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| Cell Mates by Mark Seaman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play with a single (prison cell) setting. |
| Synopsis | Young Terry Cole is entering the prison system for the first time. His youthful swagger is tempered by his apprehension about what lies ahead. His meeting with cell mate, murderer George, has a profound effect on him. |
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Chance Encounters by Jamesine Cundell Walker
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Can be played with a different cast in every scene, or with the same cast throughout. |
| Run Time | Around 76 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play comprised of nine connected playlets with a single (park bench) setting. |
| Synopsis | Nine encounters take place on a park bench during the course of a day in September. Some are dramatic, some comedic. |
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| Chances In The Rain by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play, with a park setting. |
| Synopsis | Edward and Michelle are waiting for their dates in the same park. Both seem to have been stood up, yet they aren't very sympathetic to one another. But there are two other lonely people on hand, and things resolve neatly... eventually. |
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| Change Of Heart by Tony Frier |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act Victorian melodrama-style thriller. |
| Synopsis | A tangled tale of bigamy and murder in 19th Century Manchester. Three girls from Ireland take up domestic service at the Chilterns' home. When Mrs Chiltern unexpectedly returns home one evening to find her husband dead, little does she imagine that she will be the one facing the gallows. Will a change of heart spare her? |
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Changes Trilogy by Tony Domaille
Award winning. 'A Single Moment' - Runner up best original play, Avon One Act Play Festival 2015. 'Me & You.' Winner of the Avon Short Play Festival Competition 2020, as well as awards for best director, best actor, best actress and supporting actor |
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| Chariot by Chad Bearden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. The original production used adults to play the roles of Lenny and Margo. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script suggests five pieces of background music to be used during the course of the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length play, intended for two young pincipal actors (and various adult roles). |
| Synopsis | Lenny and Margo are left orphaned when their mother dies, but their Uncle Joe sneaks them away from government care and takes them on a wild road trip towards San Diego (where he claims to have a job). The kids use their imaginations to stay calm and happy on the trip. The family meet various personalities along America's highways who try to help the lost siblings and the loyal Joe set aside their fantasies and confront reality. |
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| Charm Offensive by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two act full length play with separate settings for each Act (café and pub). |
| Synopsis | A handsome, suave and attentive man with no visible means of support moves to an affluent town and into Belinda's house. According to Rosemary, Belinda's best friend, something about this charmer doesn’t quite add up. As Neil continues his charm offensive, public opinion is divided as to his motives. |
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| Checking Out by Jo Chandler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play. |
| Synopsis | Single mother Sandra is proud of daughter Kerry Ann's academic success and high flying career, but they are both keeping secrets from each other - with tragic results. |
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| Chekhov's Shorts by Anton Chekhov, adapted Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of five short plays based on short stories by Anton Chekhov. |
| Synopsis | A Lottery Ticket adapted from the story of the same title
A Meeting on a Train Loosely adapted from 'An Enigmatic Nature'
Difficult People adapted from the story of the same title
Natalie’s Vacation adapted from 'A Tripping Tongue'
I’m Famous based on 'Joy' |
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| Chess as Felony by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
| Synopsis | Game Ten in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Convicts Claude Bloodgood and Ram Varadachary take a train with their guard to a chess tournament, but on the train they play a game for high stakes. |
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