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| A Second Chance by Jim Pinnock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. One voice is an offstage announcer. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act thriller - single set. |
| Synopsis | Customers and staff are put through psychological torment as a man with a bomb holds them hostage, but all but one of them benefit from the experience. |
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** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'A Second Chance' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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| A Servant Plays for High Stakes by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
| Synopsis | Game Four in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. British Chess Champion Sultan Khan recreates his 1932 defeat of Frederick Yates as an allegory for Gandhi's non-violent resistance to British colonial occupation of India. |
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| The Shadows Of Antiquity by Adora Pingstock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Opportunities for doubling and pre-recording parts. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act gothic horror tale with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Madame Carlotta is the custodian of the shop in which each of the items on sale has a gruesome story attached to it. A young couple sheltering from a severe storm find refuge in the shop and are enthralled as Madame Carlotta's tales come to life, little knowing that they will be the subject of the next tale. |
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| Shah Jahan by Subrata Das |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 16. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 31. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 160 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | At the discretion of the Producer Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length translation and adaptation of D.L.Roy's epic saga of the Mughal Empire. |
| Synopsis | The retelling of last turbulent years of Shah Jahan's reign are brought to life in this powerful and gripping play, written in the spirit of a Shakespearean tragedy. |
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| Shakespeare - It's All Greek To Me! by Sarah Brown |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Various doubling options possible, depending on cast number available. |
| Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for older children, with various simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Rosie and her classmates are struggling with understanding the works of William Shakespeare. Rosie gets help with her project - not only from her teacher and her family but also from the Bard himself, along with Hermia and Lysander - who appear to her in an animated dream and the magic of Shakespeare's work is revealed to her... |
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| The Shelter Secrets by Deborah Heath |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Doubling possible for two characters, plus two offstage voices. |
| Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play, suitable for secondary age or youth theatre, with split staging to enable multiple rapid scene changes. |
| Synopsis | Taking shelter from an air raid in their school's boiler room, four children swap secrets in the form of stories. They're surprised to find their tales all meet up and form a larger narrative, one that's completed by their teacher. |
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| Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet by Bart Lovins |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. Designed to be played by a cast of 10 (doubling notes provided in the producer's script). |
| Run Time | Around 131 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length adaptation of Conan Doyle's detective novel, with continuous action through various settings, performed with ten actors and four chairs (props are mimed). |
| Synopsis | The game is afoot and mystery and murder abound! The year is 1881. The city is London. A man lies dead in an empty house, not a mark upon him and no clues - save for the word RACHE scrawled in blood on the wall above. Elsewhere, two young men - a former army doctor and a brilliant eccentric - meet for the first time. |
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| Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles [Version 3] by Bart Lovins |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. There are 18 roles (including a puppet hound), but they are playable by a cast of 6. (The author gives options for casting 6, 7 or 8 actors.) |
| Run Time | Around 114 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length adaptation of Conan Doyle's detective novel. Continuous action with multiple settings indicated by lighting, action and a few chairs. Minimal props. Actors produce the sound effects.
(US English spelling.) |
| Synopsis | As Watson investigates the curse of a supernatural beast out on the moors, Holmes confronts demons of his own back in London. |
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| Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four by Bart Lovins |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. Twenty-eight roles plus offstage voices, but designed to be played by a cast of 10 (one of whom plays several roles incluing a 12-year-old girl.) |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length adaptation of Conan Doyle's detective novel. Continuous action with the multitude of settings indicated by lighting, action and a few chairs. Minimal props. Actors produce the sound effects. |
| Synopsis | Two British officers of the Andaman Islands Penal Colony encounter the group of three Sikh natives and a British prisoner forming 'The Four' who have access to stolen treasure. Years later Holmes and Watson are set the seemingly impossible task of unravelling the final destination of the treasure. |
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| Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear by Bart Lovins |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the song suggests 5 folk songs to be sung by The Brotherhood (plus a list of suggested incidental music). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | The Novel Stage Adventures of Sherlock Holmes continue with the fourth in the series of full-length adaptations. (Adapted from The Valley of Fear but including elements of The Final Problem). Designed to be performed with minimal set and no props. |
| Synopsis | Sherlock's Last Bow! Summoned by a coded message to a Sussex manor, Conan Doyle's great detective finds that he and his faithful friend are too late - John Douglas has been murdered. Scotland Yard is stumped, but Holmes and Watson deduce a link to a secret American Brotherhood, and to a mastermind behind it all - Moriarty. Can Holmes escape the final problem? |
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