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| Once Upon a Time NOT in Bollywood by Subrata Das |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 19. Minimum Female roles = 15. Minimum total with doubling = 34. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Many characters may be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 86 minutes. [Estimated!] Dependent on the songs used. |
| Music | Suggestions for 8 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length play with music and dance, in five acts - although two act length, and with many settings. |
| Synopsis | This play portrays the kinds of struggles moderates face within the left and right-wing political parties in India. Malati and Praveen, have had opposing political views since their days growing up together in a village, but enjoyed a romantic relationship. Despite his love for politics, Praveen still dreams about being a Bollywood actor... and the play explores the voices of rich, middle class, and poor people, obstacles within families for women in politics, and extreme political rhetoric. |
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| Orville Station by Frank J. Avella |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One offstage role for voice announcement. |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length drama, with strong language, set in a railway station in New Jersey, U.S.A. |
| Synopsis | Lenny is twenty five, a screenwriter wannabe, living in a small town in New Jersey. He has completed one script that was met with universal rejection and has allowed fear and his family to rule his life. Lenny usually hangs out with his two best friends from High School often catching the train to NYC, but this place has the notoriety of most train deaths per year, usually suicides. Here Chizzy meets up and befriends Lenny, triggering a major re-think for Lenny's life-purpose. |
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| Out With The Old by Wendy Ash |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Tannoy is an offstage voice. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play with simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Two very different couples are next to each other at a car boot sale. Frank and Trace have more kids than they can handle, Julia and Mark are selling the baby things they'll never need and two further characters bring other upheavals into the mix. Quite a roller-coaster of emotions, resulting in surprising friendships and varied support between them all during the day. |
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The Phantom Of The Talent Factor by Robin Bailes
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Some custom words to well known songs included with the Producer's copy. No scores provided with this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length play with music and dance, with simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Christina, a shy contestant on a talent show finds herself berated by one of the judges, but helped out by a mysterious masked benefactor. |
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| Pilate's Wife by Julia Lee Dean |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. No formal chorus, but there is an off-stage crowd shouting - either live or recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Easter play (from an unusual perspective), of one-act length but structured in three acts. Three locations, which could be formed as one simple composite set. |
| Synopsis | The story of Easter week told from the point of view of Pontius Pilate's household. (Mary Magdalene is presented as Pilate's mistress, allowing three very different interpretations of the events as they unfold.) |
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| The Pilgrim's Progress [Version 2] by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 56. No chorus. Oodles of allegorical characters, plenty of scope for doubling. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length adaptation - in very modern English - of John Bunyan's Christian allegory. |
| Synopsis | A pilgrim sets out in search of the City of Gold. On his journey he has to negotiate traps and deal with other pilgrims, many of whom may be misguided. |
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The Pilgrim's Progress by Christopher Morgan
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 54. No chorus. Whilst there are fifty-four named roles, with a minimum of around ten, the author believes the optimal cast to be around twenty-two. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Allegorical play, with minimal set requirements and reasonably simple props. |
| Synopsis | A stage adaptation of John Bunyan's allegorical story ('The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come', written in 1678) - the journey of Christian, a pilgrim, through the trials of Earth to the destination of Heaven. |
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| Potted Austen: The Complete Set by Lou Treleaven |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Six bitesize adaptations of Jane Austen's novels. |
| Synopsis | A collection of six bitesize dramatic adaptations of Jane Austen's published novels. Each is fast-paced, witty, and amenable to small groups (cast size can be reduced to six with some crafty doubling). |
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| Press Up by Nick Rowan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of teenagers and adults (assumed to be played by teenagers, but could be played by the mix as written). |
| Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Drama for a high-school-aged company. Multiple settings but minimal scenery. Requires video projection. |
| Synopsis | A school newspaper gets more of a scoop than the teenage editors had bargained for, but it's going to take determination and some serious investigative reporting to prove their story is real and avoid detention. |
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The Price of Firewood by Hilary Mackelden
The author will be donating 50% of her royalties to go to the Charity 'World In Need', which works with refugees like the ones in the play (and with whom the author worked in Kenya) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length serious drama on the politics and economics of war and trade. Split-stage set. |
| Synopsis | A reporter sends a shocking bulletin from a refugee camp in a war torn country, but the government of that country is signing some very important trade agreements, and the help for the victims of violence seems very slow in coming, despite the official 'investigation'. |
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