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Ladies' Room by Philip and Steven Schwadron |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Suggestion for one optional musical outro. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act play for an all-female cast of high school actors. Some strong language and adolescent themes. |
Synopsis | It's Prom night, but the Ladies’ room is seeing some brisk traffic as the girls take a break from dancing with their partners, and just the Prom itself. By the end of the night, hearts are broken, revealed and shared. |
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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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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 Respects by Colin Calvert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act play in funereal black - so obviously a comedy! Single set (a funeral parlour), replete with coffin. |
Synopsis | Henry Throgmorton (deceased) has decreed that a wake should be held in his honour at the funeral parlour. The guests, previously unknown to each other, are his wife and his two mistresses... |
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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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Last Woman Working by Michael Pearcy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act satirical comedy with a single (office) setting. Some strong language. |
Synopsis | Robots, with government backing, have taken over almost every job previously done by humans. Masses are protesting. Desperate to save her job in an electronics factory, Barbara Wooley takes an aggressive stand at her local MP's surgery. |
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Latin Fever by Terence Dale |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, single domestic set, simple props. (Contains mild swearing.) |
Synopsis | Surly and aggressive Bernard has to be levered out of his domestic rut by the persistence of his long-suffering but ever loving wife, who wields a crowbar in the unlikely shape of Stephen... |
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Laughter Lines by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. Most of the characters are adults in middle age or older. Some of the women are intended to be played by men (in gossipy, unglamorous middle-aged drag). |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Collection of 18 comedy sketches (ranging in duration from 2 minutes to ten minutes). Few set requirements (although one sketch takes place in and around a bed). There are a couple of mild swearwords buried in there somewhere. |
Synopsis | Sketches about life, death, relationships and cream cakes. Most of the sketches are available individually. (The collection allows the set to be purchased at a discount to the sum of the individual components.) There is no particular order to the sketches, but there are occasional common themes. |
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Leading Ladies - It's Behind You by Christina Simpkin |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, set back-stage at a (British) pantomime. |
Synopsis | Behind the scenes at the annual panto, two ladies compare notes on this production, other productions and other members of the cast, while various characters drift through on their way to the stage or the Green Room. |
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Learning to Like You by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy drama on a minimal living room set. |
Synopsis | Amber has just moved in, so she pops round to introduce herself to her new neighbour, Jake. Jake’s not what she expected, and it takes the pair a number of visits and misunderstandings before they learn enough from each other to be friends. |
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