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Arrivals by Liz Dobson
Published: 18 December 2017 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy drama. |
| Synopsis | Can there be a more boring place to spend time than the arrivals lounge at Leeds Airport? Or is it instead a snapshot of the rich tapestry of life, highlighting everything from love and friendship to grief, disappointment, and deceit? |
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Art and Treasures by Frank Gibbons
Published: 13 July 2012 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch. Little required in the way of set (a table and a couple of chairs). |
| Synopsis | An antiques valuation event (run as a village hall fundraiser) has a number of unexpected outcomes. |
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Art for Art's Sake by Geoff Bamber
Published: 17 June 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] A slick production could be completed in under 2 hours. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length colourful farce, centering on a wedding and a work of art! |
| Synopsis | As art dealer David Gibson prepares for the wedding of his daughter Samantha, he finds himself in a position to make a financial killing by arranging the sale of a valuable French Impressionist painting. Unfortunately the prospective buyer from Los Angeles, Mrs Delores Van Zuyl, insists on the work being authenticated by an expert. When the expert doesn't turn up David turns to his less than reliable step-brother to fill the gap. What David doesn't know is that Mrs Van Zuyl has her own agenda and it has little to do with French Impressionism. |
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The Art of Nero by Nicholas Richards
Published: 27 June 2011 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. All written male (on the grounds of history), but that isn't essential to the plot. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Roman romp for kids. Single location (preferably decorated according to the taste of the emperor Nero). |
| Synopsis | As Nero constructs the Golden House amongst the Ashes of burnt Rome, three friends hatch a plot to end the tyranny and, more importantly, the dreadful singing, acting, poetry and painting of the mad emperor. Sadly, Nero's 'Art' defeats them all. |
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Art's Gallery by Herb Hasler
Published: 13 July 2016 |
| 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 | A short comedy drama |
| Synopsis | Art lover Amy takes philistine Jeff to a small art gallery to give him an appreciation of the value of art. Gallery owner Art soon dispels any pretensions Amy has and the tables are turned. |
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Arthur, Boy-King Of Britain by Andrew Beattie
Published: 30 May 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 18. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 32. No chorus. All parts written as M, but could be adapted if insufficient M cast available. |
| Run Time | Around 73 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for children, with various (simple) settings. |
| Synopsis | A good dramatisation of the story of the boy Arthur, his links with Merlin, and the legend of the Sword in the Stone. The story and characters are well-drawn, from Arthurian legend. |
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As It Was by Lucy Atkinson
Published: 11 December 2019
Winner of The Russell Whiteley Award for new writing at Sedgefield's 43rd Drama Festival of One-Act Plays. 2019 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act supernatural drama on a simple set. Suitable for youth theatre. |
| Synopsis | Four teenagers enter a derelict house, stirring memories of the children who lived there in the past. |
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As The Clock Struck Ten by Tony Frier
Published: 27 July 2016 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Opportunity for different actors to portray the different ages of each character. Script length can be cut to 52 minutes for the purpose of drama festival entry, by cutting Scene 5. |
| Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Intermission music suggestions. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A powerful drama based on a true story. Various settings and time periods. |
| Synopsis | A dramatisation of the true story of Donnie Merrett, who at the age of 17, shot his mother after she found out he had been forging cheques in her name. On release from prison in 1945, he joined the Royal Navy Reserve in Germany before returning to a life of crime and debauchery, eventually fleeing before he can be court martialled. Returning to London to the old folks home run by his wife and mother-in-law, he demands money to continue funding his habits. |
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As They Like It by Nicholas Richards
Published: 18 March 2016 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light one act drama with a 17th Century Inn setting. |
| Synopsis | William Shakespeare is struggling to get the approval of his company, who are adamant that the first draft of the 'Scottish Play' is lacking in a number of key characters. His friends are quite persuasive and he is encouraged by barmaid Meg. So the bard relents and the play - as we now know it - is born. |
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As You Like It (60-minute abridgement) by Shakespeare abridged by Philip Schwadron
Published: 16 January 2020 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. There are optional roles for non-speaking lords and attendants. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'As You Like It', with the original text pruned to 60 minutes.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
Shakespeare's pastoral comedy pared down to around 60 minutes. A play, set in the Forest of Arden, for fans of romance, jesters, dukes, wrestlers, foresters, shepherds, exiles and cross-dressers.
There. Who does that leave out? |
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