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| If Music be the Food of Love by Ethan Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Whilst all of the characters are written male, three could easily be played female (with minor name changes). |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute verse play for kids. Two scenes, but no set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A greedy and selfish king is taught the value of life by his caring son and a local musician. |
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| Imaginary Friends by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as two female, one male, but other divisions would be possible. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play. No set requirements, simple props (two chairs and a book). |
| Synopsis | Two people thrown into a room have to come to terms with the way of preserving sanity adopted by the existing occupant. |
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| Imelda and the Magic Dust by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Characters include a pantomime cat. Twelve principals and a chorus - nominally 8 roles, but these could be spread more thinly or thickly! |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 7 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with an original story. |
| Synopsis | As the eldest daughter, Imelda feels she should be the one marrying the wealthy Belgian, Jean-Claude Van Eyer, but he only has eyes for her younger sister Rosie. With the help of a wicked fairy and some magic love dust, Imelda disposes of Rosie and bags Jean-Claude... For a while, anyway. |
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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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| Impatience and Improbability by Nic Dawson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single (hotel terrace) setting. A witty and clever intertwining of the mannered world of the eighteenth century and modern day mores - with a bit of farce thrown in. |
| Synopsis | This diversion in One Act, dedicated with respectful admiration to Miss Jane Austen - with humble apologies for any liberties taken - sees Julia providing eighteenth century elegance and ambience in her unique hotel. The idyllic, mannered world descends into infidelity and recrimination as the modern day intrudes. |
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| Imperfect Speakers by Wally Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Gibson is written male but could, conceivably, be female. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play - something of a political thriller. Simple set - the interpreters' booth at an international conference - which could even, at a pinch, be played front-of-curtain (though it requires a few small desks). Includes swearing. |
| Synopsis | Andy and Nigel are two old school friends reunited whilst translating at an international environmental summit. Nigel has always been a rabble-rouser but Andy and Ingrid, a German translator with a teddy bear, both realize that his responsibility as a diplomatic translator and his interest in politics overlap a little too keenly. |
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The Importance Of Being Earnest [45 minute abridgement] by Oscar Wilde abridged by Gerald P Murphy
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The two narrators are written female but could be played male (especially if their names were changed to something more masculine than Agnes and Doris). |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy, abridged (and slightly adapted) from the play by Oscar Wilde. A couple of narrators are used to set scenes so that the piece can be played with minimal (furniture only) sets. |
| Synopsis | Bachelors, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, use convenient fictions when they wish to escape the more tedious aspects of society life. They both fall in love and become engaged, but their deceptions lead to much confusion. And Lady Bracknell has a lot to say about it all. |
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In a League of His Own by Mark Griffin
Finalist in the Cambridge Theatre Challenge (International play-writing competition) 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characters and an offstage (or recorded) soccer commentator. |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play set in an Irish student flat (the main features of which are a couch and a TV set). |
| Synopsis | Soccer-obsessed student Eamo is unhappy with the progress of a local team because they're ruining his standing in the Fantasy Football league. And Eamo has a lot of money riding on the outcome. His flatmate, John, thinks Eamo should calm down, but then Mazza, a self-proclaimed legend, arrives to really stir things up. |
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| In God's Office by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short two-handed play with a Christian perspective. Single office set. |
| Synopsis | A delivery man enters the wrong office by mistake and finds himself discussing free will with God. |
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In Her Defence by Helen Saxton
Original Playwriting Award at the Oxfordshire Drama Network Festival in June 2022. Production by The Compton Players |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Seven on-stage characters and an off-stage male voice. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act thriller with several nods to Agatha Christie. Single set, split between a courtroom and a living room. |
| Synopsis | London, 1947. Philip Mackinder is dead. His wife, Catherine, has just shot him. As a court hears the evidence leading up to the murder, we witness the disintegration of the couple's marriage and discover the real, surprising truth. |
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| In Out by Bruce Hunt |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters are written male, but could conceivably be female or a mixture. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for and about teenagers. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Ako is a new kid in school, and he has a great game on his phone. Sadly Chock decides he's not cool, and leads Ako's new friends to bully him. |
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