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AWOL by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A well-scripted short scene for two actors and a bench and gives good opportunity for two actors to explore a range of emotions. (The bench is expected to deliver a wooden performance.) |
Synopsis | Danny is determined to desert the army and cross the border before his leave is over. He plans a future with Jane, his fiancée, but doubts and fears come out during their farewell. |
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B & B by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun and frantic, short one act farce. |
Synopsis | It's opening week for the Bay View Bed and Breakfast, but the owners aren't getting the idyllic escape from the rat race they hoped for. Guests are leaving as fast as they arrive, and the demands are almost as bizarre as the pets and habits of the ones who try to stay. |
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The Babbling Brookes: Ed And Breakfast by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 25-minute comedy drama, part of the 'Babbling Brookes' trilogy. |
Synopsis | Eddie and his Mum are at loggerheads again, and this time neither will apologise. The trouble is, Eddie isn’t even sure what it is he’s not apologising for. Meanwhile, Richie is getting worked up about his annual Yard Sale. |
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The Babbling Brookes: Rags to Richie by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 30-minute comedy drama, part of the 'Babbling Brookes' trilogy. |
Synopsis | Richie 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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The Babes in the Wood [Rhyming] by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Whilst the characters all have specific gender, it's a pantomime, so cast it however you like. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script includes lyrics for one optional song (to the tune of The Grand Old Duke of York). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A fun script which packs a lot of both physical and verbal comedy into its short running time |
Synopsis | Ben and Lily are travelling through the dangerous Sherwood Forest, but these Babes are not as helpless as expected - they defend themselves with catapults and an assortment of vegetables against the Sheriff, the Nurse, Robin Hood, and even King Richard. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Babies by Jonathan Edgington Runner up in the 'Pint-Sized Plays' 2009 playwriting competition. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute comedy play in two acts! Simple sets. Contains swearing and adult content. |
Synopsis | Two new mothers discuss life, work, men, sex and babies in two conversations three months apart. |
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Baboushka by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Whilst there is no formal requirement for a chorus, there are options for attendants for the Wise Men, and a choir. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | There are places for a couple of carols during the performance. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Short, charming dramatisation of the Russian Christmastide folk tale. |
Synopsis | Baboushka welcomes the Three Wise Men into her spotless home as they pause overnight on their journey to Bethlehem. She is too busy cleaning her house to accompany them as they follow the star and subsequently spends the rest of her life searching for the Christ child. |
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Baciato Dalla Grazia by Jonathan Edgington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. All characters are teenagers. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Five-minute play for teenagers. No set requirements. Contains swearing (as some teenagers do). |
Synopsis | Painfully shy around girls he fancies, Jon gets some useful advice from his cool friend Pete to help him talk to a girl. It still doesn't turn out Jon's way. |
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Back in the Bookshop by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Simple props - books! |
Synopsis | People go into a bookshop and.. um.. buy books. Or not. (This is not a sequel to the TLC Creative sketch 'In the Bookshop', but it could very easily be the same store, whence the title.) |
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Back in the Saddle by Janice Sampson |
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 | Short monody (a monologue with a little action and a few simple props) for a much-married middle-aged woman. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | Rita has had a somewhat chequered life when it comes to men. Four husbands with a few boyfriends thrown in along the way has given her a somewhat caustic view of weddings. Nevertheless she has accepted an invitation to her friend's nuptials despite the downmarket location at the local pub with a pork pie buffet. 'Back in the Saddle' is a comedy monologue in which Rita brings the wedding to life for us and we share in her surprise as her re-union with a long forgotten school friend at the reception has unexpected consequences for them both. |
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