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12hr Life by Robert Scott
People's Choice Award by Manchester High School's Lancer Theatre Company, USA 2017
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act drama for a cast of two and a minimalist setting.
SynopsisDylan should be going to a conference, but a chance encounter with Samantha and some forthright discussion, and he's playing truant and having the time of his life. Is it possible to live a life in one day?
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The Adventures of Captain Blood by Geoff and Vera Rogers
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Variable chorus size possible at the Producer's discretion.
Run TimeAround 56 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThere are 7 song suggestions included with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleA family show (possibly an alternative to Pantomime) told in verse, structurally in two acts but run time is approximately one hour.
SynopsisIn an original comedic rhyming story, a band of treasure-crazy Pirates are caught in a storm... shipping them onto dry land. Unknown to the Pirates, this landfall will result in their meeting three women - determined to make husbands of them, and the disguised love of their press-ganged crewmember. There are opportunities for fun audience interactions and some familiar songs.
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After Esme by Kathryn West
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 40 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy for a female cast, set in three cafes and in the vicinity of a secluded bench. (So a single set with a variety of set dressing.)
SynopsisAlice, Jenny and Pauline get together for regular catch-ups, though they have a habit of getting kicked out of restaurants - and there's someone missing. Each of the women reconciles in their own way with the loss of their friend Esme.
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As They Like It by Nicholas Richards
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 23 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA light one act drama with a 17th Century Inn setting.
SynopsisWilliam Shakespeare is struggling to get the approval of his company, who are adamant that the first draft of the 'Scottish Play' is lacking in a number of key characters. His friends are quite persuasive and he is encouraged by barmaid Meg. So the bard relents and the play - as we now know it - is born.
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The Babbling Brookes: Rags to Richie by Robert Scott
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA 30-minute comedy drama, part of the 'Babbling Brookes' trilogy.
SynopsisRichie Brookes is a real liability - so much so that his wife won’t leave him alone without a responsible adult to supervise him. Today it’s their long-suffering daughter Kerry-Ann who’s drawn the short straw.
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Balloons in the Bar by Louise Wade
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 23 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act comedy drama on a single (hotel bar) set.
SynopsisJessica has sneaked away from her own hen party, and found the quieter hotel bar tended by Jake. She’s just collecting her thoughts when Rob, the man hired as a stripper for the hens, staggers in, also having second thoughts.
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Bat Out Of Heaven by Frank Gibbons
Short-listed in the Drama Association of Wales Competition 2008.
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters are a mix of teenagers and two generations of adults. Could be played by such a mix, or possibly by a youth theatre group. Four table tennis players appear for opening and closing mimes. (The doctor is written male, but could be female.)
Run TimeAround 50 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA powerful one-act drama, well-told, treating the central theme sensitively but without excessive sentimentality. Multiple locations but designed for very simple staging.
SynopsisJessie is the favoured daughter, getting perhaps too much of Mum's interest in her Table Tennis efforts. Her brother is jealous, and things take a turn for the worse when Jessie is diagnosed with leukaemia. Her Mum must admit that she is adopted, and so her brother Rob cannot be a marrow donor. Rob sets out on a quest to find a donor sibling.
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Bigger Fish by Clive David Lloyd Williams
New
RolesMinimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 62 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleCrime drama from a slice of 1960s British history. Multiple sets, but can be done with just furniture. On the boundary between one-act and full-length drama. (Could be paired with a shorter play for an evening of one-act drama, or stand on its own.)
SynopsisPoliceman 'Nipper' Read sees The Great Train Robbery as a chance, not just to make his mark in the police force, but to get the chance to go after the bigger fish - starting with the Kray twins. It’ll take time, but he's a determined man.
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** Jpeg image by Jo Goodberry designed to form the basis for a poster for 'Bigger Fish' by Clive David Lloyd Williams
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Bill and Ben the Twilight Men by Frank Gibbons
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Characters with playing ages from thirties to sixties.
Run TimeAround 55 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne act comedy, single set (lounge bar of a village pub). Contains mild swearing and Lancashire accents.
SynopsisBill is a curmudgeonly barman who nurses a desperate love for the landlady, Rose, but she's being courted by out-of-towner Ben, a suave, rich man. But a new guest at the pub, a spate of burglaries and the local copper's inventions combine to turn Bill's fortunes around.
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Black Combe by John Peel
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 49 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act drama, creating some tensions, with a single set.
SynopsisThree separate meetings take place on the same day, in the bar of the Duck and Feathers. Each of them, in their own way, affects the life of the landlord, Jimmy. Is it true that the clouds over Black Combe are bringing him bad luck?
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