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Merely Players by Damian Trasler
Performance by Debenhem Players won the Adjudicator's Award at the 2015 Woodbridge Drama Festival.
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Each of the actors plays two contrasting roles.
Run TimeAround 85 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull-length play, morphing from light back-stage romantic comedy into a murder mystery and back again. Single set, most of which is put in place during the course of the play.
SynopsisThis is great fun. Starting with a bare stage, under the guise of tidying the theatre's store of props and costumes, the characters accidentally build the set of a drawing-room murder mystery, and Phyllis's daydream of being the Lady of the Manor suddenly comes to life as a period drama, until the spell is broken, leaving Phyllis with new insights into her life.
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Murder at the Theatre by Emma Bevan
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Eleven on-stage characters and an off-stage voice that might be recorded. The gender of five characters (written 4M, 1F) could be changed by changing names and pronouns.
Run TimeAround 88 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA full-length comedy murder mystery play.
SynopsisA director, his assistant, the stage manager and a range of actors are all rehearsing when a murder takes place. Bumbling Inspector Ambrose shows up just in time to start investigating before the theatre is shut off from the world by a snowstorm. Will the murderer strike again?
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Nay, Remember Me! by Amelia Marriette
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 82 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThe producer's script includes suggestions for pieces of music to be played at particular points in the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleA full length comedy drama with various settings.
SynopsisAfter Shakespeare’s death, two of his principal actors, John Heminges and Henry Condell, undertake the task of publishing all of his scripts, and the First Folio is born. Four centuries later in 2001, the First Folio is auctioned at Christies.
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ExclusionsDue to professional performances, this script is not available for performance in the following places at the following times:-
15 mile radius of Malvern, UK from the first day of November, 2023 to the last day of November, 2023
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A Play on Words by Matthew Lynch
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Unusually, the characters include the Stage Crew, although these are non-speaking parts (they get as far as nodding and rolling their eyes).
Run TimeAround 105 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull-length comedy play set amidst rehearsals for a theatre production. Lots of good jokes, both verbal and visual. Contains mild swearing.
SynopsisClifford Pratt-Shore is directing his masterwork, a play about Wordsworth's life and love. Sadly, his leading man is a yob, his Assistant Director is more of a hindrance and the Vicar uses the Hall as a petty cash fund. As for the bit-players Marvin and Benny, how could they be any use to him?
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A Right How-Do-You-Do! by Robin Wilson
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. One (gender non-specific) character is voice-only and can be pre-recorded.
Run TimeAround 107 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA full length comedy with two simple (theatre and living room) settings.
SynopsisThe local drama group is rehearsing its next production, a pantomime, but casting is difficult, and relationships between the members become strained, and not a little illicit, as infidelities blossom and come to a surprising end.
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Ripping Off Angels by Nigel Holloway
RolesMinimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Whilst there is no formal chorus, there is a call for an unspecified number of police constables, and there could be other 'extras'.
Run TimeAround 120 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull-length comedy play. Simple sets (actually one set from two different perspectives!) Contains swearing and adult themes. (In this context, adult implies 'morally questionable', which seems to be the opposite of adult, but never mind!)
SynopsisThe Off-the-Wall Theatre Company have problems. Money problems - there isn't any. Even worse than that, they owe money to the bank and their old friend the bank manager, who was waiving all bank charges, has just retired. Desperate fundraising measures are called for, and the usual questions are asked such as 'do they have to be legal?' Being thespians, they take their ideas from various sources of entertainment, including 'The Producers' and 'The Full Monty', but will they succeed? Find out, when the Off-the-Wall Theatre Company go Ripping Off Angels!
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There's One in Every Show by George Douglas Lee
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One of the characters is a young boy, the rest are adults (mainly over-the-top thespians).
Run TimeAround 115 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull-length comedy, set around a struggling (American) theatre company. Contains very minor swearing.
SynopsisFor years Sheldon has held together his troupe of actors with the promise of a show, but now his accountant has signed up a producer, who's found a backer and they're going to have to perform at last. But the script is bad - worse than the actors themselves - and they have the Sponsor's idiot son involved too...
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Under the Hood by Damian Trasler
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 65 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act drama (on the lower boundary of two-act length). Simple sets.
SynopsisRose, an actor, is rehearsing the title role in a new psychological interpretation of Red Riding Hood under a hot-shot director. Meanwhile, her husband, Mark, is torn between the frustrations of his well-paid dead-end job and the uncertainties of his dream of creating his own business.
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Where the Brass Bands Play by Geoff Bamber
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Detective Sergeant Cross is written female, but could be male with minor adjustments to the text.
Run TimeAround 110 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull length farce. Single interior set (with inevitable French window and sundry places to hide). Warning - contains entendres, some of them twice.
SynopsisSimeon Gandalf, one-time thespian, now theatrical agent, settles into Mrs Esme Golightly's Seaview Guest House, keen to develop the career of his young protégée, Louise Laverne. Despite Simeon's allegedly innocent intentions towards Louise, the last things he needs are the arrivals in quick succession of his long-estranged fifth wife, seeking a divorce and his long-term mistress, keen to be made into an honest woman. It's just as well that Simeon's solicitor is on hand to dig him out of the hole he is digging for himself. Also present, but wishing they weren't, are a hapless burglar and a member of the local constabulary. Will Mrs Golightly's no hanky-panky policy hold up and is there really a contract killer on Simeon's trail?
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Who Said It Was Easy? by Robin Wilson
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 88 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA full length comedy play, with a village hall setting.
SynopsisThe Downcot players are back again, and rehearsing for their very own pantomime, written by new member Sam. Things are tense as always, but everyone is surprised on opening night.
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