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Double Walker by Henry P. Gravelle Honorable Mention - Show Off! Festival 2007, Camino Real Playhouse, San Juan Capistrano, CA |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play, single interior (psychiatrist's office) set. |
Synopsis | Bruce Arnold is referred to Psychiatrist Maria Dobbs after being linked to a series of deaths. He claims it is his shadow, his doppelganger that kills people who make him angry. Can the Doctor get to the truth... or is it already too late? |
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Dracula by Damian Woods |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 62 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length drama adapted from the Bram Stoker novel. This has been written to be easily staged, by use of props, lighting and sound, rather than elaborate sets. |
Synopsis | The classic gothic tale is authentically brought to life, as young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to a Transylvanian castle to meet with the mysterious Count Dracula, who is planning to move to England. But he doesn't realise that the Count has a taste for blood... |
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The Dreaming by Richard James Performance by Maidenhead Drama Guild won Best Play and Best Actor at the Henley Drama Festival, 2017. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are written male, but could be either. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, suitable for a bare stage presentation. |
Synopsis | Two men find themselves in a featureless room, with no memory of how they arrived there, or even who they are. Their only clues come from scraps of paper on the floor, that seem to mirror words they have spoken. Can it be true that they're just characters in an unwritten play? |
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Droolin' Banjos by Johnny Grim |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Youthful characters may be played by an older cast. |
Run Time | Around 53 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Four pieces of music are suggested in the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | An offbeat, single set, one act black comedy, which has language advisory notes. |
Synopsis | Stevie is definitely going back to jail, but he has to speak to his children first. It's very important that they go back to school and avoid making his mistakes. They're not enthusiastic about this plan, but he has another detail to explain - for every day of school they miss, he serves one more in prison. |
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Duffy's Law by Louise Wade |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The intention is for adults to play the adult characters and also their younger selves. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama, an exploration of childhood relationships and their adult echoes. Minimal set - various locations created with just a few stage blocks. |
Synopsis | Tom and Duffy have been friends since childhood, with Duffy taking the role of Sherriff to Tom's Deputy. Tom used to be the Outlaw, until a girl called Poppy joined their game one day... |
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Eleven Fifty-Six by Michael Pearcy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play (somewhere between drama and thriller) with a single sparse set. |
Synopsis | Nathan seems certain to remain in the hospital - found wandering naked and confused, he has no records, no identity, no money. Dr Caulfield thinks he's deluded, but there's something compelling about his claim to be a time traveller. Then there's his urgent desire to leave London... |
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Emma by Jane Austen dramatised by Michael Baulch |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] A slick production should be able to reduce this considerably! |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length period drama. Three locations created by simple variations on a single physical set. |
Synopsis | Dramatization of Jane Austen's work, capturing the essence of the period as we see Emma's intriguing matchmaking unfold and her own marital future fulfilled. |
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Emotions by 10 x 10 Writers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 42. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of adults and children of various ages, intended to be played either by that mixture or by youth theatre groups. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of eleven short plays. Basic sets, a few simple props. |
Synopsis | The collection was commissioned for a Youth Theatre workshop. Each play is for four actors or fewer, playing a mixture of adults and children, and intended - as you might deduce from the title - to demonstrate emotions. The plays are not designed to be performed in any particular order. |
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Emotions 2 by 10 x 10 Writers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of adults and teenagers, intended to be played either by that mixture or by youth theatre groups. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of eight short plays. Basic sets, a few simple props. (Some of the scripts include swearing, as do some teenagers.) |
Synopsis | Scripts designed for Youth Theatre groups. Each play is for six actors or fewer, playing teenagers or a mixture of adults and teenagers, and intended - as you might deduce from the title - to demonstrate emotions. There is no particular order to the presentation of the scripts |
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The End of the Pier by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three generations - target ages, 20, early 40s and early 60s. (Whilst this is intended to be played 'to age', it might be within the compass of the older echelons of a youth theatre group.) |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. Single set (enough to suggest the location). |
Synopsis | An exploration of the relationships and struggles of three generations of women. Cynthia has experienced a betrayal that changes her life dramatically and her daughter Mandy is determined to stay strong and pull her family back together. Billie, Mandy's daughter, is preparing to leave for university but has a secret to reveal before she goes. |
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