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Country Fried Murder by Judy Klass
Published: 16 May 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 96 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicLead sheets for 8 country songs are included with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleA musical murder mystery play in two acts with a single set.
SynopsisThe Colorado Rockies, 2006. Martha is the organiser of a songwriting seminar, and has hired well-known country musician Kyle Samperson to be the mentor. Kyle's treatment of his students turns out to be as controversial as his patriotic anthem about the Iraq war. The steak's not the only thing that ends up fried.
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Everything's Eventual by Kieron Toner
Published: 15 May 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 60 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleEpisodic drama with a single coffee shop set - which can just be tables and chairs (with the counter implicitly offstage).
SynopsisIt's a normal sort of evening in Sally's café, although some of the clientele are a trifle unusual.
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All's Will That Ends Will by Barry Wood
Published: 13 May 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The cast are written as 1M, 2F, but with minor adaptations, this could be changed to any combination that fits the plot.
Run TimeAround 12 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleComedy skit set in a doctor's office.
SynopsisJessica takes her husband to the doctor with a medical emergency - he won't stop speaking in Shakespeare quotes. Sadly, the doctor is a Shakespeare fan and finds it more alluring than annoying.
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The Staff Room by Juliet Devon
Published: 13 May 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Seven on-stage teachers and two off-stage pupil's voices (which could be recordings). The Headteacher is written as female, but can be played as male with the necessary minimal changes to the script.
Run TimeAround 12 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort drama, set in a primary school (with a set requiring furniture only).
SynopsisUnable to escape the staff room in time, a number of teachers are trapped by the Head and must - volunteer - for some unpopular duties.
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10 Minutes And Counting by Barry Wood
Published: 10 May 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are adults, but this would be within the compass of a high school-aged actors.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleTen minute comedy-horror that messes around with the nature of theatre and introduced our reviewer to Chekov’s Cheese Grater.
SynopsisClaire makes a shocking discovery about the nature of her reality, but sharing it with her friend Faye doesn't help either of them, and may even have caused the creation of a zombie.
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Look at the View by Rupert Dick
Published: 10 May 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 90 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA fun comedy thriller. A single set modified between the acts.
SynopsisMax and Fiona move into a beautiful urban apartment that seems too good to be true. When they find a hidden burner phone, each accuses the other of hiding a secret. But their estate agent was not who he seemed, and they’re drawn into a series of events no one could prepare for.
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Highly Strung by AJ Deane
Published: 9 May 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 9 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA fun sketch that offers an interesting challenge to two female actors - playing marionettes and acting out the different games a child plays with them, as well as doing a few different voices.
SynopsisIn between their usual child-led activities, two marionettes attempt to discuss the nature of fate and self-determination.
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Macbeth [75-Minute Abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw
Published: 7 May 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. Twenty-nine roles, but playable by a cast of ten. (The producer's copy of the script includes a table of roles per scene to help figure out the doubling options.)
Run TimeAround 75 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA 75-minute abridgement of Shakespeare's Scottish play.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.)
SynopsisWitchcraft, prophecies, hallucination, regicide, porterage, portents, usurpation, amicide, phantom at the feast, apparitions, equivocations, blood-boltered spectre, family massacre, somnambulation, suicide, tyrannicide, decapitation.
All good clean fun.
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It's Deja View... Again by The Stannington Scribbler
Published: 23 April 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 118 minutes. [Estimated!] The original production run time was between 95 and 100 minutes.
MusicNone.
StyleFull-length comedy play in a single set. (Mainly a living room set, with the option of separate areas at either side of the stage for two telephone operators.)
SynopsisPeter has been tied up and robbed, as well as hit on the head. Getting justice is just as hard as getting the insurance money, and then he's robbed again, and accused of the robbery! Can the Neighbourhood Watch help catch the real crook?
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Dagger in a Smile - A Young Actors' Macbeth by Gill Medway
Published: 22 April 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. The play can be acted by an all-male group, an all-female group or a mixed cast. The ensemble roles can be played by a minimum of five but can be expanded to suit the size of the group.
Run TimeAround 40 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act (by length) modern language adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth for young actors, containing all the witchcraft, ghosts and gore you'd expect. (Read the script to see if the level of violence is appropriate to your actors.)
SynopsisThe Ghost of Macbeth comments on the action and charts the progress of his rise to the Scottish kingship and his downfall.
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