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A Human Write by Amelia Armande Best Seller Production by Ury Players won the 2018 Aberdeen SCDA district youth competition and the Kincardine district trophy. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. The writer is written male, though need not be. His thoughts - the chorus - are genderless. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fascinating one act drama that uses mime and rhyme to take us into the mind of a struggling writer. Contains one mild swearword. |
Synopsis | The writer is grappling not only with his writing but also with his personal life as he desperately attempts to strike up a relationship with Janis, a beautiful girl he sees on a bus. Well paced and gathering speed, the play uses the chorus to reveal the writer's thoughts - sometimes cogent, sometimes chaotic - come to life as the surreal become real. |
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The Hunter And The Hunted by JPS Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Two non-speaking roles. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length, emotive drama, set during the First World War. |
Synopsis | A hunting party on General Franklin-Davies' Scottish estate in the early years of World War One, poignantly and dramatically presages events that the party are to experience in the trenches. |
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Hunting Death by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. The narrator's role could be split amongst several actors. There are opening and closing choruses which could be performed by the ensemble or by additional actors/singers. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] (The estimated run time assumes the music; without music it could be performed in 12 minutes.) |
Music | The music is designed to run continuously, so there is one 25-minute score. (It is divided into sections for rehearsal purposes.) |
Style | A short musical play, retelling the Pardoner's Tale from the Canterbury Tales. (Could also be performed as a verse play without the music.) |
Synopsis | This drama recounts the story of three young men who bestir themselves from their wine-sodden lives to hunt and kill Death, but instead fall victim to him through greed and treachery. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** CD with full backing track (25 minutes) and full sung demo for Hunting Death by Nicholas Richards.
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I Believe In Angels by Tony Domaille Octopus Youth. Bristol One Act Festival Best Youth Play award 1994. Runner up in the Five Counties One Act Festival 1994. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play, suitable for youth theatre, with a single (garden of remembrance) setting. |
Synopsis | A group of teenagers meet to have a séance and call up the spirit of Steve, their friend who has died. Between them they confront their grief, fear, and what they can and cannot believe. |
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I Have A Vision by Stewart Boston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama in two acts, informed by the three years the author spent working on two reserves in Saskatchewan. |
Synopsis | Two years on a reservation in Canada, as the elections bring a new chief with a new vision, but Richard can't offer the people the same good times his predecessor Gerald did. He wants them to think long term and to make changes for their children's future. A moving play, throwing new light on an old struggle. |
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I Love You When It's Raining, Roy G Biv by Martin R. Collin |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The chorus covers a school class, a choir and a funeral congregation, so very flexible numbers! The structure of the story implies a mixture of adults and children, but of course it could be performed by a youth company. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | A couple of public domain songs are suggested for use in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act play with various simple settings. |
Synopsis | Roy is that inspirational teacher everyone remembers. He arrives at a small school in Ohio and immediately makes a mark on every pupil he comes into contact with. His death is sudden and unexpected but his spirit lives on as his pupils move into adulthood. |
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I Stand Alone by Kevin Broughton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama in two acts. Four locations, but designed for minimal staging. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | An allegorical play. In the far future, Britain has been ravaged by an external conflict and a civil war between the returning Celts, who restored the country, and the native Saxons who feel they have been pushed aside. |
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I Will Pass My Jeans On by Patricia Gay |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play. |
Synopsis | Tara and Abbie are washing and ironing their mum’s old clothes, getting ready to pass them on to charity. Mum can’t resist giving them advice, but she is not all there. |
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I'm Not One To Gossip But... by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | Brenda has met up with her old friend Sharon for lunch and a friendly gossip at Phillip's café. Through the gossip, a few skeletons in Phillip's cupboard are revealed. |
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Idiot Spaz by Eddie Coleman One of the finallists in the 2016 'British Theatre Challenge' play writing competition. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] Performance at the British Theatre Challenge showcase ran to 17 minutes. |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act play, set at a fair - by or in - the hall of mirrors. |
Synopsis | Peter has cerebral palsy and his carer knows him well. Today, however, she must leave for a new job, and the supervisor believes he knows what Peter needs... But Peter knows better. |
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