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| Tainted Love by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Thirteen song suggestions, to be played between scenes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | An irreverent full-length comedy for adults with a single (living room) setting. Potentially offensive language. |
| Synopsis | Julie has invited her friends Vanessa, Sheila, and Carol over to her house, on the pretence of showing off her recently installed gazebo. Unbeknownst to her friends, Julie has something far more tantalising to share with them. |
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| The Taming of the Shrew [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Shakespeare's play efficiently cut down without damaging the flow of the story. A comedy in the renaissance sense of ordinary people, witty dialogue and a happy ending.
Contains Shakespearean insults. |
| Synopsis | Bianca has many suitors, but her father won't let her marry until he has also given away the hand of her hot-tempered and uncontrollable elder sister Katharina. While Lucentio concocts a plan to win Bianca as his wife, Petruchio decides to wed Katharina and subdue her shrewish nature. |
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| The Tempest [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The character list, like all of Shakespeare's work, is male-heavy. That has not prevented excellent productions by majority female casts! |
| Run Time | Around 61 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of Shakespeare on the boundary between a one-act and a full-lengh play. All words remain Shakespeare's, with one short speech added by the abridger to facilitate a character exit. |
| Synopsis | Since being usurped as Duke of Milan by his brother, Prospero and his daughter Miranda have lived on a deserted island. With the help of the spirit Ariel, he causes a tempest that shipwrecks his passing enemies. He aims to regain his dukedom and marry Miranda to Ferdinand, son of the King of Naples. |
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| Tempting Fête! by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length action-packed farce with a single (village fete) set. |
| Synopsis | Cathy is trapped in an idyllic country nightmare. Her husband's gone native and she's been taken hostage by the ladies from the local Cake Club. Forced to run their cake stall, she decides to make her escape, only to find herself thwarted by squashed confections, tangled bunting, rampaging bullocks and irresistible temptation. Contains adult themes. |
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| Thar's Gold in Them Hills by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Characters are adults plus one child (to be played either by teenagers or a mixture of adults and one or more children). Whilst there isn't a chorus specified, there is scope for extras. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | The clash of innocence and villainy and the 19th century setting bring this close to melodrama, from where it is diverted by a large volume of preposterous jokes! Single (California gold rush saloon) setting. Simple props include a cougar's ear! |
| Synopsis | Howard Huff and Betty Bristle are the villainous owners of the Shotgun Saloon in Sonora, California. Their ambition is to get rich fleecing the miners in the late days of the California gold rush, but it doesn't seem to be working. Into the bar walk Mary Ann and her daughter, Goldie, looking for work. Goldie immediately displays comic talent and the villains set about disposing of the mother and exploiting the innocent Goldie… Corny jokes and a happy ending ensue! |
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| That's the Spirit by Eileen Clark |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The Reverend Timms is written male, but might be played female. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny and farcical script which has a great selection of characters, a fast pace, and a good mix of physical and verbal humour. Well contained on one set. |
| Synopsis | Bertie and his sister Harriet are trying to sell off their dilapidated family mansion, but the discovery of a skeleton in the cellar, and the subsequent appearance of a ghostly maid, throws a spanner in the works. Can they send Ruby back to her rest without alerting their fey sister Emily, sly council official Jones or nosy neighbour Miss Potts? |
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| There's One in Every Show by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One of the characters is a young boy, the rest are adults (mainly over-the-top thespians). |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy, set around a struggling (American) theatre company. Contains very minor swearing. |
| Synopsis | For years Sheldon has held together his troupe of actors with the promise of a show, but now his accountant has signed up a producer, who's found a backer and they're going to have to perform at last. But the script is bad - worse than the actors themselves - and they have the Sponsor's idiot son involved too... |
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| Thesps by Nigel Holloway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Nucleus of 10 principals plus company of singers. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for the 13 Gilbert and Sullivan songs used in the script are supplied with the Producer's Copy. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play, using the music of Gilbert and Sullivan. The settings are a drama group's rehearsal room and the stage. |
| Synopsis | The thespians of The Off The Wall Theatre Company are trying to stage Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinnafore. The chairman has hired-in Caroline, a professional director, to help them. Unfortunately, Barney, one of the company, has had a steamy affair with the director in the past. Barney wants to escape, whilst Caroline wants to resume where they left off. Of course, the rest of the company step in to help Barney out of his hole - unfortunately, their idea of help seems to involve even more digging! |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Midi files of songs from the show
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| They Do And They Don't by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with a single (living room) set. |
| Synopsis | Old friends Ward and Lefty support each other in a loyal male bonding way, despite Lefty's affair with Ward's wife June, but their friendship is strained when demands from June and wayward daughter Julia, intrude. |
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| Things We Should Have Said Today by Pete Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Three generations of a family. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedic family saga with a single (farmhouse kitchen) set. Contains robust language. |
| Synopsis | Betty is having a bad day. She's overheating, her mother is demented, her son is coming out, her daughter is getting divorced, the farm is losing money and her husband is hiding away from it all under the tractor. Or is he just dead? |
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