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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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| 22 Hardcastle Court by Gary Diamond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters are four adults, with a range of ages, and two seventeen-year-olds (who like each other). |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Two sets (with the neat conceit that in moving out of her mother's house, Emily takes her sofa with her!), one of which requires a practical door. Contains some bad language (and lots of good language) and mild adult themes. |
| Synopsis | When Emily finally manages to move out of her Mother's house, she thinks her worries are over, but thanks to the flat's former owner, she has to contend with mysterious calls from Mr X as well as her mother's interruptions and an amorous pair of students wanting help with their play... |
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| A is for Arsenic by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny comedy which uses popular themes (crime and amateur writers) in an original and surprising plot. Easy to stage, on a single set. |
| Synopsis | A small group of aspiring crime writers meet every week under the critical eye of their course tutor - a successful author who is always daring them to better him. When one writer decides to take up his challenge, it provokes a chain of consequences straight from the pages of a crime novel. |
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A.I. Guy by Jonathan Edgington
Selected for and performed at the Pensive Federation Theatre Company's 2016 Significant Other Playwriting Festival at the Tristan Bates Theatre in London. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act comedy with a single living room setting and some strong language. |
| Synopsis | Despite being close friends Veronica and Courtney have very little in common and their friendship is going a little stale. Seeking a more stimulating companion, Veronica introduces Carlos into the relationship. This is much to Courtney’s chagrin - until she discovers that Carlos is a robot. |
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| Abandon Ship by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | The ship is sinking, but Fred and Ernie’s prevarication and bickering leaves them vulnerable. |
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| Abi's Apartment by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Four roles, but the author suggests that Monsieur and Madam might be played by the same actor. |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An odd but fun comedy with lively fast-paced dialogue and good roles for (three or) four actors. Single set and easy to stage. |
| Synopsis | Abigail and Benjamin, a maid and chauffeur, await the return of Madam, their famous employer, from a costly court hearing involving her unfaithful boyfriend. Fearing for their positions, they play an elaborate role-playing game to outwit each other and try to gain their mistress's favour. |
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| About Sylvia by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short monologue - a tender mix of comedy and pathos. |
| Synopsis | Busy mum and housewife Sylvia is sitting in her kitchen reflecting on her life. She wants to 'find her voice' and decides to take up a rather exotic hobby. |
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| Above and Beyond by Robert Scott |
| 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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| Absolute Angels by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy horror, inspired by (but deliberately not sticking to the storyline of) 'The Turn of the Screw' by Henry James. |
| Synopsis | Young governess Angela is hired to look after two precocious teenage children. When she arrives at the country house, she finds the household haunted by the ghosts of a former caretaker and governess, whose behaviour and death have seemingly corrupted the souls of the two orphans. |
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| Absolute Dandy by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters written as 2M, 2F, but it doesn't much matter. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy set in a hitherto uncharted branch of literary history. |
| Synopsis | Jane Austen is developing her characters as she prepares her latest, as yet untitled, book. She dresses as a man to find her inner Darcy and seeks advice from Beau Brummel as to wardrobe and demeanour. |
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