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Humbug by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol presented as a short comedic play for kids. |
Synopsis | When Jacob Marley dies he keeps his promise to come back and haunt his mean-spirited business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge has a particularly parsimonious attitude to Christmas and this reflects itself his treatment of his long-suffering employees, Bob and Molly Cratchit. In case Jacob's efforts to get Ebenezer to change his ways don't meet with success, he enlists the help of three ghostly friends. Will Christmas still be humbug or will Ebenezer see the light? |
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In One Form Or Another by Nikki Pontin |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Doctor could be played by m or f. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy includes 3 suggested pieces of music, to add atmosphere for this play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act gothic thriller, with a living room setting and specific lighting effects. |
Synopsis | Helen, Edward and their son have moved into their dream home, unaware of its history and the events which took place there. With increasing horror, Jacob seems to be the catalyst for the terrifying happenings - which Helen in particular is unable to deal with. As she relates events to a psychiatrist, the full horror becomes apparent. |
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An Inn Spectre Calls by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy drama with a single (hotel lounge) setting. |
Synopsis | Geoff and Laura have invited both sets of parents for a meal at a local hostelry to celebrate their engagement, but each one of the party in turn encounters a mysterious woman, whose disturbing revelations provoke a variety of reactions. She bears an uncanny resemblance to Laura's stepfather's first wife, but she died unexpectedly two years ago, so it can't be her! Or can it? |
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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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The Last Earl Grey by Susie Casson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act black comedy, told in vignettes and flashbacks.. |
Synopsis | There's been an accident. A fatal accident. And now Dorothy wants her daughter, Lucy, to kill Mrs Butterworth. |
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Last Train to Sleepy Hollow by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Variable Chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Music and song suggestions for eight pieces are provided in the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A comedy spoof play, with music, in various settings. |
Synopsis | When Arthur is summoned by his Godmother to exorcise her house of spooks, he discovers a dastardly plot to frighten her off her valuable real estate. In the ultimate battle of innocence against the powers of darkness, Arthur destroys the black heart of the Bigwitch, finds true love, restores Spooky Hollow to his Godmother and catches the last train home! |
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The Living Room by Clive David Lloyd Williams New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama of paranormal events in a single living room set (with two practical doors). |
Synopsis | After the death of Joe's wife, his neighbour Amy visits to give him support. This is followed by a series of unexplained events, with paranormal investigators who themselves fall prey to the events. |
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Lizzy's Ghost by Allan Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Offstage voice of Lizzy could be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act ghost story, with a single (bar) setting. |
Synopsis | On a working holiday researching a book, author Joanne finds herself in an isolated village pub on Halloween. The locals give her astounding background, for a gripping tale of the past, in which they are intimately involved. |
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Meeting by Gaslight 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 characters are nominally 2M, 2f, but the writer notes: 'directors are free to change names to reflect social, cultural and gender diversity'. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act thriller in a single (abandoned cottage) set. |
Synopsis | For Caron, it's just one more acting job before she heads out to Australia, but for Jenny it's a supernatural encounter that challenges her belief in her own sanity. Caron must choose whether or not to tell Jenny she's being manipulated. |
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A Meeting of Minds by Catherine Willacy & Andrew Bramble Production by Cairns Little Theatre Inc, Queensland won Best Drama in the FNQATA One Act Play Festival in May 2018, in the Open Section for plays of 16-45 minutes. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama, well suited for festival performance. |
Synopsis | An unexpected reunion leads to hard truths and hilarious memories. But what exactly is their relationship, and where will it all end? |
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