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Standing Room Only by James Harvey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The characters are written as 4M, 3F, a lot more flexibility is possible! |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play, single set (the minimum required to indicate a waiting room). Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | A group of people are being kept waiting - in hell. How long are they going to have to hang around for their share of eternal damnation? |
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Stardust by 10 x 10 Writers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Six short plays inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. |
Synopsis | Six short plays, a mixture of comedy and drama, inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. All were winners of the October 2016 Chesil Theatre New Writing Festival. The plays are available individually, but are provided here as a collection at a discount. |
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The Talky Bits by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 37. No chorus. Many of the characters are written with a specific gender, but most can be changed! |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of ten comedy sketches requiring little in the way of set or props (the most complex sketch requires a table, chairs and a few pieces of paper.) Most could be run front-of curtain. |
Synopsis | Ten comedy sketches with a theatrical theme, designed to be interspersed between other material in a drama and dance showcase. The sketches cover the theatrical process from pitching a show concept through to first night nerves. Most of the sketches are available individually. This collection is available at a discount to the sum of the individual prices. |
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Territorial Actors by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute skit, no set requirements. Single prop (a field telephone) |
Synopsis | A drill sergeant takes a set of rookie part-time actors through their paces. |
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A Throw of the Dice by Ben Alexander |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One male character is voice-only and more suited to being pre-recorded than performed live. The hospital staff (surgeon, nurse and duty manager) are written female but could be either. |
Run Time | Around 104 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | 7 songs are suggested, to be played (but not performed by cast) at specified points in the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full-length thriller on a single (hospital waiting room) set. |
Synopsis | Henry, whose father is close to death, and Judy, whose husband has been seriously injured, meet for the first time one evening in a waiting room of a private hospital. During the course of a long night, they get to know each other sufficiently for Henry to be able to help Judy when her husband's two brothers arrive the following morning to intimidate her into signing away her rights to her husband's wealth. However, Henry has a hidden agenda. |
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The Trumpet Major by Thomas Hardy (adapted Peter John Cooper) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The piece is interspersed with the reminiscences of the old Anne Garland. (Her role coulde be doubled by her younger self.) |
Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length period drama. The scenes flow continuously, so intended to be performed with stage areas and levels rather than a formal set. |
Synopsis | Thomas Hardy's novel of life in the Napoleonic era, with soldiers massing to repel invasion, and village life in turmoil as a result. |
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Wait... What? by Ted Evans |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two (male) characters appear on stage, one of them only briefly. Two male and two female characters appear on a video shown on the stage. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, almost a monologue, in the style of a disjointed presentation. Some educational content about Attention Deficit Disorder. Includes opportunities for improvisation. Contains mild swearing |
Synopsis | An Attention Deficit Disorder sufferer talks about his experiences with a new wonder-drug and ADD in general, but ends up saying a little too much for the drug manufacturer's liking. |
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Was Blind But Now I See by Howard Lipson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short skit, telling and examining a well-known fable from a Christian perspective. No set requirements. |
Synopsis | Five blind people encounter a curious object and work together to find out what it is, while a sighted pair react differently. |
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What Manner of Man by Mike Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Prince Charles Edward Stuart was regarded as having feminine looks and could be played by a woman. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act historical drama, set in the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. Most of the action takes place in a single interior set. Two exterior scenes could be played on bare stage. |
Synopsis | Having reached the English town of Derby, Adjutant General of Bonnie Prince Charlie's forces, Lord George Murray agonises over the need to tell the Prince that taking London is not possible. He must win over two other members of the Prince's council to carry the day and force retreat. |
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Zoo by Terry Adlam Performance by Biggleswade Amateur Theatrical Society won three awards at Bedfordshire Drama Festival, 2011, & performance by Little Eyases won 'Best Comedy' at The 38th Wellington Drama Festival, 2011 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Five characters appear on stage, with a further eleven as radio or telephone voices. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Hilarious one-act comedy. Single set. Contains a little swearing, a little physical violence and a penguin. |
Synopsis | It's an important day for the zoo manager - financier Sir Norman is coming for an inspection, and nothing must go wrong. So it would be a bad time for the gibbons to hijack a car, the tractor to run into croc lake and the tiger to take up residence in the coffee shop. And don't ask about the penguin. |
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