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Growing Up With Martin by Paul Richards
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 60 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy play (three sets)
SynopsisMartin 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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Hansel and Gretel... and Sadie by Steven Stack
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 25 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act play, with an imaginative twist to the classic tale. A companion (same style, different tale) to Ted (Of Edible Houses, Risky Bargains, and Other Grimm Happenings)
SynopsisA quirky take on a classic tale. Hansel and Gretel have another child living with them - Sadie, who loves to read. This comes in handy when the children are taken deep into the forest and abandoned by the parents...
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The Happy Wanderers by Dawn Cairns
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Seven on-stage characters and a pair of off-stage voices.
Run TimeAround 60 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThe Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 3 songs (and the invitation to replace them with anything else suitable). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleAn entertaining and easily staged one-act play with a lot of good humour.
SynopsisOriginally a walking club for single people, the Happy Wanderers have mostly ditched the walking and taken up drinking. At a social barbeque, Tony introduces his new fiancée, Brian tries it on with all the women, and the friend Julie brings along is not who anyone expected.
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The Honorable Knight by Stewart Boston
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Nothing remarkable in the characters (apart from the dragon, obviously).
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA light comedy, playing on the traditions of the knightly stories. Split-stage set, with one permanent location and the other half of the stage doubling for two other locations.
SynopsisBefore leaving his castle for the last time, Sir Gawain of the renowned Round Table reluctantly reveals a tale of his exploits that shows him in a less than favourable light.
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The Horrible Hot Air Homicide by Ray Lawrence
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Melodrama stereotypes - the wicked squire, the poor-but-hones heroine, etc.
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicOne song (to a G&S tune). Sheet music for the song is supplied with the producer's copy of the script.
StyleMelodrama set in Victorian times, but written in the 21st century - so something of a send-up of the format.
Synopsis'The Horrible Hot Air Homicide' - or 'Fanny's Free For All' sees the wicked squire in pursuit of the poor heroine, Fanny. However, in fear that his past misdeeds will be exposed, the squire frames his rival for murder, then furnishes a fiendish fate for Fanny.
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A Human Write by Amelia Armande
Production by Ury Players won the 2018 Aberdeen SCDA district youth competition and the Kincardine district trophy.
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. The writer is written male, though need not be. His thoughts - the chorus - are genderless.
Run TimeAround 25 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA fascinating one act drama that uses mime and rhyme to take us into the mind of a struggling writer. Contains one mild swearword.
SynopsisThe writer is grappling not only with his writing but also with his personal life as he desperately attempts to strike up a relationship with Janis, a beautiful girl he sees on a bus.
Well paced and gathering speed, the play uses the chorus to reveal the writer's thoughts - sometimes cogent, sometimes chaotic - come to life as the surreal become real.
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Impatience and Improbability by Nic Dawson
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 55 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act comedy with a single (hotel terrace) setting. A witty and clever intertwining of the mannered world of the eighteenth century and modern day mores - with a bit of farce thrown in.
SynopsisThis diversion in One Act, dedicated with respectful admiration to Miss Jane Austen - with humble apologies for any liberties taken - sees Julia providing eighteenth century elegance and ambience in her unique hotel. The idyllic, mannered world descends into infidelity and recrimination as the modern day intrudes.
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In Her Defence by Helen Saxton
Original Playwriting Award at the Oxfordshire Drama Network Festival in June 2022. Production by The Compton Players
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Seven on-stage characters and an off-stage male voice.
Run TimeAround 42 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act thriller with several nods to Agatha Christie. Single set, split between a courtroom and a living room.
SynopsisLondon, 1947. Philip Mackinder is dead. His wife, Catherine, has just shot him. As a court hears the evidence leading up to the murder, we witness the disintegration of the couple's marriage and discover the real, surprising truth.
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An Indecent Exposure by David Pemberton
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 38 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act comedy drama - in which the cast remain clothed.
SynopsisA couple are keeping the park opposite their flat under surveillance in an attempt to gather evidence on the person who's been exposing themselves. But are they really playing tricks on one another?
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An Inn Spectre Calls by Barry Lambert
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 43 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act comedy drama with a single (hotel lounge) setting.
SynopsisGeoff and Laura have invited both sets of parents for a meal at a local hostelry to celebrate their engagement, but each one of the party in turn encounters a mysterious woman, whose disturbing revelations provoke a variety of reactions. She bears an uncanny resemblance to Laura's stepfather's first wife, but she died unexpectedly two years ago, so it can't be her! Or can it?
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