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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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| Port Out, Starboard Home! by Richard James |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. There are opportunities for 'walk-on' parts for other passengers on the cruise. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play with a single (cruise ship) set. |
| Synopsis | Miriam hopes that taking her son Stewart on a cruise will help him find Miss Right, when actually, he's looking for a Mr.
Jackie's on the cruise for her health, though she's actually only sick of her husband, and Amanda's a washed up actress, taking any job going. |
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| Potted Austen: Pride And Prejudice by Lou Treleaven |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play ideal for schools or classrooms. |
| Synopsis | A short, humorous adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, covering all of the salient events and characters. |
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| Read All About It by Colin Calvert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The minimum character count assumes that the driver doubles as D.I. Throgge. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy Thriller. Single main stage set with additional car interior set in front of the main stage. Includes gun violence and mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | It's a big day for McTaggart, the editor of The Biggleswick Bugle - he's meeting the mayor of the German twin town, and he's out to impress. Unfortunately, that means relying on his staff. There's Ted, the disillusioned hack, Britney who does the classifieds, Blodwen Jones - Jones the Death - the obituary specialist, Kevin the odd-job man and Mrs. Parmeter, the tea lady. And there's a madman on the loose. With a machine gun. Things just aren't going the way they were planned... |
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The Resurrectionist by Robert Hunter Allan
Winner of the Edinburgh SCDA One Act Festival competition.Awarded the Edith Frobes Trophy (Edin. winner), The Eric Bennett Trophy for highest mark in production, the Bobby Watt Cup for stage presentation and the Eastern Division trophy - Jin Brown Trophy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act dark comedy with four simple sets. |
| Synopsis | Mary Tyrell, the brains behind the bodysnatching activities of Burke and Hare in 19th Century Edinburgh, finds herself facing execution but manages to ensure that Burke and Hare take the blame. |
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| Right Move by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Four parts are offstage voices. Gill and Jack are on stage for most of the show, but there are never more than an additional 1M, 1F with them, hence it could be done by 4, though this might be a little frantic! |
| Run Time | Around 123 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy in three acts. |
| Synopsis | Gill and Jack are adjusting to their new home, but with most of their furniture still undelivered, it's not easy. And the phone doesn't work. And their neighbours are strange. Not to mention the dead body in the cellar... |
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Romeo and Juliet - Sped Up! by Hannah Thomas
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Most of the speaking is done by the two narrators. There are six other speaking parts (some of whom have as much as a word) and other named roles played by people stepping out of the chorus (usually to be brushed-off or stabbed). |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute reduction of Romeo and Juliet. No set requirements, just a few props, love and death. |
| Synopsis | Shakespeare's tale of young love and tragedy given short shrift in this heavily condensed version. |
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| Romeo and Juliet Date Other People by Jon Jory |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy starting from Shakespeare and straying a good way. Simple to stage. Written in American English. |
| Synopsis | Romeo's wooing of Juliet fails when both run out of poetry, so they agree to take a break and see other people. Romeo's dates with Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra, and the Wicked Witch of the West don't go well, nor do Juliet's with Paris, Iago and Oberon. Maybe the star-cross'd lovers are the only ones right for each other. |
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| Ronnie Tumbler Gets Her Goat by Rajapillai Pillai |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There is a set of lyrics built in which can either be put to the tune of 'Oh Susanna' or recited as a poem, with optional guitar accompaniment. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act comedy show performed by adults for children with various suggested settings. |
| Synopsis | The tale of a wild west feud between Bullets McGraw and Otis Mills, with some educational gems thrown in. As the reasons for the feud start to become clear, Ronnie Tumbler and Rocky the talking goat do their best to bring the two sides together. |
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| Sassenach by Ronnie Dykstra |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Eleven roles (plus two actors who play themselves before taking on characters), designed to be playable by a cast of three plus a cameo from the director. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A spoof 'English' Macbeth based shamelessly on Shakespeare's tragedy, stealing many of his famous words and taking disgraceful liberties. One-act, single set (largely a living room). |
| Synopsis | When a witch prophesises that Arthur Robinson could become chairman of the bath plug manufacturer he works for, his wife Samantha coerces him into speeding the process along by having his boss clobbered with a saucepan. His subsequent rise to power is hindered by the blood on their hands and rival employee Andrew Duff. |
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