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Dummy Cabs by S. P. Franksson
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Four on-stage characters, seven live voices (which could, conceivably, be played by one male actor) plus a recorded message.
Run TimeAround 114 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA fun full-length comedy with likeable characters in a single taxi office setting.
SynopsisIt's the 1990s and Dermy Cabs is under threat from a competitor. Beryl, the overworked switchboard operator, struggles with phone, radios and in-person customers whilst trying to keep the company's drivers under control, especially Bob, whose wife has kicked him out of the house.
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The Eco Hotel by Robert Hugh Mitchell
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicWhilst it isn't a formal musical, new lyrics to a couple of familiar melodies are included in the text. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleOne-act play. Multiple sets, with changes to the main stage covered by front-of-cloth scenes. Contains swearing. And comedy.
SynopsisA group of guests are enjoying their last night in the Environmentally-friendly Eco hotel. Little do they know that the lake has been polluted with irradiated water, and the formally mild and vegetarian turtles have grown bigger and hungrier....
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The Emperor's New Nose by George Douglas Lee
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus.
Run TimeAround 58 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFamily show in one act, very loosely based on the work of Hans Christian Andersen.
SynopsisA lively adaptation of 'The Emperor's New Clothes' introducing many new characters who, through a series of mishaps, ensure that the rightful Emperor is restored to his throne and is able to marry his one true love.
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Everybody's Talking by Frank Gibbons
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 47. No chorus. Some scripts require offstage voices which could be recorded.
Run TimeAround 75 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA collection of comedy sketches, with a variety of simple sets.
SynopsisA collection of confrontations, revelations, and scenes of a gossipy nature.
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The Fall and Rise of Gordon Grimshaw by Sandy Truman
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 110 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA consistently funny farce with a variety of storylines that all come together satisfyingly.
SynopsisGordon 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.
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 29 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act comedy with a variety of locations but minimal set requirements.
SynopsisWhen 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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Fishing for Clues by Geoff Bamber
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 120 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull-length, wryly comic whodunnit. Single country house set. Contains mild swearing and hanky-panky.
SynopsisWhen 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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The Food Rationing Auction by TLC Creative
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 3 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by David Lovesy and Brian Two.)
SynopsisWar time rationing leads to an unusual auction!
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A Frog Too Far by Nicholas Richards
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 20 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort comedy play set in a classroom - represented by the teacher's chair and her story book.
SynopsisMiss 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
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 90 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA witty and fast-paced full-length comedy with lots of fun characters. The makings of a very good evening's entertainment.
SynopsisObstetrician 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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