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Dutch Courage by Elizabeth Bell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A poignant monologue with a single (bedroom) setting. |
Synopsis | Maggie is preparing to leave for Holland where her husband Geoff, at his own request, will enter a euthanasia clinic. Her feelings and emotions bubble under the surface and gather tension as the transport arrives. |
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Edna Clouds by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming monologue (with no requirement for set or props.) |
Synopsis | The cautionary tale of a girl wrapped-up in daydreaming! |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Everything Stops for Tea by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy (prose) monologue. |
Synopsis | It is the day of the village fete, and Joyce Bernard, stalwart of the WI manages to keep her composure when the organiser casts a critical eye on her tea tent. |
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Fairy Dust Up by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script suggests a song to be played over the opening and closing of the sketch. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short comedy monologue. No set required. |
Synopsis | Olivia is in the dressing room of a small theatre, contemplating her future as a panto fairy. |
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Feeding the Pigs by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An enjoyably grim monologue. |
Synopsis | Mara has killed her husband and needs to get rid of the body. She takes him, at dead of night, to a pig farm ten miles away to feed him to the pigs. She succeeds, but makes a potentially damning mistake. |
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A Fevver For Me 'At by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming monologue in a cockney accent! Designed to form part of a music hall entertainment. (No set, no props.) |
Synopsis | A lady who glories in the correct headgear (and the accessories for it) reveals the trouble she went to, preparing for tea with the vicar. |
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The Final Eppy Log by Laurie Hornsby |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. One on-stage character plus an offstage newsread (single line) which might be recorded. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Dramatic monologue with a single bedroom set. |
Synopsis | On the night he is destined to die of a drug overdose, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, reflects on his life and career. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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The Fisherman by Archie Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A lengthy monologue with no set required. |
Synopsis | The life of an East Coast fisherman, before and after the Second World War, is related in an evocative monologue. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Gentleman Moll by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. This is essentially a female monologue, but there's an offstage male voice with a single line (probably a recording). |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute dramatic monologue. Single set (furniture only, and not much of that). |
Synopsis | It is 1749, and young Moll Tyler sits in a prison cell on the eve of her execution. She reflects on her career as a highwaywoman. |
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Going Digital by E. C. Chapman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A monologue set in an armchair surrounded by remote controls. |
Synopsis | Patricia, in her eighties, struggles to adapt to the increasingly complex technology which threatens to leave her generation behind. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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