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A Spy With A View by Robert Scott
The Maidenhead Drama Guild (UK) won Best Comedy and came 2nd in the Open Class at the Maidenhead Drama Festival. (2019) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Paulo is written male but could be reassigned. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy thriller with a single hotel room set.. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | David and Vicky are on holiday, but the weather has trapped them in their hotel room. The monotony is broken by the delivery of a mysterious briefcase, with a recording that self-destructs! Where's the real spy? |
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| Stairway to Heaven by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three middle-aged blokes, one of whom is the Archangel Gabriel. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single set (or lack of set, since it takes place at the the ultimate ephemeral location - just outside the pearly gates). Australian in tone, but universal in humour. |
| Synopsis | Robbie, a biker, meets Alfred, a civil servant, outside the gates to heaven. Unpredictably, they get on quite well, but there's been a bit of a mix-up, and the angel Gabe isn't sure if either of them should be going in... |
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| Still Life by Karen Ankers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two adults and two teenage lads. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play. Simple (street) setting. Contains swearing (and poignancy.) |
| Synopsis | A moving, thought provoking one act play with a modern tale of two social misfits coming together and each, in their own way supporting the other. Jenny is lonely and frightened having had no social contact since her childhood, not having left the house she shares with her abusive father for over twenty years. She has suffered a final trauma at home and in her despair wanders the streets where she encounters Keith, a bitter unemployed alcoholic trying to eke a living as a street entertainer. As an uplifting, at first reluctant, relationship develops between them an optimistic chink throws light on their despondency. |
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| Stone Soup by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. There is no specific requirement for a chorus, but the group of stockbrokers could easily be expanded to the available numbers! |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Modern American fable told as a one-act play. No set requirements - continuous action with locations indicated by a few props carried on by the actors. |
| Synopsis | The Jones family are broke. They need to sell their worthless farm, and all they have left in the world is a heap of stones and their wits! |
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Stop the Clocks by Keith Badham
Performance by Up-Stage Theatre Company won Most Theatrical Moment and the Audience Appreciation Award at the Bedfordshire One Act Play Festival, 2011. Royal Manor Theatre won the adjudicators award at the Dorset Drama League Festival, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 88. No chorus. The fifteen scripts have casts ranging from two to sixteen, however the author expects that some groups will reorganise the twenty-character script for a smaller group - his estimated minimum cast is seven. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A series of short scripts for teenagers. Simple to set, but with plenty of performance challenges. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Fifteen short scripts:
Introduction (Nominally sixteen roles)
Death Of Innocence (Seven roles)
Back to school (Eight roles)
The Interview (Five roles)
Twins (Three roles)
And Lo (Seven roles)
Monster Mum (Two roles)
The Quest For Happiness (Six roles)
Punch and Judy (Three roles)
Knife Crime Horror (Two roles)
The Priory (Two roles)
We Three (Part One) (Six roles)
The Teachers Are Afraid... (Two roles)
We Three (Part Two) (Six roles)
Death (Thirteen roles) |
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| Stoppit by Marcus Grollman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Characters are 12 children and three adults (assumed to be played by children). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act ghost story for kids, set in a playground/classroom (originally played in--the-round so needs little in the way of set), simple props. |
| Synopsis | It's time to hand in homework again and no-one is looking forward to another of Mrs. Devenish's bad moods. It's especially worrying for Luther, who is running out of imaginative excuses for why he hasn't done his work again. No-one was expecting the strange events that were going to transform this normal school day into something that no-one was ever likely to forget! |
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Strictly Fairytale Come Dancing by Sarah Cowan
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Wide range of roles, including speaking, non-speaking, dancing and a pantomime donkey. Ugly Sisters and Jack's Mother could be played by boys dressed as pantomime dames for comic effect. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of suggested music is provided in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Large cast play for kids, with lots of opportunities for dancing. A comic collision between fairytales and TV Game Shows. |
| Synopsis | Hansel and Gretel need to escape from the clutches of their wicked stepmother. They need a wish from the good fairy - which just happens to be the prize for the competition 'Strictly Fairytale Come Dancing'. |
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| Student Teacher's Day by Garry R. Keane |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. All characters are sixth graders (which is year seven in English money). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for a school class. |
| Synopsis | It's the traditional day when one of the Sixth-Graders gets to be teacher, but is Anita abusing her privilege? And what will the class report to the school during tomorrow's assembly? |
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| The Swan Queen by Frank Canino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. There is one speaking voice, Lenore. She addresses the audience as a friend, but also addresses two other people (1M, 1F) who might appear on stage. There is also an option for a group of male dancers. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two pieces (associated with classical ballet) are suggested as accompaniment. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Powerful, brilliantly-written one act play. Single set with simple furniture representing multiple locations. |
| Synopsis | A former Prima Ballerina navigates the final months of her life, balancing her health concerns with those of her stepson, an artist with AIDS. Despite some stark differences at first, the pair find common ground and become allies as they each cope with their diagnoses. |
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| Sweet Dreams by Peter Appleton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act twisted psychological drama, verging on the melodramatic. |
| Synopsis | Plagued by nightmares after a mysterious accident, Anne has trouble telling reality from her dreams. Is her fiancé alive or dead? Is her father helping her, or holding her prisoner? Can she even trust her oldest friend? |
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