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| Let Me Finish! by Janet S. Tiger |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama. |
| Synopsis | Liz is escorting her elderly father home after a hospital appointment. A debate about what to have for lunch turns into a shocking revelation about the family history. |
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| The Library by Shari Gledhill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama with a single (library) setting. |
| Synopsis | Mature student Miranda is trying to catch up on her law assignment but is constantly distracted by Dan, a mysterious stranger. As their relationship develops over the library table, it becomes apparent that Dan knows more than first seemed, and then he claims to bring a message from Miranda’s dead husband. |
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| Lie Detector by Peter Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Thorpe and Beaulieu are written male and female respectively. That could, at a pinch, be altered. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A neat sketch (a long skit, or a short play), with an excellent twist. Single very simple (interrogation room) set. |
| Synopsis | It's not easy finding the truth, and Miss Beaulieu (if that is her real name) isn't having an easy time of it. Mr Thorpe is running rings around her and her lie detector, making her wonder if she needs a holiday. And with lies, things are not what they seem. |
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| Life Imitating Art by Joan Greening |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two act drama, with a one act length, and with a single (art gallery) set. |
| Synopsis | Mature art student Dorothy surprises Pete in the art gallery, confusing him for her tour guide. For his own reasons he goes along with Dorothy's mistaken belief that he is a professor of art. The whole experience enriches them both. |
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A Life Sentence by Mark Seaman
Eleven awards from Festivals in 2008, including Best Original Script/Play in Wiltshire,
Avon and Gloucestershire and overall festival winner in the last two.
Overall Festival winner Cornwall Festival 2015. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An emotionally charged two-hander with a very simple, well-thought-out set and detailed descriptions. |
| Synopsis | A wife talks about her struggle to cope with her husband's dementia, and the effect it had on their family in his final days. |
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| Llandudno, Lust and Lollipops by Stephen Mercer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A suggestion for one piece of closing music is included with the producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act comedy |
| Synopsis | Middle aged couple Charlie and Annie’s marriage has become stale and humdrum, such that Annie finds herself experiencing fantasies of a more exciting life. After being made redundant following 40 years as a boiled sweet salesman, Charlie comes home to Annie, who has uncovers what she believes to be evidence of her husband's love affair with an unknown woman. Accusations lead to honesty, and as the pair unwind forty years of strained 'politeness' they discover that they both have a wish to visit France, and that Charlie has always hated the traditional UK based holidays that Annie thought he wanted. Particularly in Llandudno. |
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| Lost and Found by Mike Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are labeled 'boy' and 'girl' because they have to be called something. This does not imply anything about their ages. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short play, structured in two acts (because there are definitely two phases to the action - with and without suitcase), but actually a bare stage or front-of-curtain script. Very snappy dialogue. Contains mild bad language. |
| Synopsis | Someone has lost a suitcase, and someone has found a suitcase. The pair meet up, trying to determine if the suitcase found is the same as the suitcase lost, despite mutual suspicion. |
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| A Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov, adapted Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play, adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov. Single set, simple props (give or take a period telephone). |
| Synopsis | Sylvia's lottery ticket matches the published part of the winning number. A single phone call well tell her of success or failure, but meanwhile she and her husband contemplate what might happen if she has won... |
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| Love at Twilight [Short Play] by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short romantic drama with a single (garden bench) setting. |
| Synopsis | Clive and Liz are residents of a care home and have found themselves attracted to each other. Liz is unsure about falling into a serious relationship but Clive has other ideas. Events at the home lead them to take a significant step forward. |
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| The Love Potion by Robert M. Barr |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A sketch for two actors |
| Synopsis | Jennifer is seeking a solution to her tangled love life and turns to the enigmatic Lazlo to assist. The potion he prescribes yields surprising results. |
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