Lazy Bee Scripts
One-Act Play Script - Search Results


All the scripts described below can be read in full on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site (click on the titles).
However, all the scripts on this site are copyrighted. They may not be printed, quoted or performed without the permission of Lazy Bee Scripts.
Click on the "Price" links for details of the script prices and licensing arrangements.
Create a Reading List from this set:      
Narrow your search within this results set:
Scripts 11 to 20 of 121
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 
Blackmail in Bohemia by David Pemberton
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 44 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act comedy, with minimal set dressing required. A companion piece to Pemberton’s previous Death by Detective, inspired by Conan Doyle’s story A Scandal in Bohemia.
SynopsisWhen the legendary Inspector Bucket is hired to stop a royal prince from being blackmailed by a former lover, he is thrown into a fiery and passionate encounter with a femme fatale that threatens to melt his intellectual froideur and stir undiscovered emotions.
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details.
Blind Date, Inc. by Gerald P. Murphy
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA series of linked comedy sketches set at a speed-dating event. Simple set - two tables, four chairs.
SynopsisA series of couples meet for the first time, introduced by Blind Date Inc.
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
FeedbackClick here to find out what other customers said about this script.
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details.
Blind Date, Inc. 111 by Gerald P. Murphy
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Eight scenes, eight couples - but since the stories run consecutively, the minimum is two pairs, with lots of doubling.
Run TimeAround 40 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA series of linked comedy sketches. Simple set - two tables, four chairs.
SynopsisThis follows exactly the same structure as the two predecessors Blind Date Inc, and Blind Date, Inc. 2 but with a different set of couples working out different relationships, covering a range of odd issues, with even Sherlock Holmes taking up the dating game!
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
FeedbackClick here to find out what other customers said about this script.
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details.
Blind Date, Inc. 2 by Gerald P. Murphy
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 25 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA series of linked comedy sketches. Simple set - two tables, four chairs.
SynopsisThis follows exactly the same structure as Blind Date Inc, but with a different set of couples working out different relationships as they play the dating game!
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details.
Blue Murder at Gallows Bottom by Paul John Matthews
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 57 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act dark comedy with a dry wit and plenty of murder served up. Somewhere between satire and folk horror. Contains language that may be less palatable than the murder.
SynopsisThe village of Gallows Bottom is cut off by a flood and the only place to eat is Monica's Pastie Palace, where outsiders Jack and Mona encounter some very strange locals. Jack comments that this is a good place for a murder, and he turns out to be correct.
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details.
The Bright and Shiny Radio Show [Family Edition] by TLC Creative
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 55. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 45 minutes. [Estimated!] Which could be increased with addition of musical numbers between sketches.
MusicNone.
StyleCollection of 23 sketches suitable for either a radio show or a stage revue. (Thre are sound effects, but no props or set requirments listed.) This edition is [in the opinion of the writers] suitable for a family audience.
SynopsisA comedy collection, which includes a number of very problematic job interviews, investigations into the difficulties of being a snake, a homing pigeon or an insect, various unlikely television and radio shows and the inevitable doctor's sketch.
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details.
The Bright and Shiny Radio Show [Robust Edition] by TLC Creative
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 61. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 45 minutes. [Estimated!] Which could be increased with addition of musical numbers between sketches.
MusicNone.
StyleCollection of 26 sketches suitable for either a radio show or a stage revue. (There are sound effects, but no props or set requirements listed.) This 'robust' edition has three more sketches and a few more rude words than the family edition.
SynopsisA comedy collection, which includes a number of very problematic job interviews, investigations into the difficulties of being a snake, a homing pigeon or an insect, unlikely various television and radio shows and the inevitable doctor's sketch, along with a couple of running gags.
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details.
Café Fear by Paul John Matthews
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 50 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThe producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for three pieces of intermission music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleA one act play, with elements of tragicomedy and strong language.
SynopsisTwo newspaper reporters, Angela and Jim, are following up reports of an escaped patient from a local secure mental hospital. Stopping off at a café to ask directions, they are joined by Adriana, a prissy germaphobe and Roger, an annoying smart Alec. They soon realise that they have ended up in a very strange place.
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details.
Cards on the Table by Barry Lambert
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Dr Dorris Boffin talks a strange, clipped form of English. This is deliberate.
Run TimeAround 37 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy/drama. Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door).
SynopsisIt seems a cut-and dried case for Inspector Whalley and colleagues - they know the crime and who dunnit, but, of course, there's a twist for the sleuths to sort out.
'Cards on the Table' is available with two other episodes in Inspector Whalley's Casebook - Volume 2.
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details.
Charlie to the Checkout Please by Robert Scott
Charlie To The Checkout Please - Best Play Legacy High School Theater, Las Vegas (2018)
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All roles are gender non-specific.
Run TimeAround 22 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne act comedy set in a supermarket with minimal set requirements.
SynopsisIt’s Riley’s first day on the checkout, and things are not going well: product returns, complaints, queue-jumping and an armed robbery! Charlie said he’d be on hand, but he’s not answering the PA. So Riley steps up.
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details.
Scripts 11 to 20 of 121
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 
Narrow your search within this results set:

 
Lazy Bee Scripts Home Page