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The Cruise by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act poignant comedy with a single (sewing factory) set. |
Synopsis | Recently widowed Vera is retiring after a lifetime of work at the same factory and has mixed feelings about her future. Her colleagues are supportive as she reminisces about her past but there is a final shock for them that no-one expected. |
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Dance Before Dark by Karen Ankers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act drama with a single, simple setting. |
Synopsis | In a future world Anna has been imprisoned in solitary confinement for insisting that because of human abuse of the planet the world will end when the last leaf falls. Against regulations Robert, her guard, engages in conversation with her and they soon realise that they have more in common than they thought. |
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Daniel and the Lion's Den by Connie Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short rhyming play with minimal set requirements. Suitable for schools and youth theatre. |
Synopsis | The classic Old Testament story of Daniel is updated to make him a football and media star, thrown to the 'lions' of a hostile press by scheming politicians. |
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The Date by Franco Ambriz |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Filomena may be dead, but she has a speaking part! |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] First staged reading ran to 25 minutes. |
Music | None. |
Style | A powerful, intriguing, American one act drama with a single (apartment room) set. Some strong, but appropriate language. |
Synopsis | A psychological drama digging into a family's past and its effect on their present. |
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Dear Diary - A Presentation For Christmas by Aberuthven Primary School ed. Sue Gordon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Variable numbers of non-speaking roles at the Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Words are provided for the 3 songs included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short narrative version of the Christmas story, with action and music. |
Synopsis | A humorously narrated presentation of diary entries, by the central Christmas story personnel - brought up-to-date! |
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Death Threats by Ashley Harris |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short, one act thriller. Some strong language. |
Synopsis | Katherine and Graham have taken a cottage in the country, but a threatening letter addressed to Katherine has found them anyway. She persuades him to call the police for help, but Constable Roberts has a surprise for them. |
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Difficult People by Anton Chekhov, adapted Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two parents and their student son. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute play, single set, simple props, adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov. |
Synopsis | A family disagreement over how the money should be spent - or is it? |
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Do You Remember? by Frances Bartram |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] In the original performances, it ran between 25 & 30 minutes. |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama, with an informal set - furniture and a few props. |
Synopsis | In this poignant examination of the effects of dementia we see Doris, who is not as young as she used to be, descend into a confused world through the eyes of her granddaughter Anna as they relive past events. |
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Dog in the Manger by Raymond Blakesley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Characters include a dog, a camel, a donkey, three stars and a flock of sheep! |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Lyrics to simple songs (to well-known children's tunes) are included in the script. Additional (optional) carols are suggested. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Simple Nativity play for young children, told from the point of view of the animals! (No set or prop requirements.) |
Synopsis | A dog, a camel a donkey and a star are all complaining about their lot in life, but they have important roles to play in Bethlehem. |
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The Easter Story by Sue Russell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script suggests the use of a couple of familiar hymns/songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Simple version of the Easter story as a play for children. Multiple locations (following the story!) but no specific set requirments. |
Synopsis | A classroom/church group rendition of the Easter Story from the arrival in Jerusalem to Mary's encounter with Jesus outside the tomb. |
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