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| The Board Meeting by Alexis Coward |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One traditional song is suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short comedy drama on a simple (meeting room) set. |
| Synopsis | A group of imaginary friends from Layla’s childhood desperately try to come up with a plan to revive an adult Layla from a coma. |
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Boarding For Neverland by Spencer Wareing
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The two lead characters meet aged 8 and again at 14, 16 and 18. This offers the option for each to be played by a 1, 2, 3 or 4 actors. There are also adult characters, so it could be played by a mixture of adults and youth or by a youth theatre company. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama principally for actors high-school age. Single set divided into three areas. |
| Synopsis | Two eight-year-olds meet by chance in an airport. Across their teenage years, as Kip comes to terms with being non-binary and Atticus deals with a friend becoming terminally ill, the two continue to meet up and to share their struggles. |
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| Bradley No Mates by Linda Stephenson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Written to be performed with four groups of three narrators. The chorus is non-speaking but interacts with the action. The adult roles might be played by adults or children. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for a school company on the theme of bullying. Multiple locations but little or nothing needed in the way of set. |
| Synopsis | Bradley is at a new school and having trouble fitting in. Worse, the school bully, who's reputed to carry a knife, has got it in for him. But Bradley has found he can visit the past, and the village school that was knocked down years ago. Maybe his trips there can help him in the present. |
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| A Breath Of Fresh Air by Kate Goddard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. One character is an offstage voice |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] This allows for 16 songs or music pieces included |
| Music | Optional assorted music with suggested tunes and some popular songs with re-written words. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act play with optional music and dance. |
| Synopsis | Carbin Dioxide the second is determined to find more oil and gas to make himself even richer. His assistants discover they can reach the deposits under the North Pole if they increase global warming to melt the ice. Who can stop them? |
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A Brief History Of The United States by Andrew Yates
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 45. Chorus. Slick changes would be required if only minimum cast available. |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] Dependent on using all music suggested |
| Music | Song suggestions are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | An assembly presentation play with eight songs. |
| Synopsis | A fast moving dramatisation of the rise of the USA, from the early days of discovery and colonisation through industrialisation and two World Wars up to the present day. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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| Brief Lives by Andrew Beattie |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama for young actors. Traces of black comedy and strong language. Two simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Two teenage boys are presented with a difficult situation when, arriving for his regular music lesson, one of them discovers the dead body of his elderly music teacher. |
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| Bright - A Play About Heaven by David Webb |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play with a Christian theme delivered in a direct style. No specific set - requires only a bench. |
| Synopsis | A man suffering after his second heart attack meets a friend in a beautiful garden, where the air makes him feel better than the doctors have managed. Then he remembers that friend was badly hurt in an accident and begins to realise where he is. |
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The Brilliance in the Room by Phil Porter
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 105. No chorus. An ensemble piece designed for a cast of 12 or more, each playing multiple roles. |
| Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length sweep of Dickensian vignettes, with an ensemble of actors playing multiple characters. No specific set, but props are manipulated to convey locations. |
| Synopsis | A dreamlike convergence of Dickens’ characters and situations swirl about the stage, in a celebration of the author’s works. |
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| Brotherly Love by Sarah Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two adults and two children (could be played by four kids.) |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short play. Single set, simple props. Part of the Emotions collection of shorts. |
| Synopsis | Jack's sister Emma gives the family a scare after a row with her brother. A short, sweet play examining brother/sister relationships. |
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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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