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| The Back Alley Bakery by Kim Watson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 79 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy drama on a split (bakery/alley) set. US English. |
| Synopsis | Carver's Bakery does brisk business, but in the alley behind it, there are all kinds of encounters. From the couple who live in the alley, to the people who walk down it, lives collide and are changed forever. |
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| Bad Flatitude by S. J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Intended to be produced with one male actor playing four characters and one female actor doing the same. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short for teens with some dirty humour and a simple (living room) set. |
| Synopsis | As another flatmate leaves in a dramatic fashion, the remaining group gloomily discuss the weirdos they’ve had to put up with and wonder who’ll be next. But they haven’t considered their landlord’s plans. |
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| Bakers by Tim Cole |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Optional chorus of bakery workers. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 8 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play - a family show - with strong characters, running jokes and a fair amount of bakery horseplay! Single main set (a bakery) with front-of-tab scenes. |
| Synopsis | Thanks to Mary's business partner, her bakery is about to close. Luckily the Town Hall Bread suppliers have failed and she could pick up the contract and save the bakery - unless her partner can throw another spanner in the works. |
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| Bannockburn - The Almost True Story by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The eight clansmen and the messenger are written male, but could be played by female actors. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length play, adding darkly comedic (and occasionally anachronistic) touches to the true historical story. (Contains ripe language and adult themes.) |
| Synopsis | In 1314, as Edward II’s army advance on Scotland, the men of a small Scottish clan prepare to join Robert the Bruce's army at Bannockburn. Before leaving to defend their land, they deal with conflicts of the domestic kind, say their prayers, and down many pints of strong ale. |
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| Bar Wars - Return Of The Sauce by Richard James |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute play (a comedy mystery), single set. |
| Synopsis | When 'Spanish Nights' restaurant opens up opposite 'Bella Italia', there's bound to be some rivalry. Then the famous secret pasta sauce recipe is stolen from Bella Italia and PI Fifi Phalange is called in. |
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| Battle of the Bedroom by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The characters are written as 3M, 4F, but - with permissible minor tweaks to the text, could be played by any combination. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny and fast-paced one-act comedy combining physical humour with witty dialogue. |
| Synopsis | When Chris and Jo move into their new bedsit apartment, they discover that it's much smaller than they first thought and that living together, with their combined possessions, is going to be an alarmingly cramped and intimate experience. |
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| Beasts by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of adults and children, intended to be played by a Youth Theatre company or a mixed company. |
| Run Time | Around 175 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection of five one-act plays based on short stories by Saki (H H Munro). Following the originals, the humour is very dark - verging on wicked. |
| Synopsis | The stories are:
Sredni Vashtar in which a boy oppressed by his aunt extracts an unexpected revenge
Gabriel-Ernest about a werewolf
The Storyteller featuring a subversive entertainer
The Open Window in which the hero does not discover a rest cure and
The Gala Programme which revisits Roman attitudes to female emancipation and entertainment |
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| Beware McGruff! by Skip Chalker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The script includes 'a number of police officers'. That number could be one. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An entertaining full-length comedy, riffing off Shakespeare's Scottish Play. US English with American cultural references. |
| Synopsis | In the middle of a production of Macbeth, Mark finds himself thrust into the lead role. Moreover, the denizens of the props store predict he could lead the drama company. Soon he's up to his neck in corpses and dire warnings. |
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| Beware of the Agapanthus by Robert Brown |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Nine on-stage characters and an offstage male voice (called Dave). |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play - a well crafted comedy with a gentle start which gathers pace as the chaotic situation develops. Contains swearing |
| Synopsis | The credit crunch has not been kind to ex-investment banker James who has not only lost his job but also his investments along with his gold digger wife Geraldine. His Father has died and left him, and spinster Sister Peggy, a large house in a village in rural Ireland where he decides to make a new life for himself. The barbecue party he has arranged to get to know his neighbours descends into chaos with a series of unexpected arrivals and equally unexpected revelations. |
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| The Birth of Womankind by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Sketch with minimal set requirements, just a few props. Vaguely 'sci-fi' genre. |
| Synopsis | In a society in which all men have been wiped out, the survivors try to come to grips with their roles. |
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