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| A National Treasure - Lady with a Fan by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Part three of a three-part monologue series. No set necessary. |
| Synopsis | Violet Brimley is a Northern charlady with rare insight, a heart of gold and a broadminded outlook on life. Violet enters the world of art and culture, and makes the acquaintance of a beautiful portrait. But something tells our shrewd charlady that nothing is quite as it seems. |
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| A National Treasure - Monologue Collection by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of three monologues. No set necessary. |
| Synopsis | Violet Brimley is a Northern charlady with rare insight, a heart of gold and a broadminded outlook on life. We encounter her on three very different and unusual jobs. |
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| A National Treasure - Trouble for Sixpence by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Part two of a three-part monologue series. No set necessary. |
| Synopsis | Violet Brimley is a Northern charlady with rare insight, a heart of gold and a broadminded outlook on life. Violet's next job lands her in a creepy attic with a mysterious bricked-up window. What exactly happened there over a hundred years ago? And has she found love at last - a century too late? |
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| Natterjack by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Rod is an off-stage voice and therefore might be doubled or recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play - at its heart, a drama of practical politics, but leavened with plenty of comedy. |
| Synopsis | A shed by a river has become home to a tramp. When he discovers that plans to build a bridge put his home under threat, he engages with politicians, engineers and a barrister. Chaos ensues, and a visit from the Minister for Transport spectacularly fails to improve the situation. |
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| The Nature Trail of Class 3B by Andrew Hull |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Intended to be adults playing children. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with no set requirements (an imaginary set!) |
| Synopsis | Teacher is taking her class on a nature trail. The children (played by adults) and their naughty antics lead Teacher to take drastic action. |
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| Naughties At The Nineteenth Hole by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 103 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length, good old-fashioned farce. |
| Synopsis | In rural 1950s England, MI5 agents are investigating various nefarious deeds at Bristle Upon Rise Golf Club. Harry Toxin wants to build an extension to his holiday camp but faces opposition from the environmentalist Toads In Trouble brigade. Interwoven are the members’ extramarital goings on, and a diamond smuggling ring. |
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| Nay, Remember Me! by Amelia Marriette |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's script includes suggestions for pieces of music to be played at particular points in the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length comedy drama with various settings. |
| Synopsis | After Shakespeare’s death, two of his principal actors, John Heminges and Henry Condell, undertake the task of publishing all of his scripts, and the First Folio is born. Four centuries later in 2001, the First Folio is auctioned at Christies. |
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| Exclusions | Due to professional performances, this script is not available for performance in the following places at the following times:-
15 mile radius of Malvern, UK from the first day of November, 2023 to the last day of November, 2023 |
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| The Nearly New Sale by Paul Townsend |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act psychological Faustian drama with a single (village hall) setting. |
| Synopsis | After two long and painful years recovering from the death of their unborn child, Harry and Liz are presented with the opportunity to reverse their misery and grief. They need only sign it away to a dealer prepared to buy anything. With this prospect, however, comes the chance to correct more than just those few short years, as they realise that they can negotiate for better lives independently than they might have together. |
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| Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy, set in a single room in an old cottage - undergoing renovation. |
| Synopsis | Pete and Jools are modernising their dream cottage hoping to make it a family home. Their chances of having children are slim, but a visit from an intriguing old lady makes their dreams come true. |
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| The Necessity Of Atheism by Seán Lang |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act historical play |
| Synopsis | Oxford, 1811. Amidst harsh laws restricting the freedom of the press, Percy Bysshe Shelley, a rather unorthodox, flamboyant undergraduate, publishes a short pamphlet called The Necessity of Atheism. The Master of his college is inclined to dismiss it as a bit of undergraduate exuberance but Lord Eldon, Lord Chancellor of England and old member of the college, takes a much more serious view. |
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