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Dumpton Abbey by David Pemberton
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 75 minutes. [Estimated!]
Music8 pieces to be played as accompaniment, and 1 to be sung by the cast, are suggested in the Producer's script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleA full-length comedy on a single (drawing room) set.
SynopsisIt’s 1969, and to save Dumpton Abbey from complete disaster, Lord Loam has opened it to the public. Meanwhile, the search is on for a rich American to marry his daughter, and any clueless woman to marry his useless son.
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Emporium - The Story of the Store by Bob Tucker
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. A crowd of indeterminate number enters towards the end of the final act. (The minimum is one, which is small, as crowds go, but in this case feasible!)
Run TimeAround 115 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull-length comedy play (in three acts). Single set. A combination of the five short plays of the Emporium series.
SynopsisIn a strange retail outlet (no matter what the problem, our happy smiling staff are always here to blame the customer!) romance blossoms between one of the staff and a policeman brought-in to investigate a break-in.
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Escape! by Sharon Rutland
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RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Martin, the escape room manager, could easily be played female as Martine.
Run TimeAround 100 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull-length comedy. Technically two settings - the escape room reception and the room itself, but the first scene can be played front-of-curtain.
SynopsisA group of colleagues are sent to an escape room as a team-building exercise. But tensions between the group and fears of imminent redundancies prevent them from focusing on the game, and strange clues threaten to unearth skeletons in Steve's closet.
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The Fall and Rise of Gordon Grimshaw by Sandy Truman
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 110 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA consistently funny farce with a variety of storylines that all come together satisfyingly.
SynopsisGordon fears that downsizing to Finchurch-on-Sea is the end of his life, with no job, no bowls club, and wife Marion putting him on a strict diet. But he hasn't reckoned on their bizarre new neighbours, kamikaze seagulls, brushes with the law, half-marathons, and getting reeled into amateur dramatics!
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It's Business As Usual by John Peel
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Eight on-stage characters and an off-stage voice.
Run TimeAround 120 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull length comedy play, largely set in the office of a pie making company. (A couple of scenes elsewhere which could be created without separate sets.)
SynopsisPlover's Pies may be in financial trouble. Certainly the bank want a closer look at the books, but the man they send has a few useful ideas for the business, if Percy Plover can drag his attention away from golf and his new secretary.
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Kalifa's Amazing Adventures by Nikki Harmon
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. The lead character is a young elephant and various others are animals. These are supposed to be indicated by costumes props or masks, rather than being entirely realistic! (There's a photographic example on the script page.)
Run TimeAround 90 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull length play - a fable along the lines of the Just So stories or Brer Rabbit. Aimed at a young audience, but to be played by adults or teenagers.
SynopsisThe growing pains of an inquisitive young elephant, as she learns about the dangers of her environment and the value of friendship.
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Last Séance by Herb Hasler
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 85 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA slick farce with a single domestic set. (Nominally in the USA, but could work in any location.) Contains mild swearing.
SynopsisA family-operated séance scam is laid out before us. Attempts to conceal the swindle lead to a number of surprising twists amid frenetic action. The final startling twist of the play reveals to us - and the family - why this must be the last séance.
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Laughter Lines by Frank Gibbons
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. Most of the characters are adults in middle age or older. Some of the women are intended to be played by men (in gossipy, unglamorous middle-aged drag).
Run TimeAround 75 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleCollection of 18 comedy sketches (ranging in duration from 2 minutes to ten minutes). Few set requirements (although one sketch takes place in and around a bed). There are a couple of mild swearwords buried in there somewhere.
SynopsisSketches about life, death, relationships and cream cakes.
Most of the sketches are available individually. (The collection allows the set to be purchased at a discount to the sum of the individual components.)
There is no particular order to the sketches, but there are occasional common themes.
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Life Goes On by Frank Gibbons
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 44. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 110 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleCollection of 19 comedy sketches (ranging in duration from 4 minutes to 9 minutes). Few set requirements. There are a couple of mild swearwords buried in there somewhere.
SynopsisSketches about life, love, work and cream cakes.
All of the sketches are available individually. (The collection allows the set to be purchased at a discount to the sum of the individual components.)
There is no particular order to the sketches, but there are occasional common themes.
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Lions Versus Elephants by Graham Dillistone
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. 4 onstage characters (2M, 2F), plus 5 (2M, 3F) who are voice only and may be pre-recorded.
Run TimeAround 95 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA full-length comedy, presented as three acts, on a single (living room) set.
SynopsisBernard follows the book 'Man is a lion, woman is an elephant', but his dinner guests Gerald, Ann and Peggy will test his beliefs. Gerald and Ann’s marriage falls apart, Peggy preys on both men, and Bernard misses the simple life.
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