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| A National Treasure - Lady with a Fan by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Part three of a three-part monologue series. No set necessary. |
| Synopsis | Violet Brimley is a Northern charlady with rare insight, a heart of gold and a broadminded outlook on life. Violet enters the world of art and culture, and makes the acquaintance of a beautiful portrait. But something tells our shrewd charlady that nothing is quite as it seems. |
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| A National Treasure - Monologue Collection by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of three monologues. No set necessary. |
| Synopsis | Violet Brimley is a Northern charlady with rare insight, a heart of gold and a broadminded outlook on life. We encounter her on three very different and unusual jobs. |
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| Nay, Remember Me! by Amelia Marriette |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's script includes suggestions for pieces of music to be played at particular points in the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length comedy drama with various settings. |
| Synopsis | After Shakespeare’s death, two of his principal actors, John Heminges and Henry Condell, undertake the task of publishing all of his scripts, and the First Folio is born. Four centuries later in 2001, the First Folio is auctioned at Christies. |
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| Exclusions | Due to professional performances, this script is not available for performance in the following places at the following times:-
15 mile radius of Malvern, UK from the first day of November, 2023 to the last day of November, 2023 |
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| The Necessity Of Atheism by Seán Lang |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act historical play |
| Synopsis | Oxford, 1811. Amidst harsh laws restricting the freedom of the press, Percy Bysshe Shelley, a rather unorthodox, flamboyant undergraduate, publishes a short pamphlet called The Necessity of Atheism. The Master of his college is inclined to dismiss it as a bit of undergraduate exuberance but Lord Eldon, Lord Chancellor of England and old member of the college, takes a much more serious view. |
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| Nellie's Cottage by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Potential for some non-speaking roles to be added in. |
| Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy for children. |
| Synopsis | Nellie Scoggins's run-down cottage stands on the Silverwood Estate, presided over by the redoubtable Lady Silverwood - who is planning build a railway line through the said cottage. Nellie finds herself subject to a series of fiendish schemes. But can she avoid losing her home and will the arrival of a mysterious stranger have any bearing on the matter? |
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| Never Be Late by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters are of high school age. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play about a first date - with some laughs and some surprises. Simple set (a couple of tables, three or more chairs). |
| Synopsis | Jim's just dropping into his favourite cafe when he sees his friend Sally waiting for her blind date to arrive. When she won't let him sit with her, he moves on to another girl waiting for her beau. Mistaking him for her date, she starts to fall for him, but it all goes wrong, and not just for Jim. |
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| New Beginnings by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy, elements of a detective thriller (though with plenty of levity). Some mild language. |
| Synopsis | Ex Insurance Investigator Gary’s suggestion that he and wife Fern go on a cruise is not as altruistic or romantic as first appears. A ring of thieves are aboard and Gary has suspicions as to the indentity of the culprits. |
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| A Night At The Movies by Peter Keel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | Ron has come to enjoy the latest blockbuster film, but constant interruptions spoil his enjoyment. |
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| Nighthawks by James Skivington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An easy-to-stage one-act comedy-drama on a single cafe set. Gentle but witty comedy with effective character development. Some adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Cathy is about to close her café for the night when three customers show up - Erin, who’s young, poor, and very pregnant, Phil, a goth with an acerbic wit, and Fiona, who's having the worst day of her life. |
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| No Strings Attached by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for two songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act play with music, set in a puppet tent. |
| Synopsis | Flip and Scratch are fairground puppets, once big stars but now fallen on hard times. Faced with the inevitable decline of their audiences, they discuss their various options. |
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