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Lions Versus Elephants by Graham Dillistone |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. 4 onstage characters (2M, 2F), plus 5 (2M, 3F) who are voice only and may be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length comedy, presented as three acts, on a single (living room) set. |
Synopsis | Bernard follows the book 'Man is a lion, woman is an elephant', but his dinner guests Gerald, Ann and Peggy will test his beliefs. Gerald and Ann’s marriage falls apart, Peggy preys on both men, and Bernard misses the simple life. |
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Right Move by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Four parts are offstage voices. Gill and Jack are on stage for most of the show, but there are never more than an additional 1M, 1F with them, hence it could be done by 4, though this might be a little frantic! |
Run Time | Around 123 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy in three acts. |
Synopsis | Gill and Jack are adjusting to their new home, but with most of their furniture still undelivered, it's not easy. And the phone doesn't work. And their neighbours are strange. Not to mention the dead body in the cellar... |
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Rock 'n' Roll Sunset by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The two gender-non-specific roles are offstage voices only. |
Run Time | Around 104 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Rock music is heard at the opening and close of the play. Choice of tracks is at the production's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length drama on a single (dressing room) set. |
Synopsis | Stadium tours are just a remote memory for Western Storm as they kill an hour before returning to stage in a small town venue. Their two talented new female musicians are frustrated by the reluctance of the original band members to play anything other than their hit songs. But when the band’s manager announces a big recording contract for the girls, what does the future hold for the rest? |
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Shivers by Peter Harrison |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Trilogy of one-act plays with a supernatural theme. Two interior sets plus the interior of an elevator cabin. A mixture of comedy and ghostly melodrama. |
Synopsis | The three scripts - Falling Apart, All Hallows Eve and Knock Knock, Who's There? - are all available separately. Whilst there is no set order to the plays, Falling Apart - with a couple trapped in a lift - might be performed front-of-curtain between the other two plays, which each require an interior setting with a practical window. |
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Suite 145 by Paul Bovino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. There is no overlap between the characters in the four plays - which does not exclude the possibility that they are played by the same actors. |
Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Collection of 4 one-act plays, each with a single (New York apartment) setting. The plays function independently, so could be performed separately or together. Contains swearing (but only as an incidental attribute of character, situation and comedy). |
Synopsis | Four plays, linked by the setting - Suite 145 - a New York apartment address (although it is not necessarily the same building!) The plays take place in different eras, with different occupants and certainly different tastes in decor! |
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Sunshine on my Shoulder by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One well-known song is suggested to be played at the ending. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full-length drama about a holiday to Tenerife - though able to be performed with minimal sets. |
Synopsis | The final sale of the family business has just been confirmed, and Thomas is off on a golfing holiday with his wife Pru and their friends Guy and Sally. But things aren’t quite as they seem for Guy and Pru. |
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Tea With Mrs Pankhurst by Ruth Urquhart & James Douglas |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. The minimum with doubling omits two non-speaking waitresses and has two actors playing the female principals and two playing the rest (both male and female roles). |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play, designed to be played without a formal set. |
Synopsis | The stories of Emmeline Pankhurst and Selina Cooper are compared in an attempt to judge who gave most to the cause of votes for women. The story is told in flashback, with minimal sets and audience interaction, mostly in the cake-eating sense. An educational journey through the history of British Women's Suffrage. |
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Up, Up and Away by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. In addition to the four on-stage characters, there are five off-stage voices. Three male, two female. (These might be recorded but some sections would probably be better live.) |
Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play with drama, emotion and humour. Contains mild swearing. Multiple locations, but achieved by lighting and a few props. Originally published 2015, revised 2019. |
Synopsis | It all starts with the funeral - although to the grieving widows, Elsie and Mary, this seems a bit final. But, from their new vantage point, James and Clifford find that they are able to look down, as well as look back. However, it's looking forward that gives them the most concern... |
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Will at the Tower by Pete Hartley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. Five principals plus a chorus of singers. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The dialogue is interwoven with multiple instances of five original songs. |
Style | Period drama. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | A story (based on a local tradition) of Catholicism in the reign of Elizabeth 1st. The Jesuit priest, Edmund Campion pays a clandestine visit to Hoghton Tower in Lancashire with a young Will Shakespeare in tow. They observe the life of the house as the new lady of the manor tries to marry off the daughter of the previous lord. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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