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| Sarah by Mark Seaman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Pat and Sarah are 21 but the actors also play them as children. Pat's parents change age in step with her. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A touching, well-crafted one act play that uses monologues and flash-backs to achieve a fine balance between sensitivity and sentimentality as the story of Pat's relationship with her father and her friend Sarah unfolds. Single set. Mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Pat is about to mark her twenty first birthday in a very different way. Her best friend Sarah will be there, but this year their relationship will change and things will never be the same again, for either of them, as the true nature of their friendship is revealed. |
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| Scabs by Naomi Elster |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama with a flexible set. |
| Synopsis | The 1913 transport strike in Dublin, its harrowing consequences and the rise of women’s political participation is vividly brought to life through the eyes of one activist working class family. |
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| The Scent of Daffodils by Radek Zwolak |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 107 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length drama with a single (garden) setting. |
| Synopsis | Vince and his son Charles have been estranged for many years. In an attempt to explore a reconciliation, Charles and new wife Ann visit. The subsequent soul-searching and raw emotions come alive as the father and son relationship is thoroughly tested, with a final heart-wrenching result. |
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| A Sequence of Events by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Two (male) characters are voice-only and could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 3 tracks, to be played at the closing of scenes, are suggested in the producer's copy of the script Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A 50-minute drama, structured into two acts with set redecoration required between them. |
| Synopsis | The loss of her father when she was just sixteen really affected Anne, but the unplanned pregnancy that followed was even more of a blow. Putting the child up for adoption, she tried to forget it all, but thirty years later she receives a letter. |
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| Setting The Record Straight by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play set in a day room at a nursing home for the elderly. |
| Synopsis | Stuart is visiting his Aunt in the home again. She's refused any pain medication so she can keep her mind clear - she wants to set the record straight. She tells Stuart things her never knew about her own past, things that involve his mother and her family. |
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| The Shadow of Christmas by Martyn Chapman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 0. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Prose monologue - a good character piece - with minimal set and an ill-fitting costume! |
| Synopsis | A reluctant Father Christmas talks about his feelings during the festive season, remembering the daughter he lost and considering what life might have been like. |
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| Shakespeare - It's All Greek To Me! by Sarah Brown |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Various doubling options possible, depending on cast number available. |
| Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for older children, with various simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Rosie and her classmates are struggling with understanding the works of William Shakespeare. Rosie gets help with her project - not only from her teacher and her family but also from the Bard himself, along with Hermia and Lysander - who appear to her in an animated dream and the magic of Shakespeare's work is revealed to her... |
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| Shoe Horn by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch with a single (shoe repair shop) setting. |
| Synopsis | An elderly man examines the shoe repair shop he's inherited from his estranged brother and learns from a mentally challenged employee how to repair more than shoes. |
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| Silver Linings by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama with a single (clifftop bench) setting. |
| Synopsis | A young man has had an argument with his girlfriend and has spent the night on a bench. The old tramp who usually uses the bench, in a fatherly fashion, draws out the difficulties the young man has had throughout his life and identifies a silver lining for himself. |
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| Sitting Pretty by Paul Bovino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. A couple and their recently-married daughter. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Drama (with elements of romantic comedy). One act in length, two acts in structure. Single New York apartment set. Contains swearing (and marriage). |
| Synopsis | A crisis for their newly-married daughter causes a couple to rediscover themselves. |
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