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A Double Date with Uncle Martin by John Passadino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act comedy (possibly a boulevard farce) set in a restaurant. (Written in American English.) |
Synopsis | Chris has lost track of the day, and accidentally lined up two dates on the same night, in the same restaurant. Can they really both be related to Martin Scorsese? |
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The Double-Headed Penny-Farthing by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play, single set. |
Synopsis | Holmes and Watson crack a curious case of diamond-thievery without even leaving the fireside of 221b Baker Street. |
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Downsizing by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Offstage digital assistant (could be pre-recorded). Four on-stage characters, nominally 2m, 2f, but Cara and Zen are flexible. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the scripts suggests four songs to be played by Digital Assistant. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A funny, slightly surreal domestic comedy set in a living room with a scene in darkness in a bedroom (only one set needed!). Works indepenently, but could be performed as a companion piece to Battle of the Bedroom. |
Synopsis | After a blow-out party in their tiny apartment, Chris and Jo decide to declutter their lives, but their mystical house doctor declutters more than they bargained for. |
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Dream Holiday by Elizabeth Poynter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An emotional drama with a twist. Single living room set. |
Synopsis | Ellie and her daughter Lisa have just returned from the perfect holiday. But then Lisa disappears. |
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The Dreaming by Richard James Performance by Maidenhead Drama Guild won Best Play and Best Actor at the Henley Drama Festival, 2017. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are written male, but could be either. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, suitable for a bare stage presentation. |
Synopsis | Two men find themselves in a featureless room, with no memory of how they arrived there, or even who they are. Their only clues come from scraps of paper on the floor, that seem to mirror words they have spoken. Can it be true that they're just characters in an unwritten play? |
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Drunkula by Archie Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single (gothic dining room) set. |
Synopsis | Drunkula and his weird manservant, Schnapps, meet their match when two young English ladies show their drinking mettle - with disastrous results for the drunken vampire. |
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Duffy's Law by Louise Wade |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The intention is for adults to play the adult characters and also their younger selves. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama, an exploration of childhood relationships and their adult echoes. Minimal set - various locations created with just a few stage blocks. |
Synopsis | Tom and Duffy have been friends since childhood, with Duffy taking the role of Sherriff to Tom's Deputy. Tom used to be the Outlaw, until a girl called Poppy joined their game one day... |
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A Dummy Run by Robin Wilson Accent Players won the Rex Trophy (overall winner) plus Enniskillen Quaich and Campbeltown Drama Trophy at the Argyll Kintyre District SCDA festival, 2018 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play, set in a doctor's waiting room. |
Synopsis | Madge and Gloria drop into the doctor's so Madge can have her 'unmentionables' checked out - but it turns into a surreal experience, thanks to a man who won't say a word and a puppet who says entirely too much. |
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The Eco Hotel by Robert Hugh Mitchell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Whilst it isn't a formal musical, new lyrics to a couple of familiar melodies are included in the text. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act play. Multiple sets, with changes to the main stage covered by front-of-cloth scenes. Contains swearing. And comedy. |
Synopsis | A group of guests are enjoying their last night in the Environmentally-friendly Eco hotel. Little do they know that the lake has been polluted with irradiated water, and the formally mild and vegetarian turtles have grown bigger and hungrier.... |
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Eight Seconds by Stephen Scheurer-Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy on a split (consulting and waiting room) set. |
Synopsis | The average doctor interrupts their patient after eight seconds, often before they've revealed the information that would lead to a correct diagnosis. Gordon Bryson is not the average doctor. He's much ruder. Can be performed alongside its sister play 'Barbecue'. |
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