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| Surprise Me Darling by Bob Heather |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. There are four or five 'extras' specied in the script but not included in the cast numbers here. They appear only at the end of the final scene. (These might be omitted if the rest of the cast make enough impact!) |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full length domestic comedy. Single living-room set. Contains swearing and mild adult themes. |
| Synopsis | John and Chrissie have been married for nearly two years. With a pending anniversary, buying presents has never been John's good point, so he tries the easy way out by trying to give Chrissie the money to by her own present. Chrissie insists that she would prefer a surprise. After a rushed dinner party where everything goes wrong, John decides to change his ways and surprise Chrissie more often, but he finds the element of surprise is not easy to master.
'This witty comedy will have you wincing at times with the near pin-point accuracy of the relationship comments it makes. It is sure to delight audiences in search of a great nights entertainment.' - Amateur Stage |
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| Surprise! Surprise! by Philippa Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Nine on-stage characters plus six off-stage voices (which could be recorded). |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun comedy with a variety of strong characters, who are all developed well over the play. A good balance of verbal and physical humour, and of comedy and drama. |
| Synopsis | Jess's son has arranged a weekend getaway in a Derbyshire cottage for her seventieth birthday, with surprise guests in attendance. The problem is, neither her husband nor the son have bothered to turn up themselves, and the guests he's randomly picked from her contacts aren't the ones she'd have chosen to spend her special day with. |
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| Tainted Love by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Thirteen song suggestions, to be played between scenes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | An irreverent full-length comedy for adults with a single (living room) setting. Potentially offensive language. |
| Synopsis | Julie has invited her friends Vanessa, Sheila, and Carol over to her house, on the pretence of showing off her recently installed gazebo. Unbeknownst to her friends, Julie has something far more tantalising to share with them. |
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| Tete-A-Tete by Paul Bovino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Two characters (1M, 1F) are offstage voices only and can be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Much to his reluctance, Danny’s friends arrange a blind date for him. The date turns out to be his ex-wife Katrina. She brings shocking news for Danny, who has his own shock in store for her. The unseen neighbours become a catalyst for a re-union. |
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| There's No Place Like Home by Peter Harrison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters and an off-stage female voice (which could be recorded, but, in our view, would be better performed live). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy in a single domestic setting. |
| Synopsis | When elderly Howard claims his dead wife Nancy has been talking to him, his daughter and her partner think he is suffering dementia and plan to move him into a home. But there's a surprise in store when he demonstrates how he contacts Nancy. |
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| Things We Should Have Said Today by Pete Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Three generations of a family. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedic family saga with a single (farmhouse kitchen) set. Contains robust language. |
| Synopsis | Betty is having a bad day. She's overheating, her mother is demented, her son is coming out, her daughter is getting divorced, the farm is losing money and her husband is hiding away from it all under the tractor. Or is he just dead? |
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| To Shut The Mouth Of Lions by Dave Clark |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play, containing strong adult language. |
| Synopsis | At a dysfunctional family’s Christmas gathering, head of the family William is facing a terminal illness. His wilful refusal to acknowledge his gay son's right to full humanity forces him to choose between dying alone or facing his homophobic feelings and their cause. |
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| Too Many Fish by Alison Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. 12 roles, including two singers, plus an onstage band of approx 4. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] Photo by Robert Skears at shotz4u.co.uk. |
| Music | 15 existing songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Two-act musical comedy. Three sets. Adult content and language. |
| Synopsis | All of life is on display in The Happy Onion, the local shop, sorry, Upper Wallop’s Finest Delicatessen: Sandra’s dealing with her divorce, Brenda with her abusive husband, and Bert the owner with his unrequited love and a big, fake, fish. |
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| Two Grunts For Yes by Jessica McHugh |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy contains one suggested piece of background music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short one act comedy, with some strong language. |
| Synopsis | Some college students return home with a few extra pounds, tattoos, or disappointing grades, but when 18 year old Irene McManus returns to her conservative southern household with her new boyfriend Tommy, things get messy between her and her mother, Delia. She doesn't disapprove of Tommy because he's ill-mannered or bad with words. The fact that he's dead, however, whips the prim matriarch into a frenzy. Can Irene convince her mother to accept her zombie boyfriend? Or will Delia convince her daughter that zombie boys are only after one thing: her brains? |
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| A Very Roman Family - 235 AD by Roger Hodge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. The eight minor roles can be shared by two actors. |
| Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Bawdy Roman farce! Contains a tiny amount of mild swearing (and lots of innuendo). A single set is implied - the courtyard of a Roman home in 235 AD.
Originally published in 2010, revised 2015 |
| Synopsis | Titus Rambus is a senator, who intends to become emperor by means of assassination. He has chosen Formaggius Vastus to be the assassin in the mistaken belief that Formaggius, a seller of asses, has a brilliant army record. As if that were not bad enough for Formaggius, Emperor Severus has learned of the plot - but not the intended assassin - and he too engages Formaggius to bump-off his rival. Not only that, but Formaggius learns that after the deed the assassin will not survive for long. Can Formaggius save himself and his diverse family? |
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