New One-Act Plays from Lazy Bee Scripts
This excludes school plays. (For more choice, go to the One-Act Plays home page.)
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New One-Act 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 between 20 and 75 minutes. This excludes school plays. (For more choice, go to the One-Act Plays home page.) |
All the scripts described below can be read in full on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.
(Click on the script titles to see the complete scripts.)
However, all the scripts on this site are copyrighted. They may not be printed, quoted or performed without the permission of Lazy Bee Scripts.
Click on the "Price" links for details of the script prices and licensing arrangements.
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| The Happiest Day of Your Life Published | Author | Stephen Gillard | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. All characters have a playing age of around thirty. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | A sharply witty one act play. Simple set, divided into two separate areas. Contains swearing. | ||||||
| Synopsis | This is supposed to be the happiest day of bride Laurie’s life but her pre-wedding nerves are giving her cold feet and she has to enlist the good sense of her bridesmaid Eliza to crystallise her thoughts about the giant step she is about to take. Little does she know that her groom Issac and his best man Will are also going through exactly the same process. We witness, with a smile on our lips, the agonisings and frustrations of the situation all four of the friends have to deal with. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| And The Bride Wore... Published | Author | Cheryl Barrett | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | One-act comedy play set in exclusive bridal shop, Bella Sposa. | ||||||
| Synopsis | A young bride-to-be has an appointment at the shop to look at wedding dresses. Whilst this should be a special moment in her life, arguments and family jealousies surface much to the dismay of the shop owner. For some of the older women it is a time to reminisce about their own wedding day, providing touching moments amongst the comedy. An all female cast of characters play out the conflicts and tensions between the bride and groom's mismatched families as they try to reach agreement on what bride Tayla, and her bridesmaids, are to wear. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| He Can't Tell You Published | Author | George Freek | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | One-act comedy play. Single domestic set. | ||||||
| Synopsis | Bernie's low because he’s just been laid off, but Alice has some good news - his old friend Earl is going to call round! Except Bernie's not so sure Earl was a friend, and maybe he's not going to be so pleased to see Bernie... Things certainly don't pan out as they expected. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Market Value Published | Author | Liz Dobson | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | Neat, short, one-act play with a well-twisted plot. Single set that can be as simple as you like. | ||||||
| Synopsis | Martin Oaks is a con man, relying on his Solicitors to keep himself out of jail. His latest plan is to sell a rat-trap of a house for a quarter of a million to an unsuspecting couple who don't know it's falling down and about to be on a major road route. Or so he thinks... | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Still Life Published | Author | Karen Ankers | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two adults and two teenage lads. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | One-act play. Simple (street) setting. Contains swearing (and poignancy.) | ||||||
| Synopsis | A moving, thought provoking one act play with a modern tale of two social misfits coming together and each, in their own way supporting the other. Jenny is lonely and frightened having had no social contact since her childhood, not having left the house she shares with her abusive father for over twenty years. She has suffered a final trauma at home and in her despair wanders the streets where she encounters Keith, a bitter unemployed alcoholic trying to eke a living as a street entertainer. As an uplifting, at first reluctant, relationship develops between them an optimistic chink throws light on their despondency. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Get Staffed Published | Author | Frank Gibbons | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Eight on-stage characters (with playing ages of 18 to 25) and an offstage Australian female voice. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | One-act comical farce. Single (hotel reception) set. | ||||||
| Synopsis | It's opening day for the newest Buzz Hotel, but things are not going well. Their first diners have come down with suspected food poisoning, and their only room booking is probably a hoax - surely it's not the real Kylie Minogue? | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Karaoke Nights Published | Author | Terry Adlam | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. The chorus of punters in the Karaoke Bar is optional, but could add to the atmosphere. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | Suggestions for 8 songs appropriate to the Karaoke Bar setting. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. | ||||||
| Style | One-act play - a tragedy interwoven with comedy. Single pub setting. Contains swearing. (And Karaoke.) | ||||||
| Synopsis | A group of friends regularly gather at The Red Dragon for karaoke night where they always have a good night out, despite miserly landlord Len. We join them as they celebrate the eve of Spike's 40th birthday with another night of fun and karaoke - a night which will end in tragic circumstances. This one act play overflows with fine quickfire adult humour which clicks effortlessly into tragedy made all the more startlingly heart-breaking because we have become so close to the well drawn characters and laughed along with them. With inspired use of the karaoke theme this play has us laughing and crying in equal measure. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| You Can't Take It With You Published | Author | Cheryl Barrett | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The solicitor is named Sam and could be Samuel or Samantha. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | A one act comedy with a blend of pathos and mirth. Single domestic set (from which most of the furniture and effects have been removed!) Contains mild swearing. | ||||||
| Synopsis | Expecting a windfall bequest after their 'beloved' Uncle Fred's death, avaricious sisters Carol and Pauline descend on his house to claim the spoils. Their hopes are dashed when they discover that someone has beaten them to it and the house is empty. The will reading increases their frustration as their bequests fail to meet expectations. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| A Forty-Minute Pericles Published | Author | Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. The episodic nature of the story makes lots of doubling possible. (Or, if you have a lot of actors, there are lots of roles.) | ||||||
| Run time | Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style |
Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre', with the original text cut down to 40 minutes or so. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
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| Synopsis |
On the run from the King of Antioch, Pericles is shipwrecked and washes up on the shores of Pentapolis. There he wins the hand of Thaisa, daughter of the King of Pentapolis. On their return voyage to Tyre, Thaisa gives birth to a daughter during a violent storm. Thaisa is thought to have died and is thrown overboard in a casket. The grieving Pericles leaves his daughter, Marina, in the care of the King and Queen of Tarsus. Years later, Pericles returns to seek Marina , but is told that she died. In fact she escaped an assasination plot, and eventually Pericles finds a happy ending. Bill Tordoff started this series as abridgements for primary schools. We think that some of the themes in Pericles are too adult for that demographic! |
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| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Bench Published | Author | Janice Sampson | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | One-act play. Single set, which is mainly one of the characters! Contains swearing. | ||||||
| Synopsis | A village green bench tells us about his day and why everyone should sign the petition against moving him to another location. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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