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Don't Bury The Banjo by John Peel
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Five speaking roles and two non-speaking pallbearers.
Run TimeAround 130 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull-length drama - with comedy and pathos - with a single kitchen/store room setting.
SynopsisRuth Thwaites is preparing for her husband's funeral, and is delighted her son Jake has come home for it. But Jake's life in the big city isn't all he's made it out to be, and his 'friend' Roiseen has tracked him down to break some big news.
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Donegal Calling by John Peel
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Six on-stage characters, five off-stage voices.
Run TimeAround 120 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull-length drama in a single set (which needs only furniture).
SynopsisRoisin and Johnny, strangers, are thrown together one evening in the busy foyer of a hotel. They share a bottle of wine and conversation brings out major events in their lives. Both had fallen in love - both relationships ended tragically, for very different reasons - but Donegal keeps calling them back. One year later in the same hotel, the same busy foyer, they meet again as friends. More information about past events comes to light - enough to clear the way to give them a future together?
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It's Business As Usual by John Peel
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Eight on-stage characters and an off-stage voice.
Run TimeAround 120 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull length comedy play, largely set in the office of a pie making company. (A couple of scenes elsewhere which could be created without separate sets.)
SynopsisPlover's Pies may be in financial trouble. Certainly the bank want a closer look at the books, but the man they send has a few useful ideas for the business, if Percy Plover can drag his attention away from golf and his new secretary.
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Joe Briggs-Widower by John Peel
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 170 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull-length drama. Single farmhouse kitchen set.
SynopsisJoe Briggs, widowed five years previously, breeds pigs on a hill farm. He lives with his only daughter Kate, a single schoolteacher. His farm-worker is Vincent who is also unmarried and who has lived in a tied cottage since he was a boy. Joe's elder sister, the many times wed Gertrude, keeps the financial records. The pig industry is in a downturn and against Joe's wishes Gertrude employs Lesley Jardine, a business consultant for advice. This results in Liz Ryan co-owner of Ryan's Country Foods Ltd, coming to the farm. Having planned on living a quiet life, Joe is thrust into a world he doesn't understand. His business is unprofitable, he has a failed relationship and there are plans to construct a wind farm on his land.
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Natterjack by John Peel
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Rod is an off-stage voice and therefore might be doubled or recorded.
Run TimeAround 150 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull-length play - at its heart, a drama of practical politics, but leavened with plenty of comedy.
SynopsisA shed by a river has become home to a tramp. When he discovers that plans to build a bridge put his home under threat, he engages with politicians, engineers and a barrister. Chaos ensues, and a visit from the Minister for Transport spectacularly fails to improve the situation.
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Rich Man Poor Man by John Peel
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 94 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA two-act drama set in 1990s London, on a compound office/boardroom set.
SynopsisA drama of power and greed. Years of family repression and business ruthlessness surface when Sir Hugh Pierce-Morgan decides to expand his investment house. The question is - in order for his business to survive, is he capable of atonement?
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Right Move by John Peel
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Four parts are offstage voices. Gill and Jack are on stage for most of the show, but there are never more than an additional 1M, 1F with them, hence it could be done by 4, though this might be a little frantic!
Run TimeAround 123 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA full length comedy in three acts.
SynopsisGill and Jack are adjusting to their new home, but with most of their furniture still undelivered, it's not easy. And the phone doesn't work. And their neighbours are strange. Not to mention the dead body in the cellar...
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Rock 'n' Roll Sunset by John Peel
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The two gender-non-specific roles are offstage voices only.
Run TimeAround 104 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicRock music is heard at the opening and close of the play. Choice of tracks is at the production's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleFull-length drama on a single (dressing room) set.
SynopsisStadium tours are just a remote memory for Western Storm as they kill an hour before returning to stage in a small town venue. Their two talented new female musicians are frustrated by the reluctance of the original band members to play anything other than their hit songs. But when the band’s manager announces a big recording contract for the girls, what does the future hold for the rest?
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Starting All Over by John Peel
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 111 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA full length play with a single setting.
SynopsisDaisy and Roz share a house in the country - since Roz's latest husband died and Daisy's divorce. But Daisy's daughter still wants her parents to reunite. The pair struggle to find their place in the community and the wider world... with an unexpected ending?
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Sunshine on my Shoulder by John Peel
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 80 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicOne well-known song is suggested to be played at the ending. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleA full-length drama about a holiday to Tenerife - though able to be performed with minimal sets.
SynopsisThe final sale of the family business has just been confirmed, and Thomas is off on a golfing holiday with his wife Pru and their friends Guy and Sally. But things aren’t quite as they seem for Guy and Pru.
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