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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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Three Little Words by Jamesine Cundell Walker New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of eight short plays, loosely on the theme of love. Multiple settings, but simple sets requiring just furniture (and not much of that). |
Synopsis | Malcolm and Karen find themselves trapped in the office storeroom. Ken and disillusioned Brian reminisce about life, comedy duos, and lost loves. Elderly Marjorie has lost interest and decided to spend her life in bed. Overbearing Rosie drops off daughter Florence at the start of her first Oxford term. Graham's ex-wife appears at his mother's funeral. Teenager Alex gets talking to elderly Gladys in a hospital waiting room. Despite Danni's encouragement, Jo is reluctant to look at the results of her pregnancy test. Malcolm hopes to appear at the wedding of his ex-girlfriend, but her sister has something to say about it. (Featuring returning characters from three previous scenes.) |
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A Train Ride Away by Frank Gibbons Performance by Aiken High won The Garcia Theater Project, North Augusta 2010. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. Characters are mainly adults with one young child. Could all be played by children. The chorus is optional, but there are several scenes where crowds would create atmosphere. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play. Intended to have figurative sets (possibly just lighting transitions), rather than realistic depictions of the locations. Props could be real or indicated by mime. Includes mild swearing. |
Synopsis | The story of a family of Hungarian Jews being transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the holocaust of 1944. |
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Trinity Road School Reunion by Dawn Cairns Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. As no year of anniversary is mentioned, the cast playing ex-pupils just need to be of similar age. The teachers' ages can vary. |
Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 16 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length musical |
Synopsis | A class comes back together years after school has finished, for a 70s night at a local pub. Ne romances awaken, and old ones are remembered. Some have changed quite dramatically, but the old bully is still the same. It’s time for the friends to make a stand at last. |
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The Truth Fairies by Sally Kinnell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length play with touches of dark comedy, most suitable for adult cast and audiences. |
Synopsis | Aileen's had a long and successful acting career, but it hasn't prepared her for meeting up with a couple of old friends - because she thought they were dead. Actually Liz and Frankie are alive and well, and they have to set Aileen straight about one more thing... |
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Two Weddings and a Conference by Karen Doling |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Eleven speaking roles and an unspeakable photographer. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy play. Single (hotel reception) set. Structurally in two acts, but in length it's on the boundary between a one-act and a two-act (it could occupy a whole evening's theatre or be accompanied by a shorter piece.) Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | A double-booked wedding reception at a hotel causes havoc for the brides, grooms, manager, receptionist, and the attendees of a conference that is supposed to be happening at the same time! However, it soon transpires that the double-booking is not the only coincidence they will have to deal with. |
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A Universal Sorrow by Graham J Evans |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Ten on-stage roles plus two offstage voices. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Powerful, emotional one-act drama about a Welsh mining disaster in 1913. |
Synopsis | Warning signs of an impending disaster are ignored by the mine owners and the colliers are left to deal with the consequences of over 400 of their colleagues, including a 14 year old boy, being trapped underground. The effect on the community of Senghenydd is poignantly brought to life as rescue attempts proceed. |
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Until Death Do Us Part by Catherine Hurd |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 89 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length drama with various sets. |
Synopsis | George and Jean have been happily married for many years and, as dementia starts its grip on George, Jean is determined that she will care for him despite their daughters' insistence that he should be placed in residential care. Jean’s determination is severely tested when an old flame, Harry Holmes, former detective and now successful novelist, comes to town for a book tour and tries to rekindle his romance with her. Matters get further complicated when an ex-con bent on revenge stalks Harry, and becomes convinced that Harry and Jean are trying to murder George. |
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Urban Hymns by Keith Badham Performance by Up-Stage Theatre Company won Best Youth Actress award in the Bedfordshire One Act Play Festival, 2011 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 65. No chorus. The nine scripts have casts ranging from two to twenty, however the author expects that some groups will reorganise the twenty-character script for a smaller group - his estimated minimum cast is six. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A series of short scripts for teenagers. Simple to set, but with plenty of performance challenges. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | Nine short scripts: Introduction (Nominally twenty roles) Bittersweet Symphony (Seven roles) The Drugs Don't Work (Four roles) Sonnet (Four roles) Juliet (Two roles) Romeo (Two roles) There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Five roles) 24 Minutes From Tulse Hill (Six roles) Lucky (Nominally 15 roles) |
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Voices by Peter Harrison 2012. Hale One-Act play festival. Winner Best Original play. Production by Altrincham Garrick. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Designed for one principal character and four on-stage voices, though the voices could be allocated amongst a larger number of actors. The principal character is an old man, nevertheless, this could be played by a youth theatre company. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script makes suggestions for accompanying music/songs. (For atmosphere, rather than live performance). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act play, set in the mind of the principal character, with other roles voiced but not interacting directly with him. |
Synopsis | A veteran soldier finds himself trapped in his own flat, facing an imagined enemy. |
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