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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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According To Rumour by Robert Scott
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Identical (f) twins do not appear onstage together, intended doubling. One offstage megaphone voice could be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A classic full length farce, staged in three acts, with a single set. |
| Synopsis | Carter can't remember exactly what happened last night, but the naked woman is the last person he wants his Mum to find in his flat. And there's the puzzling matter of the bag of money in his fridge... It's a fine tangle to be mixed up in! |
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According To Schedule by Robert Scott
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| 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
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| 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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| Adventures of Maid Marian by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. 14 speaking parts plus chorus of soldiers. The characters are nominally 11 male and 3 female, but most can be played by either gender. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 4 songs, plus snatches of medieval doggerel embedded in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | The Robin Hood legend treated as a farcical comedy of errors. One-act in structure, but on the boundary between one-act and full-length (so could stand alone or could be paired with something shorter). |
| Synopsis | Three years after he cancelled their wedding and left her to look after Sherwood Forest, Maid Marian discovers that Robin Hood is about to make a hero's return from the Crusades - but can she ever forgive him? |
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| The Affairs At Meddler's Top by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A hilarious comic spoof of a murder mystery, set in the 1920s. (Two acts - but relatively short.) |
| Synopsis | A country house weekend is organised with a view to trapping a thief. Various tangled affairs are revealed, leading up to a murder. |
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| Art for Art's Sake by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] A slick production could be completed in under 2 hours. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length colourful farce, centering on a wedding and a work of art! |
| Synopsis | As art dealer David Gibson prepares for the wedding of his daughter Samantha, he finds himself in a position to make a financial killing by arranging the sale of a valuable French Impressionist painting. Unfortunately the prospective buyer from Los Angeles, Mrs Delores Van Zuyl, insists on the work being authenticated by an expert. When the expert doesn't turn up David turns to his less than reliable step-brother to fill the gap. What David doesn't know is that Mrs Van Zuyl has her own agenda and it has little to do with French Impressionism. |
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| Benny Manhattan And The Caponi Diamond by Carol Hill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. Variable chorus size as desired by the Producer. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Music suggestions for nine optional pieces are included with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A gangster farce in two acts, suitable for youth performers, with various settings. |
| Synopsis | The bumbling Manhattan gang, led by Benny Manhattan, get themselves embroiled in double crossings with the Caponi family. A bank robbery runs into difficulties when the Caponi diamond is inadvertently, or perhaps deliberately, included in the Manhattan's haul. |
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| Between Appointments by Frances A. Lewis |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Eight on-stage characters plus two offstage voices and the option of additional non-speaking patients in the dentist's surgery. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two-act comedy/farce with a split stage - half dental surgery, half living room. |
| Synopsis | Jeffrey gets himself into a tangle when his girlfriend Veronica and wife Claudia end up with identical handbags...
And just as Veronica has got herself out of that mess, there's the arrival of her jailbird brother who needs cover - and think's Veronica is it.
The two acts of this play function as separate one-act plays and are available separately as - Switched and AKA Charlie |
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| Beware of the Agapanthus by Robert Brown |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Nine on-stage characters and an offstage male voice (called Dave). |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play - a well crafted comedy with a gentle start which gathers pace as the chaotic situation develops. Contains swearing |
| Synopsis | The credit crunch has not been kind to ex-investment banker James who has not only lost his job but also his investments along with his gold digger wife Geraldine. His Father has died and left him, and spinster Sister Peggy, a large house in a village in rural Ireland where he decides to make a new life for himself. The barbecue party he has arranged to get to know his neighbours descends into chaos with a series of unexpected arrivals and equally unexpected revelations. |
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