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| Let Her Rip by Donna Brightwell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. In addition to the eight characters there are three off-stage voices. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play set in the southern USA. Intended to be played with minimal sets. |
| Synopsis | Sixty-somethings behaving badly, when four ladies decide to have the wild time they've missed in the rest of their lives. |
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| Like it or Not by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy. Single set (hotel sitting room), which need not be elaborate. |
| Synopsis | A young playwright waits to meet the star who may produce his play, but his fiancée wants in on the act. More than that, her father has planned a meeting with the actress, and it turns out her mother is going to have her own surprising encounter. |
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| Little Acorns by Jenny Gilbert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. All characters are adults with a mix of ages. The ages are suggested in the production notes, but there is a great deal of flexibility. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single set. |
| Synopsis | Gentle comedy, set in a school staff room, where the staff try to work out their gripes, with a particular concern about one member of the school. |
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| A Little Elfin Magic by Donna Brightwell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are written as male or female, this is largely a matter of personal pronouns, so the script can easily be adjusted to accommodate anything from ten boys through to ten girls. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act (well, technically two acts, but of one-act play length!) secular Christmas play. Aimed at junior school children, but could enjoyably be played for laughs by older groups! |
| Synopsis | It's September and the Elves in Santa's toy workshop are in a spot of bother - they've only just woken up after their New Year Party and they have three months to make a year's worth of toys. Worse still, could the new department member be a spy? |
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| A Little Extra Help by Jo West |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act romantic comedy. |
| Synopsis | Supermarkets seem to be the place to meet prospective partners and this supermarket manager acts as a pro-active narrator as, after a few hiccups, romance blossoms. |
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| Little Momma’s Ristorante by Paul L. Harwood |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy in a single set. An enjoyably weird story which builds up entertainingly to a satisfying ending. (US English.) |
| Synopsis | Leo has finally plucked up the courage to ask Kay to marry him, but first he must introduce her to - and get the approval of - his Momma. The problem is, Momma is a pile of ashes in a wine bottle, and when the bottle is unable to communicate approval, Kay must come up with a plan to convince Leo it’s okay. |
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| The Little Watch Girl by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children which could be played that way or could all be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play based on Hans Christian Andersen's Little Match Girl. Single set. Props include a rather under-cooked roast goose. |
| Synopsis | A familiar Christmas story is given a major twist when a starving, freezing girl out on a snow Christmas Eve supplements her match selling income by stealing watches from passers by. She is visited by several visions to help her learn the true meaning of Christmas. |
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| Llandudno, Lust and Lollipops by Stephen Mercer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A suggestion for one piece of closing music is included with the producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act comedy |
| Synopsis | Middle aged couple Charlie and Annie’s marriage has become stale and humdrum, such that Annie finds herself experiencing fantasies of a more exciting life. After being made redundant following 40 years as a boiled sweet salesman, Charlie comes home to Annie, who has uncovers what she believes to be evidence of her husband's love affair with an unknown woman. Accusations lead to honesty, and as the pair unwind forty years of strained 'politeness' they discover that they both have a wish to visit France, and that Charlie has always hated the traditional UK based holidays that Annie thought he wanted. Particularly in Llandudno. |
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| A Load of Rubbish - Small Cast Musical by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The script is structured so that the five characters can be played by two actors. The characters are inanimate objects, so gender is flexible, though the script assumes, for some reason, that the beer can is male and the perfume box is female! |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for eight original songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | One-act musical for a small cast (designed to be played by an adult touring company to school audiences) |
| Synopsis | Life on an overspill rubbish dump takes a philosophical turn, with items of garbage asking 'why are we here?' - and making a song and dance about it! |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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| Loitering Within Tent by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play, single set (a Bedouin tent), simple props. |
| Synopsis | A Tourist party of ladies from the Women's Institute are treated to the 'Bedouin Desert experience', unaware that there is more to it than meets the eye... |
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