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| Blue Murder at Gallows Bottom by Paul John Matthews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 57 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-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. |
| Synopsis | The 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. |
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| Boysenberry Park by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two adult couples, each with a teenage child. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play about teenagers and their long-suffering parents! Single set (indicative of a forest clearing). |
| Synopsis | Two families find themselves sharing the same clearing on a camping trip, and things quickly deteriorate between them. The peacemakers come as a surprise. |
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| A Brief Guide To Greek Tragedy by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. Chorus. 2 narrators and 3 'actors' who each switch between multiple characters. Chorus can be any number of people, even just 1. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short educational sketch. |
| Synopsis | Learn about ancient Greek tragedy in ten minutes, using the story of Cassandra (the prophetess whom no one believed) as demonstration. |
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| The Bright and Shiny Radio Show [Family Edition] by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 55. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] Which could be increased with addition of musical numbers between sketches. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection 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. |
| Synopsis | A 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. |
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| The Bright and Shiny Radio Show [Robust Edition] by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 61. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] Which could be increased with addition of musical numbers between sketches. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection 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. |
| Synopsis | A 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. |
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| Café Fear by Paul John Matthews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The 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. |
| Style | A one act play, with elements of tragicomedy and strong language. |
| Synopsis | Two 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. |
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| Can We Stop It There? by Trevor Suthers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play/sketch. Bare stage set (could even be done front of tabs). Contains some swearing. |
| Synopsis | A play about a director directing a play about a director directing a play about a director directing a play about... er... well, that's not important really. Can I try that again from my cue? |
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| Cards on the Table by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum 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 Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy/drama. Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door). |
| Synopsis | It 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. |
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Chance Encounters by Jamesine Cundell Walker
Best Seller |
| 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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Charlie to the Checkout Please by Robert Scott
Charlie To The Checkout Please - Best Play Legacy High School Theater, Las Vegas (2018) |
| Roles | Minimum 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 Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy set in a supermarket with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | It’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. |
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