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| Dead Air by Martin Ward |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] Performance anticipated to be one act length. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes a suggestion for an opening song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A non-interactive Murder Mystery in two acts, with the performance anticipated to be one act length. |
| Synopsis | It is 1965 and obnoxious and demanding radio star Oscar learns that his show is to be axed, pushing his nastiness to even greater levels. There are many suspects for his inevitable murder and the investigation takes many turns. |
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| Dear Lily by Lorraine Forrest-Turner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act romantic comedy. Lots of scenes and locations, but these are intended to be indicative rather than fully-dressed sets. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | After thirty years as 'Lily', the agony aunt of The Courrier, Ingrid loses her job and embarks on a radical reassessment of her life, beginning a stormy relationship with a man ten years her junior. |
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| Death by Detective by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A witty and fast paced comedy loosely based on The Speckled Band with a solid mystery plot provided by the Conan Doyle source material. A lot of fun for cast and audience. Structured in two acts, but could form half an evening of one-act plays. |
| Synopsis | When a legendary detective solves a terrible murder and discovers his own guilty part in the affair, it is left to his closest friends to prevent him from arresting himself. |
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| Detour by Kev Salter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Four characters must be played by the same (male) actor. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single airport lounge setting. |
| Synopsis | Stranded in a remote Latvian airport as their plane undergoes a bizarre series of repairs, a group of passengers regret choosing a budget airline. |
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| Diamond Jubilee 2012 by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. Generally, the characters are fairly normal, although one of them is a football. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Revue - that is to say, a themed sketch show. Structured with a chairman (of the Music Hall sort) to introduce the act. Few set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A collection of twenty four sketches suitable for the celebration of Queen Elizabeth the Second's Diamond Jubilee (and probably other occasions).
Not a musical show as written, but structured so that musical numbers could easily be inserted between the acts. |
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| Disconnected by Paul L. Harwood |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Several characters appear as (old) adults and their youthful selves. This is open to being done by two actors or by one acting different ages. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play. Single set which morphs into different locations. An exploration of time, decisions and consequences. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Bernie is an old man, but he's haunted by the consequences of a promise he made to his childhood friend Joe, who died in World War Two. Now Bernie is reliving important moments of his life - could he really be about to undo the most disastrous decision he ever made? |
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| Don't Bury The Banjo by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Five speaking roles and two non-speaking pallbearers. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama - with comedy and pathos - with a single kitchen/store room setting. |
| Synopsis | Ruth Thwaites is preparing for her husband's funeral, and is delighted her son Jake has come home for it. But Jake's life in the big city isn't all he's made it out to be, and his 'friend' Roiseen has tracked him down to break some big news. |
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| Donegal Calling by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Six on-stage characters, five off-stage voices. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama in a single set (which needs only furniture). |
| Synopsis | Roisin and Johnny, strangers, are thrown together one evening in the busy foyer of a hotel. They share a bottle of wine and conversation brings out major events in their lives. Both had fallen in love - both relationships ended tragically, for very different reasons - but Donegal keeps calling them back. One year later in the same hotel, the same busy foyer, they meet again as friends. More information about past events comes to light - enough to clear the way to give them a future together? |
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| Droolin' Banjos by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Youthful characters may be played by an older cast. |
| Run Time | Around 53 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Four pieces of music are suggested in the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | An offbeat, single set, one act black comedy, which has language advisory notes. |
| Synopsis | Stevie is definitely going back to jail, but he has to speak to his children first. It's very important that they go back to school and avoid making his mistakes. They're not enthusiastic about this plan, but he has another detail to explain - for every day of school they miss, he serves one more in prison. |
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| Dummy Cabs by S. P. Franksson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Four on-stage characters, seven live voices (which could, conceivably, be played by one male actor) plus a recorded message. |
| Run Time | Around 114 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun full-length comedy with likeable characters in a single taxi office setting. |
| Synopsis | It's the 1990s and Dermy Cabs is under threat from a competitor. Beryl, the overworked switchboard operator, struggles with phone, radios and in-person customers whilst trying to keep the company's drivers under control, especially Bob, whose wife has kicked him out of the house. |
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