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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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| We Don’t Like To Be Beside The Seaside by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Six on-stage characters plus a radio announcer (who could be recorded). |
| Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play with a single main-stage set and occasional action in other places, set in downstage areas. |
| Synopsis | It's an annual event for three married couples to take a cottage by the sea. One couple drops out at the last minute. But they have found two younger unattached women to take their place. Things get complicated when it turns out the newcomers may be unknown to the wives, but not to the husbands. The question is, by design or destiny? |
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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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| You Have Reached Your Destination by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for seven intermission pieces. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act comedy (could be used as a short two-act) packed with unexpected delights. |
| Synopsis | Two women work at a company that provides a sat-nav service, with the unexpected revelation that they are the voices of the sat navs. A complicated day for the pair involves French and Spanish translations, unexpected detours and a violent confrontation. Their customers include a doddery old lady who can't find the end of the street, a man who 'doesn't need the Satnav' and his daughter who has recently undergone an unfortunate experience on social media. There's also a young man who insists on using the latest 'exaggerated accents' app, all of which Tracey has to supply, and a customer who needs to be spoken to in French (only Tracey doesn't know any). |
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