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| Alice And The Cold Case by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 68 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two act detective drama (that could be played out in one). |
| Synopsis | A detective on administrative leave and a reporter with everything to prove have to team up to solve a cold case that no one really cares about. The only question is whether it will make their careers, or end them. |
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| All's Well that Ends Well [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'All's Well that Ends Well', with every word remaining Shakespeare's.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | When the low-born Helena cures the King's illness, she chooses as her reward marriage to Bertram, Count of Rousillon. Bertram, unimpressed by this, goes to war to avoid his new wife. Helena concocts a plan to win him over.
A comedy in the Shakespearean sense of a story with a happy ending. In modern terms, more of a drama. |
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| A Bench In The Park by Robin Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy thriller. |
| Synopsis | Joe's bed is a park bench, which - during the day, is used by a number of seemingly unconnected people. As conversations unfold, their relationships with each other and with Joe take a surprising twist. |
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| Chip Off The Old Block by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A play structured in three acts (but in length on the boundary between one-act and full-length plays) with one (kitchen/diner) set. |
| Synopsis | When Katie decides to enlist the makers of a television programme to trace her birth Father, it has implications beyond her own family, which no one could have foreseen. |
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| Christmas At Petersburg by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. One of the characters has the same surname as the author. This is not entirely coincidental. |
| Run Time | Around 72 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with two original scores. Additional excerpts from Christmas carols could be used at the discretion of the production. |
| Style | Historical drama, exporing some of the depths of the American Civil War. |
| Synopsis | The Confederates have been besieged at the railhead of Petersberg for months, reducing food, clothing and ammunition to the barest minimum. Into this desperate situation, on Christmas Eve, come two young girls from opposite sides of the war, each looking for a lost and injured father. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Citizen Putrumpkin by Richard Smithson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 69 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act satire on populist politics. |
| Synopsis | In the Eastern European nation of Subsurbia, government ministers pick famous game show contestant Boris Putrumpkin to be their puppet president. When Boris's idiotic nature almost derails everything, they recruit convict Kiril Dvoynik to be his stand-in. But Kiril has his own plans for power. |
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| The Comedy of Errors [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. Speaking roles - 4M, 4F, 8 either, plus at least 3 non-speaking townspeople. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'The Comedy of Errors', with every word remaining Shakespeare's.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Antipholus of Syracuse has come to Ephesus with his servant, Dromio. Unknown to them, their identical twin brothers, also called Antipholus and Dromio, have been living in Ephesus for many years. There is a heap of comic confusion until their true identities are at last revealed. |
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| The Cottage by John Dowsett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] The author estimates the run time at 80 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A drama set in the 1960s. Structurally in two acts, but on the boundary between one-act and two-act length. |
| Synopsis | Alex’s cottage was once a cosy family home, but since the death of his wife, he’s started to lose his grip on the place. Now his sons see an investment opportunity, if they can persuade him to move out. |
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| Cyrano and Roxane by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two tracks are suggested in the producer's script - one to be played in the background at the end of a scene, one to be played from an instrumental recording as a character sings the lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length comedy drama with various settings. |
| Synopsis | A modern reworking of the romantic classic, bringing to life the story of Cyrano de Bergerac - a French soldier known for his poetic skills, bold adventures and large nose - his friend Christian and their love for Roxane. |
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| Dracula by Damian Woods |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 62 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama adapted from the Bram Stoker novel. This has been written to be easily staged, by use of props, lighting and sound, rather than elaborate sets. |
| Synopsis | The classic gothic tale is authentically brought to life, as young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to a Transylvanian castle to meet with the mysterious Count Dracula, who is planning to move to England. But he doesn't realise that the Count has a taste for blood... |
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