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| End of the Road Pub - a play about Hell by David Webb |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as Australians, though there is no reason that they couldn't come from other places. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play with a Christian perspective on the riskier areas of the afterlife. (Single public bar setting, simple props.) |
| Synopsis | Marty and Jim stagger into a pub after a nasty car crash. They have a drink to steady their nerves but soon notice something strange about the pub. It turns out that crash was nastier than they thought and they've got their own lock-in, forever! |
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| The Endowment by Susan Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. As written, the two characters have a playing age of around fifty, though this could be varied somewhat. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act Drama, single domestic set. (Includes occasional swearing.) |
| Synopsis | Linda receives a visit from her ex-husband, bearing unwelcome memories and unexpected news. Have their years of separation changed them enough to right old wrongs? |
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| Entrenched by Samantha Lierens |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A song is suggested to be sung and accompanied on piano at beginning and end the performance. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length play, divided into three acts, with many short scenes in different locations. |
| Synopsis | A re-telling of a true story about Elsie Knocker and her friend Mairi Chisholm, who were instrumental in establishing and maintaining a hospital, close to the front line at Ypres during the First World War. They were both awarded the Military Medal, were decorated by the Belgian King, and probably became the most photographed women of their time. This play follows them from their first meeting to the irrevocable breakdown of their friendship in 1919. |
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Even Numbers by Tony Domaille
Best Seller Winner of the Derek Jacobi Award for New Playwriting 2023. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Dr Vincent is written male, but could be played female. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Multi-award-winning thriller with strongly written dialogue and good roles for three actors. One-act, one set (prison consulting room) with a scene in a prison cell created purely by lighting. |
| Synopsis | Mary-Ann has poisoned and killed five people and Doctor Vincent must make an assessment of her mental state for the court. In trying to establish if she is insane, or just plain evil, a shocking truth is discovered. |
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| Everything's Eventual by Kieron Toner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Episodic drama with a single coffee shop set - which can just be tables and chairs (with the counter implicitly offstage). |
| Synopsis | It's a normal sort of evening in Sally's café, although some of the clientele are a trifle unusual. |
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| An Eye for an Eye by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. Single set (prison cell with practical door). Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | James Nash is awaiting trial for the murder of his father. The horrific details of the crime have shocked the nation, and Nash has been offered lots of money for his story. But he chooses to tell it to a couple from his local paper, for a pittance given to charity. What is his story? |
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| Family Spirit by Pat Wollaston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Play in two acts (in length, somewhere on the boundary between a one-act play and a full-length - that is to say, another shorter piece could be fitted in the same program if desired). Single domestic set. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | When Arthur dies, he's a little surprised to find that he's still in his old house. His guide angel, Simon, explains that he's being assessed to determine which way he goes next, but there are a few complications between Arthur's funeral and his final destination. |
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Farewell by David Titchener
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Charcter-driven drama in a single set. |
| Synopsis | Brothers Tom and Bill have been running the family funeral home business for years. Now their wayward brother Geoff has turned up again, but this time, he doesn't want money, he wants to rejoin the family. |
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| Feeding the Pigs by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An enjoyably grim monologue. |
| Synopsis | Mara has killed her husband and needs to get rid of the body. She takes him, at dead of night, to a pig farm ten miles away to feed him to the pigs. She succeeds, but makes a potentially damning mistake. |
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| A Fifty-Minute Duchess of Malfi by John Webster abridged by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. Characters include a small boy and optional non-speaking servants, etc. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of John Webster's 'The Duchess of Malfi', with the original text cut down to 50 minutes or so.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | The eponymous heroine is a rich widow. Her brothers - a duke and a cardinal - want control of her wealth and so have forbidden her from marrying. They set the loyal but troubled Bosola to spy on her, and he discovers that the duchess has, in secret, married Antonio, her steward. The news sets the Duke and Cardinal into such a rage that nobody escapes unscathed.
(Whilst the abridgement reduces the length of the text, all of Webster's gory details are preserved - which is more than can be said for the principals.) |
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