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Being of Sound Mind by Andrew Hull |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. (One character is - deliberately - uncredited in the script.) |
Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length murder mystery. Single set. |
Synopsis | Edward Goodchild has died, and the will is read. Penny and Stephen are hoping for cash. Rebecca wants the truth about her sister's death. Martin is surprised to be there, but to get a single penny, they must first survive a night in the house. |
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Being Rose by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Requires 5 actresses of varying ages to play the title character. Every male character is intended to be played by the same actor, and every female character (aside from Rose) by the same actress. |
Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A powerful one act play with various settings. |
Synopsis | Rose looks back on her life from old age but as we see her memories replayed before us, differences emerge between her stories and reality. As her confusion increases, a doctor's diagnosis explains all. In this emotional look at the devastating effects of dementia, Rose is able to recollect momentous emotional events in her life which are vividly and evocatively played out on stage. |
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Bench by 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. [Estimated!] |
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. |
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Benny Manhattan And The Caponi Diamond by Carol Hill |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. Variable chorus size as desired by the Producer. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Music suggestions for nine optional pieces are included with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A gangster farce in two acts, suitable for youth performers, with various settings. |
Synopsis | The bumbling Manhattan gang, led by Benny Manhattan, get themselves embroiled in double crossings with the Caponi family. A bank robbery runs into difficulties when the Caponi diamond is inadvertently, or perhaps deliberately, included in the Manhattan's haul. |
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Best Foot Forward, Darling by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming monologue (though there is flexibility - the dancers could appear, as could the friend to whom Terence addresses his acid remarks). |
Synopsis | Terence, the highly strung choreographer watches and grumbles as dancers Monica and Jasper perform his creation. His mood swings from rage to praise and poor Monica feels the full force of his wrath. |
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The Best in the Book by Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Chorus includes unspecified numbers of (talking) sheep and camels |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes sheet music for three original songs. A number of traditional carols are also suggested in the script. |
Style | Irreverend, humorous nativity play. Simple sets. |
Synopsis | A humorous nativity story, with pantomime camels, talkative sheep, Queens as well as kings and lots of angels. The shepherds really don't like their job and spend the cold winter's night in drinking too much! They are very alarmed when angels appear. Meanwhile, one of the kings' camels develops a puncture... |
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Between Rock and Roll and a Hard Place by Peter May |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with a single (gentlemen’s club) setting. |
Synopsis | Edward De Vere is relaxing at his gentlemen’s club when he is approached by an odd character with a surprising request. |
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Between the Lines by Erica Glenn Winner of the VIP Arts Playwriting Competition, One-Act Musical Category, 2004 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Characters include a (fairytale) wolf! The chorus (children) is optional. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Musical scores for 13 songs are included with the Producer's copy of the script. |
Style | One-act comedy musical for kids. Minimal set requirements, simple props. |
Synopsis | It's time for a bedtime story, but things are not as we've come to expect them... The big, bad wolf is afraid of small children and princesses take to fighting dragons to rescue sleeping princes. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show ** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files ** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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Big Bad and Little Red by Raymond Blakesley Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Nine principal characters plus jury. The jury can be the audience (plus two or more actors planted amongst them to make and encourage responses) or could be set on stage. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy for kids in which fairy tales meet courtroom drama. |
Synopsis | It's the trial of the decade, with the Big Bad Wolf accused of swallowing Granny against her will and making a mess on her carpet! Can the judge keep order in the court long enough to reach a verdict? You are the jury! |
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Big City by Wesley A. Knoch |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. Mixture of adults and kids, intended to be played by a junior high school agegroup. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Producer's copy comes with sheet music (piano and vocal) for 10 songs and 2 instrumental pieces. |
Style | One-act musical for a junior high school youth theatre group. |
Synopsis | Dash Walker is determined to use his singing talent to escape his small town lifestyle. Entrusting his career to shifty talent scout Ricky T. Karr is his chance at fame - but is his trust misplaced? |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show ** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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