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| Sleeping Beauty In The Fifties by Mark Jack |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 12 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime, that blends a stage classic with the world of fifties rock and roll culture. |
| Synopsis | A hapless fairy puts everyone to sleep, before waking up in the nineteen fifties, a world where rock and roll is King. It's here where a hero emerges to defeat evil, and our Princess finds her true love's kiss. |
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| Sleeping Dogs by Adam Croft |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act comedy with a single (bedroom) setting. |
| Synopsis | Carol is unable to sleep because of the noisy neighbourhood party - to which she and husband James have not been invited. Her inability to settle has a deeper reason than at first appears, as her difficult childhood in Northern Ireland is revealed. |
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| Sleeping Off Hell by Carolyn Copeland |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute drama. Single set (hotel concierge desk - as simple as you like!), simple props. |
| Synopsis | Four very different characters find they're stranded at the concierge desk of a hotel, with no one to give them their room keys. They begin to talk and discover they all have different reasons for wanting to stay there...or maybe it's the same reason after all. |
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| Sleeping With Beauty by Stuart Ardern (devised by YT2) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. A small number of roles are written to be doubled, but otherwise the casting is very flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Drama for the senior echelons of a youth theatre company. Multiple settings but done with just a single piece of furniture - a bed. Contains disturbing themes. |
| Synopsis | Rebelling against her secure upbringing, Mel suffers a major trauma. How will this affect her daughter's life?
A dark exploration of destiny as fairytale collides with modern life. |
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Sleepover Secrets by Tony Domaille
Plockton Amdram Youth Society - Intermediate section trophy winner Scottish Community Drama Association one act play youth festival, Highlands 2018. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One character is an offstage female voice. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama for youth theatre with a single (bedroom) setting. |
| Synopsis | Five sixteen-year-old girls are having a sleepover when they decide to share their most closely guarded secrets. Who has the biggest secret and who will believe whom? |
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| The Sleuth Slayer by Paul Mathews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy send-up of detective fiction in general and the country house murder mystery in particular. Single country house set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | The world's greatest detectives are invited to a murder at Carnage Hall, but no one there knows anything about it... Until one of the detectives is found dead! The hunt is on to find the killer before there's no one left to solve the crime! |
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| A Slight Misunderstanding by Janet S. Tiger |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 0. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Easily stageable comedy skit, with minimal set/props and just two actors. Could make a good addition to a sketch night. |
| Synopsis | Many years ago, John’s wife Eleanor told him he should always strive to be the better man. He misheard it, and has strived to be the bitter man ever since. |
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| The Slim Blonde Beauty by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All characters are young adults. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short romantic comedy with two simple settings. |
| Synopsis | It starts with an ad in the free paper... Insecure Jack's search for the woman of his dreams has hit troubled waters. His friend Tom persuades him to try speed dating with hilarious (but ultimately satisfying) consequences. |
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| Slimmers' Planet by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
| Synopsis | Martin, looking for love, meets Lorna, looking for weight loss. |
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| Small Miracles by Maureen Speller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 54. Chorus. Three short plays, one cast can perform all three or they can have separate casts. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Choral music to be played at various points in play, at discretion of director. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Collection of three short plays with Biblical themes. Suitable for performance by children. |
| Synopsis | A trio of short plays following the story of Mary, Joseph and Jesus from the end of most Nativity stories to the early days of Christianity in Rome. |
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