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| Drama Club Must Die! by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children, but all could be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Complete set of original lyrics and musical arrangements based on traditional tunes supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical play set in an American High School (but could be played by younger children). Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | The High School budget needs to be cut. The drama club is under threat from the unsympathetic principal. Can the Drama Club save themselves by creating a production of The Wizard of Oz from scratch? |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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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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| Droolin' Banjos by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Youthful characters may be played by an older cast. |
| Run Time | Around 53 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Four pieces of music are suggested in the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | An offbeat, single set, one act black comedy, which has language advisory notes. |
| Synopsis | Stevie is definitely going back to jail, but he has to speak to his children first. It's very important that they go back to school and avoid making his mistakes. They're not enthusiastic about this plan, but he has another detail to explain - for every day of school they miss, he serves one more in prison. |
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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 Easter Egg Hunt by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Characters include nine fowl and an Easter bunny (offering plenty of opportunity for mask- or costume-making!) Beyond that, the cast is very flexible (basically written for a class-sized group). |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] (Assuming the suggested songs are used) |
| Music | Suggestions for critter-themed songs are made in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Comedy play for young children, with corny jokes and opportunities for songs and dances. |
| Synopsis | The Easter Bunny (or Funny Bunny) tries to help out poor Clumsy Chicken who has smashed all her eggs in a nasty fall and is facing the chop... well, the roasting dish. Other feathered friends flock around to help or hinder the effort with a few jokes and songs. |
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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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| The Editing Room by Christine Harvey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. The gender of most of the characters is flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script contains places where songs could be sung, but the songs are left to the discretion of the production. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play for a school or youth theatre. Single set divided into three acting areas. |
| Synopsis | We're in the editing room of a TV studio where a group of production staff are editing and manipulating the participants in a reality TV show, whilst the staff themselves are being manipulated by the studio boss... |
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