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Sitting Pretty by Paul Bovino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. A couple and their recently-married daughter. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama (with elements of romantic comedy). One act in length, two acts in structure. Single New York apartment set. Contains swearing (and marriage). |
Synopsis | A crisis for their newly-married daughter causes a couple to rediscover themselves. |
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Skeggy '62 by Anne Graham |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy, with a single (seaside café) setting. |
Synopsis | It is the summer of 1962, just before The Beatles sack drummer Pete Best and replace him with Ringo Starr. Young Jane is about to leave for London when she encounters Liverpool girl Abbie - who has been courting Ringo Starr, but has decided that Pete Best has better prospects. Abbie points out the dangers of leaving home, as well as persuading café owner Charlie to give Jane a job. |
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Snowed Under by Anne-Marie Chaplin FIRST PLACE at the Macra Na Feirme National Drama Semifinals 2018 in Mountmellick, for Whitechurch Macra Drama Company. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act farce. Single library setting. |
Synopsis | The library is snowed in, stranding librarians Brenda and Sue along with one of their regular customers, Mr Whitely, for whom, as rescuers are awaited, there are surprising and dire consequences. |
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Split Infinitives by JJ Crossley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All three characers are written as male, but need not be! |
Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Simple-to-stage one-act comedy play (packed with sci-fi silliness.) |
Synopsis | An unscrupulous pair of business executives hatch a plan to establish once and for all the exact age of the universe, and reap the fame and rewards, by recruiting a test pilot for their recently acquired, but rather unreliable time machine. |
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A Spy With A View by Robert Scott Best Seller The Maidenhead Drama Guild (UK) won Best Comedy and came 2nd in the Open Class at the Maidenhead Drama Festival. (2019) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Paulo is written male but could be reassigned. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy thriller with a single hotel room set.. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | David and Vicky are on holiday, but the weather has trapped them in their hotel room. The monotony is broken by the delivery of a mysterious briefcase, with a recording that self-destructs! Where's the real spy? |
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The Statement by David Morris |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A tense one act thriller with a single (balcony flat) set |
Synopsis | James' opening monologue sets the scene for a tragic event - his girlfriend's daughter's death, and her Detective Inspector mother's reaction to it... |
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The Swan Queen by Frank Canino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. There is one speaking voice, Lenore. She addresses the audience as a friend, but also addresses two other people (1M, 1F) who might appear on stage. There is also an option for a group of male dancers. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Two pieces (associated with classical ballet) are suggested as accompaniment. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Powerful, brilliantly-written one act play. Single set with simple furniture representing multiple locations. |
Synopsis | A former Prima Ballerina navigates the final months of her life, balancing her health concerns with those of her stepson, an artist with AIDS. Despite some stark differences at first, the pair find common ground and become allies as they each cope with their diagnoses. |
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Switching Off by Ashley Harris |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are all 'middle-aged'. You'll have to make your own mind up as to what that means. |
Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy in a single living-room set. A great comedy set-up, with a fun dynamic between the three characters, and good twists and escalations that keep the plot moving quickly. |
Synopsis | Yoga teacher Ruth is holding a lesson in her living room with client Emily. But Ruth's husband, Alistair, believes he has reserved the room so he can watch an important programme. It's a territorial battle, and Emily is caught in the crossfire. |
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Time and Chance by Audrey Lee |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act play built from three monologues. Strongly developed characters, emotion and humour, and a strong payoff.. Set in the mid 20th century. Requires only furniture. (Oh, all right. And actors.) |
Synopsis | Miss Bradford is the supervisor of a secretarial typing pool who has devoted her life to her career and avoided any personal connections. Mr Fish is the head of mailing who fancies himself and Miss Bradford spending their retirement together. And Tracey Spencer is a young woman applying for a job, who gets caught in the middle of the two. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Zip file containing Intro and play-out music written for the original production of Audrey Lee's 'Time and Chance'.
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Welcome to Paradise Road by Brian Coyle Best Script in Festival - Page to Stage Theatre Festival, Liverpool (2016) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A satirical thriller with a set alternating between an office and a living room. |
Synopsis | In a society where nothing is private and no one knows who to trust, a woman’s partner has disappeared. She is visiting her neighbour, head of the local Neighbourhood Watch, to find out if she’s heard anything about his disappearance. Will her neighbour help her or is this the person she should be most afraid of? |
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