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Knock, Knock, Knock by Bob Eccles
In a production by shiskine drama club, this script was awarded the Douglas Sillers Trophy in the Isle of arran drama association festival, February 2016 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Seven on-stage characters and the offstage voice of a child. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play with a single domestic setting, where a seance is held. |
| Synopsis | Teddy has passed away and in an effort to be sure that he is happy Jacky recruits medium Petunia to perform a séance and contact him. Jacky's sceptical brother Fred joins in the fray determined to disrupt proceedings, as does gormless neighbour Fran who doesn't quite understand what is going on. Fraudster Petunia does her best to contact Teddy but is shocked to discover who he really was. |
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| Knock, Knock, Who's There? by Peter Harrison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Offstage voices of one female laughing and multiple children, could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a living room setting. Originally published 2015, revised 2019. |
| Synopsis | Yvonne is desperate for the council to arrange a transfer for her and husband Dennis, from their high rise flat in Barbara Castle Towers to a lovely maisonette with gnomes in the garden... Her case may be enhanced when a TV crew arrive to investigate poltergeist activity in the flat. |
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| Labour Pains by Rachael Ashworth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single (living room) set. |
| Synopsis | The high emotions surrounding the imminent arrival of Helen's first baby are made substantially worse by competing grandmothers to be, scatty Aunt Mel, the midwife, and a somewhat inept husband. |
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| Ladies by Scott Kingsnorth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama |
| Synopsis | Elizabeth goes looking for Shelly, since the wedding they are both attending is winding down. Finding her in the Ladies', Elizabeth has trouble getting her friend out of the cubicle, only to find they're both locked in for the night. |
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| Ladies at the Seaside by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act drama on a simple set. Plenty of scope for the two actors to explore the emotional range. |
| Synopsis | Maureen and Dot meet on a trip to the Eastbourne seafront. Dot is being bullied and robbed by her daughter and son-in-law, and Maureen helps her build up the confidence to take back control of her life. |
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| Ladies' Room by Philip and Steven Schwadron |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestion for one optional musical outro. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act play for an all-female cast of high school actors. Some strong language and adolescent themes. |
| Synopsis | It's Prom night, but the Ladies’ room is seeing some brisk traffic as the girls take a break from dancing with their partners, and just the Prom itself. By the end of the night, hearts are broken, revealed and shared. |
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| The Lady or the Tiger by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play adapted from Frank Stockton's short story. Simple props. |
| Synopsis | The Princess's lover is on trial for his life. She can save him from certain death, but would the alternative be worse? |
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| The Lambton Worm by Timothy Hallett and Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Very flexible casting. There is one narrator role, but this could be shared out. Equally, the chorus could be 'all the actors'. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A 40-page musical score is included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Short musical retelling of an English folk tale. (The music plays throughout, even though some of the narration is spoken rather than sung.) No real set requirements, but the ideal performance would put some effort into creating a fearsome worm! |
| Synopsis | The tale of the wild worm of Wearside and its grisly end.
It should be emphasised that 'worm' is used in its old sense of 'serpent' - so this is a story of knights fighting dragons. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** CD with backing track for the whole musical The Lambton Worm by Timothy Hallett and Nicholas Richards. Plus simple rehearsal tracks for each individual section (accompaniment on piano with vocal line played on another instrument.)
** Complete recording of The Lambton Worm by Timothy Hallett and Nicholas Richards including all songs and the spoken narration.
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| Language Lessons (II) Asking the Time by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice - could easily be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] May be separated into short scenes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A series of scenes put together in one act, or may be divided for short pieces. Minimal or no set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A second set of crazy scenes to help hopeless English persons gain a better degree of fluency, in a foreign tongue. This time Polly and Glott prepare the audience for asking the time in various countries and even outer space! |
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| The Last Earl Grey by Susie Casson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act black comedy, told in vignettes and flashbacks.. |
| Synopsis | There's been an accident. A fatal accident. And now Dorothy wants her daughter, Lucy, to kill Mrs Butterworth. |
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