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The Twa Sisters by Tom Guest
Published: 24 November 2023 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics for four (out-of-copyright) Northumbrian folk songs are included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A grim but well told tale, with some nice moments of black humour. Five locations, but with minimal sets. |
| Synopsis | Jealousy and resentment leads Ailsa and Blyth to murder their sister Corinne. But Corinne’s absence doesn't get Blyth the respect she craves from their mother, nor does it win back Duncan for Ailsa.
Based on a North East folk tale, with a backdrop of folk songs from the region. |
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Phantomime by Jonathan Goodson
Published: 10 November 2023 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There's one suggested song for which a piano and vocal score is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Full length comedy play in a single set. Despite the panto content, this is a play aimed at an adult cast and audience. The characters are interesting, the situation is novel, the dialogue is snappy and fun, and the conclusion is satisfying. |
| Synopsis | A novel twist on the theme of putting on a play. Bernadette's spirit must haunt the school where she was Headmistress until they put on a performance worthy to be a tribute to the village's war dead. Now she only has ex-pupil Tiffany the janitor to help her pull together the perfect panto. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Vocal Demo and rehearsal track (piano with vocal line played on another instrument) for 'Crystal Shallows', the original song from 'Phantomime' by Jonathan Goodson.
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Doctor Hoof by Diana Kimpton
Published: 6 November 2023 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. All characters are animals behaving as humans (with options for any mix of gender). Flexible singing chorus (from none to lots). |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Choruses set to traditional tunes are included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short play for children. (It might be described as a light comedy or a light morality play.) Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Doctor Hoof only treats other horses. When he moves to a new town, he finds he's the only horse around, so there's no one for him to treat. Helped by the other animals, he gradually learns they are not as different from him as he thought. |
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As You Like It [75-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw
Published: 18 October 2023 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing allows for the three Shakespearian songs embedded in the script. |
| Music | Three of Shakespeare's songs (without music) are included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A 75-minute abridgement of Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall in love. Girl exiled into forest by powerful uncle and disguises self as boy. Boy kicked out of home by grumpy brother. Boy meets girl again. Girl, as boy, tricks boy into seducing her. Another girl meets girl, and thinking she's a boy, falls in love. Subplot about a jester. Classic love story all round. |
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The Vanity of Dorian Gray by Valerie Goodwin
Published: 12 October 2023 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 5 (public domain) songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Seventy-five minute adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel, peppered with Victorian and Edwardian music hall songs and comedy. |
| Synopsis | The hedonistic young man Dorian Gray makes a wish that his portrait would age instead of himself, and the wish comes true. He takes advantage of his eternal youth to court and then dispose of a never-ending line of young women, but four decades later, his sins catch up with him. |
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