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| While You Were Gone by Catherine Gourdie |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 18. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 61 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script can be performed with or without music. There are eight points in script where songs to be performed are suggested. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Two-act historical drama set in a 1940s factory, with a large cast. |
| Synopsis | Edie reminisces on her experiences working in a factory during World War II. |
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| A Widow's Tale - The Story of Ruth by Tim Crooks |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act Play telling the biblical story of Ruth. Simple presentation with no specific set requirements. |
| Synopsis | The book of Ruth is about a woman who leaves her own country and goes to live in a land with a culture and religion which are not those which she grew up with. |
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| The Winter's Tale [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. The 24 roles could be played by 6M, 4F or 5M, 5F. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 60-minute abridgement of the Shakespeare comedy-drama.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | King Leontes of Sicilia, suspecting his wife Hermione of cheating on him with the King of Bohemia, has her imprisoned and her newborn baby sent far away. When Hermione dies in custody, Leontes is left without an heir. But fifteen years later in Bohemia, the abandoned princess Perdita has a royal suitor.
(Includes Shakespeare's most famous stage direction.) |
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| With Garibaldi In Rome by Peter Parkinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Most of the characters are adults, with one eleven-year-old boy. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Historical drama with multiple locations in Rome indicated largely by lighting and furniture. |
| Synopsis | Eleanor Chadwick is in Rome, looking for answers to her husband's death as the city is liberated from the Pope's authoritarian rule. But the French besiege the city and Eleanor finds more than the answers she sought. |
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| The Wooing Of Isabella by Natasha Marie Eyre |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 81 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play, set in the thirteenth century. |
| Synopsis | Lady Isabella is a worthy prize - with lands and income, but she has no wish to marry Simon de Montford, or give herself over to the nearby Priory. Harrassed by those around her, she uses her friend and kinswoman Emma to keep all at bay until the matter can be resolved. |
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| Working Man by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Eleven principals (including one child) plus chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script is accompanied by piano and vocal scores for one instrumental and six songs. |
| Style | Full-length musical play inspired by the paintings of Alexander Millar, set on Tyneside in the heyday of the shipyards. |
| Synopsis | Johnson's shipyard is under new management, but the new boss is unpopular - he's stopped the beer allowance, for one thing. The men strike, but are sacked. They need to find a better way to get him to change his mind. What about going back to workwithout pay? |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks for the opening instrumental and six songs from Working Man by Peter Nuttall.
** Opening instrumental and vocal demo tracks for the six songs from Working Man by Peter Nuttall.
** Ten high resolution images of paintings from the Working Man collection by Alexander Millar for projection during performances of Working Man by Peter Nuttall
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