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Rich Man Poor Man by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A two-act drama set in 1990s London, on a compound office/boardroom set. |
Synopsis | A drama of power and greed. Years of family repression and business ruthlessness surface when Sir Hugh Pierce-Morgan decides to expand his investment house. The question is - in order for his business to survive, is he capable of atonement? |
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Rock 'n' Roll Sunset by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The two gender-non-specific roles are offstage voices only. |
Run Time | Around 104 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Rock music is heard at the opening and close of the play. Choice of tracks is at the production's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length drama on a single (dressing room) set. |
Synopsis | Stadium tours are just a remote memory for Western Storm as they kill an hour before returning to stage in a small town venue. Their two talented new female musicians are frustrated by the reluctance of the original band members to play anything other than their hit songs. But when the band’s manager announces a big recording contract for the girls, what does the future hold for the rest? |
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Romeo and Juliet [75-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 75-minute abridgement of Shakespeare's tragedy. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | Two households in Verona are sworn foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life. Whose misadventured piteous overthrows, do with their death bury their parents' strife. |
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Room for Another by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A well-written 65-minute ensemble drama on a single set, with stories developing naturally for all the characters. Suited to groups with a range of playing ages, with good roles for all. |
Synopsis | It's November 1940 and Hitler's bombs are raining down on London. Elsie and her daughter Carrie have their favourite night-time spot on a platform in the Underground - and on two successive nights they welcome a motley group of strangers to join them. |
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A Room With A Clue by Matthew Lynch |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play. Single set (clinical reception area). Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | This waiting room is a busy place. Eddie has arrived with a damaged arm and is impatient to get the receptionist to get him processed. But then there are the other arrivals, with a range of experiences... |
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A Rose for Danny by Kevin James Moriarty |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Great opportunities for character acting! |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Dramatisation of the lives of a dysfunctional Irish-American family. Contains swearing and drinking. (Not necessarily in that order.) |
Synopsis | An old man seems to have reached the end of his luck - his wife is dead, he's behind on the rent and his wealthy son-in-law doesn't want to take him in. Is it too late to repair his relationship with his two daughters and find some redemption? |
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Run Out by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two (female) characters are intended to be played by the same actress, and there is a further pair of characters that can be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's script suggests music to be played at the end of Act 1. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full-length comedy drama with a single (hilltop bench) setting. |
Synopsis | Malcolm and his wife Mavis have come to scatter his late mother’s ashes at her special place. Family tensions arise as they reminisce and question what made this place special for her. All is revealed as we are taken back to her young days in the 1950s. |
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Sammy by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Brilliantly written full-length play about coping with the long-term medical problems of a family member (who never appears on the stage). Single domestic set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Jenny and Mark have a young son, Sammy, who has Prader Willi syndrome, a compulsive eating disorder. Mark wanted a son desperately, but is shocked by Sammy's condition and the work it will entail. Christine and Phil next door can't have children at all, so they are constant visitors. Eighteen years of family strife in one play. |
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Samuel Stickleby's Saucy Secret by Louise Bramley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Two-act comedy drama on a single set. Some adult themes. |
Synopsis | It’s a new day at Logan Bay Primary School, and it’s starting badly for Sam. Stuck in his shocking outfit from the night before, he has to change in secret in the staff room. But a new teacher brings a wave of bigger problems for everyone. |
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Scarlett by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 73 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act, ghost story drama, with a single set. |
Synopsis | The passengers from a crashed bus take shelter from a dreadful storm, in an old barn. Unable to find rescue, they huddle together, but one of them is beginning to see visions of her dead sister. Has Scarlett come to haunt Grace, or someone else? |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Sound Effects CD specifically for this show
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