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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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Accident of Birth by Trevor Suthers
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Two speaking characters and one optional non-speaking character.
Run TimeAround 25 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act play on a single (interview room) set.
SynopsisAnthony, a patient/inmate in Broadmoor, confronts his birth mother in an attempt to discover the cause of his insanity.
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After School Special by Donna Brightwell
Production by ZigZag Theatre Group won four awards (including Best Youth Production) at Brantham Festival 2014
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters are teenagers (plus a waitress).
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act play for teenagers, single café set.
SynopsisWith the guys too shy to ask the girls, and the girls too shy to ask the guys, will anyone be going to the Senior Prom? Luckily, the waitress at the coffee shop takes a hand...
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Aim by Terry Adlam
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 25 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort thriller - one act, single, simple set, few props. Contains violence and swearing.
SynopsisTwo men - the edgy Wolf and laid-back Dove - are waiting in a room to meet a third man. When their visitor arrives, he has an unexpected female companion, and all the plans seem to be going wrong.
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Air Raid by Liz Dobson
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 33 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicSuggested songs from the period to be sung by characters. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleOne-act historical drama set in a WW2 air raid shelter.
SynopsisDespair, exhaustion and fear stand shoulder to shoulder with the love, compassion and humour characteristic of the residents of London’s East End as they gather in an air raid shelter.
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Alekhine's Greatest Defeat by Vithal Rajan
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. Chorus. The characters include Ramanujan Varadachary, an old Indian story-teller - a sutradhari, as he is called in Indian drama tradition and his younger self in the 1920s. The (non-speaking) chorus comprises student chess players in 1920s Paris.
Run TimeAround 25 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Split-stage set, simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience.
SynopsisGame One in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Varadachary, the story teller, relates how he witnessed Russian Grand Master Alexander Alekhine fall in love whilst losing a chess match in Paris to a beautiful student.
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Alibi by Jonathan Caldicot
RolesMinimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 25 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act play for teenagers. Single set (ten chairs). Contains mild swearing.
SynopsisTen young people re-live the last few days after the owner of the shop where they hang out dies in an arson attack. Everyone says the kids did it, but did they?
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All in the Past by Wendy Ash
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters and an offstage voice (belonging to an undertaker).
Run TimeAround 29 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act revenge drama, single set.
SynopsisTrevor suffered at the hands of bullies Jim and Mike at school. Now in his forties he contacts them again and wreaks his revenge. The catalyst for his plan is the death of his partner which adds a surprising and poignant finale.
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Angel by Naadir Joseph
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion.
Run TimeAround 28 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act play with various (simple) settings.
SynopsisA moving piece of drama - in which a group of homeless young people are given hope by one of their number, Kevin. His optimism and sense of family brings them courage to face the future.
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Antigone by Stewart Boston
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 23 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short one act adaptation of a Greek myth
SynopsisA dramatic retelling of Sophocles’ tragedy, suitable for performance by secondary/high school students and youth theatre. Two brothers died fighting each other for the throne of Thebes in Ancient Greece. Creon, the new ruler, has decided to honour one (Eleocles) and shame the other (Polynices). Their sister Antigone defies Creon's order and wants to arrange an honourable burial for Polynices.
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