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The Affidavit by Janet S. Tiger
THE AFFIDAVIT - 1st place (1983) cash award and full production WORLD PREMIERE |
| 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 play. Single set (a pawn shop in New York in the 1940s). A brief glimpse into individual lives, set against the background of the holocaust. |
| Synopsis | Hilda Gruenberg has to renew her father's visa affidavit to stand a chance of getting him out of Nazi Germany to join her in America, but it'll cost her $650. She believes her family heirloom ring is worth $10,000, so she's shocked when the pawnshop owner, Mr Meyer, only offers her $650 for it. Why is he taking advantage of her desperation, and is she too proud to accept? |
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After School Special by Donna Brightwell
Production by ZigZag Theatre Group won four awards (including Best Youth Production) at Brantham Festival 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters are teenagers (plus a waitress). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for teenagers, single café set. |
| Synopsis | With the guys too shy to ask the girls, and the girls too shy to ask the guys, will anyone be going to the Senior Prom? Luckily, the waitress at the coffee shop takes a hand... |
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| After the Beanstalk by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. It's a pantomime. Make your own mind up as to who plays what. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for three songs. (More can be added at the discretion of the production.)17 Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | An entertaining pantomime with an original twist on the Jack and the Beanstalk characters and plenty of physical comedy action. |
| Synopsis | Jack, of 'and the beanstalk' fame, has set up a garden centre funded by his golden egg-laying goose. Among his staff are bumbling duo Bill and Ben and ever-hungry café staff Rose and Daisy. Trouble arises when the devious Petunia plots to steal the goose, and the planting of a second beanstalk leads to a visit from the giant's wife. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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After The Flags And Bands by Allan Williams
Production by Offshoots won Best Play, Best Actress & Technical Excellence Award at the Anglesey Drama Festival 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An all female cast, one act drama - with a single (church hall during World War One) setting. |
| Synopsis | Throughout the First World War we follow the women left at home, through letters and monologues, as their good companionship helps them cope with the devastating events on the Western Front. |
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| An Afternoon In September by B.J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A drama in two acts (though, with just under an hour's run time - can be performed in one). Touches of tragicomedy and a supernatural element. A simple, multi-functional set. |
| Synopsis | The residents of an old folks home are all concerned about Morris who is approaching the end. He expresses a final wish which they all contribute to making come true. An out of world experience he encountered during his service in the Royal Navy poignantly repeats itself for him, with the help of a small pebble. |
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| Agamemnon & Clytemnestra: Special Victims Unit by Dick Caram |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 38. Chorus. Whilst there are nominally twelve jurors - forming a Greek Chorus - the numbers could be judiciously pruned! Other doubling is possible, particularly between the casts of the first and second acts (the police investigation and the courtroom). |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Greek tragedy for middle-graders in the style of TV crime drama! Structured in two acts, but of one-act length. Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | The murder of Agamemnon and Cassandra, presented as an episode of the popular tv show, Law and Order. |
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| Ahmed and the Mummy by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Eleven principals and a chorus (with lots of cameos). It's a pantomime. The usual gender juxtapositions are open to the production! |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 15 songs, together with a couple of lyrical tweaks. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime - traditional character types, jokes and wordplay in an original story. |
| Synopsis | Prince Ahmed is looking for the lost pyramid to try and lift the curse on his family. He meets the beautiful Ophelia but can't marry until the curse is lifted. With her father and a group of heroes he must overcome greedy robbers and a mummy to claim his true love. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Aim by Terry Adlam |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short thriller - one act, single, simple set, few props. Contains violence and swearing. |
| Synopsis | Two men - the edgy Wolf and laid-back Dove - are waiting in a room to meet a third man. When their visitor arrives, he has an unexpected female companion, and all the plans seem to be going wrong. |
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| Air Raid by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggested songs from the period to be sung by characters. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act historical drama set in a WW2 air raid shelter. |
| Synopsis | Despair, exhaustion and fear stand shoulder to shoulder with the love, compassion and humour characteristic of the residents of London’s East End as they gather in an air raid shelter. |
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Airfield by Bob Tucker
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play. Simple (minimal) staging. |
| Synopsis | Fred and Lucy seem to have stumbled onto a real fly-by-night outfit when they signed up with Young Yettie Airways to fly to Barcelona. No hospitality, no departure lounge, not even any seats, and now there are delays and they might have to fly via Dublin...or is there something else afoot? |
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