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| Changing Rooms by Jackie Carreira |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy with a single, simple (department store changing rooms) setting. |
| Synopsis | Bride-to-be Sophia and her prospective mother-in-law Rosa are having difficulty choosing a mutually acceptable wedding gown. Meanwhile, Jo is trying to find a pair of Jeans to fit, Gemma is struggling with a top and her boyfriend Sam is wondering why he's spending so long waiting outside the cubicles. Fortunately, there's Maggie, the ever-smiling shop assistant, always on hand to offer some very pointed advice. |
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| Chaos In Wonderland by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 51 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | No specific music suggestions, although there is an optional song performance in Scene Three. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act rhyming play |
| Synopsis | Alice unexpectedly teams up with Jack and his magic beans to overthrow the Queen of Hearts in this rhyming one-act collision of tales. |
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| A Chaotic Christmas Carol by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act verse play, rearranging Dickens. |
| Synopsis | 'A Christmas Carol' is given a huge twist to show Scrooge as a determined do-gooder, despite the machinations of wicked embezzler Bob Cratchit and the forlorn ghost of grasping Jacob Marley, plus assorted spirits. |
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Charlie to the Checkout Please by Robert Scott
Charlie To The Checkout Please - Best Play Legacy High School Theater, Las Vegas (2018) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All roles are gender non-specific. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy set in a supermarket with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | It’s Riley’s first day on the checkout, and things are not going well: product returns, complaints, queue-jumping and an armed robbery! Charlie said he’d be on hand, but he’s not answering the PA. So Riley steps up. |
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Charlotte Holmes - Future Detective by Richard James
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Option to double up roles of Narrators, Pupils and Guards |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for children |
| Synopsis | Young Charlotte Holmes may well be a 23rd century descendant of Sherlock and is eager to do some detective work. Her opportunity arises on a school trip to a museum when it is discovered that Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ painting has been stolen. |
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| Charmed I'm Sure by Kate Phimy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. An eighty-year-old lady and her carer (a young lady in her twenties). |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play - light comedy but with plenty of opportunity to develop character. Single set (minimal indications of an old lady's living room). |
| Synopsis | Jess has called in on Winifred to see how she's getting on and show off her engagement ring. Winifred is pleased, as Jess is a better carer than that awful Vera... They talk about life, the future and, of course, Winifred's pet, Basil. |
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| Chasing the Zodiac by Roger Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 59 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy (with a few serious moments) on a split set. (Contains strong language.) |
| Synopsis | Gemma has signed up for a new TV show that finds out how different star signs deal with traumatic events, and they've tracked down Bob, her long-lost father. Bob runs an umbrella factory with his surrogate nephew Matt, whose idea of an umbrella-drone hybrid is unlikely to save their business. |
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| Checkout by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst there isn't a formal chorus, there is scope to add extra shoppers in the supermarket. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy. Single set (mainly indicated by the sounds of a supermarket!) Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | The latest technology to hit supermarkets and department stores is the self-serve checkout. Marketed as a 'time-saving bonus for customers without time to spare', the public en masse appear to embrace the message. But will this perceived timesaving be worth the hidden cost? |
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Checkout Girls by Louise Roche
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for all the songs (12 songs plus reprises) to be sung in the course of the show. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full length feel-good comedy play interspersed with popular songs. Single composite set (multiple locations on one stage). |
| Synopsis | Checkout staff gossip, bicker, joke, laugh, cry, hug and fight their way to supermarket singles night! |
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| Cheer Up, Santa! by Helen Spencer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for seven songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act musical Christmas ensemble play for schools |
| Synopsis | It's Christmas Eve, and the elves are hurriedly making last minute preparations before Santa sets off on his deliveries. Mrs Claus, however, finds he is thoroughly miserable, and doesn’t feel like bothering this year. The elves need to think of a plan to make Santa change his mind, and time is running out! |
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