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Above and Beyond by Robert Scott Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Music to be played in background at certain points in the script, including a TV-style theme tune, to be chosen at producer's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length farce on a single set - which is both a bookshop and a hotel lobby. |
Synopsis | Mortimer and Philomena run a hotel with their child, Alexus. But this is no normal hotel - for one thing, it’s in a bookshop, and for another, the clients and owners are from outer space! |
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Act Naturally by Giles Scott Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy on two sets (community hall/park). |
Synopsis | The Historic Sites Preservation Society is in financial trouble, and they need to do something about it quickly. Certainly a play seems like a good idea, especially when they save money by writing it themselves, but can they act? |
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Anger Management by Robert Scott Best Seller The Allerton Players won the People's Award at Richmond One Act Drama Festival, UK and won the cup for Best Technical Achievement and Stage Management. (2019) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | A group anger management session takes a turn for the worse when the facilitator suggests the participants re-enact the things that got them sent there in the first place. |
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A Bride In The Hand by Angela Lanyon Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length farce with a single setting. |
Synopsis | Widowed Kate is to marry George and daughter Vickie is doing her best to organise the wedding day, which is becoming more and more frenetic. Best man Eddie is variously mistaken for a delivery man, an electrician and Vickie’s fiancée - but his true identity turns out to be even more bizarre. |
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Charlie to the Checkout Please by Robert Scott Charlie To The Checkout Please - Best Play Legacy High School Theater, Las Vegas (2018) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All roles are gender non-specific. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act comedy set in a supermarket with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | It’s Riley’s first day on the checkout, and things are not going well: product returns, complaints, queue-jumping and an armed robbery! Charlie said he’d be on hand, but he’s not answering the PA. So Riley steps up. |
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Crackerjoke Writer by Paul Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play with plenty of acting challenges. A black comedy about comedians who are just not funny. Single set (with no specific set requirements) and simple props. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | There is a comedy pit, where unfunny comedians are held captive. That's where Ade finds himself, despite thinking that he's the next big thing in comedy. He has one chance to break out with a new act and it depends on deadbeat failure, Bunny. |
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A Day at the Vets by Helen Bradley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedic sketch on a single set. |
Synopsis | Mr Chalmers the vet has a bad day, as his three least favourite customers - and their imaginary pets - show up in succession. |
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Detour by Kev Salter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Four characters must be played by the same (male) actor. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single airport lounge setting. |
Synopsis | Stranded in a remote Latvian airport as their plane undergoes a bizarre series of repairs, a group of passengers regret choosing a budget airline. |
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The Fly by Karen Ince |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch for two actors which has both cerebral and slapstick humour. The Fly has no relation to George Langelaan's short story or the subsequent films. (No mad scientists were hurt during the creation of this sketch.) |
Synopsis | Mr and Mrs Brown reveal the secret sides of themselves, whilst concealing then from each other, through a pithy and witty script. |
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Howard Does His Best by Geoff Parker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The 10 'soldiers' are gender non-specific. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy suitable for performance by teens and chldren. |
Synopsis | At the school dance, Howard, egged on by Wayne and Dave, sets out to cross the dance floor to ask Chardonnay (the most beautiful girl in the school) for a dance, but on the way various bits of his body begin to let him down. |
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