New Skits and Shorts from Lazy Bee Scripts
This excludes school plays. (For more choice, go to the Sketches home page.)
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New Skits and Shorts 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 of less than 20 minutes. This excludes school plays. (For more choice, go to the Sketches 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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| Clean Pants Published | Author | Janice Sampson | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two characters are women in late middle-age. The tone is such that they could be played by men (in the manner of Les Dawson and Roy Barraclough). | ||||||
| Run time | Around 4 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style |
Comic duologue. A telephone conversation between two domestic locations (which need only be hinted at). Contains mild swearing. Linguistic disambiguation: this piece uses 'pants' in the English way, abbreviating 'underpants'. |
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| Synopsis | Hetti and Emily are two old friends who have obviously spent a lifetime supporting each other through their respective trials and tribulations (mainly concerning hospital proddings and jabbings.) Hetti has received an appointment letter for her cataract procedure and outlines her concerns to Emily whose best advice turns out to be most prescient! | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| I Quite Fancy A Go At Lacrosse Published | Author | Janice Sampson | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 7 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | A comedy monologue with adult language and themes. | ||||||
| Synopsis | Whatever Melanie does she just can’t find a man. Her past outlandish schemes, including a rugby club, have failed to assist her in her quest. When Matthew starts work in the same office he seems to be the answer to her dreams and she decides that the best way to impress him is to agree to his suggestion of a charity parachute jump. Expecting to land in his arms she is disappointed to find he has brought along his drop dead gorgeous girlfriend! She decides that this is the final straw and vows to give up her hunt but another prospect comes along in the form of Martin from packaging, who's another one with an interesting hobby... | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Back in the Saddle Published | Author | Janice Sampson | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 6 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | Short monody (a monologue with a little action and a few simple props) for a much-married middle-aged woman. Contains swearing. | ||||||
| Synopsis | Rita has had a somewhat chequered life when it comes to men. Four husbands with a few boyfriends thrown in along the way has given her a somewhat caustic view of weddings. Nevertheless she has accepted an invitation to her friend's nuptials despite the downmarket location at the local pub with a pork pie buffet. 'Back in the Saddle' is a comedy monologue in which Rita brings the wedding to life for us and we share in her surprise as her re-union with a long forgotten school friend at the reception has unexpected consequences for them both. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| On Stage With Shirley Bassey Published | Author | Janice Sampson | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. One man and his urn. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | Short monody (a monologue with a little action and a few simple props) for a dutiful middle-aged son. Contains mild swearing. | ||||||
| Synopsis | In this hilarious, and at times touching monologue we meet David who has come to sort out his recently deceased mother's bungalow. The most difficult part of his task is to deal with Mum's vast collection of Shirley Bassey memorabilia and even more difficult, though he won't admit it, to deal with his bereavement and say goodbye to his mother. Much to the embarrassment and annoyance of wife, Brenda he carries Mum's ashes around with him and is going through the process of taking Mum to all her favourite places. The final location he thinks of is Mum's ultimate dream - but will Shirley agree? | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Clean Break Published Shortlisted for Short & Sweet festival 2010, Melbourne & Sydney 2012 | Author | Tom Jensen | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Mother, daughter and the daughter's fiasco fiancée. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | Very short comedy play. Gets to a point where others have been before, but gets there via a totally novel route! Contains mild swearing. | ||||||
| Synopsis | It's Lucy and Melvin's big day, but Melvin has to confess that he's got more than just last minute jitters - he's concerned that the immensity of the universe and his own insignificance means he can't see the point of marriage at all... | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Writers Group Published | Author | Tom Jensen | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 6 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | Comedy sketch. Simple (minimal) set and props. | ||||||
| Synopsis | Will's just had a play reading with some friends, but the news isn't good. They think his play needs some fairly major changes - too much death, gloom and suicide. Who would want to sit through this stuff? | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| A One Hearse Town Published | Author | Cheryl Barrett | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 2 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | Short rhyming monologue. | ||||||
| Synopsis | An Irish village is bereft of a spiritual centre since the Priest departed with a lady named Bridget. Luckily, the Pub now stands in the church's stead, offering solace, groceries, community and, of course, whiskey. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Dear Diet Diary Published | Author | Cheryl Barrett | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. A middle-aged lady who feels she needs to lose weight. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | Ten-minute comedy play for one. | ||||||
| Synopsis | A woman who has been struggling with her weight addresses the issue of dieting through a monologue directed at her diary. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Auditions Sketch Published | Author | Peter Appleton | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 3 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | Short comedy sketch. Minimal set (a table and a couple of chairs). Contains a mild swearword. | ||||||
| Synopsis | A brief but telling insight into the auditions process! | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| A Pair of Vents Published | Author | Peter Appleton | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. At least one of the ventrilloquists' dummies is female, but, when all's said and done, they are supposed to be ventrilloquists' dummies. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 5 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | Short comedy sketch. No set (could be done front-of-curtain with just a couple of chairs). | ||||||
| Synopsis | Two ventriloquists and their 'dummies' give us a very funny exchange of verbal dexterity, to the point at which the dummies take over the act. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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