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| Sex And Curry by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 93 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce for an adult audience. |
| Synopsis | Hannah's boyfriend has walked out, leaving her pregnant, but that's only the start of her troubles. Telling her parents that her gay flatmate is her fiancé and the child's father didn't solve the problem But Hannah is not the only one keeping secrets. |
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| The Shadow of Christmas by Martyn Chapman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 0. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Prose monologue - a good character piece - with minimal set and an ill-fitting costume! |
| Synopsis | A reluctant Father Christmas talks about his feelings during the festive season, remembering the daughter he lost and considering what life might have been like. |
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| The Shadows Of Antiquity by Adora Pingstock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Opportunities for doubling and pre-recording parts. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act gothic horror tale with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Madame Carlotta is the custodian of the shop in which each of the items on sale has a gruesome story attached to it. A young couple sheltering from a severe storm find refuge in the shop and are enthralled as Madame Carlotta's tales come to life, little knowing that they will be the subject of the next tale. |
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| Shah Jahan by Subrata Das |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 16. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 31. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 160 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | At the discretion of the Producer Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length translation and adaptation of D.L.Roy's epic saga of the Mughal Empire. |
| Synopsis | The retelling of last turbulent years of Shah Jahan's reign are brought to life in this powerful and gripping play, written in the spirit of a Shakespearean tragedy. |
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| Shakespeare - It's All Greek To Me! by Sarah Brown |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Various doubling options possible, depending on cast number available. |
| Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for older children, with various simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Rosie and her classmates are struggling with understanding the works of William Shakespeare. Rosie gets help with her project - not only from her teacher and her family but also from the Bard himself, along with Hermia and Lysander - who appear to her in an animated dream and the magic of Shakespeare's work is revealed to her... |
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| Shakespeare Lite by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short historical play. |
| Synopsis | An Elizabethan narrator introduces three Saxon 'mechanicals' who discuss their lives and the state of their country in the aftermath of the Norman invasion. |
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| Shakespeare Re-imagined by Damian Trasler & David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters are written male, but could be feminised if necessary! |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | Playwright Dennis uses inspiration from one of the greats to help with his show titles... |
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| Shakespeare's Last Act by Joan Greening |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three male characters (so possibly a counterpoint to the three female characters in Joan Greening's Three Women and Shakespeare's Will.) |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Witty one-act comedy play in a single set (and not much of that), with plenty of Shakespeare references and a poignant ending. |
| Synopsis | Shakespeare is working on his final play, Henry VIII, collaborating with John Fletcher. The working relationship is tetchy. Shakespeare's friend, Richard Burbage, assumes he will get the lead, but Fletcher has other ideas. Shakespeare comes up with a plot to get his friend the part. |
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| Shakespeare's Women by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Four on-stage characters plus four phone voices (which could be recordings). |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play. |
| Synopsis | Best-selling author, acknowledged world authority on Shakespeare and totally irresistible to women, Herbie has the world at his feet. Or rather, he did, until three mysterious visitors arrive late at night with a mind-blowing offer... |
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| Sharing by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play, single interior set. Furniture includes a collapsing chair (great fun for the set designer!) |
| Synopsis | Chris the suave estate agent thinks he's on to a good thing when wet and weedy Jake brings the gorgeous Holly in to buy a house. They're clearly not suited, and he makes his move to split them up. Jake is paired off with Chris's soon-to-be ex-wife and leaves, but then Holly has some surprising revelations for Chris. |
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