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Alright On The Night? by Robin Wilson
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy play, with a single (village hall stage) set. |
| Synopsis | It's the dress rehearsal for the Downcot players' production, but one stage exit has been blocked by the WI and the Stage Manager has decided to concentrate on his acting. Not to mention the elderly actor who wanders off altogether... |
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| The Also-Ran Club by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. An interesting set of people. It's not that they're a bunch of losers, just that they never manage to win... |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. No specific set requirements (you have to decide for yourself where the Also-Ran Club might meet.) |
| Synopsis | A group of unsuccessful inventors including Ted Edison and Mickey Morse make valiant efforts to invent a club for also-rans but amid confusion they are doomed, as usual, to failure. |
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Alternate Reality by Jonathan Edgington
Short-listed (out of over 1,500 scripts submitted) for the Short&Sweet Sydney 2022 Playwriting Festival and (out of nearly 700 scripts submitted) for the Short&Sweet Dubai 2023 Playwriting Festival. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. There are three roles, but Paula and Desirae are played by the same person. (Read the script to see why.) |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. Sci-fi or fantasy (it depends on where you draw the boundary) set in an unusual shop. |
| Synopsis | Long suffering Paula is rapidly running out of patience with her nice but predictable and boring husband - so how will she react when he steps out of his comfort zone and buys her the most unusual birthday present ever? |
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| Always...? by Alexander Browne |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy set in a North American High School Library. |
| Synopsis | Students Hank and Cindy use the library every day at the same time as a romantic rendezvous, much to the frustration of librarian Mrs Troutman. Her efforts to keep them apart go to extreme lengths as nerdy student Berv intervenes. His motives are gradually revealed |
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| The Amazing America Roadtrip by Rob Roznowski |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. 4 main roles (2M, 2F) and 18 further roles designed to be split between 2 actors (1M, 1F). |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy adaptable to small or large casts. US English. |
| Synopsis | After a particularly challenging presidential election, a family decides they need to take a driving vacation across America. Along the way they meet a collection of colorful characters who restore their faith in the country. This surprisingly patriotic yet non-partisan comedy showcases the best of the American spirit. |
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| Ambition by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Could be performed by children or a mixture of adults and children. (Or even, for more comic effect, with the children's roles taken by adults.) It might be possible for Mr James, the teacher, to double as the fairy! |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple, short comedy play. No set, simple props (a chair, a magic wand...)
Arguably a moral play - be careful what you wish for... |
| Synopsis | Three schoolgirls are given the chance to have their fondest wish come true, but things don't quite work out the way they hope, and soon they're all having second thoughts. |
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| Amore by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. Actors are intended to be doubled up across both acts. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two act play, adapted from the plays that in turn inspired Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night. (Plautus’ The Menaechmi and Siena Academy's The Deceived Ones) |
| Synopsis | When two sets of identical twins are separated, one of them weaves a sticky web of romance and deception in which the other becomes unwittingly entangled. In Act One, Deception, one of the twins is lost as a child and is discovered by his twin brother ten years later, leading a life of love and deceit in a far-off town.In Act Two, Disguise, a twin sister disguises herself as a boy to get the man she loves, only to find that when her identical twin brother shows up, he is mistaken for her. Each individual act is available separately. |
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| Ancient Greek Assembly by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 64. Chorus. Immortals, Mortals, legendary characters, cartoon characters and the Minotaur. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for 10 pieces of music to accompany the script are included in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full class assembly piece - essentially a series of linked, themed, skits, summarising Ancient Greek civilisation and myth! Aimed at the English National Curriculum Key Stage 2 topic on Ancient Greece. |
| Synopsis | A variety of characters from History and Mythology appear on the stage for the entertainment and education of the audience, occasionally with musical accompaniment. |
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| And A Happy New Year! by Gwen Stevens |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 113 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with a split set - lounge, bedroom and hallway. |
| Synopsis | Susan and Nigel bring the children to her parents' home for Christmas. Little do they know how disastrous their stay will be. Mother is ill in bed and her Father is suffering with Alzheimer's. Then the heating won't work, the telephone is dead, and they are snowed in - leaving them stranded... |
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| And Now, For My Next Trick by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | The Great Marvelloso, an ageing and incompetent Magician, is training a rather star-struck and talkative young woman to be his assistant. Taciturn and pessimistic by nature, his patience is pushed to the very limits. |
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