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| Ambition by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Could be performed by children or a mixture of adults and children. (Or even, for more comic effect, with the children's roles taken by adults.) It might be possible for Mr James, the teacher, to double as the fairy! |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple, short comedy play. No set, simple props (a chair, a magic wand...)
Arguably a moral play - be careful what you wish for... |
| Synopsis | Three schoolgirls are given the chance to have their fondest wish come true, but things don't quite work out the way they hope, and soon they're all having second thoughts. |
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| Art's Gallery by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy drama |
| Synopsis | Art lover Amy takes philistine Jeff to a small art gallery to give him an appreciation of the value of art. Gallery owner Art soon dispels any pretensions Amy has and the tables are turned. |
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| The Assignment by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute drama. Single set (a hotel room, ideally with a practical door). |
| Synopsis | Jeanette and Charlotte are both contract killers thinking of leaving the game. Trouble is, they've been assigned to kill each other. Is there some sinister reason behind their meeting? |
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| At the Gates of Valhalla by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute comedy play. Single set (a reception desk and three chairs). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A group of Vikings arrive on the threshold of the afterlife, expecting quaffing and carousing and more enjoyment than they get from a single Valkyrie with a clipboard... |
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| The Atheist Missionaries by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play with a Christian perspective. Single set (informal party) |
| Synopsis | A party is no place for Religion or Politics, but Brian is a recent convert to Christianity. Will his friends resist the urge to un-convert him? |
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| Attagirls by Emma Wise |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama. Single set (it's actually set in a very specific location, but really the requirements for set are negligible). |
| Synopsis | Through monologues and dialogue, British pilot Ann and American engineer Lillian address what life was like for the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary - or the 'Attagirls' - during World War II. |
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| The Attic Room by Elizabeth Anne Wells |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One male character is offstage voice only. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama on a single set, an attic in WWII-era Vienna. |
| Synopsis | Hanna, a young Jewish girl, hides from the Nazis in the house of an Austrian family. When soldiers begin to search the street, the family rush to decide what is right and wrong. |
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| The Audition by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play, single set (café interior). Simple props. |
| Synopsis | Whilst their daughters audition for a ballet, a group of mothers assembles in a café for a backbiting competition! |
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| The Babes in the Wood [Rhyming] by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Whilst the characters all have specific gender, it's a pantomime, so cast it however you like. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes lyrics for one optional song (to the tune of The Grand Old Duke of York). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A fun script which packs a lot of both physical and verbal comedy into its short running time |
| Synopsis | Ben and Lily are travelling through the dangerous Sherwood Forest, but these Babes are not as helpless as expected - they defend themselves with catapults and an assortment of vegetables against the Sheriff, the Nurse, Robin Hood, and even King Richard. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Babies by Jonathan Edgington
Runner up in the 'Pint-Sized Plays' 2009 playwriting competition. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute comedy play in two acts! Simple sets. Contains swearing and adult content. |
| Synopsis | Two new mothers discuss life, work, men, sex and babies in two conversations three months apart. |
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