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Look After The Cat, Darling by Cheryl Barrett |
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 | A one act comedy, with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Jonty returns home from an activity weekend with his sister and brother-in-law to find that his partner has left him. He finally finds solace with another cat lover. |
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Look For The Silver Lining by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play with a single (living room) set. |
Synopsis | George hates change and is not happy that his mother-in-law, Nora, is coming to stay. How will he react to her news? |
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Love by John Collings |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. The chorus of dancers is optional. |
Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act romantic comedy drama with a single multi-functional set. |
Synopsis | A young girl dreams of finding real love and breaking away from her dominant mother. |
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Love and Marriage by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of four ten-minute comedies. (No sets, a few props.) |
Synopsis | Four couples (supplimented, in one case, by a clergyman) address or reveal their approach to their relationships. |
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Love at Twilight [One-Act Play] by Bob Hammond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 67 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy drama with a single (garden bench) setting. An extended version of the short play of the same name. |
Synopsis | The residents and management at Glossop Hall care home are discomforted by single residents Clive and Liz firstly sharing a bed and then deciding to run off together. However, all become reconciled to it and enlightened to the possibilities open to them, even at their age. |
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Love's Labour's Lost [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 60-minute abridgement of the Shakespeare comedy. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | Ferdinand, King of Navarre, has decided that he and his court will devote three years to an ascetic life of studying, fasting, and forswearing the company of women. However, he has forgotten that the Princess of France and her retinue are due to visit. So, will the court pursue asceticism or pretty women? |
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Lucky Dip by Jim Hollingsworth |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy, featuring the characters from the author’s previous play ‘Out for the Count’. Single living room set. |
Synopsis | William and Marilyn are holding a coffee morning to raise funds for the mayor's anti-drugs campaign. Rumours of a drugs ring in the village stoke William's paranoia - what are the 'special plants' Vaslav is growing in his greenhouse, and what's in the mysterious package in the lucky dip? |
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Madame Skoodle's Noodles And The Poodle Doodle by Erica Glenn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Twelve human characters plus a show dog! |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A surreal comedy that requires almost no set with a witty and fast paced dialogue. |
Synopsis | There's a news report that Noodles the Poodle has been found dead, just before he was supposed to win the big Poodle Doodle competition. Who killed him? There's a regular parade of suspects, but is Noodles really dead? |
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Maintenance by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act comedy play. Single set (apartment interior). One or two adult themes (as you might deduce from the synopsis). |
Synopsis | Sally just wants to sleep off her night shift, but Colin the maintenance man has other plans. As does Delores the call girl, Vincente the enforcer, Penelope the pregnant pizza lady and a host of other quirky characters... |
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Making Theatre History by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The characters are all amateur actors, darling. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Lyrics (set to snatches of songs from musicals) are included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Short one-act comedy (with snatches of song). Simple village hall committee-room set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | It is decision time for the Amdram society committee. The next show must be chosen tonight and after months of arguments and division, the task of making that choice has been handed to the chair, Richard, to make. But Richard's announcement is not quite what everyone was expecting... |
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