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Night Thoughts by Kieron Toner |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Characters include an anthropomorphic personification. |
Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama in a single set. Contains strong language and drug abuse. |
Synopsis | Mickey's reached his lowest point, or so he believes. Without his wife, hooked on drugs, in debt to a real villain, he decides he's had enough. But his encounter with Death is not at all what he expected, and it might not be the end. |
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No Strings Attached by Johnny Grim |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for two songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act play with music, set in a puppet tent. |
Synopsis | Flip and Scratch are fairground puppets, once big stars but now fallen on hard times. Faced with the inevitable decline of their audiences, they discuss their various options. |
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Nor Hell A Fury by Elizabeth Poynter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama, single conservatory set. |
Synopsis | Claire is infatuated with her friend and handyman Scott, but is unable to tell whether he feels the same way about her. Her obsession leads her down a dark path. |
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Not In My Lunch Hour by Amir Rahimzadeh |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act adult comedy. (First published in August 2013, Revised edition in March 2014.) |
Synopsis | Lewis hopes for a peaceful time to enjoy his sandwiches in the park, but his idyll is irritatingly cut short by the intrusion of the peculiar Otto followed by the mysterious Jo. This is a lunch break Lewis is not going to forget. |
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Odd Ball by Steve Menary Perfomance by Berriew YFC won the Best Production (plus two other awards) in the NFYFC National Finals, 2010. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. It would be possible to double Scott with The Spot, but that would require rapid changes, so would need a lot of thought to go into the costumes. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play about a teenager with testicular cancer. Rapid alternation of scenes implies an outline set, rather than detail - thus suitable as a festival piece. Contains mild swearing and discussion of a serious subject! |
Synopsis | Danny is a football player on his school team, but he's got a secret - something like a spot in a very private place. It turns out to be a lot more serious than acne, and costs him his place on the team, and the friendship of his closest mate. Are they both gone forever? (The script is in British English, so 'football' refers to a game in which the ball is addressed principally by the players' feet.) |
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On Reflection by Karen Ankers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, single domestic set. |
Synopsis | An intriguing story of love, hate and revenge as we see womanising, wife beating vicar James being shown the reality of his life by his dead wife Sue and son Michael. Sue believes that as an eighteenth birthday present for him she has brought son Michael to meet the father he has never seen. Their motives for their visit from the spirit world are gradually revealed as Sue learns the futility of hate and revenge and that tormenting James may not give her the fulfilment she desires. The reality of the nature of Michael's spirit comes as a shock for Sue as well as for James as he reveals that he is not all he seems... |
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Our Little Secret by Rollin Jewett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 52 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comic drama with a single apartment setting. |
Synopsis | Darlene is surprised by an armed intruder entering her apartment. Tensions build as police arrive in force to the neighbourhood, searching for the miscreant. She soon discovers that the intruder is not quite what he seems and a relationship develops between them. |
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Outside the Audition by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play with minimal set and props. |
Synopsis | Bill and Jeff are waiting for their audition slot and help each other out by rehearsing their lines together. Unfortunately, they can't agree on what makes a good piece of drama. |
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The Quantum Mechanics by Jim Pinnock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 31 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy play with a single garage setting. |
Synopsis | When the mechanics at Smith’s garage take on a new apprentice, they don’t expect Frankie to be a woman, or so capable. She soon has the place running better than ever, and that creates a new problem. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for The Quantum Mechanics by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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Red Wine And Ice Cream by Karen Ankers Production by Henlow Amateur Theatre Society won Best Actor award (Shayn Dickens) at RAFTA One Act Festival, 2017. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A powerful, serious one act play, staged on a simple single set. |
Synopsis | Louise is having a lousy night out. After the theatre, her date abandons her when she won't commit to sleeping with him. Without money for a cab or bus, she's stuck in an alley behind the theatre... which just happens to be home to Chris - the son she gave up for adoption twenty years ago. |
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