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| Aim by Terry Adlam |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short thriller - one act, single, simple set, few props. Contains violence and swearing. |
| Synopsis | Two men - the edgy Wolf and laid-back Dove - are waiting in a room to meet a third man. When their visitor arrives, he has an unexpected female companion, and all the plans seem to be going wrong. |
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| Air Raid by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggested songs from the period to be sung by characters. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act historical drama set in a WW2 air raid shelter. |
| Synopsis | Despair, exhaustion and fear stand shoulder to shoulder with the love, compassion and humour characteristic of the residents of London’s East End as they gather in an air raid shelter. |
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| Albert by Janice Sampson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] May be staged with an interval. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy drama. Structurally in two acts, but of one-act length. Contains swearing (and a coffin). |
| Synopsis | Before flying out to Sacramento to visit his ailing brother, Albert leaves a recording of a few confessions in case something happens to him. There has been a plane crash, and Albert's valedictory address is watched by his grieving son, daughter and sister, who learn a few surprising things, but are in for an even bigger surprise... |
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| Alekhine's Greatest Defeat by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. Chorus. The characters include Ramanujan Varadachary, an old Indian story-teller - a sutradhari, as he is called in Indian drama tradition and his younger self in the 1920s. The (non-speaking) chorus comprises student chess players in 1920s Paris. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Split-stage set, simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
| Synopsis | Game One in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Varadachary, the story teller, relates how he witnessed Russian Grand Master Alexander Alekhine fall in love whilst losing a chess match in Paris to a beautiful student. |
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| Alibi by Jonathan Caldicot |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for teenagers. Single set (ten chairs). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Ten young people re-live the last few days after the owner of the shop where they hang out dies in an arson attack. Everyone says the kids did it, but did they? |
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| Alice And The Cold Case by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 68 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two act detective drama (that could be played out in one). |
| Synopsis | A detective on administrative leave and a reporter with everything to prove have to team up to solve a cold case that no one really cares about. The only question is whether it will make their careers, or end them. |
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| Aliens by 10 x 10 Writers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of children, grown-ups and aliens, intended to be played by a school, youth theatre or mixed-age company. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection of seven short plays, a mixture of comedy and drama. |
| Synopsis | A collection of seven short plays/sketches for youth theatre with the theme of aliens. (All the plays are available individually, but are provided here as a collection at a discount.) |
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| Aliens v Aliens by Sarah Reilly |
| 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 | A one act play with a single (office) setting on a far away planet.
Part of the Aliens collection of short plays for youth people. |
| Synopsis | A satirical look at our dependence on technology. which has led to a breakdown in personal social interaction. Aliens plan to invade the Earth but are bewildered by this state of affairs. |
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| All in the Past by Wendy Ash |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters and an offstage voice (belonging to an undertaker). |
| Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act revenge drama, single set. |
| Synopsis | Trevor suffered at the hands of bullies Jim and Mike at school. Now in his forties he contacts them again and wreaks his revenge. The catalyst for his plan is the death of his partner which adds a surprising and poignant finale. |
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| All in the Stars by Mark Billen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two act play aimed at a large cast of children. |
| Synopsis | King Confort is worried. He can't find a citizen who is willing to criticise him or his government, and tradition demands the execution of a critic to accompany his birthday celebrations. Discouraged, he informs his Astrologer that, dissatisfied with endless gloomy predictions, he has written into his will that the Astrologer must die fifteen minutes after the king breathes his last. The king's sisters then gang up on the Astrologer, pressuring him into predicting that the king will die, in the hope of worrying him into an early grave. Into all this confusion come a heavily disguised princess and her father, investigating the kingdom before her marriage to the king. All sorts of unfortunate and unforeseen consequences follow! |
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