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Life Goes On by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 44. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Collection of 19 comedy sketches (ranging in duration from 4 minutes to 9 minutes). Few set requirements. There are a couple of mild swearwords buried in there somewhere. |
Synopsis | Sketches about life, love, work and cream cakes. All of the sketches are available individually. (The collection allows the set to be purchased at a discount to the sum of the individual components.) There is no particular order to the sketches, but there are occasional common themes. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Lions Versus Elephants by Graham Dillistone |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. 4 onstage characters (2M, 2F), plus 5 (2M, 3F) who are voice only and may be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length comedy, presented as three acts, on a single (living room) set. |
Synopsis | Bernard follows the book 'Man is a lion, woman is an elephant', but his dinner guests Gerald, Ann and Peggy will test his beliefs. Gerald and Ann’s marriage falls apart, Peggy preys on both men, and Bernard misses the simple life. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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The Living Room by Clive David Lloyd Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama of paranormal events in a single living room set (with two practical doors). |
Synopsis | After the death of Joe's wife, his neighbour Amy visits to give him support. This is followed by a series of unexplained events, with paranormal investigators who themselves fall prey to the events. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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The Loft by James Brosnahan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play, with plenty of challenges for the actors! (Contains mild swearing.) |
Synopsis | An apartment building (the Loft of the title) is scheduled for demolition, and shares a few of the stories he has witnessed before the button is pressed. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Love by John Collings |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. The chorus of dancers is optional. |
Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act romantic comedy drama with a single multi-functional set. |
Synopsis | A young girl dreams of finding real love and breaking away from her dominant mother. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Love and Marriage by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of four ten-minute comedies. (No sets, a few props.) |
Synopsis | Four couples (supplimented, in one case, by a clergyman) address or reveal their approach to their relationships. |
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The Merry England Blues by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Three music tracks are suggested to accompany the action. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act comedy on two sets with basic folk dancing and music. Warning: contains Morris Dancers. |
Synopsis | The Merry England Folk Dancers are in decline. The town carnival procession could be their final opportunity to attract new members. In a riotous conclusion and against all the odds, they give it their best shot. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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A Merry Lyttle Christmas by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Requires a mixture of adults and children. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act festive comedy. |
Synopsis | Tess Steadman wants a Christmas like she had when she was a little girl, Tess Lyttle. She invites her brother and his family to Christmas Dinner, but not everyone has the same experience of Christmas as Tess. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Missing by Sue Bevan Finalist in the Sky Blue Theatre International play-writing competition, 2013 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Voices of 7 parents may be off stage or recorded. |
Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A gritty one act play for youth theatre. |
Synopsis | Tom's run away from home but finds he's spent his first night on Lizzie's 'turf'. Is she going to help him, or take his stuff? Perhaps Lizzie's idea of helping Tom isn't the same as his... |
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Murder at Mole End by Karen Doling Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length murder mystery play (single set). A comedy which manages to get as far as self-parody whilst delivering a complex and satisfying mystery. |
Synopsis | Two couples attend a Murder Mystery Weekend, only to discover that they all have links to the main actor in the piece. Before too long, he's been murdered for real and the race is on to solve the murder and avoid jail! |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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