New Plays from Lazy Bee Scripts
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New 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).
(If you want more history, then go to the script search engine and use the "Sort in Order of : Date Published" function.) |
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(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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| Gino of the Lamp Published | Author | Paul Bovino | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two on-stage characters plus an offstage voice (which could be recorded). | ||||||
| Run time | Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | One-act comedy play. Single New York apartment set Contains swearing (and fantasy). | ||||||
| Synopsis | Betsy is trying to get used to her lousy apartment after finally breaking up with Eddie after thirteen years. When she absently rubs an old lamp, Gino emerges and offers her a single wish. Out of the whole, what is it that Betsy will wish for? | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| King Charles and the Chees Published | Author | Geoff Bamber | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. The chorus - patrons of the Royal Oak and members of the Roundhead army - is optional. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | Historical (in the acurate as a Hollywood epic sense of the word) comedy drama for kids, set during the English Civil War. | ||||||
| Synopsis | King Charles And The Cheese is the entirely (give or take most of it) true story of how a simple piece of cheese altered the course of English history. The English Civil War rages on but, after a heavy defeat at the Battle of Worcester, the would-be King Charles II attempts to make his way to, hopefully temporary, exile in France. In hot pursuit are Charles' enemy Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of All England and his Roundhead army Charles takes cover at the Royal Oak Inn but Cromwell and his men are upon him in short order. Is Charles doomed or can salvation be found in the Royal Oak's larder? | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| The Little Mermaid Published | Author | Andrew O’Leary | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. Fourteen principal characters plus flexible chorus including plenty of speaking roles. Features not only pirates but also Vikings. And fish. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 85 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 9 songs. (Others could be substituted at the discretion of the production team.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. | ||||||
| Style | Panto loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen story. | ||||||
| Synopsis | Anemone has always wanted to visit the human world, watching the ships from her sea-home. But one day she makes a dreadful bargain with the sea-witch, swapping her voice for a pair of legs, and has only one day to get true love’s kiss and remain human... | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Snow White Published | Author | Alexandra Slater | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 29. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. Amongst the usual suspects, tall and short, this version includes a group of enchanted trees. (Ideal for your most wooden actors.) | ||||||
| Run time | Around 115 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 12 songs. (Others could be substituted at the discretion of the production team.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. | ||||||
| Style | British panto, bound up in a fast pace, driven along by a comedy duo of narrators who are an act in themselves. Great opportunities both for the cast to sparkle, with the very well drawn characters, and for the audience to join in. | ||||||
| Synopsis | This retelling of the old favourite has all of the ingredients we expect from Snow White but with hilarious new twists. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
| Plus | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show |
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| The Tin Cup Published | Author | Geoff Bamber | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. Whilst this was written for 27 players, it could - with a lot of doubling - be performed by a much smaller company. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Minimal staging requirements. | ||||||
| Synopsis | When the museum takes delivery of an antique silver cup with a royal pedigree but little else in its favour, there is no one to look after it for the weekend ahead of a visit from the Queen. A student, keen to secure a permanent job, undertakes the role of keeping the cup safe. Nothing can go wrong. Famous last words. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Zum Speisen mit der Langewörtergesellschaft Published | Author | Nicholas Richards | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Whilst it the characters are given masculine or feminine names (or titles, in the case of Herr Ober), it could be reassigned with the change of names and pronouns. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 4 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style |
Dinner with the Society for Long Words - comedy skit in German with English commentary! Intended as a light piece for a school language class, but clear and funny enough to form part of a general sketch show. |
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| Synopsis | It's a meeting of the German Society for Long Words in their favourite cafe. Can they keep the words shorter than the waiter's temper? Apparently not. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Motor Mouth Published | Author | Richard James | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters are written male, but could be either | ||||||
| Run time | Around 4 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | Comedy sketch, requiring something to represent a dentist's chair. Family-friendly, light-hearted humour. Would fit easily into a community revue evening or an event of similar tone. | ||||||
| Synopsis | A man shows-up for a dental appointment only to find that his usual dentist is participating in a government-sponsored job swap... | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| The Connection Published | Author | Graham Jones | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | One-act comedy play. Not so much a whodunnit as a 'what on earth is going on'? As it morphs from a comedy of mistaken identity to thriller and back. Single (simple office) set. | ||||||
| Synopsis | Five strangers, with five very different problems, are called to a certain office to meet Mr Hargreaves... But he isn't there! Is there a more sinister reason for them being locked in together? Can they find out what connects them? | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Coronation Fever Published | Author | Vince Jones | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | Character comedy play in two short acts. Single (village hall) set. | ||||||
| Synopsis | With the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Second only a year away, the village of Wintercourse Frequent must prepare! The Vicar calls together some stalwarts of the village to plan for the big event over two meetings. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| The Fly Published | Author | Karen Foster | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 6 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
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A short comedy sketch for two actors which has both cerebral and slapstick humour. The Fly has no relation to George Langelaan's short story or the subsequent films. (No mad scientists were hurt during the creation of this sketch.) |
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| Synopsis | Mr and Mrs Brown reveal the secret sides of themselves, whilst concealing then from each other, through a pithy and witty script. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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