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| Curse of the Headless Huntsman by Robin Steggles & Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for three songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A very funny, fast-paced comedy-thriller with a satisfying (if very silly) mystery. |
| Synopsis | It is 1900, and in the sleepy Suffolk village of St Dunstan's. A local legend says that when the Headless Huntsman rides, a death will follow. After the bizarre and unexplained death of the vicar, Acting Sergeant Angelica Thorn and hapless Constable John Long are called in to investigate. But as more deaths follow, Angelica's ambition to become England's first female detective seems to be slipping from her grasp. |
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Curse of the Holbrook Zombies by Robin Steggles & Sharon Hulm
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Fifteen on-stage chracters and an off-stage voice. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 7 songs (with some original/parody lyrics). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length family show, an alternative to the traditional pantomime. A comedy sci-fi/horror mix withan anarchic spirit. Contains lurching. |
| Synopsis | A new, mysterious doctor has appeared in the village and the medication he is handing out is turning people into chocolate-craving zombies. It's up to Sam, with the help of his Gran's special brew, to cure the zombies. Can anyone stop them boarding the bus and spreading the zombie virus to Ipswich and the world? |
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| Customer Service by Avis & Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. Characters are a variety of ages. Many could be played as either gender. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play (on the boundary between a one-act and a full-length play). Single (department store) set. Mildly surreal, bordering on farce, with lots of prop gags. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Just another day in a department store, where a pair of bewildered shop clerks encounter a clown, an accountant, a thief, some very colourful customers and a string of misplaced suitcases... |
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| Cutpurse Moll and the Lonely Hearts by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 9 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length comedy with music - a modern take on the life of a notorious 17th century figure. Four settings, but created by the company moving furniture, otherwise bare stage. |
| Synopsis | When cross-dressing criminal Moll Cutpurse agrees to 'marry' Sebastian, it is all part of the escort service she provides for gentlemen of society. In reality, young Sebastian wants to marry Mary, but his father has refused, so he tries to deceive him into believing that he intends to marry the notorious Moll instead. |
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| Cyrano and Roxane by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two tracks are suggested in the producer's script - one to be played in the background at the end of a scene, one to be played from an instrumental recording as a character sings the lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length comedy drama with various settings. |
| Synopsis | A modern reworking of the romantic classic, bringing to life the story of Cyrano de Bergerac - a French soldier known for his poetic skills, bold adventures and large nose - his friend Christian and their love for Roxane. |
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| Darts! by Lucy Turmaine |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play, set in a public bar - with space for a darts game, and with a second minimal set. |
| Synopsis | It's ladies darts night and the team face their arch-rivals, the team from the White Lion. Rivalries in darts, love and life will raise their heads, but the conclusion of the night will see changes for almost everyone. Intended for adult audiences. |
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| The Dead Shepherd by Robert Pope and Ian Dixon Potter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Bowing to historical accuracy, twelve of the characters are male, but cast them how you like! |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An intriguing full-length historical drama. Contains Shakespearean gore. |
| Synopsis | The events which led to the murder of Christopher Marlowe are recounted through the eyes of his friend and artistic collaborator, William Shakespeare. After Marlowe invites Shakespeare to the meetings of Sir Walter Raleigh's 'School of Night', Marlowe's heretical writings and loud public demeanour attract the attention of Sir Robert Cecil, who begins plotting to silence the playwright. |
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| The Death on the Smug Juggler by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. One of the female characters is optional (with only a brief appearance for the first scene). If this character is dropped then alternative dialogue is provided in the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Classical 'Whodunnit' - a closed environment, a murder and lots of motives - as a full-length play. Single main set plus front-of-gauze scenes. Simple props. |
| Synopsis | Theodore Shimmer is a businessman, smuggler, blackmailer and crook - a man who easily attracts enemies - and many of them seem to have been invited onto 'The Smug Juggler' for a Nile cruise. There's the fading film-star, the debt-ridden gambler, the dodgy doctor and the business rival. No surprise, then, that Theodore Shimmer is found dead. However, the manner of his death is more of a surprise. (Fans of this genre will be led to thinking that they are witnessing a cross between 'Death on the Nile' and 'Murder on the Orient Express' - only to be taken in by the author's cunning plot twist!) |
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| Diamond In The Sky by Mike Standing |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length drama with two simple settings |
| Synopsis | The Cosmic Eagle has been hurled through space and time from an alternative universe into the 21st century. The crew are confused when they land near a medieval battle taking place in mid-Wales. The Re-enactment Society are equally confused when they are beamed up to the spacecraft. |
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| Diamond Jubilee 2012 by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. Generally, the characters are fairly normal, although one of them is a football. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Revue - that is to say, a themed sketch show. Structured with a chairman (of the Music Hall sort) to introduce the act. Few set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A collection of twenty four sketches suitable for the celebration of Queen Elizabeth the Second's Diamond Jubilee (and probably other occasions).
Not a musical show as written, but structured so that musical numbers could easily be inserted between the acts. |
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