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| 10 Minutes And Counting by Barry Wood |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are adults, but this would be within the compass of a high school-aged actors. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute comedy-horror that messes around with the nature of theatre and introduced our reviewer to Chekov’s Cheese Grater. |
| Synopsis | Claire makes a shocking discovery about the nature of her reality, but sharing it with her friend Faye doesn't help either of them, and may even have caused the creation of a zombie. |
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Above and Beyond by Robert Scott
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Music to be played in background at certain points in the script, including a TV-style theme tune, to be chosen at producer's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length farce on a single set - which is both a bookshop and a hotel lobby. |
| Synopsis | Mortimer and Philomena run a hotel with their child, Alexus. But this is no normal hotel - for one thing, it’s in a bookshop, and for another, the clients and owners are from outer space! |
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According To Schedule by Robert Scott
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 101 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length, good old-fashioned farce. A stand-alone follow-up to According To Rumour |
| Synopsis | Nina is keen to show off her fiancé to her sister Pippa and brother Roger. Sadly, Pippa finds him all too familiar, and his mobster parents aren’t much of a hit with the family either |
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Act Naturally by Giles Scott
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy on two sets (community hall/park). |
| Synopsis | The Historic Sites Preservation Society is in financial trouble, and they need to do something about it quickly. Certainly a play seems like a good idea, especially when they save money by writing it themselves, but can they act? |
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| Acting Funny by Jack Burgess |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 52. Chorus. Three of the characters (two in one sketch, one in another) are intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for the opening and closing songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. (Original lyrics, music by Sir Arthur Sullivan) |
| Style | A revue - a set of 17 comedy sketches and songs, varying in length from one to ten minutes. Basically a family show, but includes mild swearing in a few of the sketches. |
| Synopsis | A collection of sketches, including opening and closing songs, five Great Moments from History, two French Lessons, three monologues, a very small circus, the ante-rooms to the after-life, a spoof of a medical soap opera, a martial arts demonstration and the Dead Carrot sketch. [Note that some of the longer sketches are also available individually.] |
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| The Alf Factor by David Dean |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. 3 characters are gender non-specific. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch combining a Viking era setting with a satire on reality TV. |
| Synopsis | Alfred is trying to rally the Saxons to move against the Vikings. Unfortunately for him, they’ve heard a story about the cakes, and they’re not impressed. |
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| All For A Good Cause by D. M. Kimpton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 63 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy on a single charity shop set. |
| Synopsis | A group of volunteers running a charity shop have to deal with personal problems, and the peculiarities of the regular customers, as well as the mysterious theft that has police all over the town. |
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| And A Happy New Year! by Gwen Stevens |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 113 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with a split set - lounge, bedroom and hallway. |
| Synopsis | Susan and Nigel bring the children to her parents' home for Christmas. Little do they know how disastrous their stay will be. Mother is ill in bed and her Father is suffering with Alzheimer's. Then the heating won't work, the telephone is dead, and they are snowed in - leaving them stranded... |
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Anger Management by Robert Scott
Best Seller The Allerton Players won the People's Award at Richmond One Act Drama Festival, UK and won the cup for Best Technical Achievement and Stage Management. (2019) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A group anger management session takes a turn for the worse when the facilitator suggests the participants re-enact the things that got them sent there in the first place. |
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| Appropriate Clowning by David Lovesy & Brian Two |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A high value short sketch. |
| Synopsis | A clown new to the profession seeks advice from a veteran performer. |
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