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| Othello In Hell by Richard Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play based on the Shakespeare classic. |
| Synopsis | Trapped in an invisible prison, the spirit of Othello is tormented by his own memories and visions of those he has known in life. He seems doomed to repeat a cycle of regret and blame and rage, even when granted Desdemona’s forgiveness. |
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Outside the Box by JPS Yates
Performance by Tarrystone Players won the John Rigg Award for Best Comedy and the South of England Building Society Award for Best Stage Presentation at the Maidenhead Drama Festival 2011. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Six on--stage actors plus three offstage voices appearing briefly at the start (so could be recordings). |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A play for adults, satirising office life - where the office workers are nursery toys. Single set. Written in one act, but quite long. A cracking pace might get it down to one-act-play festival length. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | The nursery toys are mostly happy with their lot in life - only Ragdoll feels unwanted, so it doesn't surprise her when bureaucratic Fairy Crackernuts arrives and announces they're having 'a re-shuffle'. What does surprise her is that Teddy is the who's been made redundant... |
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Papa Panov's Special Christmas by James Potter
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Narrator, 9 other on-stage characters (with three easily doubled) and an off-stage voice. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short festive play. Based on Leo Tolstoy's story, itself an adaptation of the traditional tale Old Pierre's Christmas Visitors. |
| Synopsis | The lonely old shoemaker Papa Panov dreams that he will be visited by Jesus on Christmas Day. Throughout the day, a series of strangers arrive at his door, and Papa Panov helps them with their problems. He realises that Jesus did come after all, in everyone he welcomed. |
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| The Pardner's Tale by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single (saloon) set. (US English) |
| Synopsis | A short stage adaptation of Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale', brought into the dying days of the Wild West. Three outlaws try to make a mint, but they cannot cheat Death! |
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A Pig Tale by Kevin Jannetts
Production by Loch Duich Primary School won Adjudicator's special award. South West Ross District Youth SCDA Festival 2016. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. The chorus is the sort that rushes on to perform songs and dances in various guises! Most of the roles are gender-neutral, although one of the pigs is called Maureen and the wolf is called Alan, both of which tend to be specific. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] (This allows 20 minutes for 11 songs/dances.) |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 11 songs/dances Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act family comedy show with music. A fairytale send-up. Contains Scottish accents! |
| Synopsis | The story of the Three Pigs gets a revamp in this Scots story, allowing a couple of Narrators to bring the story to life with anthropomorphic pigs struggling to find a story they can take part in to keep their deal with a Fairy Solicitor. Add in a Big Bad Wolf called Alan, and it all works out fine in the end. |
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| Potted Austen: Emma by Lou Treleaven |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma. |
| Synopsis | A short, humorous adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, covering all of the relevant events and characters with minimal staging requirements. |
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| Potted Austen: Northanger Abbey by Lou Treleaven |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short, humorous adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. |
| Synopsis | A short take on Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, covering all of the relevant events and characters with minimal staging requirements. Cast size can be reduced to six with some meticulous doubling! |
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| Pride and Proton Lasers by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play, wittily mashing-up two familiar genres. |
| Synopsis | A scheduling error at a theatre means that a production of a Regency period drama and a science fiction suspense play have to share the stage. |
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| The Purse by E. Bert Wallace |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 53 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act commedia dell’arte play on a single (village square) set. US English. |
| Synopsis | In a small Italian town in days of old, Arlecchino, a happy but none-too-bright servant, tries to keep the peace between his miserly master, Pantalone, and Dottore, a tipsy scholar. Dottore’s son Fabrizio returns from the University and promptly falls in love with Pantalone’s beautiful young wife, Isabella. Meanwhile, the bragging Capitano and his villainous sergeant Brighella arrive, seeking to con the town. |
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| Reading Between The Lines by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. An academic, a gambler, a vicar, a housekeeper, a French lady... No stereotypes here, oh dear me, no. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length farce. Single domestic set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Professor Andrew Stokes, new owner of The Old Rectory Cottage, returns from a foreign study visit in time to help wife Rachel organise the village literary festival, based at Saint Fabian's church hall. Star attraction is to be famous romantic novelist, Lydia Bray. The success of the weekend's event is threatened by the arrival of Andrew's oldest friend, Reivers Fenn, professional gambler, lothario and all-round liability. The chances of Reivers failing to be an embarrassment recede as not one, but two, of the women from his past turn up in the village. While one would rather forget that she ever knew him, the other has chosen not to forget that he owes her a lot of money. |
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