|
A Life Sentence by Mark Seaman
Eleven awards from Festivals in 2008, including Best Original Script/Play in Wiltshire,
Avon and Gloucestershire and overall festival winner in the last two.
Overall Festival winner Cornwall Festival 2015. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An emotionally charged two-hander with a very simple, well-thought-out set and detailed descriptions. |
| Synopsis | A wife talks about her struggle to cope with her husband's dementia, and the effect it had on their family in his final days. |
| 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 |
| Awards | Click here to see the awards won by (productions of) this script. |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| The Lift Routine by Carol Roberts |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters plus an off-stage voice (which might be recorded, but interacts with the on-stage characters). |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A challenging piece to stretch the actors, suitable for companies of all types. |
| Synopsis | A thought-provoking short sketch set in a lift which breaks down, stranding a troubled married couple, a flirtatious young girl and a silent mystery man. They all deal with the situation in their own ways. Tensions rise and characters are revealed. |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| Light of the World by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch intended for church groups. |
| Synopsis | What happened in the Inn the day after Jesus was born. |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| Like You've Never Seen It Before by Christine Harvey & Elisha Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 37. Chorus. 12 speaking parts, the rest mime. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Minimum set. Simple props. Intended as a junior school full-class play. Opportunities for mime, improvisation and dance. |
| Synopsis | Jo and Mel are trying to write a play for their school, but, unknown to them, they are being fought over by a muse and Professor Block, the personification of writer's block. Unfortunately for the professor, he is in entirely the wrong place. |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| A Likely Story by Heather Bryant |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch for youth theatre. A few simple props to indicate location (a classroom).
Also available as part of the Fright Size collection. |
| Synopsis | New girl Beth arrives in the theatre studies room and wonders why it feels strangely cold... |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| Lily and Mona by Naren Weiss |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One (female) character is offstage voice only. Three (gender non-specific) characters are non-speaking 'dead bodies'. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Oddball twins Lily and Mona are finding their superpowers a little difficult to control, resulting in mysterious deaths and parental admonition. |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| Limbo by Julia Lee Dean |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Note that at a customer request, the author created a version of the play in which Agatha was replaced by an equivalent male role. If you want to do the play, but would prefer that version, please ask! |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, with a single set which is somewhere between reality and the afterlife! A very enjoyable and touching play. |
| Synopsis | Michael's day isn't going well. For one thing, he's just died. For another he's found he's got to share the afterlife with the lady who used to live in his house, and he can't leave it. Now he watches his wife move on without him. |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| The Lipstick by Jos Biggs |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play. Set in a department store, but minimal set requirements.
Whilst The Lipstick functions as an independent play, it could also be performed as the companion piece to The Coat. |
| Synopsis | Linda just wants a lipstick, but Trishie and Soraya are determined to give her the makeover they are sure she needs. They may well have brought out her Urban Feral look, but that just makes her angrier... |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| Listen With Mother by Jack Burgess |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch for one actress. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A story teller reads a slightly twisted tale of a Princess and a Prince. |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| Little Acorns by Jenny Gilbert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. All characters are adults with a mix of ages. The ages are suggested in the production notes, but there is a great deal of flexibility. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single set. |
| Synopsis | Gentle comedy, set in a school staff room, where the staff try to work out their gripes, with a particular concern about one member of the school. |
| 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 |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|