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| There's One in Every Show by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum 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 Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy, set around a struggling (American) theatre company. Contains very minor swearing. |
| Synopsis | For 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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| Things We Should Have Said Today by Pete Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Three generations of a family. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedic family saga with a single (farmhouse kitchen) set. Contains robust language. |
| Synopsis | Betty is having a bad day. She's overheating, her mother is demented, her son is coming out, her daughter is getting divorced, the farm is losing money and her husband is hiding away from it all under the tractor. Or is he just dead? |
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| The Three Musketeers [Play] by Karen Letts |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play in two acts. This is not a British Pantomime version of the story, but fits much the same purpose - entertainment for a family audience |
| Synopsis | A comic retelling of Dumas' classic tale, containing all the original elements but reconstructed in a manner that's a little... unorthodox.
D'Artagnan and the musketeers battle the wicked Cardinal Richelieu and his accomplice, Milady de Winter. |
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| Three O'Clock Bun by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length farce in a single set (with plenty of doors). |
| Synopsis | History lecturer Nigel Appleton has been granted a Bursary to work on a book about Tiglath Pileser III, King of Assyria. His base is an island off the coast of Cornwall. The island and the bursaries are presided over by the redoubtable Mrs Greyshott, guardian of the cultural and moral standards of the island and not a fan of commercialism. As a result, the arrival of Nigel's high-powered agent, Fenella Babbage, is not entirely welcome. Less welcome, from Fenella's point of view, is the appearance of rival agent and ex-husband, Elliott Fitch. Fenella needs to persuade the predatory Elliott and Mrs Greyshott that her interest in Nigel is personal rather than professional. Can Nigel avoid joining in? Plainly the answer is in the negative. |
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| A Throw of the Dice by Ben Alexander |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One male character is voice-only and more suited to being pre-recorded than performed live. The hospital staff (surgeon, nurse and duty manager) are written female but could be either. |
| Run Time | Around 104 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 7 songs are suggested, to be played (but not performed by cast) at specified points in the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length thriller on a single (hospital waiting room) set. |
| Synopsis | Henry, whose father is close to death, and Judy, whose husband has been seriously injured, meet for the first time one evening in a waiting room of a private hospital. During the course of a long night, they get to know each other sufficiently for Henry to be able to help Judy when her husband's two brothers arrive the following morning to intimidate her into signing away her rights to her husband's wealth. However, Henry has a hidden agenda. |
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| Tiger, Tiger by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length farce. Single set - a private lounge in a Dartmoor holiday lodge - with plenty of entrancesand exits. Contains (mild) swearing.
First published September 2010, Revised November 2015. |
| Synopsis | Sir Maynard Bullivant, MP, arranges a quiet weekend with Judge Dorothy Tranter at Beacon Tor Lodge in deepest Devon. The planne romatic trist is derailed by Dorothy's need to prepare a case, and Maynard's unxepected appointment to the Cabinet.
There's also the matter of an old flame of Maynard's arriving with a bag of stolen diamonds, which she expects Maynard to smuggle for her - a bit tricky, since henow has a Civil Service minder and a Special Branch Protection Officer monitoring his every move. Then there's the ex-con, the ambitious cub reporter and... oh yes, an escaped tiger.
Now, did someone mention a quiet weekend? |
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| To Shut The Mouth Of Lions by Dave Clark |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play, containing strong adult language. |
| Synopsis | At a dysfunctional family’s Christmas gathering, head of the family William is facing a terminal illness. His wilful refusal to acknowledge his gay son's right to full humanity forces him to choose between dying alone or facing his homophobic feelings and their cause. |
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| Tourney by Paul Gisby |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. All the characters are adults. There are two non-speaking males (who dance in mediaeval armour!) who could be doubled by two other characters. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy drama (visual, physical, verbal). Simple sets - two basic locations. Simple props (if your idea of simple is swords and battleaxes). Fun for the wardrobe mistress, including armour! |
| Synopsis | It's a Mediaeval Re-enactment Society, so the constitution is based on feudalism. King Duncan is about to abdicate (to nurse his hernia) and has the right to appoint a successor. The choice comes down to Sir Roger, who has a pedantic obsession with the detail of mediaeval combat and Sir Eric, who wants to be Errol Flynn playing the Black Prince. And, with the connivance of Queen Veronica, it comes down to trial by combat. |
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| Tresses by Peter Harrison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Contains one non-speaking male role and one pre-recorded voice. |
| Run Time | Around 109 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length historical drama, set in an ornate Victorian room and a graveyard. |
| Synopsis | The Brotherhood of the Pre-Raphaelites has recruited a new sitter, the dazzling but uncultured Elizabeth Siddal. She becomes Rossetti's wife and a friend to his sister, but the unequal marriage takes a terrible toll. Contains a scene with partial female nudity. |
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| The Trumpet Major by Thomas Hardy (adapted Peter John Cooper) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The piece is interspersed with the reminiscences of the old Anne Garland. (Her role coulde be doubled by her younger self.) |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length period drama. The scenes flow continuously, so intended to be performed with stage areas and levels rather than a formal set. |
| Synopsis | Thomas Hardy's novel of life in the Napoleonic era, with soldiers massing to repel invasion, and village life in turmoil as a result. |
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