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| A Journey to Oz by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Lots of scope for choruses of munchkins, wolves, crows and bees! |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming (non-musical) version of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz. Multiple locations, but can be staged as simply as necessary! |
| Synopsis | A tornado plucks Dorothy Gale from Kansas and drops her and, more significantly (from the perspective of a tendancy to squish), her house, on top of a despised witch. Two quests follow (as do a scarecrow, a tin man and a lion), before she is able to return home. |
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| Keeping Mum by Barry Blaize |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single domestic set. Includes mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Hetty nursed her Mum through a long illness, and now the old lady has died Hetty's sisters, Freda and Marion are there. Marion has come over from Spain for the funeral, but her companion, Carlos, arouses suspicions, as do rumours about Hetty's nursing. |
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| The Kitchen Skirmishes by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy of circumstance. Stage split between domestic set and bar. |
| Synopsis | When Lucy and Bernard have their first child, they decide that Bernard will stay home and be the househusband while Lucy continues working. Bernard thinks it will be a walk in the park... he has a surprise in store... |
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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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| 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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| 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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| Little Acorns by Jenny Gilbert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. All characters are adults with a mix of ages. The ages are suggested in the production notes, but there is a great deal of flexibility. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single set. |
| Synopsis | Gentle comedy, set in a school staff room, where the staff try to work out their gripes, with a particular concern about one member of the school. |
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| A Little Extra Help by Jo West |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act romantic comedy. |
| Synopsis | Supermarkets seem to be the place to meet prospective partners and this supermarket manager acts as a pro-active narrator as, after a few hiccups, romance blossoms. |
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| The Little Watch Girl by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children which could be played that way or could all be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play based on Hans Christian Andersen's Little Match Girl. Single set. Props include a rather under-cooked roast goose. |
| Synopsis | A familiar Christmas story is given a major twist when a starving, freezing girl out on a snow Christmas Eve supplements her match selling income by stealing watches from passers by. She is visited by several visions to help her learn the true meaning of Christmas. |
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| Llandudno, Lust and Lollipops by Stephen Mercer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A suggestion for one piece of closing music is included with the producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act comedy |
| Synopsis | Middle aged couple Charlie and Annie’s marriage has become stale and humdrum, such that Annie finds herself experiencing fantasies of a more exciting life. After being made redundant following 40 years as a boiled sweet salesman, Charlie comes home to Annie, who has uncovers what she believes to be evidence of her husband's love affair with an unknown woman. Accusations lead to honesty, and as the pair unwind forty years of strained 'politeness' they discover that they both have a wish to visit France, and that Charlie has always hated the traditional UK based holidays that Annie thought he wanted. Particularly in Llandudno. |
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