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| Make Me a Celebrity - Now! by Trevor Suthers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The only stipulation about the character is that she is under 30. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Monologue. No set, no props. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | A rant about the desire for fame. |
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| Make This Go Away by Robert M. Barr |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play with a single domestic setting |
| Synopsis | When a stranger turns up, breaking into his house in the middle of the night, Fred pulls out his gun to defend his wife and property, but if the stranger is a locksmith sent by the bank... and if the house has been foreclosed, what then? And what does Fred’s wife, Alice, have to do with it all? |
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| Make Up by Terry Adlam |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One offstage voice, could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play, with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Partners in comedy for many years, Bob and Roy have reached a crisis point. Bob has had enough of the club circuit, but Roy isn't ready to give up. Will the two be able to compromise, or is it the end of the road? |
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Making The Wrong Call by Ian McCutcheon
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A well-plotted farce of the sort in which characters have very good reasons to hide in cupboards.
Single set with multiple practical doors (see above). |
| Synopsis | Robina suspects her husband Bill is having an affair and confides in her friend Marion, who suggests she hire a private detective. Coincidentally, Marion's husband Paul suspects she is having an affair, and hires the same detective. Errors, misunderstandings, and a few minor injuries ensue. |
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| Making Theatre History by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The characters are all amateur actors, darling. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics (set to snatches of songs from musicals) are included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy (with snatches of song). Simple village hall committee-room set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | It is decision time for the Amdram society committee. The next show must be chosen tonight and after months of arguments and division, the task of making that choice has been handed to the chair, Richard, to make. But Richard's announcement is not quite what everyone was expecting... |
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| Making up the Make-Up by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written 1M, 2F, but that could be changed. (Donna probably works better female, but make your own mind up!) |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent. No set or props required, but the costume and make-up is essential to the comedy! |
| Synopsis | New make-up girl Donna is not quite what the director expected... |
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| Mam by Allan Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characters, and an off-stage - disembodied - voice. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act play with a single set and strong characters. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Two brothers have taken different paths in life. Richard, the younger, went off to University and made it big in London, married and divorced. Peter stood in for his late father, raising Richard and going out to work to bring in some money. Now they say things long kept secret. |
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| Mam, There's a Spaceship in Our Backyard by Sarah Cowan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. The men from the MOD are written as men. They might not be! The gender of the aliens is anyone's guess. (The numbers of MOD personnel, aliens and police could be treated flexibly.) Could be played by children or mixed adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act play. Single set, complicated slightly by the arrival of the spaceship. Written in northern English with a northern English rude word (which could be excised if you are sensitive to such things.) |
| Synopsis | When a spaceship lands in their back yard, the Brown family aren't at all sure what to do about it. Until they discover there's a reward, that is. |
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The Man From Clerihan by Paul Maher
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy-drama in a single kitchen set. Themes from Chekhov's 'The Bear' elegantly reworked into modern day Ireland. |
| Synopsis | Willie Cleary, a builder, calls on Mary Kate, the young widow of his recently deceased best friend, to collect money that is owing to him. Mary Kate is adamant that she owes him no money, so there is a high stakes stand-off. Mary Kate's fun-loving sister is only too happy to stoke-up the tension in a ferocious battle of wits between a very stubborn man and an equally stubborn woman. |
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| The Man in the Moon by Steve Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. (Lots of small speaking roles included in the totals.) Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy by Female. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English Pantomime. Lots of knock-about clowning, flashes, bangs and spectacle, plus dreadful puns! |
| Synopsis | The queen is in thrall to the evil Al Chemist. The only way to thwart his ambitions is a journey to the moon in search of the magical moon dust which turns metal into gold. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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