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10 Minutes And Counting by Barry Wood
Published: 10 May 2024
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| Roles | Minimum 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 Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute comedy-horror that messes around with the nature of theatre and introduced our reviewer to Chekov’s Cheese Grater. |
| Synopsis | Claire 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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After The Funeral by Jamesine Cundell Walker
Published: 12 April 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
| Synopsis | Edna believes that everyone should have a hobby. Hers is attending funerals. |
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All's Will That Ends Will by Barry Wood
Published: 13 May 2024
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| Roles | Minimum 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 Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy skit set in a doctor's office. |
| Synopsis | Jessica 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 Bag Lady by Jamesine Cundell Walker
Published: 17 April 2024
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
| Synopsis | A bag lady, with a park bench for company, ruminates about her life as she prepares to sleep. |
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The Break Up by Jamesine Cundell Walker
Published: 18 April 2024
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
| Synopsis | Alex and Bobby meet for a post hoc review of their relationship. |
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The Care Home by Jamesine Cundell Walker
Published: 18 April 2024
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
| Synopsis | Poignant short vignette in which Harriet, a young care-home worker, meets the retired Georgie on a park bench. |
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A Change of Art by Philippa Smith
Published: 23 May 2024
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Ten on-stage characters and an offstage voice (which could be prerecorded). |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy in a single set. Solid character development and a mix of character-based and physical humour. |
| Synopsis | The Silver Sketchers painting group are auctioning off their latest works to raise money to restore the church spire. Auctioneer Miles notices one of the paintings bears an uncanny resemblance to a missing Van Gogh, and hatches a plan. |
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Cloudy with a Chance of Reindeer by Alison McDonald
Published: 24 May 2024
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 68 minutes. [Estimated!] One-act or full-length, depending on the number and length of songs used. |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Panto with an original festive story. Structurally in two acts but in length on the boundary between one and two acts. |
| Synopsis | The wicked McScrooge thinks he can make more money from Christmas if Santa is eliminated. Can a reindeer minder, his mum, some elves and the B-list reindeer rescue Santa and save Christmas? |
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Country Fried Murder by Judy Klass
Published: 16 May 2024
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lead 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. |
| Style | A musical murder mystery play in two acts with a single set. |
| Synopsis | The 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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Dagger in a Smile - A Young Actors' Macbeth by Gill Medway
Published: 22 April 2024
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| Roles | Minimum 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 Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 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.) |
| Synopsis | The 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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