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| Chain Reaction by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The author describes all the characters as 'of a similar age, which would ideally be around forty, give or take a decade or two.' |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with two scenes (hotel bar and a living room) exploring adult themes with an intriguing mix of monologue and action. |
| Synopsis | A group of singles attempting to find partners with varying levels of desperation, happily resulting in reconciliation for at least one couple. |
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The Chair by Geoff Bamber
Best Seller Performance by Hyde Little Theatre won the Andrew Winton Trophy (Best Performance, Under 15s) at the Greater Manchester Drama Federation one-act play festival, 2017. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fable for children in one-act, populated with a variety of characters. |
| Synopsis | Follow the life of a chair and the fortunes of its various owners - from woodcutters to royalty and back again. |
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Chance Encounters by Jamesine Cundell Walker
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Can be played with a different cast in every scene, or with the same cast throughout. |
| Run Time | Around 76 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play comprised of nine connected playlets with a single (park bench) setting. |
| Synopsis | Nine encounters take place on a park bench during the course of a day in September. Some are dramatic, some comedic. |
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| Chances In The Rain by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play, with a park setting. |
| Synopsis | Edward and Michelle are waiting for their dates in the same park. Both seem to have been stood up, yet they aren't very sympathetic to one another. But there are two other lonely people on hand, and things resolve neatly... eventually. |
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| Change Of Heart by Tony Frier |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act Victorian melodrama-style thriller. |
| Synopsis | A tangled tale of bigamy and murder in 19th Century Manchester. Three girls from Ireland take up domestic service at the Chilterns' home. When Mrs Chiltern unexpectedly returns home one evening to find her husband dead, little does she imagine that she will be the one facing the gallows. Will a change of heart spare her? |
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| Change Of Plan by Frances A. Lewis |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | On her first visit to the house she has unexpectedly inherited from her late uncle Bill, Merina and husband Randall are shocked to find uncle Bill’s housekeeper Cynthia in residence along with a miscellany of oddball characters. |
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Changes Trilogy by Tony Domaille
Award winning. 'A Single Moment' - Runner up best original play, Avon One Act Play Festival 2015. 'Me & You.' Winner of the Avon Short Play Festival Competition 2020, as well as awards for best director, best actor, best actress and supporting actor |
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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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