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Chance Encounters by Jamesine Cundell Walker
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Can be played with a different cast in every scene, or with the same cast throughout. |
| Run Time | Around 76 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play comprised of nine connected playlets with a single (park bench) setting. |
| Synopsis | Nine encounters take place on a park bench during the course of a day in September. Some are dramatic, some comedic. |
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Checkout Girls by Louise Roche
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for all the songs (12 songs plus reprises) to be sung in the course of the show. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full length feel-good comedy play interspersed with popular songs. Single composite set (multiple locations on one stage). |
| Synopsis | Checkout staff gossip, bicker, joke, laugh, cry, hug and fight their way to supermarket singles night! |
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| Chekhov's Shorts by Anton Chekhov, adapted Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of five short plays based on short stories by Anton Chekhov. |
| Synopsis | A Lottery Ticket adapted from the story of the same title
A Meeting on a Train Loosely adapted from 'An Enigmatic Nature'
Difficult People adapted from the story of the same title
Natalie’s Vacation adapted from 'A Tripping Tongue'
I’m Famous based on 'Joy' |
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| A Christmas Carol - The Real Story by Colin Calvert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Two characters required for performance as a simple duologue, a further 7 (nominally 5F, 2M) required if the action is staged. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Essentially a duologue which could either be done without additional actors, (as an after-dinner piece) or be staged as a narrated mime. Minimal staging requirements. Makes no attempt to be 'politically correct'! |
| Synopsis | Two narrators tell the story of a modern day Scrooge who's having the wool pulled over his eyes by dishonest Bob Cratchit and his gang of cronies. |
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The Crime Done in Rhyme by tlc Creative
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming skit (parody of Dr. Seuss) no set requirements, a few common props. |
| Synopsis | There's been murder afoot, but who can have done it? If there's a prize for rhymed mystery, this one has won it! The victim's a cat, but much more than that, He's a cat that has often been seen in a hat. A detective is called and a Mistress is found, (while the corpse of the cat is left there on the ground). It's funny, irreverent and won't take much time, and the best of it is, every line is in rhyme! |
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| Dear Lily by Lorraine Forrest-Turner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act romantic comedy. Lots of scenes and locations, but these are intended to be indicative rather than fully-dressed sets. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | After thirty years as 'Lily', the agony aunt of The Courrier, Ingrid loses her job and embarks on a radical reassessment of her life, beginning a stormy relationship with a man ten years her junior. |
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| Death by Detective by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A witty and fast paced comedy loosely based on The Speckled Band with a solid mystery plot provided by the Conan Doyle source material. A lot of fun for cast and audience. Structured in two acts, but could form half an evening of one-act plays. |
| Synopsis | When a legendary detective solves a terrible murder and discovers his own guilty part in the affair, it is left to his closest friends to prevent him from arresting himself. |
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| Disconnected by Paul L. Harwood |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Several characters appear as (old) adults and their youthful selves. This is open to being done by two actors or by one acting different ages. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play. Single set which morphs into different locations. An exploration of time, decisions and consequences. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Bernie is an old man, but he's haunted by the consequences of a promise he made to his childhood friend Joe, who died in World War Two. Now Bernie is reliving important moments of his life - could he really be about to undo the most disastrous decision he ever made? |
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| Dummy Cabs by S. P. Franksson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Four on-stage characters, seven live voices (which could, conceivably, be played by one male actor) plus a recorded message. |
| Run Time | Around 114 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun full-length comedy with likeable characters in a single taxi office setting. |
| Synopsis | It's the 1990s and Dermy Cabs is under threat from a competitor. Beryl, the overworked switchboard operator, struggles with phone, radios and in-person customers whilst trying to keep the company's drivers under control, especially Bob, whose wife has kicked him out of the house. |
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| Erica and Me by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Only four of the characters are called Erica. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Hilarious one-act farce. Single set (ideally with two practical doors, but could be staged without). Simple props. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | To impress his boss, who likes employees to be family men, the single, nerdy Simon hires an escort to pretend to be his girlfriend. Things spiral out of control when three women turn up, all (possibly) the Erica he's expecting... |
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