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Counter Secret by Clive David Lloyd Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. The character genders can be whatever you wish, with a few changes of pronoun. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Macabre thriller set in a shop. |
Synopsis | Dumpling and Pottage run a butcher's shop, with great pride in the quality they offer. However, behind their success is a carefully guarded secret - they have hit upon a novel way to reduce overheads by taking an innovative approach to serving some of their customers. When the Law intervenes, there are some rapid changes of ownership. |
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Cradle of the Cruel Mistress by Tony George |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. The roles are mainly men (as you would expect from a ship's company), but the writer notes six that could be played by women. |
Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length supernatural thriller. Satisfying nautical tale with an interesting historical setting and well developed characters. Not shirking the grimness of the Georgian navy, but, leavened with comic relief. |
Synopsis | Captain Benjamin Bligh has been on suspended leave for two years since a mutiny spiralled out of control on his watch. Finally returning to active service in George III's navy, he struggles to prove his worth once again, but strange apparitions of his old enemies appear. |
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Dead Ringer by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters are all adults |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Not so much a whodunnit as 'who is doing what to whom?' One-act play, single simple interior set. |
Synopsis | Margo drags her friend Fran to a séance. The sceptical Fran doesn't expect to be able to contact Margo's dead husband but then strange things begin to happen... |
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The Deposit by Henry P. Gravelle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with a single (bank vault) setting. US English. |
Synopsis | Three rookie thieves believe they've pulled off the heist of the year until one forgets the most important rule - stay focused. |
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Dig In For Murder by Angela Lanyon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length thriller. |
Synopsis | Tensions rise as final preparations for tomorrow's village fete become fractious and old enmities come to the surface. This results in a gruesome murder in the garden shed and everyone, including the vicar, is suspect. |
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Even Numbers by Tony Domaille Best Seller Winner of the Derek Jacobi Award for New Playwriting 2023. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Dr Vincent is written male, but could be played female. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Multi-award-winning thriller with strongly written dialogue and good roles for three actors. One-act, one set (prison consulting room) with a scene in a prison cell created purely by lighting. |
Synopsis | Mary-Ann has poisoned and killed five people and Doctor Vincent must make an assessment of her mental state for the court. In trying to establish if she is insane, or just plain evil, a shocking truth is discovered. |
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An Evening to Forget by Rupert Dick |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | The 'Boss coming to dinner' trope is one that has been used for years, but this script succeeds in taking it in a new direction in spectacular fashion with elements of light comedy, farce and thriller. |
Synopsis | Olivia is worried, because her boss is coming to dinner and it’s very short notice. And he’s bringing a companion. And it’s a very important dinner. But when things really go wrong, it’s not any of the issues she was imagining. |
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The Hound Of The Baskervilles [Version 2] by Matthew Harper |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length Victorian thriller, with various settings and many short scenes. |
Synopsis | A fast paced dramatisation of the Conan-Doyle favourite, moving quickly and effortlessly from Holmes' cerebral consideration of the case, to the perils awaiting him and Dr Watson, not to mention Sir Henry Baskerville on Dartmoor. |
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I Am Hamlet by Richard James Performance by Portree ADS won the Wakefield Quaich Award for Presentation, Scottish One Act Festival, 2011, Performance by Thurso Players won Best Play award at the SCDA One Act Play Festival, 2012, |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy thriller, single bare-stage set. |
Synopsis | An amateur actor auditions for the lead role in a local production of Hamlet. There is some fun to be had as the director puts him through his acting paces, but slowly we learn that the actor has more in common with the Prince of Denmark than meets the eye... |
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Exclusions | Due to professional performances, this script is not available for performance in the following places at the following times:- Spain, ES from the first day of January, 2022 to the last day of January, 2026 50 mile radius of Mexico City, MX from the first day of April, 2024 to the last day of October, 2024 |
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In One Form Or Another by Nikki Pontin |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Doctor could be played by m or f. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy includes 3 suggested pieces of music, to add atmosphere for this play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act gothic thriller, with a living room setting and specific lighting effects. |
Synopsis | Helen, Edward and their son have moved into their dream home, unaware of its history and the events which took place there. With increasing horror, Jacob seems to be the catalyst for the terrifying happenings - which Helen in particular is unable to deal with. As she relates events to a psychiatrist, the full horror becomes apparent. |
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