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| Thanks Mum (and Thomas Hardy) by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Sam could be male or female. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short, poignant monologue (with prose book-ending a poem). |
| Synopsis | Sam's mother died recently. Sorting through her effects brings back memories of school and life-changing support that helped Sam to conquer dyslexia. |
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| That Sinking Feeling by David Dean |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A monologue-sketch with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | A customer service call-taker deals with an unhappy customer - who is dealing with a situation on board the Titanic, and wants to know if the company will compensate her... |
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| A Thousand Words Speak A Picture by Lynda Bray |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A monologue with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Grandmother Rita is reminiscing about her life as she looks through her old photographs. Her memories flood back but she cannot see the implications that we can. |
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| Tissues and Wine by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. Single domestic setting. Set in Australia, though the situation is universal, and it could easily be moved. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Sonia has just caught her husband having an affair, and has retreated to her mother's house for solace. That's not quite what she gets when Julia, the nosey neighbour, invites herself over to share in the bottle of wine and the advice. |
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| Truth and Reconciliation by Cassandra Newman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Emotionally-charged one-act drama set in a basement office. |
| Synopsis | Anita has come to the Baltimore Truth and Reconciliation Commission to tell the story of her son's death, only to find one of the people there to record her statement witnessed the death. The three characters struggle to find a path to peace and forgiveness in the aftermath of violence and fear. |
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| The Turing Test by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Three principal females. The cafe manager, carer and social services manager could be male or female and could be played by one actor. Equally, the carer could be played by two actors, each taking a scene. |
| Run Time | Around 49 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An emotional one-act drama in which a family confronts dementia.. (Could be staged with just furniture, making it a good festival piece.) |
| Synopsis | Alison Grove, an artificial Inteligence researcher, is struggling to cope with her mother's Alzheimer's disease when she should be focused on the question of whether machines are capable of rational thought. |
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| Ugly Duckling by Ann Taylor |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play for schools with a single (playground) setting. |
| Synopsis | This anti-bullying play tells the story of a child who is bullied because he looks different. A resolution is reached when classmates step in to help. |
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| Unrelated Women by Daniel M. Wolpe |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The production notes contain suggestions for six classical pieces of music that feature in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A two act drama (though could be performed in one). Set in the US, though the play explores universal themes. |
| Synopsis | At her husband’s funeral, hard-bitten widow Fiona meets Laura, her husband’s young pregnant mistress, having been previously unaware of her existence. Their relationship, at first bitter, evolves into a profound and loving affiliation. |
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| up & down by Rob Ricards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. There is one speaking character. A second character makes two appearances to bring on props. (This might be done by a member of the stage crew.) The character is written as male, but could be played female with just a couple of name changes. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute play - essentially a monologue - set on the step ladder that is life! |
| Synopsis | A character reviews the events of his (or her) life, using a handy step ladder as a metaphor. |
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| A Vampire Play by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Characters are four teenagers and one adult. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with a gothic heart. (Muahahahaaa!) |
| Synopsis | Four girls gather in a forgotten garden shed to await a present promised to one of them by a boy who may or may not be a vampire. But beware, nothing is quite what it seems... |
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