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| Curse of the Headless Huntsman by Robin Steggles & Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for three songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A very funny, fast-paced comedy-thriller with a satisfying (if very silly) mystery. |
| Synopsis | It is 1900, and in the sleepy Suffolk village of St Dunstan's. A local legend says that when the Headless Huntsman rides, a death will follow. After the bizarre and unexplained death of the vicar, Acting Sergeant Angelica Thorn and hapless Constable John Long are called in to investigate. But as more deaths follow, Angelica's ambition to become England's first female detective seems to be slipping from her grasp. |
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Custard and Disinfectant by Jim Pinnock
Performance by Carbost Community Drama came overall second at the Skye Division One Act Drama Festival, 2012 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Murder mystery with a darkly comic edge. Includes swearing. |
| Synopsis | Albert's a terror in the old folks' home, making improper suggestions and using bad language. But when he's found dead with a dagger in his chest and sleeping pills under his chair, the problem isn't whodunit, but who DIDN'T... |
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** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'Custard and Disinfectant' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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| Cyrano and Roxane by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two tracks are suggested in the producer's script - one to be played in the background at the end of a scene, one to be played from an instrumental recording as a character sings the lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length comedy drama with various settings. |
| Synopsis | A modern reworking of the romantic classic, bringing to life the story of Cyrano de Bergerac - a French soldier known for his poetic skills, bold adventures and large nose - his friend Christian and their love for Roxane. |
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Daddy Issues by Ged Quayle
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A sketch which transitions satisfyingly from smutty comedy to emotional drama. From the synopsis, you'll deduce that this contains a lot of 'adult' content. |
| Synopsis | Sex worker Carla is with a client when he dies of a sudden heart attack, and she finds herself trapped under the corpse. The only person she's able to call for help is her ex-husband. |
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Darra's Coffin [One-Act Version] by Roger Woodcock
Won the Audience Appreciation award, Best Overall Production award and best actor award at the 2017 Teignmouth Drama Festival of One Act Plays performed by the teignmouth touring theatre company. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play in a funereal shade of black! Single set. |
| Synopsis | The proprietor of a traditional undertaker's has died and his carpenters are discussing their future. Will his maneater of a wife keep the business on, or sell them out? When she arrives, things get a little out of hand, and desperate measures are called for. |
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| A Day in the Life by Gary Diamond & Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Wide range of playing ages. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A long one-act (or short full-length) farce. Single set. Contains a small amount of mild swearing and a large amount of fun! |
| Synopsis | A family gather for the reading of a late, but not lamented, step-Father's will. Unsurprisingly, there are surprises in store for the whole bunch. |
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Day Job by Janet S. Tiger
First Place, 2016 Script Tease of Short Plays |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, dark comedy in a single set. |
| Synopsis | A teacher is marking papers when he is interrupted by a drunk student with suicidal intent. |
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| Dead Men Don't Eat Quiche by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Toni is written female, but could be male. The author would allow flexibility in the gender of the other characters, but the tropes would make less sense. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play delivering a fun, witty twist on film noir tropes. Three locations, though they can all be created with the same minimal furniture being moved around. Some projection of film images required. |
| Synopsis | Two characters from a film noir find their script-writer dead. He has left them a cryptic puzzle to their own identities and the suggestion that only one of them will survive. When they are forced to complete their own script, not even the film's director is safe. |
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| Dead Weight by Rob Ricards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. All the characters are written male, but, as the author put it, 'there is no reason why one or two could not be female'. In theory, it could be done by a cast of three, but two of them would have to do a quick change from undertakers to tramps. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute absurd comedy (with more than a nod to Samuel Beckett). Single, minimal set and a coffin. (Contains swearing.) |
| Synopsis | Two undertakers, sick of carrying the coffin after their hearse has broken down, ditch the corpse out to lighten their load. The corpse is happily reanimated by a couple of passing tramps.
(The author provides hints as to the identity of the corpse, but also provides alternative hints - with the option of choosing a death to suit the production!) |
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| Death at the Deanery by Jim Hollingsworth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 31 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (large study) setting. |
| Synopsis | Horror grips the village of St Martini Mead when the body of General Rupert Stick-Monocle is discovered in the drawing room of the deanery. Is it suicide or has he been murdered? The doctor and local amateur sleuth Miss Marbles disagree, and it's left for Detective Inspector Titus Tyte-Canby to deduce what has happened. But if it is murder, who did it, and why? And who else may the murderer pounce on - the curate, the tennis-club alcoholic, the Russian au pair, the doctor, the Dean? A spoof whodunit inspired by Agatha Christie and Midsomer Murders. |
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