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| The Frustrated Poet by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. Simple set (desk and chair). Contains mild swearing. And poetry. |
| Synopsis | A poet tries, but, sadly, fails, to write an ode to nightingales... |
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| Frying Nemo by Amelia Armande |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 33. No chorus. Enormous flexibility! The author presents a doubling table showing how the thirty-three characters can be played by 10 actors (with a lot of swift - and necessarily simple - costume changes). |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy contains suggestions for (the style of) accompanying music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act nautical comedy play (with opportunities for dance music). Written for minimal set - because it was originally performed in a sea-life centre! |
| Synopsis | An old man in a care home is telling the story of his younger days - as the seafaring adventurer Captain Nemo! We see things that Jules Verne never got to write about in this stirring tale of derring do and mermaids, with a surprisingly affecting ending. |
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| Full Circle by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An intriguing short comedy set in an American high school - an ideal vehicle for school or youth theatre. Stage split between simple representations of the school cafeteria and the principal's office. |
| Synopsis | With typical angst, five high school pupils are involved in various relationship difficulties with each other, resulting in assorted fracas in the school cafeteria which the long-suffering principal is left to resolve. |
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| Full Speed Ahead by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy with a fun set of characters and a good satirical sense of humour. No set, other than a few chairs and tables - location and transitions indicated by lighting. |
| Synopsis | Sophie and Jack are singles who independently decide to attend a speed dating session, where they are each paired with a highly unsuitable prospective partner. By the time they are eventually due to meet, Sophie is so upset by her earlier encounter that she is intending to leave, but Jack's thoughtfulness convinces her otherwise. |
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| The Fumblings at Friar's Bottom by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy, verging on light farce |
| Synopsis | Friar's Bottom is a decaying English Boarding School in the 1950s. Most of the staff are looking to escape - not necessarily with their current partners. Full of double dealings with a shady bookmaker and an American property developer. |
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| Funeral for the Cat by B. G. Craig |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Elizabeth is written female, but could be played male (and renamed Elliot). |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A good mix of emotional drama and dark but gentle comedy. Easy to stage on a single living room set.
US English. |
| Synopsis | Judy, an elderly widow, is holding a funeral for her beloved and recently departed cat. Her daughter and granddaughter are alarmed to find that, since a pet coffin was too expensive, Miss Mopsy is lying on the coffee table. |
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| Future Gazing by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch |
| Synopsis | Ernie thinks he can see the future through a portable crystal ball - which looks suspiciously like a glass marble. Fred has his doubts. |
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| Gabriel-Ernest by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Either for a youth theatre company, or for a mix of adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act stage adaptation of a subversive Saki story - this one is edgy, verging on (gothic) horror. There are nine scenes, intended to be played seamlessley with the stage divided into one area for a house and one for all other scenes. |
| Synopsis | 'There's a beast in your woods.'
So it seems. Van Cheele's life is interrupted by the arrival of a strange boy, with disturbing behaviour and an unusual disregard for clothes.
(The author makes some suggestions about how to deal with this last point whilst remaining within the bounds of decency!) |
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| The Gala Programme by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst there isn't a formal requirement for a chorus, one could easily be added, as the protagonists refer to the reactions of crowd. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play, adapting a story by Saki. Single set (as simple as you like). A comedy, if you have Saki's very dark sense of humour. |
| Synopsis | A sufragette rebellion is projected back to Roman times. The Romans, needless to say, did not have very modern attitudes to female participation in the political process, and the emperor's solution to the problem is calculated to please the crowd of the circus maximus rather than twenty-first century sensibilities! |
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| Gallery by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Structurally a two-act play (but classified as a one-act on the grounds of length), single art gallery setting, satirising thepretentions of the commercial fine arts world. |
| Synopsis | An unscrupulous Art Dealer has a young artist foisted on him by a work programme, but soon turns the situation to his advantage when a misunderstanding makes the artist an overnight sensation. |
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