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The Importance Of Being Belinda by John Garforth |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single (garden) setting. Adult themes and strong language abound! |
Synopsis | The feminist Sapphire Theatre Collective is in final rehearsal for Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’. Wilde’s script has been revised and updated to cater for an all female cast and political correctness by Belinda. The opening is in doubt as Belinda has been arrested for gross indecency on stage during a previous performance, but the show must go on! |
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The Importance Of Peaches by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single setting |
Synopsis | The Southbury Players Committee is meeting to discuss the group's poor record of success. Members are looking for a big idea to revive the group's fortunes, but when all seems lost, salvation comes from an unexpected source. |
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In a League of His Own by Mark Griffin Finalist in the Cambridge Theatre Challenge (International play-writing competition) 2014 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characters and an offstage (or recorded) soccer commentator. |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play set in an Irish student flat (the main features of which are a couch and a TV set). |
Synopsis | Soccer-obsessed student Eamo is unhappy with the progress of a local team because they're ruining his standing in the Fantasy Football league. And Eamo has a lot of money riding on the outcome. His flatmate, John, thinks Eamo should calm down, but then Mazza, a self-proclaimed legend, arrives to really stir things up. |
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In Her Defence by Helen Saxton Original Playwriting Award at the Oxfordshire Drama Network Festival in June 2022. Production by The Compton Players |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Seven on-stage characters and an off-stage male voice. |
Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act thriller with several nods to Agatha Christie. Single set, split between a courtroom and a living room. |
Synopsis | London, 1947. Philip Mackinder is dead. His wife, Catherine, has just shot him. As a court hears the evidence leading up to the murder, we witness the disintegration of the couple's marriage and discover the real, surprising truth. |
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In One Form Or Another by Nikki Pontin |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Doctor could be played by m or f. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy includes 3 suggested pieces of music, to add atmosphere for this play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act gothic thriller, with a living room setting and specific lighting effects. |
Synopsis | Helen, Edward and their son have moved into their dream home, unaware of its history and the events which took place there. With increasing horror, Jacob seems to be the catalyst for the terrifying happenings - which Helen in particular is unable to deal with. As she relates events to a psychiatrist, the full horror becomes apparent. |
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In Sanity by Eleanor Hough |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for two men. No set. The props are all coats. |
Synopsis | There are two men, of that we can be sure. Everything else is subject to negotiation. They may be involved in a murder and trying to flee the scene, but first one of them has to figure out how to drive, and if they're friends, or lovers or brothers or even who they are. |
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In the Bag by Frances Bartram |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Whilst there is nominally one male role, this is an offstage voice with little to say, and could as well be recorded. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, single set - the back room of a charity shop (and, as you might expect, the props are largely charity shop bric-a-brac) |
Synopsis | Maureen and Mary are volunteers in a charity shop and every day is much like the one before. But today, when they're going through new donations, they find some money. A lot of money. Just as they're deciding what to do with it, two new volunteers arrive. What to do? |
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In the Mood by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single (café) setting. |
Synopsis | Jeanie's little café is struggling to survive and a pending family problem could easily prove to be the last straw. Also, her apparent reluctance to tackle issues such as poor hygiene, inferior cooking, power supply malfunctions and a mischievous deaf cat isn't helping the situation. |
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An Indecent Exposure by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy drama - in which the cast remain clothed. |
Synopsis | A couple are keeping the park opposite their flat under surveillance in an attempt to gather evidence on the person who's been exposing themselves. But are they really playing tricks on one another? |
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Indian Summer by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, single set. A brief romance set against the background of the Indian Mutiny. |
Synopsis | Amid the uprising against the East India Company in the 1850s, Clara has commissioned a portrait - to closely resemble Botticelli's 'Birth Of Venus', but depicting her as an old woman. The Artist, Nathanial, arrives with his canvas and oils, and they share the last moments of an Indian Summer together. |
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