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When Life Hands You Lemons by Kate Phimy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. A mother and her teenage daughter. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play. Single domestic setting (which need not be elaborate, but does involve a Christmas tree). Contains very mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Chloe isn't that interested in decorating the tree this year, but her Mum is determined that they'll do things just as they always have. Chloe has a better idea for this year, though. |
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When The Hurly-Burly's Done by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Male cameo - offstage voice - could be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act comedic play, with a 'blasted heath' setting. |
Synopsis | Three very familiar hags are gathered around a cauldron on a blasted heath, but a certain Thane is running late. The ladies discuss their options and possible plans, before finally getting down to the business of the night. |
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When We Were Young by Allan Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama (with minimum staging requirements) set in World War One. |
Synopsis | Six monologues from three different characters, set during the First World War. Two soldiers who were childhood friends, recound their wartime experiences, as does a nurse who meets one of the men when he becomes one of the many casualties of the Great War |
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When You Wish Upon a Star... Fish by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Most of the characters are sea creatures. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Simple play for young children. Partly in verse, and with song suggestions. |
Synopsis | A little girl finds a starfish and is transported to the sea bed, where she meets many wondrous creatures who speak to her in rhyme about their life underwater. |
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Where Babies Come From by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are played by people older than the stated age. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch |
Synopsis | Two children, seven and seven and three quarters, discuss the big mystery of where babies come from. |
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Where Have You Been? by Steve Menary |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are a mother and son, but it is intended as a youth theatre piece. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch for youth theatre. A few simple props to indicate location. Also available as part of the Fright Size collection. |
Synopsis | On the surface, this is a routine conversation between a mother and her teenage son after a night out... But appearances can be deceptive. |
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Where Is The Moon by Charles Eades |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | School play based on a folk tale. |
Synopsis | The people who live near the marsh have no problems when the moon lights their way through the bog at night, but when the bad things - witches, boggles, boggarts and Qicks - take the moon prisoner and hold her in a pond, the villagers must turn to the Tiddy Mun for help. |
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Where's Nigel by Jim Pinnock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Some non-speaking roles essential to the play. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act farce. |
Synopsis | A group of friends meet for a party at Nigel and Stephanie's house. Events take an unusual turn as the services of a doctor and the police are needed as identities become confused and people are not who they seem. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'Where's Nigel?' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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Which Witch? by Geoff Bamber Ury Players (Youth) won the Annie Inglis Cup for best youth production in the 2025 SCDA Aberdeen District One-act Play festival. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy, divided into four parts, with a simple setting. |
Synopsis | When the council institute a policy to curb witchcraft, old Mrs Gridley comes under suspicion. Her friends Jenny and Jackie, 'ably' assisted by Jenny's boyfriend, Melvin, endeavour to clear her name - a task hampered by the arrival of an unwelcome face from Mrs Gridley's past. Can the day be saved and what could possibly be the contribution of spaced-out hippy musician, Three-Chord Bob? |
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White Knight by P. B. Stenson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An engaging horror drama which playfully explores the theme of gender-based assumptions. Some nicely written dialogue with an edge of dark comedy. |
Synopsis | Ash is walking home from the pub when he passes a woman, Christina, sitting alone. He stops to check she is alright, but his assumptions about her are way off. |
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