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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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Romeo and Juliet - Sped Up! by Hannah Thomas Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Most of the speaking is done by the two narrators. There are six other speaking parts (some of whom have as much as a word) and other named roles played by people stepping out of the chorus (usually to be brushed-off or stabbed). |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute reduction of Romeo and Juliet. No set requirements, just a few props, love and death. |
Synopsis | Shakespeare's tale of young love and tragedy given short shrift in this heavily condensed version. |
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Romeo and Juliet Date Other People by Jon Jory |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy starting from Shakespeare and straying a good way. Simple to stage. Written in American English. |
Synopsis | Romeo's wooing of Juliet fails when both run out of poetry, so they agree to take a break and see other people. Romeo's dates with Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra, and the Wicked Witch of the West don't go well, nor do Juliet's with Paris, Iago and Oberon. Maybe the star-cross'd lovers are the only ones right for each other. |
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Ronnie Tumbler Gets Her Goat by Rajapillai Pillai |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | There is a set of lyrics built in which can either be put to the tune of 'Oh Susanna' or recited as a poem, with optional guitar accompaniment. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one-act comedy show performed by adults for children with various suggested settings. |
Synopsis | The tale of a wild west feud between Bullets McGraw and Otis Mills, with some educational gems thrown in. As the reasons for the feud start to become clear, Ronnie Tumbler and Rocky the talking goat do their best to bring the two sides together. |
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Saint Nicholas and the Three Purses of Gold by Timothy Hallett and Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. Technically, there are no characters - that is to say, it could be sung by a soloist. In practice, the intention is for the singing to be shared between several narrators and a chorus whilst the story is mimed by actors. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with a complete piano and vocal score. |
Style | A sung story. (Technically, that makes it a Cantata, but don't let the fancy name put you off!) Does not require any set or props, but props could be used as part of a mime of the story. |
Synopsis | Where does our modern Santa Claus come from? He's descended from legends of Saint Nicholas, the fourth century Bishop of Myra - legends such as this one! |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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Sassenach by Ronnie Dykstra |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Eleven roles (plus two actors who play themselves before taking on characters), designed to be playable by a cast of three plus a cameo from the director. |
Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A spoof 'English' Macbeth based shamelessly on Shakespeare's tragedy, stealing many of his famous words and taking disgraceful liberties. One-act, single set (largely a living room). |
Synopsis | When a witch prophesises that Arthur Robinson could become chairman of the bath plug manufacturer he works for, his wife Samantha coerces him into speeding the process along by having his boss clobbered with a saucepan. His subsequent rise to power is hindered by the blood on their hands and rival employee Andrew Duff. |
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The Senior Speed Date by Jeff Bray |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One character is voice-only and can be voiced live or pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy with a single (pub room) setting. |
Synopsis | Recently separated from her husband, Joan has been persuaded by her daughter to attend a speed dating evening. She is confronted by a procession of highly unsuitable candidates. |
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Set to and Build by Peter Appleton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy during which parts of the set are built on-stage - sort of. |
Synopsis | An AmDram crew meets ahead of the new show to build the set. Arguments over creative vision versus available materials, colours and building techniques, not to mention accidents, strain relations. |
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The Shadows Of Antiquity by Adora Pingstock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Opportunities for doubling and pre-recording parts. |
Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act gothic horror tale with a single setting. |
Synopsis | Madame Carlotta is the custodian of the shop in which each of the items on sale has a gruesome story attached to it. A young couple sheltering from a severe storm find refuge in the shop and are enthralled as Madame Carlotta's tales come to life, little knowing that they will be the subject of the next tale. |
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Shakespeare's Women by Jonathan Edgington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Four on-stage characters plus four phone voices (which could be recordings). |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play. |
Synopsis | Best-selling author, acknowledged world authority on Shakespeare and totally irresistible to women, Herbie has the world at his feet. Or rather, he did, until three mysterious visitors arrive late at night with a mind-blowing offer... |
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