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Friends Help You Move by John L. Ward
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RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All characters have been scripted as male, but Macker and Nally can be played as female with minimal changes to dialogue.
Run TimeAround 33 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleAn enjoyable gangster comedy with humourous banter. Single set with just a few items of furniture. US English, with strong language and violence.
SynopsisTwo inept thieves, Nally and Macker, are planning a heist, and need to convince O'Hara to come onboard. The problem is, O'Hara is a violent psychopath, and Macker has a tendency to get irritable. When Macker knocks O'Hara unconscious, the two must think quick.
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Gold! by Kate Stafford
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two on-stage actors plus one female on video and 4 offstage male voices. So this is essentially a two-hander plus recordings.
Run TimeAround 42 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act play with elements of comedy, drama and romance (plus a serious fight, and some swearing).
SynopsisJulie and Dave are a couple in their 60s who have been hiding a secret for decades - the stash of gold they stole as part of the Brink's-Mat robbery 40 years previously. With their daughter relying on them to fund her expensive wedding, they may finally have to cash it in, but someone from the past is following them.
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The Man From Clerihan by Paul Maher
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 40 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy-drama in a single kitchen set. Themes from Chekhov's 'The Bear' elegantly reworked into modern day Ireland.
SynopsisWillie Cleary, a builder, calls on Mary Kate, the young widow of his recently deceased best friend, to collect money that is owing to him. Mary Kate is adamant that she owes him no money, so there is a high stakes stand-off. Mary Kate's fun-loving sister is only too happy to stoke-up the tension in a ferocious battle of wits between a very stubborn man and an equally stubborn woman.
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No Strings Attached by Johnny Grim
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 23 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThe producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for two songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleA one act play with music, set in a puppet tent.
SynopsisFlip and Scratch are fairground puppets, once big stars but now fallen on hard times. Faced with the inevitable decline of their audiences, they discuss their various options.
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Seeing Red by Karen Ankers
Production by Dingwall Players won Best Play, SCDA One Act Festival (Moray Firth District) 2019
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 36 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act drama with humorous undertones, with a single, park bench setting.
SynopsisWith a strong touch of satire, we find Nellie brazenly committing the supposed heinous offence of knitting. Young Belinda is horrified as she discovers Nellie openly and defiantly knitting in such a public place... but is liberated as Nellie's past experiences come to light.
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Time and Chance by Audrey Lee
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 34 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA 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.)
SynopsisMiss 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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ExtrasThe 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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Welcome to Paradise Road by Brian Coyle
Best Script in Festival - Page to Stage Theatre Festival, Liverpool (2016)
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 58 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA satirical thriller with a set alternating between an office and a living room.
SynopsisIn a society where nothing is private and no one knows who to trust, a woman’s partner has disappeared. She is visiting her neighbour, head of the local Neighbourhood Watch, to find out if she’s heard anything about his disappearance. Will her neighbour help her or is this the person she should be most afraid of?
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