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Never Mind the Bonnets by Lou Treleaven
Published: 19 November 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Fourteen characters, playable by a cast of 10 (plus a brief cameo from the stage crew, playing a conga of servants). |
| Run Time | Around 88 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes lyrics to three (mercifully short) songs from Lord Meddlesome (who fancies himself as a shantyman). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Engagingly comic parody of Jane Austen's 19th century romances. Nominally three locations, but these are all interiors and can be created with furniture and stage dressing. |
| Synopsis | In the Regency Era, a family of young women and their mother are forced to accept a small property on a relative's estate when the man of the family dies. Naturally, they must be thrown into the path of suitable husbands ... |
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Turning The Tables by Bob Hartwell
Published: 5 November 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Nine on-stage characters and two offstage (male) voices. |
| Run Time | Around 114 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length, fast-paced comedy in a single café set. |
| Synopsis | Londoner Freddie Fleetwood buys the Cozee Corner Café in a rural village, planning to open an upmarket eaterie. But the cook and waitress regard themselves as fixtures and fittings, and an elderly customer always shows up even when the place is closed. Throw in Freddie's dodgy business adviser and a French chef who cannot speak French, and all seems lost. |
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Curse of the Headless Huntsman by Robin Steggles & Sharon Hulm
Published: 14 October 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for three songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A very funny, fast-paced comedy-thriller with a satisfying (if very silly) mystery. |
| Synopsis | It is 1900, and in the sleepy Suffolk village of St Dunstan's. A local legend says that when the Headless Huntsman rides, a death will follow. After the bizarre and unexplained death of the vicar, Acting Sergeant Angelica Thorn and hapless Constable John Long are called in to investigate. But as more deaths follow, Angelica's ambition to become England's first female detective seems to be slipping from her grasp. |
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Sinister Synaster by Jilly McNeil
Published: 20 September 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 87 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy which draws a lot of humour from farcical confusion. Single set. |
| Synopsis | The Synaster siblings are trying to bump off their elder brother, Aloysius, so they can be free of their crumbling old house. Two stranded women stop by the house and one is accidentally murdered, though she doesn't realise it. Then ghost hunter Charles turns up looking for the mysterious Lady in Blue, but struggles to tell who is a ghost and who isn't. |
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