours, he does find the burglar.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Christmas Present

Published
27 April 2012

AuthorJim and Jane Jeffries
Roles Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 16. Minimum total with doubling = 41. Minimum total without doubling = 51. No chorus. Aimed at a mixed company of adults and children.
Run time Around 110 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Nativity play, but not one for young kids! A large cast piece, probably for a church group. Elements of comedy, but a serious core.
Synopsis A modern retelling of the Nativity - a faithfull following of the biblical accounts, give or take a couple of thousand years, featuring business tycoons, mobsters, fast food workers and homeless people, plus assorted Trekkies!
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The Trumpet Major

Published
17 April 2012

AuthorThomas Hardy (adapted Peter John Cooper)
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The piece is interspersed with the reminiscences of the old Anne Garland. (Her role coulde be doubled by her younger self.)
Run time Around 130 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length period drama. The scenes flow continuously, so intended to be performed with stage areas and levels rather than a formal set.
Synopsis Thomas Hardy's novel of life in the Napoleonic era, with soldiers massing to repel invasion, and village life in turmoil as a result.
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Zing Zang

Published
9 April 2012

AuthorLynn Snyder
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run time Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Drama of a mid-life (and mid-air) crisis. Plenty of scope for character acting. Contains mild swearing.
Synopsis Eli is turning fifty, and he's more than a little set in his ways. His oldest friend Sam tries to shake him up a little, see the joy in life, but it's not until a chance meeting with Claire on an aeroplane that Eli discovers who he is... and who he could be.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Madame Blavatsky Lives

Published
2 April 2012

AuthorJoan Greening
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Four women with playing ages of 50 to 60.
Run time Around 120 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A sparkling comedy in two acts (and four seasons) for an all-female cast. Single domestic set. Contains swearing.
Synopsis Three lifelong friends, Pam who is unhappily married, Jane whose marriage appears to be perfect and their batty spinster friend Lily regularly meet for girlie nights in. All of their lives change dramatically over the course of a year after they meet psychic Maureen who takes on the persona of Madam Blavatsky. Has she really predicted these events? Is she genuinely second sighted as Lily believes or is she the charlatan Pam and Jane are convinced she is? The answers to these questions, and more, are to be found in this hilarious look at the lives of these women of a certain age. Their mirthful journey towards a happy ending is tempered with a tender comic treatment of what otherwise could be tragic events.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

Published
28 March 2012

AuthorCharlie Cook adapted from Oscar Wilde
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus.
Run time Around 85 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length period comedy adapted from the short story by Oscar Wilde. Single drawing-room set and plenty of Wildean wit.
Synopsis Lord Arthur gets himself in a tangle, postponing his wedding to Sybil so as to concentrate on his plot to murder his rich aunt from whom he is to inherit the family fortune. Unfortunately, his aunt dies a natural death, and Lord Arthur must again postpone his wedding, not least so that he can retrieve the poison capsule he had intended for his aunt. His inept murderous career continues with yet another wedding postponement for his ultimately and inevitably failed attempt to construct an exploding carriage clock to get rid of the Dean of Chichester. Of course, there's a happy ending, but which would you prefer - a murder, or a wedding?
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
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