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| Ackroyd’s Christmas Stocking by Alison Clink |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with a single (kitchen/diner) setting. Some strong language. Contains sprouts. |
| Synopsis | Helen and Chris are rather dubious about daughter Charlotte's new boyfriend, shaven headed Ackroyd, currently on police bail. Helen does her best to include him in the family's Christmas celebrations with surprising consequences for them all. |
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| Acorn Fields by Barry Wood |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy on a single (retirement home lounge) set. |
| Synopsis | Charlie is visiting Acorn Fields to move his father in. He’s much impressed with the facilities, though it turns out they’re looking after Charlie so nicely because they have mistaken him for his father, and think he’s a resident! |
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The Acquisition by Henry P. Gravelle
New Jersey Film Awards - 2021 Winner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three speaking roles and one non-speaking demonic arm. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act melodrama with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Art collector Emory has acquired an ancient artefact of immense value and horrifying malevolence. He is eager for his niece Michelle to admire it, but she uses it as an instrument of revenge against her unfaithful husband |
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Act Naturally by Giles Scott
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy on two sets (community hall/park). |
| Synopsis | The Historic Sites Preservation Society is in financial trouble, and they need to do something about it quickly. Certainly a play seems like a good idea, especially when they save money by writing it themselves, but can they act? |
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| Acting, It’s Not Plumbing… by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act character comedy - set in a theatre workshop, so there's scope for over-acting! Single set - a village hall! Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Jill is running a drama workshop in the community centre, but is it really just for the benefit of those taking part? Whatever her motivation, Paul, Amy, Chelsea, Bob, Sandra and Fay are having a whale of a time. |
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| Addiction by John Passadino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dark, dramatic monologue. Minimal set. (US English.) |
| Synopsis | Matthew talks to his wife, admitting his shortcomings as a partner and husband, but is finally overcome by rage. |
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| Adrian - The Alternative Pantomime (Clean Version) by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 33. No chorus. Character genders, outside the principal characters', are interchangable. |
| Run Time | Around 121 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for ten songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime with one setting. |
| Synopsis | Adrian’s not your typical inhabitant of Pantoland. He’s level-headed, and can spot the difference between a wolf and a Granny. But due to unfortunate circumstances, he’s got the job of Fairy Godmother - for everyone! |
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| The Adventurers' Club by Damian Woods |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light hearted one act comedy. |
| Synopsis | A group of twenty-somethings assemble to discuss a possible future expedition. The leader Tom has an idea to realise a great ambition - unrealistically - which he surprises the group with. Before long Tom's mother interrupts proceedings and galvanises the group into action. |
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The Affidavit by Janet S. Tiger
THE AFFIDAVIT - 1st place (1983) cash award and full production WORLD PREMIERE |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute play. Single set (a pawn shop in New York in the 1940s). A brief glimpse into individual lives, set against the background of the holocaust. |
| Synopsis | Hilda Gruenberg has to renew her father's visa affidavit to stand a chance of getting him out of Nazi Germany to join her in America, but it'll cost her $650. She believes her family heirloom ring is worth $10,000, so she's shocked when the pawnshop owner, Mr Meyer, only offers her $650 for it. Why is he taking advantage of her desperation, and is she too proud to accept? |
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After The Flags And Bands by Allan Williams
Production by Offshoots won Best Play, Best Actress & Technical Excellence Award at the Anglesey Drama Festival 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An all female cast, one act drama - with a single (church hall during World War One) setting. |
| Synopsis | Throughout the First World War we follow the women left at home, through letters and monologues, as their good companionship helps them cope with the devastating events on the Western Front. |
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