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| Last Train to Sleepy Hollow by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Variable Chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Music and song suggestions for eight pieces are provided in the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A comedy spoof play, with music, in various settings. |
| Synopsis | When Arthur is summoned by his Godmother to exorcise her house of spooks, he discovers a dastardly plot to frighten her off her valuable real estate. In the ultimate battle of innocence against the powers of darkness, Arthur destroys the black heart of the Bigwitch, finds true love, restores Spooky Hollow to his Godmother and catches the last train home! |
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The Last Visitor by Allan Williams
Winner [under the name of The Visitor] of the Anglesey, Leverhulme and Wilmslow Drama Festivals, 2013 (plus various best actor awards). |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play. |
| Synopsis | Harry is an old man in a retirement home. Happy with the pace of life, he's surprised to receive a young visitor who seems to know a lot about Harry's wartime record. But there's more to the visitor than Harry suspects, because they have met before, just once - in a trench in France... |
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Laura by Jonathan Edgington
A winning entry in the Chesil Theatre's 10x10 play writing competition, 2016. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play |
| Synopsis | A chance discovery in a second hand record store reveals the truth about a lost love. |
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| The Law is an Ass by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All three characters are written as male, but the judge could easily be played female. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute comedy play, single courtroom set. |
| Synopsis | Old Lag Eddie Larsen is up in front of the beak again. Caught red handed climbing out of a shop window with a bag of swag, it looks like he's going down. But in a stroke of brilliance he defends himself with his own personal philosophy, making a believer out of the judge and earning himself a most unusual sentence. |
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| Lay Your Cards on the Table by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Monologue for an injured sportsman. Minimal set (a lap-top computer with some means of support). A tender mixture of comedy and pathos. |
| Synopsis | Wheelchair-bound former rugby player Tom has been surfing the web to keep himself occupied since his accident and has developed an interesting income stream. |
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| Leading Ladies by Christina Simpkin |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch set on a busy stage! |
| Synopsis | Bertha and Florence are backstage at the latest big production, preparing for the vital role they play in the piece. But they don't feed lines to anyone... |
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| Learning to Like You by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy drama on a minimal living room set. |
| Synopsis | Amber has just moved in, so she pops round to introduce herself to her new neighbour, Jake. Jake’s not what she expected, and it takes the pair a number of visits and misunderstandings before they learn enough from each other to be friends. |
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Leaving Tommy by Mark Seaman
Winner of seven awards during original 2005 production, including 3 festival awards (Wiltshire, Avon and Gloucestershire) for best original script. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, set in a prison cell during the first world war. (Minimal set requirements.) |
| Synopsis | A young man has been tried and found guilty of cowardice and desertion at the front during World War One, and awaits his death by firing squad. He is visited by the army Chaplain, a Captain who hears about his reasons for joining up and what really happened on the front line. |
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Legion by Jonathan Edgington
Selected for and performed at the Pensive Federation Theatre Company's 2016 Collective Project Playwriting Festival at the Tristan Bates Theatre in London. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script includes one moment where characters dance, and the producer's copy suggests a song to be played at this point. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A dramatic sketch, suitable for a young adult company or youth theatre, with a single (railway platform) setting. Some strong language. |
| Synopsis | Thrown off the train for rowdy behaviour, a group of young friends are joined by a knowledgeable stranger who seems to be trying to 'recruit' them for an unknown purpose. |
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| Lennon and Buddy by Clive David Lloyd Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama on two (living room/backstage) sets. |
| Synopsis | Buddy Holly and the Crickets perform at the London Palladium, and in Liverpool, John Lennon sees the performance on a friend’s TV set. He boasts that his band will surpass Buddy Holly. |
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