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| Eat Me by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy horror sketch! Single set - the foyer of an up-market truck-stop! |
| Synopsis | 'Eat Me' has a most surprising and unexpected ending, particularly for widowed Thelma, the joint owner of transport café, 'Bertram's Brekkies'. Customer Dave looks, sounds and acts in an odd way, but neither we nor Thelma can quite put our fingers on what it is that makes him so weird. Until that is he finally reveals himself with dire consequences for Thelma! |
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| Echo and Narcissus by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Simple piano/vocal scores for four original songs are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | A fifteen-minute musical based on Ancient Greek myth. |
| Synopsis | Hera, the queen of the gods, is furious when she discovers that her husband Zeus has been unfaithful, and she takes it out on the object of his affections, the articulate Echo. Echo falls for the handsome Narcissus, but she cannot make him understand because of Hera's curse, which confines Echo to repeating the words of others, and meanwhile Narcissus is in love with his own reflection. (Not a happy lot, the Ancient Greeks!) |
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| The Editing Room by Christine Harvey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. The gender of most of the characters is flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script contains places where songs could be sung, but the songs are left to the discretion of the production. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play for a school or youth theatre. Single set divided into three acting areas. |
| Synopsis | We're in the editing room of a TV studio where a group of production staff are editing and manipulating the participants in a reality TV show, whilst the staff themselves are being manipulated by the studio boss... |
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| Edna Clouds by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. 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 | Rhyming monologue (with no requirement for set or props.) |
| Synopsis | The cautionary tale of a girl wrapped-up in daydreaming! |
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| Eight Seconds by Stephen Scheurer-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy on a split (consulting and waiting room) set. |
| Synopsis | The average doctor interrupts their patient after eight seconds, often before they've revealed the information that would lead to a correct diagnosis. Gordon Bryson is not the average doctor. He's much ruder. Can be performed alongside its sister play 'Barbecue'. |
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| Elephant Jazz and the Intergalactic Spores by Barry Wood |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Sci-fi comedy sketch in the manner of a cheesy 1950s B-Movie. Minimal set to indicate a living room.
The script notes include a strong authorial opinion on comparative merits of certain comestibles. (He's not wrong.) |
| Synopsis | Adam has shocking news for his wife - the Earth has been invaded by microscopic alien invaders! Who knows how far the infection might have spread? But Martha doesn't seem that worried. In fact, she doesn't seem like Martha at all... |
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| Eleven Fifty-Six by Michael Pearcy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play (somewhere between drama and thriller) with a single sparse set. |
| Synopsis | Nathan seems certain to remain in the hospital - found wandering naked and confused, he has no records, no identity, no money. Dr Caulfield thinks he's deluded, but there's something compelling about his claim to be a time traveller. Then there's his urgent desire to leave London... |
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| The Elves and the Shoemaker [Verse Play] by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters include two elves. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming play. Single set (mainly a workbench). |
| Synopsis | A Grimm Fairytale brought to the stage.
An honest cobbler is helped to make ends meet by a pair of hard-working elves. |
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| The Elves and the Shoemaker by JPS Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. The characters include a pantomime cow, otherwise the usual panto juxtapositions apply. |
| Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for 10 songs are included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime. |
| Synopsis | The evil empire-building Freeman Hardly-Lykely is taking over Tommy Cobbler's shoe-making business. Only a last minute deal can save the shop and the Cobblers home, and maybe win Joe Cobbler the hand of lovely Clementine into the bargain. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Emma by Jane Austen dramatised by Michael Baulch |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] A slick production should be able to reduce this considerably! |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length period drama. Three locations created by simple variations on a single physical set. |
| Synopsis | Dramatization of Jane Austen's work, capturing the essence of the period as we see Emma's intriguing matchmaking unfold and her own marital future fulfilled. |
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