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| Bye Bye Miss Amelia Pye by Patricia Gay |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Three characters are portrayed in both 1959 and 2009. |
| Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length detective thriller with a single simple setting. Action slips between 2009 and 1959. |
| Synopsis | In 1959, in the remote Longmoor Manor, a young girl called Amelia Pye was found murdered. Arthur Pye, an ex-commando turned communist was the prime suspect. However, his guilt was never proven. In 2009 the long-married Charlotte and Edward Colville play host to the obnoxious Selena Harper and her mollycoddled son Hadley. Hadley, with his unhealthy fascination with murder, fancies himself as an amateur sleuth, and sets out to solve the mystery. |
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| Cadbury Angels by Alison Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] The estimated run time allows time for 15 songs. |
| Music | 15 songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length play with songs. Set some time in the 2000s and in the 1940s.
First published in 2022, revised 2023. |
| Synopsis | Clearing the house after her mother has died, a daughter finds some strange treasures packed away: letters, some nylons, a ball of chewing gum? She's uncovered a secret of her mother's past - she was a Cadbury Angel. |
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| The Cape and the Klan by Ted Ryan and Tin Penavic |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice only and could be doubled with another (male or female) role. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are 13 points in the script, mostly at start of scenes, where music is cued. The Producer's script includes specifric suggestions for 6 of these and the rest are at the producer's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length drama based on a true historical story, with various suggested settings. |
| Synopsis | 1946. As the civil rights movement for desegregation is about to get underway, lone reporter Harry goes undercover to expose the Ku Klux Klan. He realises that changing the hearts and minds of others will take the help of a powerful, famous individual, so brings his story to an old war buddy of his, the producer of the radio show The Adventures of Superman. Ultimately, the Man of Steel brings the fight against racism and bigotry to millions of listeners. |
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| The Capers at Cricketers' Copse by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two act comedy play. |
| Synopsis | A tale of intrigue, and double cross as the Ladies of the village of Fritton-upon-Sewer decide to stage their own cricket match, when Fritton should be playing in the first round of the Brewster Cup. Meanwhile a diverse range of suspicious characters are trying to take control of the cricket ground. All this, and hidden treasure too... |
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| Cardigan Coast by Louise Bramley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy. Contains strong language and adult themes. |
| Synopsis | The world of reality TV sets its sights on the senior market, as the pilot of 'Cardigan Coast' kicks off. There are five housemates, all in their twilight years but determined to show the camera they’re up for anything. |
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| Casualty Chaos by Karen Doling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play which doesn't rely on traditional doctor gags for laughs, instead creating plausible but zany situations which work well in the established 'almost real' world. Single split-stage set. |
| Synopsis | It's a busy few days in the Accident and Emergency department - they're short of Doctors but long on impatient patients. People are plastered, the sole doctor is plagued by rats and can't finish his knitting, and the devastating fire just slows things down a little. |
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| Cause for Alarm by Gareth Rubin |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length farcical comedy play. Contains swearing (which, considering the mayhem involved, is not surprising!) |
| Synopsis | It's Health and Safety Inspection Day at the Nuclear Power Plant, but when the inspector himself causes an accident, no one feels healthy or safe. |
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| A Cause for Division by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full length historical drama (with plenty of both). Single (period Scotish cottage) setting. Contains a small amount of mildly offensive language. |
| Synopsis | David is a fiery son of Scotland, ready to serve Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) in the Jacobite uprising. His father John has a business to run and throws him from the house. Alexander is the elder son who stands by his father but doesn't turn his back on his rebel brother. A family at war in 1745. |
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| Celebrity by Paul Mathews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length modern comedy with a single (living room) set. |
| Synopsis | Max has writer's block as well as coping with his newborn and is struggling to meet publisher's deadlines. Wife Amber is harassed with celebrity clients' demands on her PR agency. The arrival of Max's long lost, ex-con, father into the thorny situation leads to even more complexities. |
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Chance Encounters by Jamesine Cundell Walker
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Can be played with a different cast in every scene, or with the same cast throughout. |
| Run Time | Around 76 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play comprised of nine connected playlets with a single (park bench) setting. |
| Synopsis | Nine encounters take place on a park bench during the course of a day in September. Some are dramatic, some comedic. |
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