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Summer In The Park by Louise Wade |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of three short plays, each set on the same park bench. |
Synopsis | Three short plays connected by the location: a bench in a park overlooking a lake, and a recurring theme: the unreliability of first impressions. |
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Survive the Night by Lucy Atkinson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama for a youth theatre company. |
Synopsis | Ash wants to help Frankie adjust to the way life is. Together, they try out a video game that ends up helping change Frankie’s view of a lot of things. It was built by Ash from one of younger Frankie’s stories. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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The Swan Queen by Frank Canino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. There is one speaking voice, Lenore. She addresses the audience as a friend, but also addresses two other people (1M, 1F) who might appear on stage. There is also an option for a group of male dancers. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Two pieces (associated with classical ballet) are suggested as accompaniment. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Powerful, brilliantly-written one act play. Single set with simple furniture representing multiple locations. |
Synopsis | A former Prima Ballerina navigates the final months of her life, balancing her health concerns with those of her stepson, an artist with AIDS. Despite some stark differences at first, the pair find common ground and become allies as they each cope with their diagnoses. |
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Sweet Dreams by Peter Appleton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act twisted psychological drama, verging on the melodramatic. |
Synopsis | Plagued by nightmares after a mysterious accident, Anne has trouble telling reality from her dreams. Is her fiancé alive or dead? Is her father helping her, or holding her prisoner? Can she even trust her oldest friend? |
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Take Me To Your Leader by Caroline Spencer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch, set in a school headteacher's office. Part of the Aliens collection of short plays for youth people. |
Synopsis | Mr Golightly has a strict rule for his school - there is no such thing as an Alien Being. Is his insistence on enforcing this rule a device to hide his own identity? |
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Take Three Girls by Sue Gordon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters are six teenagers plus one adult (assumed to be all played by teenage actors) |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Studio theatre piece - multiple scenes, but little set required. Set in the present day. |
Synopsis | The vacations of Keira, Emily and Megan don't turn out the way they'd planned. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Taken! by Jordon Hadfield |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play well suited for youth theatres. |
Synopsis | A group of teenage boys are struggling to find their way in life and become involved in criminal behaviour. It takes the death of their friend to bring them into adulthood. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Tales from the Seventh Galaxy by Mike Plumbley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act play with a simple (or none if preferred) set. Part of the Aliens collection of short plays for youth people. |
Synopsis | An Earthman finds himself attempting to rescue a girl held hostage by Aliens, only to have a rude awakening... |
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Talking in the Library by Jackie Carreira |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 86 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play with a single (library) setting. |
Synopsis | The disparate group of regulars at the library along with the librarian and his assistant discover things about each other, and perhaps more importantly themselves and their relationships, over the course of a few weeks. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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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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