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| Close Family by Iris Winston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A powerful short drama giving us a sensitive take on the socially unacceptable subject of incest. Stage split between two domestic locations. |
| Synopsis | Janet, a young university student, is looking forward to her return to university after the summer break. She has exciting plans to move out of the halls of residence in Vancouver to live with her divorced father, Peter who has set up home there with his new partner, Janet’s pregnant Aunt Anne. Back home in Ottawa, Peter's divorced wife Carole is horrified to discover Janet's plans and does her utmost to dissuade her daughter from joining the incestuous home. Janet is insistent that her move to her father's house is in her best interests until she arrives and to her dismay the horror of her mistake is revealed. |
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Closure by Robert Scott
People's Choice Award by Manchester High School's Lancer Theatre Company, USA 2018 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | Luke's birthday party is a lonely affair - there's just him, until his ex-girlfriend Tanya walks in. She only meant to drop off his gift, but soon they're involved in a strenuous argument over closure and who gets it. |
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| Cloud 9 by Andy Johnson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for a (cast the size of a) whole school class. |
| Synopsis | Cloud 9 studio has a secret – they don't just predict the weather, thanks to their Climosphere 5000 they actually MAKE the weather. But the C5000 gets stolen, so the hunt is on for the thief before the weather goes to pot! |
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| A Cloud In Space by Debbie Chalmers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for 13 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length fantasy space adventure for young actors. |
| Synopsis | In response to a distress signal the intrepid crew of the Starship Countdown set off on a mission to save the Globs, inhabitants of the doomed planet Globule. Their successful rescue brings surprising benefits to planet Earth. |
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| Clowns by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two act play set in a bar and (unsurprisingly) a circus tent. |
| Synopsis | It’s been years since Buttercup left the troupe to gain solo fame, but now he wants to get the old gang back together. He has to overcome a lot of reluctance, and some real anger before they agree, and then there's The Spectacle to deal with. |
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| Clutching at Straws by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 128 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Hilarious full-length English farce in the best Whitehall tradition. Single country-house living room set. |
| Synopsis | Julia Benning is a pushy young businesswoman who is about to inherit her late uncle's company. However, first she needs to pass the scrutiny of her Aunt Celia. That includes assessing whether Julia's newly-acquired fiancé is going to be an asset - something he manifestly is not. Julia's solution is to borrow a substitute fiancé in the form of her friend Pippa's womanising brother. Throw in a lachrymose nurse, a jobbing solicitor and a couple who get the wrong address for their swingers' party, and Celia's house is set for a busy weekend. |
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| The Coat by Jos Biggs |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy. (Either a long sketch or a very short play!) |
| Synopsis | A customer is after some help selecting a coat. The store's Personal Shopping Adviser has other ideas... |
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| COBRA by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. Set in a meeting room. |
| Synopsis | A meeting of the top secret emergency response team covers some new threats... |
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| The Code Breakers of Bletchley Park by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The Three characters are written male, but they could easily be played from the distaff side. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Tthree short sketches from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by David Lovesy and Steve Clark.) They could either be played continuously (as three scenes) or split up across an evening of sketches. |
| Synopsis | A celebration of the great technological breakthroughs by the boffins of Bletchley Park (and where they inevitably led). |
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| Coffee Morning Chaos by Jessica Sandys-Clarke |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute comedy play. Minimal set and props. |
| Synopsis | Some lady volunteers are preparing for the hoards who are about to descend - any moment now! - on a coffee morning. Fun with flapjacks, more scorn than scones and just as much gossip as you'd expect - but when is everyone going to arrive? |
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