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| Goldilocks, Three Bears and the Detectives by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Family show, structurally in two acts, but run-time on the boundary between one-act and full-length. (Could be expanded with songs at the discretion of the production.) |
| Synopsis | The Bears' cottage has been ransacked - porridge eaten, furniture wrecked, and someone looking a lot like Goldilocks fled the scene when the Bears came home. But is she really guilty? The detectives investigate. |
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| The Greatest Form of Flattery by Amelia Armande |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Either a short full-length play, or a long one-act play! Figurative sets (scenery kept to the minimum needed to indicate the location) but props include a set of shop-window dummies. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Brendan is a struggling artist who is horrified to see someone he went to Art College with hit the big time with an exhibition of work that looks terribly familiar. When the centrepiece of the exhibition gets stolen and turns up in Brendan's studio, potential disaster is turned to success for everyone. |
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| Growing Up With Martin by Paul Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play (three sets) |
| Synopsis | Martin is twenty four, living in a rented flat with his girlfriend, and working at the bottom of the corporate ladder in an accounting firm run by his Mum and Dad. He's frustrated by his lowly position, but equally annoyed by the idea that he should have to exert himself to get on in life. In the course of one day we see him downtrodden, turn a corner and find a new goal, just to have one of the dearest things snatched from him. |
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| Handstands For You by Adam Exton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are children, but could be played by children or adults. There are three characters, but two of them appear in some scenes as younger versions of themselves. (Either played by the same actors or by younger ones.) |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A touching and deftly-handled approach to the subject of childhood illness. Multiple settings, but does not need explicit sets. Contains mild swearing (which could be moderated if deemed in appropriate for a specific production). |
| Synopsis | When Billy was five, his best friend was Gemma, but she moved away. Now Billy's thirteen, he's got a new best friend in Ronald, but he also has leukaemia. Gemma moves back to the neighbourhood and the three have to find space for each other. |
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Happily Ever Laughter by Keith Mackenzie
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy in a single (office) location. |
| Synopsis | Linda is close to quitting her job as a Wedding Planner, and she's not encouraged to keep going by the ever more eccentric ideas of Olivia. Olivia is determined her wedding to Ben will be memorable, whether he likes it or not. |
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| The Happy Wanderers by Dawn Cairns |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Seven on-stage characters and a pair of off-stage voices. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 3 songs (and the invitation to replace them with anything else suitable). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | An entertaining and easily staged one-act play with a lot of good humour. |
| Synopsis | Originally a walking club for single people, the Happy Wanderers have mostly ditched the walking and taken up drinking. At a social barbeque, Tony introduces his new fiancée, Brian tries it on with all the women, and the friend Julie brings along is not who anyone expected. |
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Headcase by Kara Chamberlain
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 63 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama. Several settings, which can be produced with minimal furniture. |
| Synopsis | June, a Canadian woman living in London, has problems piling up - an important presentation at work, a crush on her colleague Brad, and now she’s slept with her flatmate’s brother. Then she has a panic attack, and anxiety takes over all her thoughts. |
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| A Heart-Shaped Cushion by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. The patients can be any age from about thirty-five to sixty-five. Beth and Tom should be about the same age. Doubling and trebling-up is possible with a minimum of one man and six women |
| Run Time | Around 67 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama following a patient's experience with breast cancer, through chemo and physiotherapy, to exiting the treatment. |
| Synopsis | Along the way we meet people dealing with similar experiences. |
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| Hit or Miss by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 56 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (study) setting. |
| Synopsis | Barbara has engaged 'Mr Smith' to dispose of husband Tony so she can go off with new boyfriend Freddie. However, things take an unexpected turn when the surprisingly compassionate hit man finds Tony in a state of deep depression over his failing marriage and talks him out of his proposed suicide. |
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| Hole in the Wall by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 57 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act thriller with various simple settings. US English. |
| Synopsis | Successful accountant and bibliophile Arthur is driven to desperate measures to deal with his wife’s constant infidelity. He decides to turn to his hero Edgar Allan Poe for inspiration in murdering not only her but her many lovers as well. |
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