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| Fone Home by Nicholas Conti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All characters are adults, some of whom are deceased (and therefore ageless!) |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full length play, single set (split between two apartments) |
| Synopsis | Though your family are dead and gone, they now live in the twilight zone... Nick and Jen's marriage is threatened by his addiction to work and her attraction to her boss. When Nick accidentally dials his old home number, he is astonished to hear his mother (dead for twenty years) answer the phone. She, Nick's Dad and Nick's Uncle Louie are all on the line from Heaven with advice to help Nick through the hard times. But will it be enough to save the marriage? |
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| The Food Rationing Auction by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. Chorus. As written, there is a non-speaking (though possibly giggling and nudging) chorus of ladies (who, in the absence of sufficient ladies, might be played by men in drag). |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by David Lovesy and Brian Two.) |
| Synopsis | War time rationing leads to an unusual auction! |
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| The Game of Murder by Deborah Hugill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A finely crafted piece offering a new twist on the murder mystery. Single set, divided into three working areas - two permanent, furnished locations and a flexible area for other scenes. |
| Synopsis | DCI Waddington and his team have an unconventional approach to solving crime, and new arrival DC Knight will really have to learn to play the game their way if they are going to send the killer directly to jail without passing Go. |
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| Girls' Talk by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of six comedy sketches, each with a cast of two women. |
| Synopsis | Sketches tackling the difficulties of office life, men, gossiping and more men.
(Each of the sketches is available individually.) |
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| A Gladiator In The House by John Waterhouse |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy (reminiscent of a Restoration Comedy) with various settings in Ancient Rome designed to be created simply (even in the round). |
| Synopsis | Ancient Rome is brought to life as the love affair between escaped gladiator, Marcus, and Livia, daughter of high ranking citizen Gallus, develops despite the efforts of gladiator owner Proculus and the lecherous banker Carus. |
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| Gold! by Kate Stafford |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two on-stage actors plus one female on video and 4 offstage male voices. So this is essentially a two-hander plus recordings. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play with elements of comedy, drama and romance (plus a serious fight, and some swearing). |
| Synopsis | Julie and Dave are a couple in their 60s who have been hiding a secret for decades - the stash of gold they stole as part of the Brink's-Mat robbery 40 years previously. With their daughter relying on them to fund her expensive wedding, they may finally have to cash it in, but someone from the past is following them. |
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Grave Matters by Peter Stallard
Production by Carbost Village Drama Group garnered two trophies (Best Stage Presentation and Best Actor) at the Skye One Act Drama Festival, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The Grave Warden is written male, but could easily be played female. The two female parts could, conceivably, be doubled, but the effect of Mrs. Roberts' final entrance would probably be better with more time for make-up! |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A ghost story told as a humorous one-act play. Single graveyard set, simple props. |
| Synopsis | A magistrate and a Police Sergeant stole a valuable chalice and hid the theft under the cover of arson committed by a local troublemaker. Now their souls are bound to the churchyard until they can restore the chalice. |
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| Great Moments in History, Number 3 by Jack Burgess |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Script includes a parody of the title song from Oklahoma. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Musical skit, parodying the creative process! (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) |
| Synopsis | The Rogers and Frankenstein Story! Richard Rogers and his collaborator, Oscar Frankenstein III, ponder the creation of a new Broadway musical, whilst eating pizza. |
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| Growing Up With Martin by Paul Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play (three sets) |
| Synopsis | Martin is twenty four, living in a rented flat with his girlfriend, and working at the bottom of the corporate ladder in an accounting firm run by his Mum and Dad. He's frustrated by his lowly position, but equally annoyed by the idea that he should have to exert himself to get on in life. In the course of one day we see him downtrodden, turn a corner and find a new goal, just to have one of the dearest things snatched from him. |
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| Hair of the Dog by Molly McCluskey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length romantic comedy. Single set, simple props. |
| Synopsis | In Las Vegas to celebrate the upcoming wedding of his older brother, Keith drinks way too much and wakes up with no memory of the night before. Why is his best friend Amy in his room and acting so strangely? Why was his wallet left in a wedding chapel? And where are his pants? [The last question points out that this is written in American English!] |
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