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Goldilocks and the Three Bears [Rhyme] by Peter Bond
Published: 8 October 2025
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Whilst the bears are nominally male and female, they are, after all, bears, so gender will tend to be disguised! |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming play. This approaches the border of the British pantomime genre. (Make you own mind up on that point!)
First published in 2008, revised 2025 to include the section about the chairs, which may be cut at the discretion of the produciton. |
| Synopsis | The tale of the Three Bears and the diminutive housebreaker with a novel twist at the end. |
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Zen Agency by Peter John Cooper
Published: 25 September 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 81 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy on a single living room set, exploring themes of aging and climate change. |
| Synopsis | Elderly Viv has added excitement to her life by joining the Zen Agency, a climate activist group run by the enthusiastic Sebastian. But when her neighbour invites Viv to a concert sponsored by an oil company, which Sebastian wants to protest at, worlds collide and Viv must deal with the fallout. |
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Hera's New Jewels by Jilly McNeil
Published: 22 September 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. 15 main roles (4M, 7F, 4 either) plus 11 speaking roles for junior chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 106 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 12 well-known songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A British-style pantomime with an original story themed around Greek mythology. |
| Synopsis | Hera wants new jewels to wear for Mount Olympus’s great feast, so sends Apollo, Athena, and adventurer Jason to the underworld to borrow some from Hades. Meanwhile, Dame Aphrodite is having trouble with two statues which may or may not be able to walk and talk. When Hades’ jewels go missing, he plots his revenge. |
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The Highway Rogues by Rebecca Frew
Published: 22 September 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act historical comedy, with some audience interaction. |
| Synopsis | The widowed Lady Eliza is about to lose possession of her mansion, so she and her servant Molly need to find a new way to make a living. When fortune telling doesn’t work out, they take inspiration from Cutpurse Moll and become highway robbers. |
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Queen of the Castle by Mary Portalska
Published: 22 September 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy on a single pub set. |
| Synopsis | It’s 1986, and Tony and Sally are realising their dream to leave London and run a pub in the countryside. They recruit the help of locals Brian and Carol, and Sally’s long-lost mother Aggie, who turns up unannounced. . Tony books a surprise guest for the opening night party, but false assumptions as to who this is lead to a chaotic mix-up. |
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The Rise and Fall of Matilda Hardgrove by Jeff Woods
Published: 22 September 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 67 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 67-minute comedy in three acts, written to be performed by teenagers. |
| Synopsis | Washed up fashion designer Matilda Hardgrove refuses to believe her glory days are behind her. To regain her fame and fortune, she decides to shock the world by using real otter fur in her upcoming fashion show. But when a family of sea otters catches wind of Matilda’s sinister plan, they set out to stop her. |
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Hush by Ged Quayle
Published: 22 August 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A nicely-scripted horror short. |
| Synopsis | Sonja is a very junior social worker running low level errands. Mrs Barratt is a very nice middle-class lady. Sonja just has to pop into Mrs Barratt's, check on her husband and go on with her day, but Mrs Barratt is hiding a terrible secret. From herself. |
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The Marrow Conspiracy! by John Britton
Published: 20 August 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in a single set. (It's the living room of a country house, so it's time for the set designer to get out the French windows again.) |
| Synopsis | A country house in the 1930s. When Dorothy’s monster marrow disappears from the vegetable patch, the ramifications spread far and wide. Can Inspector Jarrup of the yard track down the culprit? Meanwhile, Dorothy's husband Basil has a secret of his own. |
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I Know A Place by Tony Domaille
Published: 19 August 2025
Winner, Best Play, Avon Short Play Festival, 2025 - JTP Theatre |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters and the (introductory) recorded voice of a journalist. DCI Brown is written female, but need not be. |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An award-winning one-act play. A compelling crime thriller with a strong exploration of a controlling relationship. Single set, split into three acting areas. |
| Synopsis | Lucy Evans is missing, and her ex-boyfriend Damien Curtis is in police custody, as the prime suspect. But Curtis won't speak to the police and the only person he will talk to is forensic psychiatrist Dr Vincent, who finds himself in a race against time to find Lucy. |
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A Night of Knights' Tales by Peta Maurice
Published: 19 August 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. Most of the knights are supposed to be male, but they are open to any casting you wish. The narrator role can be divided. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for children romping through Arthurian legend. |
| Synopsis | King Arthur's knights have assembled, having returned from their quests. Have any of them found the Holy Grail? They share stories of their adventures, and Arthur recalls his own path to becoming king. |
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