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| Something Old by Shari Gledhill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy with a good mix of humour and drama, with effective twists. Easy to stage, with one setting and a few standard items of furniture. |
| Synopsis | On the morning of her wedding day, Amy wakes up in a dark and dingy cellar. She's been kidnapped by Jack, who admired Amy at school and is determined to make up for his past failure to connect with her. |
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| Something That's Mine by Alexis Coward |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two characters are voice-only and gender non-specific - these roles can be doubled with two of the main characters. |
| Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act dark comedy on two sets. |
| Synopsis | Two couples seek couples therapy. But what are they hiding from each other? |
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| Something To Talk About by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch set around a coffee shop table. |
| Synopsis | When three middle-aged friends meet up for coffee and a natter, the confessions and revelations come thick and fast. They soon find, to amusement all around, that they have more in common than they realised. |
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| Something to Talk About - The Play by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 73 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in four scenes with various settings. An extension of the sketch of the same name. |
| Synopsis | Friends Grace, Alice and Doreen become increasingly amorously linked to each other’s partners. The settings move between England and Spain as their tangled relationships move forward and their infidelities become more surprising, leading to an eventful conclusion. |
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| Sorry Charlie by Troy Shearer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Six on-stage characters, plus two off-stage voices that could be live or recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length farce with a single living-room set. |
| Synopsis | Charlie and Debra are going to steal a diamond from the boss of Charlie's boss's boss. But they are interrupted mid-robbery by a strange couple, so they impersonate the homeowners. Then another unexpected caller arrives - only to reveal himself as the real owner! Who can you trust? |
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| Sorry You're Leaving by Wally Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. One of the characters is on the point of retirement, the rest are younger. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy sketch. Single simple set, simple props (mostly edible). |
| Synopsis | Mr Templeman's leaving party is very sparsely attended, but Edith puts that down to it being a Friday and Mr Templeman coming from Accounts. Sadly, the truth is told to Edith and her boss far too late for them to do anything about it... |
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| Soul Bargain by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch |
| Synopsis | About to end it all, a Human is offered a chance to turn it all around by a Demon, but at what price? |
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| The Source Of Denial by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play with a minimal set. A combination of comedy, serious argument and an exploration of the writing process. (Is that metadrama? Who knows?) |
| Synopsis | Struggling to write a 'proper' play after years of comedies, a writer uses his favourite character to explore faith, proof and truth, only to end up learning more about himself than he expected. |
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| The Spa by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch with minimal set. |
| Synopsis | Brian is not keen about the spa but soon discovers that the treatments might not be too bad... |
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| Sparring Partners by George Holmes |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. One offstage voice - could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Music suggestions for 10 pieces, for scene changes, are provided with the Producer's copy. No singing is required. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length comedy play with music suggested, to add jollity for the scene changes. |
| Synopsis | It's a busy weekend at Jolly's Spa, and the owner and manager, William Jolly, is struggling to keep things running. The plumbing is backing-up and the guests are coming to blows. Worse still, his mother is 'helping' him! |
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