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Where's Nigel by Jim Pinnock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Some non-speaking roles essential to the play. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act farce. |
Synopsis | A group of friends meet for a party at Nigel and Stephanie's house. Events take an unusual turn as the services of a doctor and the police are needed as identities become confused and people are not who they seem. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'Where's Nigel?' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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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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Who Framed the Easter Bunny? by Warren McWilliams Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. A long list of characters, but with plenty of cameos and chorus roles, so plenty of opportunities for doubling or for participation of a large company. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing allows for 10 songs. |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full-length family play (with songs) with interactive quiz elements. |
Synopsis | There's trouble brewing in Happy Kingdom. The Easter Bunny stands accused of stealing all the chocolate in the land by the wicked Halloween Queen, who wants to make Halloween last forever. The Easter Bunny needs your help before it's too late. Follow along, help find the clues, and prove the Easter Bunny's innocence. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Graphic image which might be used to form the nucleus of a flyer or poster for a production of 'Who Framed The Easter Bunny' by Warren McWilliams
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A Whole New World by Rebecca Grabill |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. All the characters are named by sounds - and their names are vocalised as sounds rather than words! |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short single-set one-act comedy play (set in a radio studio in the far distant future). |
Synopsis | A radio show from the far, far future discusses the possible uses for a peculiar relic dug up on the long uninhabited planet earth. Some of the suggestions shock and disgust the listeners, but in the end it's lack of proper authority that brings the broadcast to a premature end. |
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The Wicked Witch & The Magic Shop by William Arnold Ashbrook Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. The cast includes cats and gremlins. Gladys could be played as a pantomime dame. |
Run Time | Around 97 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with the scores for 11 original songs (plus five reprises). |
Style | A musical family show with opportunities for audience participation (therefore occupying a theatrical space close to British Pantomime). |
Synopsis | Graveling, the evil witch, has turned a number of good people into life size dolls and cats. The young heroes, enlist the help of the owners of the Magic Shop and Marlin the decrepit magician, and together they manage to defeat the witch and her gremlin helpers. |
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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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Wild at Art by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The characters are the members of an over-sixties art class plus their tutor and model. |
Run Time | Around 51 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Gentle one-act comedy. Single community centre setting. Originally published 2012, revised 2019. |
Synopsis | It's time for a taster session of art at the Prudence Wild Community Centre, and the 'Wild bunch' welcome a new member. They all do their best to make Doris feel welcome as they struggle to capture a likeness of the Queen on their easels. |
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Wild Ride by Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters span four generations of a family. Ages range from teenage to retired. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play. Fast-paced comic mystery, featuring a murderously dysfunctional family. Single interior set (modern home). |
Synopsis | The Wild family theatre has been a gold-mine, and it seems that the family members will do anything to get their hands on it, including various forms of deceit, forgery and even murder. Everyone seems to be scheming against everyone else - but who fired the fatal shot, and who is the strange policeman who comes to investigate? |
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Will at the Tower by Pete Hartley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. Five principals plus a chorus of singers. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The dialogue is interwoven with multiple instances of five original songs. |
Style | Period drama. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | A story (based on a local tradition) of Catholicism in the reign of Elizabeth 1st. The Jesuit priest, Edmund Campion pays a clandestine visit to Hoghton Tower in Lancashire with a young Will Shakespeare in tow. They observe the life of the house as the new lady of the manor tries to marry off the daughter of the previous lord. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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Willy Wonga by Connie Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. 20 roles, though most are gender non-specific and can be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short modernised adaptation of A Christmas Carol, in rhyming form. |
Synopsis | The tale of A Christmas Carol brought up to date and presented in a rhyming form, starring Willy Wonga, the unrepentant Payday Lender who's keen to get every last penny out of everybody he meets. Until, that is, this Christmas night... |
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