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| Run Out by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two (female) characters are intended to be played by the same actress, and there is a further pair of characters that can be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's script suggests music to be played at the end of Act 1. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length comedy drama with a single (hilltop bench) setting. |
| Synopsis | Malcolm and his wife Mavis have come to scatter his late mother’s ashes at her special place. Family tensions arise as they reminisce and question what made this place special for her. All is revealed as we are taken back to her young days in the 1950s. |
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| Saint Nicholas and the Three Purses of Gold by Timothy Hallett and Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. Technically, there are no characters - that is to say, it could be sung by a soloist. In practice, the intention is for the singing to be shared between several narrators and a chorus whilst the story is mimed by actors. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with a complete piano and vocal score. |
| Style | A sung story. (Technically, that makes it a Cantata, but don't let the fancy name put you off!) Does not require any set or props, but props could be used as part of a mime of the story. |
| Synopsis | Where does our modern Santa Claus come from? He's descended from legends of Saint Nicholas, the fourth century Bishop of Myra - legends such as this one! |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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| Sassenach by Ronnie Dykstra |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Eleven roles (plus two actors who play themselves before taking on characters), designed to be playable by a cast of three plus a cameo from the director. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A spoof 'English' Macbeth based shamelessly on Shakespeare's tragedy, stealing many of his famous words and taking disgraceful liberties. One-act, single set (largely a living room). |
| Synopsis | When a witch prophesises that Arthur Robinson could become chairman of the bath plug manufacturer he works for, his wife Samantha coerces him into speeding the process along by having his boss clobbered with a saucepan. His subsequent rise to power is hindered by the blood on their hands and rival employee Andrew Duff. |
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| Scarlett by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 73 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act, ghost story drama, with a single set. |
| Synopsis | The passengers from a crashed bus take shelter from a dreadful storm, in an old barn. Unable to find rescue, they huddle together, but one of them is beginning to see visions of her dead sister. Has Scarlett come to haunt Grace, or someone else? |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Sound Effects CD specifically for this show
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| Scriptaholic by Billy Doyle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. Chorus. In the author's draft of the script, the 'New Member' is male and the 'Group Leader' female, but there doesn't seem to be any necessity for this! |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short comedy sketch with no specific requirements for set or props. |
| Synopsis | When a new member joins Scriptaholic, a support group for script writers who have lost sight of the boundaries between fantasy and reality, even the group leader finds him too far gone for help. |
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| Second Thoughts by Colin Calvert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. (The max. and min. numbers depend on whether the production follows the author's intention and uses a quartet of four female singers to punctuate the action. There are also a few lines addressed to passers-by who might or might not appear on stage.) |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single minimalist set - a bus stop. Few props. A study of an attempted mid-life affair. |
| Synopsis | Harold is waiting at the appointed spot, a bus shelter, for a meeting with his old school friend Patti, and wondering if he's up to having an affair, if that's even what's on offer. |
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| Self Defence by Laura Belcher |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama with various settings - a split stage could be used. |
| Synopsis | A victim of domestic abuse, Hannah decides to join a self-defence class - as much as for a social outlet as for a means of defending herself. With the support of her fellow class mates, whose light touch relieves the tense atmosphere she is living in, Hannah is empowered to assert herself. |
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| The Senior Speed Date by Jeff Bray |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One character is voice-only and can be voiced live or pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (pub room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Recently separated from her husband, Joan has been persuaded by her daughter to attend a speed dating evening. She is confronted by a procession of highly unsuitable candidates. |
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| Sergeant Major Hewitt by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The Doctor and porter are written male, but could be played female. Thomas is a teenager, the rest of the characters are adults. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. Single (hospital room) set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A World War One Veteran has to share his hospital room with a boy whose father died in World War 2. Though they are only together a short while, they have a great impact on each other's lives. |
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| Shakespeare's Women by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Four on-stage characters plus four phone voices (which could be recordings). |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play. |
| Synopsis | Best-selling author, acknowledged world authority on Shakespeare and totally irresistible to women, Herbie has the world at his feet. Or rather, he did, until three mysterious visitors arrive late at night with a mind-blowing offer... |
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