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This Is A Lockdown by Louise Wade |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act drama |
Synopsis | A group of students and their teacher are sorting costumes in a remote school building when a lockdown is announced over the tannoy. Is it a drill, or the real thing? And what will happen to the student who left the building? |
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A Thousand Words Speak A Picture by Lynda Bray |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A monologue with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Grandmother Rita is reminiscing about her life as she looks through her old photographs. Her memories flood back but she cannot see the implications that we can. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Three Sons by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch, contemporary, minimal set, one simple prop. |
Synopsis | Waiting for a connecting flight, three men find they have something in common, though one is keeping a secret... |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Three's Company by Lorraine Forrest-Turner |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch, with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Harry and his girlfriend Amy are at a theme park with Harry's best friend Colin. Amy is not happy about Colin's presence, and Colin doesn't see why he should give way to Amy. Harry gives them both an ultimatum... |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Time Telescope by Kitty Harper |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two pairs of roles are written to be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | A 1990s pop track is required as opening music. The producer's copy of the script gives a suggestion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short drama with a single (classroom) setting. |
Synopsis | Opposed to one another in their youth, Amy and Brian reminisce at their High School reunion and, in a time-slip sequence, relive a painful memory from the night of the leavers’ ball as they reflect on how their lives have turned out. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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To Be Hamlet by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play. Simplest set - a bare stage - simple props. |
Synopsis | An actor struggles with the role of Hamlet as Hamlet struggles with his destiny. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Truant by Gill Medway New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Freda occurs as a character in other Gill Medway plays. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama for two and a bench. |
Synopsis | Fourteen-year-old Evie has bunked off school to escape her bullies, and takes refuge on Freda's favourite park bench Meeting Freda for the first time, she's frightened and hostile at first, but Freda's irreverent take on life gradually helps her confidence to blossom. |
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Tumor by Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute play, single set (the main requirement is a hospital bed). |
Synopsis | Mr Davidson is waiting for an operation when Bruce uses his hospital room as a place to hide. A few of Bruce's questions give Mr Davidson something other than surgery to think about, and when he wakes up minus his tumour, he has something unexpected to tell his wife. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Two Left Feet by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama for three actors and one simple set. |
Synopsis | Following her divorce, 40-something Joy has turned up at her sister Carole’s place, where she sags about on the sofa looking gloomy. Carole, on the other hand, has a richly fulfilling life in the ballroom with boyfriend Steve. Joy’s last dance, aged 15, was a disaster, but can she find strength on the dance floor at last? And is Steve really the romantic he's cracked up to be? |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Tyndale's Nativity by Paul Cockcroft |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Variable chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama, focusing on the spoken words rather than the actions. |
Synopsis | A sombre presentation of the Nativity story taken from Matthew and Luke, based on the translation by William Tyndale in 1534. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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