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Jack and the Beanstalk [10 Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington
Best Seller The HAMS actors playing Jack and Jill at the Oxfordshire Drama Network (Virtual) Winter Festival 2021 were winner and runner-up respectively in the 'Rising Star' award category. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two roles are offstage voices only and could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Altered lyrics to one well-known song, and a suggestion for a second song, are included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short pantomine script with two simply staged sets (living room/top of beanstalk). |
| Synopsis | A fast-moving take on the classic panto story, with all the usual suspects, songs, and lots of jokes. |
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| The Jewel Of Lamjung by Richard Ward |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The cast includes an on-stage sound effects operator. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] (The original production, including dances, ran to 22 minutes.) |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short Melodrama with a comedic edge (suitable for inclusion in a Music Hall evening, for example). Set in a regimental ballroom in Nepal in the days of British rule. |
| Synopsis | The Music Hall Chairman takes us through the action as smooth blackguard Major Ponsonby adds the theft of the jewel of Lamjung to his many dastardly misdemeanours. He is finally undone as, following his daughter's lead, the Colonel sees that Ponsonby really is a cad, a bounder and a disgrace to the regiment. |
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| A Job Lot by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun short comedy with a good set of characters, with a minimal kitchen set required, this should fit nicely into sketch nights. |
| Synopsis | Wheeler-dealer Terry has mistakenly bought five thousand plastic ducks and won't be able to sell them or get his money back. While explaining the situation to his family, he hatches a cunning plan. |
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| The Joke Centre by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute skit. Single office setting. |
| Synopsis | It is Sylvia's first day in the new job. All she has been told is that it is a sort of call centre and that she'll pick it up as she goes along... |
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| Just a Bit of Fun by Angelika Nielsen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short black comedy with a single (restaurant) setting. Adult content and strong language. |
| Synopsis | Frank is confronted by a sexual harassment incident from his past which devastated Lisa’s life. She is at last able to challenge her abuser and, using some revealing photos of him, enact her revenge. |
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| Just Stop It by Katharine Earley and Hugh Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch that crosses modern satire with an edge of surrealism. Easily staged (the art gallery can be an empty stage) with a good balance of roles. |
| Synopsis | A man with a grievance against self-service tills arrives at an art exhibition armed with a tin of tomato soup. Does anyone have a tin opener? Can his daughter stop him damaging a valuable abstract painting? And, in any case, what’s it supposed to be? |
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| Keeping Fit by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three of the characters (1M, 2F) are described as being in their late fifties/early sixties. Make up your own mind! |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute play, set in a fitness room. |
| Synopsis | Two old friends are working out whether they need to work out at the gym, and discussing life and love while they're about it. A gentlemen enters, but will he come between them? |
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| Keeping It Clean [Monologue] by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy-drama - a prose monologue - with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | Cleaner Violet tells the tale of her client Miss Gresham who clearly is not as innocent or as prim and proper as she appears but the lascivious goings on next door are not what they seem. |
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| Keeping it Clean [Three-hander] by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characters and an offstage female voice. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy-drama with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | Cleaner Violet has a new client, Miss Gresham, who is clearly not as innocent or as prim and proper as she appears, but the lascivious goings on next door are not what they seem. |
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The King's Spell by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Variations on some well-known nursery songs are embedded in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Class-sized play for elementary schools, embedding mixed-up versions of well-known nursery songs. |
| Synopsis | Old King Cole isn't so merry when his pipe, bowl and fiddlers don't turn up. In fact, he's so miffed that he puts a spell on all Mother Goose Land, mixing up all the characters and rhymes. Mother Goose goes to see if she can help untangle everyone. |
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