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| I Don’t Think I’ll Be Here Next Christmas by Dawn Cairns |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One character (Laura) appears as an off-stage voice only. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Cantankerous pensioner Jean always spends Christmas with her son John and his wife Sheila. The mutual dislike between Sheila and Jean constantly bubbles under the surface and is reflected in the presents they give each other. Everything threatens to boil over after an incident involving sixpences in the Christmas pudding (and a toenail in the Bombay mix). Fortunately for Sheila, their daughter Laura comes to the rescue. The play features the same characters as You Won't Know I'm Here - though works perfectly well as a standalone piece. |
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| I Now Pronounce You by David Titchener |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Five on-stage characters plus the off-stage voice of a police officer (who might be recorded). |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play in a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Eddie, Big Chris and Jono are preparing for the upcoming double wedding of Eddie to Trudy and Big Chris to Maureen, but they need to cut costs. Surely getting Jono to perform the ceremony couldn't backfire, could it? (The core characters appear in Flaming Liberty and The Next Big Thing. The pieces are independent, but could be used together.) |
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| I Remember When by Dawn Cairns |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Three on-stage characters plus four off-stage (including two children) who might be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy in a single camp-site setting. |
| Synopsis | John looks forward to re-visiting his childhood holiday campsite but his wife Sheila is not so sure, particularly when John insists his curmudgeonly mother come along too. |
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I'm Not Dead Yet by Graham Andrews
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Alex, the manager is written male (by means of the occasional pronoun) but could be played female. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play in a single (residents' lounge) set. |
| Synopsis | The manager of Sleepy Pines, a small nursing home, appears to be involved in a dodgy deal with a ruthless developer to get rid of the residents. Can the residents find a way to stop the deal going through or will they all have to leave by one means or another? |
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| I'm On A Train by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A neat, simple monologue that could be comedy gold in the right hands. (Minimal set requirements.) |
| Synopsis | It's a tough day for businessman Tom Wright, as he races to Edinburgh in a last-ditch attempt to save his company. Sadly, things are not destined to go his way, and the phone calls he makes and receives on that journey reveal the scope of the disaster that unfolds. |
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| The Iceberg by Dawn Cairns |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. One male and one female character are voice-only so can be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Three tracks, to be played but not performed by cast, are suggested in the producer's copyof the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (doctors’ waiting room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Doctors’ receptionist Paula believes all patients are time-wasters and is known as ‘The Iceberg’. She resents the arrival of new manager Michelle, who intends to implement a patient-friendly regime, and trainee receptionist Debbie. But Debbie and Paula soon hit it off and Michelle’s plans are thwarted. |
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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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| The Importance Of Being Belinda by John Garforth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single (garden) setting. Adult themes and strong language abound! |
| Synopsis | The feminist Sapphire Theatre Collective is in final rehearsal for Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’. Wilde’s script has been revised and updated to cater for an all female cast and political correctness by Belinda. The opening is in doubt as Belinda has been arrested for gross indecency on stage during a previous performance, but the show must go on! |
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The Importance Of Being Earnest [45 minute abridgement] by Oscar Wilde abridged by Gerald P Murphy
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| 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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| The Importance Of Peaches by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single setting |
| Synopsis | The Southbury Players Committee is meeting to discuss the group's poor record of success. Members are looking for a big idea to revive the group's fortunes, but when all seems lost, salvation comes from an unexpected source. |
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