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Day of Days by Allan Williams 'Day of Days' was Finalist at the British All Winners One-Act festival, July 2012, on the way to which the production picked-up numerous awards including Best Play, Best Actor and Best Individual Performance. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. Single domestic set (which can be done with minimal staging.) Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Maggie has some news for Tom. Unexpected news. News of his long-distant past - a time he has forgotten, or perhaps he wanted to forget... |
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Dead Air by Martin Ward |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] Performance anticipated to be one act length. |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes a suggestion for an opening song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A non-interactive Murder Mystery in two acts, with the performance anticipated to be one act length. |
Synopsis | It is 1965 and obnoxious and demanding radio star Oscar learns that his show is to be axed, pushing his nastiness to even greater levels. There are many suspects for his inevitable murder and the investigation takes many turns. |
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Dead Lucky by Nigel Holloway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Zack, the TV compere, never appears on stage, so could be a series of recordings. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, satirising game shows. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Clive and Bonnie are competing in a global reality tv talent show, but how far are they prepared to go for the ultimate prize - being cryogenically frozen until the prize fund exceeds any fortune in the world? |
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The Dead Shepherd by Robert Pope and Ian Dixon Potter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Bowing to historical accuracy, twelve of the characters are male, but cast them how you like! |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An intriguing full-length historical drama. Contains Shakespearean gore. |
Synopsis | The events which led to the murder of Christopher Marlowe are recounted through the eyes of his friend and artistic collaborator, William Shakespeare. After Marlowe invites Shakespeare to the meetings of Sir Walter Raleigh's 'School of Night', Marlowe's heretical writings and loud public demeanour attract the attention of Sir Robert Cecil, who begins plotting to silence the playwright. |
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Dead True by Geoff Rose-Michael |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act thriller with a single living room setting. Originally published September 2016, revised December 2018. |
Synopsis | Jan was the main suspect in a murder case in the past but was acquitted. Ghost writer Kim is helping Jan to write a memoir of her experiences and soon finds herself subjected to a horrifying ordeal at Jan’s hands. |
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Deadline by Damian Woods |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama on a single set. |
Synopsis | A writer of scathing theatre reviews is held to account by a playwright who feels one such review has ruined his life. |
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Deadly by Jonny Ardern Performance by BATS Youth won 'Best Dramatic Moment' award at Haynes Drama Festival, 2010 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for teenagers/young adults. Single simple set. Simple props. The script contains swearing (which may be toned-down to suit the requirements of a particular production). |
Synopsis | Seven friends attempt to make the most - or least - of their summer holidays. Each has a vice but it's a vice they're comfortable with, until Lewis makes a move on Priscilla, the new girl in town. Then it emerges that their sins could end up deadly... |
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Dear Stacy by Juliana Marie |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Over 15 years old. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short powerful play for older children, set in a US school with various (simple) settings. |
Synopsis | High school senior Stacy, an accomplished dancer, seems to have it all. She lives in a very nice house, complete with her own dance studio. But everything is not as it seems as she is badly bullied to the extent that eventually the entire school, and even her parents, seem to turn against her, pushing her to drastic measures. |
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Dearly Beloved by Sarah Archer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 81 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Two song suggestions as well as a musical score for one original song, available with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | A comedy drama with music, for four actors. |
Synopsis | A single mother, a businessman and a teenage girl find themselves trapped in a mysterious room. Eventually, the truth of their situation dawns, and the unlikely trio realise they’ll have to work together to find the answers that will set them free. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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Death of an Angel by Young Theatre, edited by Helen Sharman Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An emotionally charged one-act play for a youth theatre group set in a war zone. |
Synopsis | A group of children are on the run in a war zone when a man saves one of the girls and joins the group. Can he be trusted, or is he leading them all into a trap? |
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