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Brief Lives by Andrew Beattie |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama for young actors. Traces of black comedy and strong language. Two simple settings. |
Synopsis | Two teenage boys are presented with a difficult situation when, arriving for his regular music lesson, one of them discovers the dead body of his elderly music teacher. |
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Casual-ty by Jack Burgess |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Five-minute sketch spoofing surgical soap opera. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) |
Synopsis | An operation is in progress, and the outlook for the patient is bleak... |
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Casualty Chaos by Karen Doling |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy play which doesn't rely on traditional doctor gags for laughs, instead creating plausible but zany situations which work well in the established 'almost real' world. Single split-stage set. |
Synopsis | It's a busy few days in the Accident and Emergency department - they're short of Doctors but long on impatient patients. People are plastered, the sole doctor is plagued by rats and can't finish his knitting, and the devastating fire just slows things down a little. |
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Curse of the Holbrook Zombies by Robin Steggles & Sharon Hulm Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Fifteen on-stage chracters and an off-stage voice. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 7 songs (with some original/parody lyrics). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length family show, an alternative to the traditional pantomime. A comedy sci-fi/horror mix withan anarchic spirit. Contains lurching. |
Synopsis | A new, mysterious doctor has appeared in the village and the medication he is handing out is turning people into chocolate-craving zombies. It's up to Sam, with the help of his Gran's special brew, to cure the zombies. Can anyone stop them boarding the bus and spreading the zombie virus to Ipswich and the world? |
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A Day at the Vets by Helen Bradley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedic sketch on a single set. |
Synopsis | Mr Chalmers the vet has a bad day, as his three least favourite customers - and their imaginary pets - show up in succession. |
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The Doctor And Mr Rogers by Kal B Sisson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short dark comedy sketch set in a doctor's consulting room. |
Synopsis | Mr Rogers takes some convincing, when the doctor tells him the bad news - that his condition means he has only minutes to live. |
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Doctor Sleep by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute comedy skit. The setting is a doctor's surgery - with the minimum of decor needed to convey that information, so could even be done front-of-curtain. No specific props required. |
Synopsis | Mrs James needs some help with her insomnia, and Doctor Barlow needs her to go home so he can begin his evening. Nurse Popplewell is doing her best to help them both. |
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Doctor, Doctor by Jonathan Edgington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Includes adult themes! (No offensive language, but the occasional embarrassed cough...) |
Synopsis | A man goes into his doctor's office and is startled to find a woman there. Despite his initial embarrassment, he reveals his personal problem and then becomes very embarrassed indeed when he discovers who she is. |
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The Doctor by Gary Diamond & Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Mister Smedley would seem to be male. The doctor could be either. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | A man is called into his doctor's office for some very bad - and surprising - news. |
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The Doctor's Waiting Room by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch, with a minimal set. |
Synopsis | Two ladies trade tales of woe regarding their various aches and pains while in the Doctor's waiting room, but the first one to arrive has a surprise in store for her. |
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