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| Brush Yourself Off and Move On by Megan Boduch |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One character (the Director) has two short lines, which could be done from offstage. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play - a character study - set outside a Broadway audition (though it could be a theatrical audition anywhere). No specific set requirements, simple props. |
| Synopsis | A Broadway hopeful is waiting nervously outside her latest audition. A rival gains her trust but proceeds to destroy her confidence, apparently for no better reason than her own amusement. Just as our girl is about to give it all up, however, a man arrives and is considerate and kind. He restores her confidence and points out her advantages over the more poisonous girl. Together they point out the girl's deficiencies to her and win the moral victory over her. |
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| Bucolic by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single domestic set, simple props. (Contains mild swearing and mild adult themes.) |
| Synopsis | Adam manages to come home earlier than usual, hoping to enjoy his restful country home, but there's an odd string of visitors, and his errant son returns unexpectedly from college. The new, attractive female, curate comes to call, and his wife reveals a most unexpected secret. |
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Bully Dancers by Frank Gibbons
Winner of the Annual Derek Lomas Playwriting Competition (youth section), 2005. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Characters are teenagers with a range of ages, plus two adults (intended to be played by teenagers). |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | It is open to the Producer to select dance music appropriate for the script and the specific cast! Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play for teenagers on the subject of bullying. |
| Synopsis | Two rival dance troupes are preparing for a local competition, but they have to share rehearsal space. Their proximity increases the rivalry until tragedy strikes, provoking unexpected changes. |
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| A Bump In The Night by Susan Vesey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A powerful one act play, with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Jen and Jacob are in bed when they hear noises downstairs. Jen wants Jacob to investigate, but he's not keen. They trade visions of a future if the burglars turn nasty, but the noises are made by Gladys - who brings a very different perspective. This play deals with the issue of underage sex, child sexual abuse and teenage pregnancy. |
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| Bunkers by Peter Lancaster Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Whilst there isn't a formal chorus, there is a party going on in one corner of the set, into which extras could be added. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play. Single set (indicative of a newspaper office). Written as a verbal comedy, but since one of the characters is accident-prone there is plenty of opportunity for development of a physical side. |
| Synopsis | Delphine has arranged a job at the newspaper where she works for her accident-prone flat-mate, Sally. Now the job of Foreign Correspondent is up for grabs and Sally has applied! Here comes Armageddon! |
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| Busted by Kev Salter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy on a single police station set. |
| Synopsis | You'd think working in a rural outback police station would be boring, but with a serial thief on the loose, these three cops get themselves mixed up in all sorts of trouble. Plus, their boiler's broken. |
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| The Cabbage Consortium by Jim Pinnock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single pub setting. |
| Synopsis | A disparate group of pub regulars join forces to develop Harry’s sure fire money making scheme involving the cabbage futures market. Things go well until the Russian Mafia get wind of the machinations and the consortium find themselves in difficulties with the gangsters. |
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** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'The Cabbage Consortium' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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| Café Fear by Paul John Matthews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for three pieces of intermission music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act play, with elements of tragicomedy and strong language. |
| Synopsis | Two newspaper reporters, Angela and Jim, are following up reports of an escaped patient from a local secure mental hospital. Stopping off at a café to ask directions, they are joined by Adriana, a prissy germaphobe and Roger, an annoying smart Alec. They soon realise that they have ended up in a very strange place. |
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| Café Society by Colin Calvert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are vaguely middle-aged (whatever that means). |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play. Single cafe setting. A romantic comedy of an unexpected kind. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Pauline is enjoying a long wait for her lunch in the rather run-down cafe that Luigi has inherited from his mother. When Patrick enters, she's not sure she wants to be disturbed, but they fall into an easy conversation - or so she thinks, until he disappears without any explanation. |
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| Caiaphas by Mike Sparks |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play which can be produced with minimal staging (so could easily be done within a church). |
| Synopsis | The events of the last few days of Holy Week are shown from the viewpoint of High Priest Caiaphas and his family. |
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