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| The Fall and Rise of Gordon Grimshaw by Sandy Truman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A consistently funny farce with a variety of storylines that all come together satisfyingly. |
| Synopsis | Gordon fears that downsizing to Finchurch-on-Sea is the end of his life, with no job, no bowls club, and wife Marion putting him on a strict diet. But he hasn't reckoned on their bizarre new neighbours, kamikaze seagulls, brushes with the law, half-marathons, and getting reeled into amateur dramatics! |
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Finding Goddard by Deborah Hugill
Performance by Ury Players won the Gallery Trophy in the Aberdeen District of the SCDA one-act play festival 2023. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. 11 minor roles can be easily shared by two actors. |
| Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a variety of locations but minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | When it turns out a modest, unassuming man in Helions Bumpstead is really God, everyone has an angle and everyone wants in. But soon enough, people affected by 'Acts of God' want their day in court. |
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First Drop of Rain by James Brosnahan
Screenplay version placed in the Semifinals (top 1%) of the Austin Film Festival. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Cast of 4 women, 2 12-year-old girls (one with doubling) and 4 men. |
| Run Time | Around 125 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length historical drama. An entertaining exploration of the characters and the times.
(First published 2021, revised edition published 2024.) |
| Synopsis | When an aspiring author sets out to write her first novel, the gendered prejudices of 18th Century London come for her, leaving her to decide between marrying her suitor in surrender or being as brave as the female protagonist she has written. Based on the true story of Frances Burney. |
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| Fishing for Clues by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. As written, there are six men and five women, but two of the men are identical twins, and since very few acting companies are blessed with such a pairing, the characters are assumed to be played by one chap. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length, wryly comic whodunnit. Single country house set. Contains mild swearing and hanky-panky. |
| Synopsis | When Lady Rosemary Huntley brings a new gentleman friend home on the evening of a talk given by prominent Member of Parliament, Ewart Stewart, little does she imagine that the gentleman friend is not long for this world and that the Foreign Office and some offshoot of the KGB will soon be in attendance, along with the ever-enthusiastic PC Pendlebury and the less than enthusiastic Inspector Trench, unimpressed by having his fishing holiday interrupted. Trench is determined to get back to the river bank as soon as possible despite finding himself having to sort through a diverse cast of characters all of whom had motives for committing the deadly deed. |
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| Flapjacks by Karen Doling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Single cafe set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Maddie and Claire are on the verge of opening their new cafe but the builders are still working, they're not sure about making savoury food, and they only have a couple of days before the Mayor comes to cut the ribbon. |
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| The Food Rationing Auction by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. Chorus. As written, there is a non-speaking (though possibly giggling and nudging) chorus of ladies (who, in the absence of sufficient ladies, might be played by men in drag). |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by David Lovesy and Brian Two.) |
| Synopsis | War time rationing leads to an unusual auction! |
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Fools Call It Fate by Jessica McHugh
Winner of the Mobtown Playwrights Group (Baltimore MD) original playwriting competition, 2010. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Three of the characters are intended to double as 'No-one'. Whilst there is no formal chorus, there are options for additional customers in the bar and restaurant scenes. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama in which threads of tangled lives are interwoven with scenes in a form of purgatory. Four locations, but can be done very simply. Contains adult themes and offensive language (if that's what offends you). |
| Synopsis | A story of sex, coincidence, and an electronic cigarette.
A group of characters interweave as their stories unfold - Sophie is sleeping with Gabby's husband, he's the Health Inspector who's shut down Tara's bakery, and Tara just met Ash in the bar run by Danny, who's Sophie's brother... and the man who drugged and raped Tara...
An intriguing, challenging and very well constructed play with lots of depth to the characters.
Set in Baltimore, Maryland, but could easily be transposed to another country! |
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| A Frog Too Far by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children. Could be played by the same, or by a company of either. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play set in a classroom - represented by the teacher's chair and her story book. |
| Synopsis | Miss Primrose tries to tell her class their daily story - a tale of princess meets frog - with the aid of a small troupe of mimes. The children, shall we say, have bright enquiring minds... |
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| From Here to Maternity by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Eight principal characters and a slew of minor roles. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A witty and fast-paced full-length comedy with lots of fun characters. The makings of a very good evening's entertainment. |
| Synopsis | Obstetrician Clare Mason and her colleague Cathy are on their way to a conference in Moscow, when they find themselves stuck in the dilapidated ex-Soviet state of Bolonia and recruited to supervise the pregnant wife of the President. Meanwhile, President Driblova is under UN pressure to hold an election, but plots to make it anything but democratic. |
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| Frying Nemo by Amelia Armande |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 33. No chorus. Enormous flexibility! The author presents a doubling table showing how the thirty-three characters can be played by 10 actors (with a lot of swift - and necessarily simple - costume changes). |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy contains suggestions for (the style of) accompanying music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act nautical comedy play (with opportunities for dance music). Written for minimal set - because it was originally performed in a sea-life centre! |
| Synopsis | An old man in a care home is telling the story of his younger days - as the seafaring adventurer Captain Nemo! We see things that Jules Verne never got to write about in this stirring tale of derring do and mermaids, with a surprisingly affecting ending. |
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