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Frankenstein's Last Chance by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy melodrama, for school-age, youth performers. |
Synopsis | Having given up his medical practice to concentrate on his career as an inventor, Doctor Viktor Frankenstein desperately needs to raise funds to pay for his daughter's forthcoming wedding. Success at the annual Mad Scientists' Convention would be well-rewarded, but Viktor finds himself singularly short of inspiration until... No, that would be absurd - wouldn't it? |
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Free For Hall by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for 2 songs, to be played during the comedy dance routines. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single setting. |
Synopsis | The local amateur dramatic group are rehearsing their pantomime in the local village hall but the venue has been triple booked and no-one is prepared to budge. With Celeste getting her yoga knickers in a twist and conflict running high amongst the drama group members the chaos is eventually resolved. |
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A Frog Too Far by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children. Could be played by the same, or by a company of either. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play set in a classroom - represented by the teacher's chair and her story book. |
Synopsis | Miss Primrose tries to tell her class their daily story - a tale of princess meets frog - with the aid of a small troupe of mimes. The children, shall we say, have bright enquiring minds... |
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From Here to Maternity by Andrew Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Eight principal characters and a slew of minor roles. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A witty and fast-paced full-length comedy with lots of fun characters. The makings of a very good evening's entertainment. |
Synopsis | Obstetrician Clare Mason and her colleague Cathy are on their way to a conference in Moscow, when they find themselves stuck in the dilapidated ex-Soviet state of Bolonia and recruited to supervise the pregnant wife of the President. Meanwhile, President Driblova is under UN pressure to hold an election, but plots to make it anything but democratic. |
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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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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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Ghost Walk by Gary Diamond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy drama, with various settings. |
Synopsis | On a ghost walk in York various locations are visited - associated with ghostly happenings. Our guide is finally revealed... to be not the sort of person we thought he was. |
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Ghosts at the Grange by Karen Doling |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comic whodunnit. Single living room set. |
Synopsis | Lancelot and Guinevere are dead, and have been for a hundred years. They haunt Arthur's house, and are the only witnesses to his murder. But how can they let his family know who committed the foul deed? |
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The Ghosts of Marvin Grange by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Principal characters nominally adults but could be played by teenagers or a mixed group of teenagers and adults. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] (Dependent on how much the actors ham up the death scene!) |
Music | None. |
Style | Melodrama - with the playwright's tongue firmly in his cheek. (Two acts - but relatively short.) |
Synopsis | Christopher Sinclair receives a strange summons and returns to Marvin Grange, a remote estate on a lonely moor to unravel the mystery of a haunting that is driving his cousin's wife mad... |
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Girls' Talk by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of six comedy sketches, each with a cast of two women. |
Synopsis | Sketches tackling the difficulties of office life, men, gossiping and more men. (Each of the sketches is available individually.) |
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