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Dead Men Don't Eat Quiche by David Pemberton
Published: 4 December 2024 |
| 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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A Montage of Monet by Joan Greening
Published: 4 December 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 0. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act monologue - a hit at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe. An fascinating biography that doesn't shy away from showing the artist's more negative personality traits, which makes it an interesting challenge for the actor. |
| Synopsis | Claude Monet, at 84 years old, reflects on his career struggles, the eventual success of his impressionism, and his loves and losses. |
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You Butterfly by Steve Eddison
Published: 27 November 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. Single, simple set. Includes adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Elderly Betty is suffering memory loss and dementia. Her odd behaviour in the middle of the night leads to the uncovering of a family skeleton that would have been best left in the cupboard, or perhaps her father's shed. |
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Potted Pride & Prejudice by Nadya Henwood
Published: 26 November 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Written for a cast of 4 playing 14 roles (with one of the men playing the older female roles). |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!]
The original production (with a cast of 4) ran between 45 and 50 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, designed to be performed in a simple set (just furniture brought on by the cast). Essentially a drama, but with comedy, not least from the casting. |
| Synopsis | Mrs Bennet is keen to find husbands for her four daughters, especially when the wealthy Mr Bingley moves into the area. Elizabeth instantly dislikes the snobbish Darcy, and Lydia runs off with the charming Wickham, but not everyone is how they first seem. |
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Dastardly Devon by Deb Meyer
Published: 14 November 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. Optional, non-speaking (but definitely growling) chorus of wolves. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act children's play in American English. A single, simple set. |
| Synopsis | Blair, Mateo and Charles - better known as the Three Little Pigs - are terrified of Devon, the dastardly wolf. But Devon is not the monster they expect him to be, and has problems of his own, having been cast out of his bullying wolf pack. |
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Dreadfully Good by Peter Robbie
Published: 13 November 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for a cast of 5, set in a theatre. |
| Synopsis | As they await the adjudicator's verdict, two amateur actresses pass their own judgement on the performances at a drama festival. But their bitchiness causes trouble in the auditorium and the adjudicator turns out to be an old 'friend'. |
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Pigeon Syndrome by Benjamin Keyser
Published: 30 October 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two actors and a puppeteer who operates and voices various pigeons. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestion for a couple of recordings that might be played during the performance. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A relationship comedy with a mix of dry humour and heart. One act, one set. |
| Synopsis | When a husband steps on a bee that his wife has been trying to save, it seems their marriage has hit rock bottom. But he inadvertently gets back into her good books by saving an injured pigeon that's flown into the window, and finally believes he's found a way to restore their passion for each other. |
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Time and Chance by Audrey Lee
Published: 29 October 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act play built from three monologues. Strongly developed characters, emotion and humour, and a strong payoff.. Set in the mid 20th century. Requires only furniture. (Oh, all right. And actors.) |
| Synopsis | Miss Bradford is the supervisor of a secretarial typing pool who has devoted her life to her career and avoided any personal connections. Mr Fish is the head of mailing who fancies himself and Miss Bradford spending their retirement together. And Tracey Spencer is a young woman applying for a job, who gets caught in the middle of the two. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Zip file containing Intro and play-out music written for the original production of Audrey Lee's 'Time and Chance'.
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Mrs Hudson and the Mystery of the Disappearing Trombonist by Richard Moon
Published: 25 October 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Three male roles, but playable by the same actor. Five female roles, requiring at least four actors. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in a single set. An original case for Sherlock Holmes' housekeeper (although she does help solve a better-known Holmes case on the side). |
| Synopsis | A young man walks into his house and, apparently, disappears from the face of the Earth. But Daisy has fallen in love with him, and wants to know what happened. Mrs Hudson and Mrs Madingley investigate. |
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A Therapist Unleashed by Barry Lambert and Amy Randall
Published: 21 October 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy/drana in a single set. (On the way to a satisfactory resolution, there's room for the actors to explore a range of emotions and even have a fight.) |
| Synopsis | Shelly has a full roster of therapy clients, but she starts to notice some interesting things about their stories - like points where they intersect. She can't help the individuals herself, but maybe she can try something really unusual... |
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