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Abi's Apartment by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Four roles, but the author suggests that Monsieur and Madam might be played by the same actor. |
Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An odd but fun comedy with lively fast-paced dialogue and good roles for (three or) four actors. Single set and easy to stage. |
Synopsis | Abigail and Benjamin, a maid and chauffeur, await the return of Madam, their famous employer, from a costly court hearing involving her unfaithful boyfriend. Fearing for their positions, they play an elaborate role-playing game to outwit each other and try to gain their mistress's favour. |
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About Michael by Peter Anthony Fields Audience Appreciation Award Second Place - The British Theatre Challenge 2017 Act II |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama on a stage divided into two sets. US English. Originally published 2018, revised 2019. |
Synopsis | A high school English teacher meets with the administrators for his mid-term evaluation, only to discover that it is in fact an interrogation. |
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About Sylvia by Cheryl Barrett |
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. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short monologue - a tender mix of comedy and pathos. |
Synopsis | Busy mum and housewife Sylvia is sitting in her kitchen reflecting on her life. She wants to 'find her voice' and decides to take up a rather exotic hobby. |
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Above and Beyond by Robert Scott Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Music to be played in background at certain points in the script, including a TV-style theme tune, to be chosen at producer's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length farce on a single set - which is both a bookshop and a hotel lobby. |
Synopsis | Mortimer and Philomena run a hotel with their child, Alexus. But this is no normal hotel - for one thing, it’s in a bookshop, and for another, the clients and owners are from outer space! |
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Absolute Dandy by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters written as 2M, 2F, but it doesn't much matter. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy set in a hitherto uncharted branch of literary history. |
Synopsis | Jane Austen is developing her characters as she prepares her latest, as yet untitled, book. She dresses as a man to find her inner Darcy and seeks advice from Beau Brummel as to wardrobe and demeanour. |
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Absolute Pantomonium! by Jon Monie Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Seven roles, but intended to be played by a cast of four. Whilst some of the roles are nominally male or female, it's a pantomime, so it's up to you how you sort this out. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 9 songs (and a reprise), with some panto-specific lyrics. All songs are at the discretion of the production. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act British pantomime with an original story written for a cast of four. |
Synopsis | When the beloved Fairy Tales is kidnapped by the villainous Killjoy, a young unnamed girl from the village of Ensemble must locate the Magical Book of Pantomimes and embark on a journey that will change her life forever. Along for the ride are the handsome Prince Charmless and the hapless Tilly and Billy Topps from the local Panto Emporium. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Absolutely Aesop by Lou Treleaven |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy play with a simple setting. For a cast of children, youth or adults. |
Synopsis | As part of the series of Absolutely Ancients, Aesop is brought onto a chat show to discuss his most famous fables and meet some of the characters again. Things don’t quite go as planned. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Free zip file containing three versions of the logo (created by Lucy Treleaven) for Absolutely Aesop by Lou Treleaven.
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Accessory to a Murder by Richard Smithson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters are written male but Gallstone could be cast female. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A novel take on the police genre provides some good jokes. Very easily stageable - two actors and a desk with chairs. |
Synopsis | Police officers Gallstone and Stott are serving the end of their careers in a retirement community. Frustrated that nothing ever happens, Gallstone demands that Stott become a maverick - just like on telly. |
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Accident Liars for You by David Dean |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short, light comedy, three hander, sketch. |
Synopsis | Advertising the services of 'Accident Liars for You', in a zany way. They will back up your insurance claim for any accident, no matter how ridiculous! |
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Accident of Birth by Trevor Suthers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Two speaking characters and one optional non-speaking character. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play on a single (interview room) set. |
Synopsis | Anthony, a patient/inmate in Broadmoor, confronts his birth mother in an attempt to discover the cause of his insanity. |
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