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Broken by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The 2 male roles are very minor. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act thriller, with a single - old dining room - setting. |
Synopsis | Lucy receives a mysterious email inviting her to a house that turns out to have been abandoned for years. Waiting there is her former mother-in-law, who still blames Lucy for the death of her son. But there are more surprises to come... |
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Brush Yourself Off and Move On by Megan Boduch |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One character (the Director) has two short lines, which could be done from offstage. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play - a character study - set outside a Broadway audition (though it could be a theatrical audition anywhere). No specific set requirements, simple props. |
Synopsis | A Broadway hopeful is waiting nervously outside her latest audition. A rival gains her trust but proceeds to destroy her confidence, apparently for no better reason than her own amusement. Just as our girl is about to give it all up, however, a man arrives and is considerate and kind. He restores her confidence and points out her advantages over the more poisonous girl. Together they point out the girl's deficiencies to her and win the moral victory over her. |
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A Bump In The Night by Susan Vesey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A powerful one act play, with a simple set. |
Synopsis | Jen and Jacob are in bed when they hear noises downstairs. Jen wants Jacob to investigate, but he's not keen. They trade visions of a future if the burglars turn nasty, but the noises are made by Gladys - who brings a very different perspective. This play deals with the issue of underage sex, child sexual abuse and teenage pregnancy. |
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A Butler Did It! by Robert Scott Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length play - a dark comedy farce. |
Synopsis | The funeral of Aunt Francesca has finally brought the Butler brothers together again. Shockingly, she is not dead - at first - and soon secrets and lies are almost outnumbered by corpses. |
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Bye Bye Miss Amelia Pye by Patricia Gay |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Three characters are portrayed in both 1959 and 2009. |
Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length detective thriller with a single simple setting. Action slips between 2009 and 1959. |
Synopsis | In 1959, in the remote Longmoor Manor, a young girl called Amelia Pye was found murdered. Arthur Pye, an ex-commando turned communist was the prime suspect. However, his guilt was never proven. In 2009 the long-married Charlotte and Edward Colville play host to the obnoxious Selena Harper and her mollycoddled son Hadley. Hadley, with his unhealthy fascination with murder, fancies himself as an amateur sleuth, and sets out to solve the mystery. |
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Cadbury Angels by Alison Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] The estimated run time allows time for 15 songs. |
Music | 15 songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length play with songs. Set some time in the 2000s and in the 1940s. First published in 2022, revised 2023. |
Synopsis | Clearing the house after her mother has died, a daughter finds some strange treasures packed away: letters, some nylons, a ball of chewing gum? She's uncovered a secret of her mother's past - she was a Cadbury Angel. |
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Café Fear by Paul John Matthews |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for three pieces of intermission music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act play, with elements of tragicomedy and strong language. |
Synopsis | Two newspaper reporters, Angela and Jim, are following up reports of an escaped patient from a local secure mental hospital. Stopping off at a café to ask directions, they are joined by Adriana, a prissy germaphobe and Roger, an annoying smart Alec. They soon realise that they have ended up in a very strange place. |
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Caiaphas by Mike Sparks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play which can be produced with minimal staging (so could easily be done within a church). |
Synopsis | The events of the last few days of Holy Week are shown from the viewpoint of High Priest Caiaphas and his family. |
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Call To Duty by Nettie Baskcomb Brown The original production won the Five Counties and Mercia division trophies and was a semi-finalist in 2014 All England Theatre Festival, winning adjudicator's award for excellence. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Award winning One Act play for youth theatre with various (simple) settings. |
Synopsis | Sam is bored by his school history and drama lessons about the First World War, but through his brother's console games, he learns more than he expected. The play vividly brings to life the bravery of ordinary soldiers who fought in World War One by merging modern virtual war games with the shocking reality of the WW1 trenches and using comedy and tragedy to take actors and audiences on an emotional, thought provoking journey. |
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Can Malone Die? by David Pollard |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama on a study set. Part of the 'Illusion/Delusion' trio of plays, which can be bought separately or as a collection. |
Synopsis | Max Feeney is a best-selling author on the point of killing off his character the ‘Ethical Assassin’ when the fictional character appears to argue to be spared. In the ensuing debate, hidden and unacknowledged truths are surfaced and the question of the debt owed by creator to creature is examined. Ultimately, Max succumbs to a heart attack while grappling with his creation. Has this all been the result of Feeney’s descent into madness or is illusion more real than we think? |
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