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| The Merchant of Venice [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Every word is Shakespeare's, but the cast list has been reduced, with four minor characters and all servants/court officials removed.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Bassanio needs money so that he can court the noble lady Portia. He goes to his friend Antonio, who helps negotiate a loan from the moneylender Shylock. If the money is not repaid, Shylock will demand a pound of Antonio's flesh. This leads to a court case with an unexpected judge.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
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| Mo by Tyler Mathews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of teenagers and adults. Could be played to age or by a youth theatre company. |
| Run Time | Around 125 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama. Multiple settings, but locations indicated by minimal furniture rather than realistic sets. |
| Synopsis | Mo is the boy who thinks - knows - he can fly. With an exceptional IQ but a difficulty fitting in, he battles prejudice, a dysfunctional foster family, school bullies and himself. With imaginative staging and a vividly powerful, atmospheric plot the play describes Mo's tortuous journey of self-discovery. |
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| Mr Micawber Down Under by David Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Five narrating voices also have numerous character roles. |
| Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Five musical pieces are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length play with various (simple) settings. |
| Synopsis | In this Dickens spin-off, the Micawber family find themselves in Australia, where Mr Micawber's incorrigible optimism continues - he is sure that something will turn up. In many twists and turns the story, assisted by innovative narration here and there, unfolds - as the family, pursued by creditors finally sails into the sunset, convinced that something will turn up in New Zealand. |
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| Mrs Adapta Iago's Knitting Circle by Peter John Cooper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length drama with a single (living room) setting. Containing strong adult language. |
| Synopsis | The knitting circle has been meeting in the front room of Mrs Adapta Iago's bungalow every Tuesday and Thursday evening for the past forty years. But everything is not as it seems - there's conspiracy in the air. What is the project they've been working on all that time? Why are the knitting circle members all intellectual women graduates from one of Oxford's top colleges? What is the secret they want to keep from Michael, the bus driver? What actually did happen to Magda? What is the solution to the four colour problem? And what happened to Connie's rash? This darkly comic tale is as full of twists and turns as a ball of wool. |
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| A Mug's Game by Sarah Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play, posing question of inner versus outward beauty. Contains mild swearing and an Australian accent. |
| Synopsis | Suzy is unhappy with her new life in the country and decides to host a dinner party. She invites her glamorous friend Alice whose reasons for recent plastic surgery splits the group. Her arrival with Suzy's husband causes cynical sister Jo to suspect foul play. As the wine flows, her usually quiet neighbour, Beth, to her husband's dismay, speaks her mind and there are shock announcements as innermost feelings are exposed. Add to this the new handsome neighbour moving in next door, there are comical scenes leading to life-changing results. |
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| Murder at Ten Twenty by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length murder mystery thriller with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Wealthy entrepreneur and crossword enthusiast Abel is convinced that one of his children is planning to murder him, and hires a private detective to help catch the killer. But it doesn’t go to plan, and Detective Inspector West must uncover the truth. |
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| My Favourite Things by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama. Three settings interspersed with front-of-curtain scenes. |
| Synopsis | Justin has achieved his long held ambition to direct 'The Sound of Music' for his local amateur society. His casting ideas and unorthodox audition techniques ruffle a lot of feathers and his personal life is devastated after a medical consultation. He and his partner, Gerald manage to deal with the difficulties they both have to face with help from an unexpected source. |
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| Natterjack by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Rod is an off-stage voice and therefore might be doubled or recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play - at its heart, a drama of practical politics, but leavened with plenty of comedy. |
| Synopsis | A shed by a river has become home to a tramp. When he discovers that plans to build a bridge put his home under threat, he engages with politicians, engineers and a barrister. Chaos ensues, and a visit from the Minister for Transport spectacularly fails to improve the situation. |
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| Nay, Remember Me! by Amelia Marriette |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The 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. |
| Style | A full length comedy drama with various settings. |
| Synopsis | After 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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| Exclusions | Due 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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| The Necessity Of Atheism by Seán Lang |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act historical play |
| Synopsis | Oxford, 1811. Amidst harsh laws restricting the freedom of the press, Percy Bysshe Shelley, a rather unorthodox, flamboyant undergraduate, publishes a short pamphlet called The Necessity of Atheism. The Master of his college is inclined to dismiss it as a bit of undergraduate exuberance but Lord Eldon, Lord Chancellor of England and old member of the college, takes a much more serious view. |
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