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The Sleuth Slayer by Paul Mathews |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act comedy send-up of detective fiction in general and the country house murder mystery in particular. Single country house set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | The world's greatest detectives are invited to a murder at Carnage Hall, but no one there knows anything about it... Until one of the detectives is found dead! The hunt is on to find the killer before there's no one left to solve the crime! |
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Small Talk by Martin Ward |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One song suggested, to be played at rise. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act drama with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Mark has invited Ian to his flat for a drink, but Ian doesn’t know why. In fact, they went to the same school twenty years before, and Ian was a bully who made Mark's life a misery. Now Mark has plans to gain revenge. |
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The Smell of Almonds by Nigel Holloway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One (gender non-specific) character is an offstage voice only. |
Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama with no set necessary, using cyclorama effects. |
Synopsis | A play charting the dark and unexpected secrets which hide behind the disjointed memories and imaginings of an old man and his cat. Set during the Second World War, the play tells the story of Yitzhak, a migrant Jewish worker in the bulb fields near Amsterdam, his cat, Pushka, his son, Ibrahim, and his wife, Esther. Despite the apparently placid exterior of a man in the Autumn of his life, Yitzhak’s past has been dominated by violent and tragic events, both internal and external. What is the true nature of justice, and the price of survival? |
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A Smell of Burnt Feathers by Paul Gisby Winner of the 1999 Royal Mail 'Write Now' play award. Production by Penrhos Players won Best Drama in the Hale One-Act-Play festival, 2012. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two characters are adult sisters of a similar age (assumed mid-thirties). |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Contemporary realism. One-act play, single modern set, simple props. (Contains swearing.) |
Synopsis | Oriole is events manager for an important conference, and her detailed plans didn't involve the arrival of her sister Jenny, fresh from their father's funeral. However, Oriole has some surprises in store for Jenny. |
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Snowed Under by Anne-Marie Chaplin FIRST PLACE at the Macra Na Feirme National Drama Semifinals 2018 in Mountmellick, for Whitechurch Macra Drama Company. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act farce. Single library setting. |
Synopsis | The library is snowed in, stranding librarians Brenda and Sue along with one of their regular customers, Mr Whitely, for whom, as rescuers are awaited, there are surprising and dire consequences. |
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Socks by Rosemary Frisino Toohey 3rd Place, the Ian Wishart Quaich in the 2023 Edinburgh round of the Scottish Community Drama Association's One-Act Festival. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four principal characters plus an off-stage female voice (which could be pre-recorded). |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, one-act comedy play. Single set - the inside of a clothes dryer at a laundromat! ( A delightful contribution to an under-used sub-genre of costume drama!) |
Synopsis | A group of single socks discuss their plight. Should they attempt escape? Why have they been abandoned? Don't humans know that socks are the cornerstone of civilization? A tale of abandonment, rejection and hope in the confines of a clothes dryer. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of clean laundry must be in want of the correct number of socks. |
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The Soldiers' Tale by Mike Sparks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Modern version of a medieval mystery play. Single, minimal set, basic props. |
Synopsis | The events on Calvary discussed from the perspective of bystanders, including the soldiers who administered the crucifixion. |
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Something for the Weekend by Jim Pinnock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Single-set one-act comedy set in the 1960s in a hairdressing salon. |
Synopsis | Charlie is desperately trying to breathe new life into his ailing hairdressing business. Much to the disgust of his stylists, Sharon and Maggie his solution is to use the vacant store room as a massage parlour. All goes well until an unfortunate incident brings the police to his door. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'Something for the Weekend' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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Something of a Stir by Joseph A. Jones |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy, single domestic set. |
Synopsis | Dora is expecting her friend Paula for a cup of tea and a chat, but Paula brings Maisie Day, a card reader who Dora is convinced is a charlatan. Can Dora pull off a little tea leaf trickery of her own to put Maisie in her place? |
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Something That's Mine by Alexis Coward |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two characters are voice-only and gender non-specific - these roles can be doubled with two of the main characters. |
Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act dark comedy on two sets. |
Synopsis | Two couples seek couples therapy. But what are they hiding from each other? |
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