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On The Street by Graham Jones |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Gritty one-act drama set amongst a bunch of homeless people. Single (minimal) set. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | Six characters share an area of street, making a small cardboard encampment. They discuss whether they should move on, then band together against the violent member of the group, showing that, even if society has turned its back on them, they are there for each other. |
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The Open Window by Tony Best |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A blackly comic stage adaptation of one of Saki's subversive stories. Two locations, but neither need be elaborate (so could be done in a 'black box' with small items of furniture). Aimed at secondary schools, but could be done by adults. |
Synopsis | Framton has been sent to the country as a rest cure for his nerves. However, his encounter with his doctor's cousin, Gertrude, and her neices is anything but calming. |
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Outside the Box by JPS Yates Performance by Tarrystone Players won the John Rigg Award for Best Comedy and the South of England Building Society Award for Best Stage Presentation at the Maidenhead Drama Festival 2011. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Six on--stage actors plus three offstage voices appearing briefly at the start (so could be recordings). |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A play for adults, satirising office life - where the office workers are nursery toys. Single set. Written in one act, but quite long. A cracking pace might get it down to one-act-play festival length. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | The nursery toys are mostly happy with their lot in life - only Ragdoll feels unwanted, so it doesn't surprise her when bureaucratic Fairy Crackernuts arrives and announces they're having 'a re-shuffle'. What does surprise her is that Teddy is the who's been made redundant... |
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Over My Dead Body! by Pat Baker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comic murder mystery set in a manor house in the 1920s. One act, one set, simple props. |
Synopsis | Tensions are rising at Grabbit Manor. Lord Grabbit won't buy his daughter a new dress for her engagement to the unsuitable wastrel Roger. Curt, the butler, hasn't been paid for months and Lord Grabbit suspects Cook of cooking the books. When the lights come on after a sudden blackout, a body is found - a problem for Inspector Foot (of the Yard)... the problem being that the corpse has been poisoned, strangled, stabbed and shot! |
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Peter's Tale by Mike Sparks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act mystery play (in the sense of the medieval religious mystery plays) in modern English. No set requirements, no props. |
Synopsis | Peter's perspective of the ministry of Jesus, as he reflects on their time together after Jesus' arrest. |
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A Pig Tale by Kevin Jannetts Production by Loch Duich Primary School won Adjudicator's special award. South West Ross District Youth SCDA Festival 2016. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. The chorus is the sort that rushes on to perform songs and dances in various guises! Most of the roles are gender-neutral, although one of the pigs is called Maureen and the wolf is called Alan, both of which tend to be specific. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] (This allows 20 minutes for 11 songs/dances.) |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 11 songs/dances Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act family comedy show with music. A fairytale send-up. Contains Scottish accents! |
Synopsis | The story of the Three Pigs gets a revamp in this Scots story, allowing a couple of Narrators to bring the story to life with anthropomorphic pigs struggling to find a story they can take part in to keep their deal with a Fairy Solicitor. Add in a Big Bad Wolf called Alan, and it all works out fine in the end. |
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Pilate's Wife by Julia Lee Dean |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. No formal chorus, but there is an off-stage crowd shouting - either live or recorded. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Easter play (from an unusual perspective), of one-act length but structured in three acts. Three locations, which could be formed as one simple composite set. |
Synopsis | The story of Easter week told from the point of view of Pontius Pilate's household. (Mary Magdalene is presented as Pilate's mistress, allowing three very different interpretations of the events as they unfold.) |
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The Play Of The Year by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One M and one F voice are offstage, could be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy, with a fairly simple set. |
Synopsis | The committee tasked with choosing the winner of the 'Play of the Year' competition really has their work cut out, and they also have to contend with being both helped and hindered by the building janitor and tea lady. A comedy drama with twists - which may keep the audience misled until the last moment! |
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The Politics Of Bendy by Jim Pinnock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act political farce in a single setting. |
Synopsis | Godfrey was hoping Charles would hand him the leadership of the opposition, leaving him a dead cert for Prime Minister, but now Charles has decided to hang on and Godfrey's wife is looking more like Lady Macbeth. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'The Politics of Bendy' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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Ragtime Mystery by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. In addition to the principal characters it would be possible to have a number of non-speaking 'extras'. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Three Scott Joplin rags suggested as musical accompaniment. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Short, simple detective story. Three scenes, but integrated by music whilst the set is dressed for the next scene. |
Synopsis | Gossip columnist Veronica Rivers gets a mysterious invitation to a party, where she recognises an infamous jewel thief - just before a diamond necklace goes missing. It's down to Charlie 'Ragtime' Jones the piano-playing detective to solve the mystery. |
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