|
An Eye for an Eye by Johnny Grim |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. Single set (prison cell with practical door). Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | James Nash is awaiting trial for the murder of his father. The horrific details of the crime have shocked the nation, and Nash has been offered lots of money for his story. But he chooses to tell it to a couple from his local paper, for a pittance given to charity. What is his story? |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Family History by Deborah Hugill A performance by Allerton Players won the David Crumpton Memorial Cup at the Nidderdale Deams Festival in 2023. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Two actors converying multiple characters. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. Minimal set with changes conveyed by lighting. Lots of good challenges for the actors. Contains (appropriately) strong language. |
Synopsis | Grace is finally opening up to her partner Joe about her family. This begins with with the totally unexpected revelation that her father died more than a year previously. Joe struggles to understand Grace's past relationship with her family, and to help her see the future they could have together. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
Awards | Click here to see the awards won by (productions of) this script. |
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Family Matters by Juliet Devon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Cast includes 5 children (of secondary school age) and two offstage adult voices. |
Run Time | Around 61 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun script for a lively show that accommodates a number of younger actors. Structurally in two acts, but run-time on the boundary between full-length and one-act. Single domestic set. |
Synopsis | Susan tries to steer her five children through a regular school day, while also dealing with her mother, her father, and her sister, as well as the helpful advice of her husband, who's out of the country for work. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Family Spirit by Pat Wollaston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Play in two acts (in length, somewhere on the boundary between a one-act play and a full-length - that is to say, another shorter piece could be fitted in the same program if desired). Single domestic set. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | When Arthur dies, he's a little surprised to find that he's still in his old house. His guide angel, Simon, explains that he's being assessed to determine which way he goes next, but there are a few complications between Arthur's funeral and his final destination. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
Feedback | Click here to find out what other customers said about this script. |
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Far Away and Long Ago by Shari Gledhill |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An emotional script with well-written dialogue that allows exploration of issues such as PTSD and family relationships without becoming overly sentimental. Good, thoughtful representation of deafness. |
Synopsis | Harry, a homeless and deaf war veteran, intervenes when he sees Val being mugged at the bus stop. Harry is injured and so Val invites him home. But the arguments between Val's family cause great stress to Harry, which is worsened when Harry meets teenage Katie's new boyfriend. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Father's Day by Allan Williams Awarded the Crawshay Cup for best original script at the 2011 All Wales Finals. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Two pieces of music are suggested in the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act drama, with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Old soldier Harris is being cared for by daughter Alice, who is concerned about leaving him alone as she goes on a much needed holiday. Harris is confronted by a young visitor - Jamie, who is intent on robbing him, but soon finds he is up against a doughty old soldier. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Fear is a Reaction, Courage is a Decision by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. The interesting, unconventional set-up of the collapsed shop allows for a different way into the theme of abusive relationships. Could make a powerful festival piece. |
Synopsis | When the roof of a camping shop collapses, the customers and staff are trapped among the rubble, injured and in darkness. It falls to panic-stricken but uninjured Donna to care for the others, but her selfish boyfriend Jason just wants her to care for him. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Fiends And Neighbours by Anne Graham |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 51 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama. Several simple settings and some mild expletives. |
Synopsis | Hoping to leave an unhappy past behind, Alice and disabled daughter Molly meet Brenda, who lives more in the past than the present. Brad, a thief and a bully, ensures that Brenda’s stability and Alice’s new-found optimism are destroyed at a stroke. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
A Fifty-Minute Cymbeline by Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Thre are 29 speaking roles (with considerable doubling possible), plus a non-speaking chorus with plenty of roles on offer! |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'Cymbeline', with the original text cut down to 50 minutes or so. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | Posthumus Leonatus has married Imogen, daughter of Cymbeline, the King of Britain, without permission. That gets Posthumus banished, leaving Imogen behind. Meanwhile, the King's second wife is trying to engineer her son's route to the throne. An Italian braggart causes a rift between Posthumus and Imogen, and with Cybeline's court in disarray, the Romans mount an invasion. How then can the kingdom be saved? |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
A Fifty-Minute Duchess of Malfi by John Webster abridged by Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. Characters include a small boy and optional non-speaking servants, etc. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Abridgement of John Webster's 'The Duchess of Malfi', with the original text cut down to 50 minutes or so. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | The eponymous heroine is a rich widow. Her brothers - a duke and a cardinal - want control of her wealth and so have forbidden her from marrying. They set the loyal but troubled Bosola to spy on her, and he discovers that the duchess has, in secret, married Antonio, her steward. The news sets the Duke and Cardinal into such a rage that nobody escapes unscathed. (Whilst the abridgement reduces the length of the text, all of Webster's gory details are preserved - which is more than can be said for the principals.) |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|