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| Paper Trail by Seán Lang |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Moving one-act drama, split between two eras. (The stage is likewise split, with the modern part of the story represented by a furnished area, and the 1940s elements done under spotlight.) Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Angie is hoping to track down her mother, who died in childbirth. Since her husband's death, she is free to travel and to research the circumstances the left her in an orphanage in Australia. But this research could reveal some unpleasant secrets. |
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| The Parable of the Chess Game by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
| Synopsis | Game Eleven in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Varadachary, revolutionary and storyteller, coming to the end of his life, receives a lesson in non-violent revolution from the spirits of his gurus, Ghandi and Tolstoy. |
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| Parallelodram by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play providing acting challenges and philosophical insight! |
| Synopsis | The stage is divided into two parallel universes, the left reflecting the right. On both sides, four students discuss multiverse theory and, through a series of minor choices and actions, the two universes gradually diverge, affecting the relationship of mathemetician Rainier and his girlfriend Anna. |
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| The Pardner's Tale by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single (saloon) set. (US English) |
| Synopsis | A short stage adaptation of Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale', brought into the dying days of the Wild West. Three outlaws try to make a mint, but they cannot cheat Death! |
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| Parents' Evening at Magic School by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch with a simple (table and chairs) set. |
| Synopsis | It is parents' evening at this particular school - a concern for these parents... |
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| Parish Politics by Anne Graham |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act historical drama with various simple settings. |
| Synopsis | It is 1663. The Civil War may be over but personal battles are still being fought in this English village, whilst ever-harsher laws and severe punishments breed fear, greed and superstition. An illegitimate child born to a single mother is a potential burden on the parish, so apart from the loss of her good name, the mother faces a public thrashing, particularly when the new petty constable is driven by personal revenge. |
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| The Parking Lot by Peter Anthony Fields |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An easily staged and efficient drama that explores a few different themes. Likeable characters with believable dialogue. |
| Synopsis | Three couples - a young woman and a young man, a mother and daughter, and a husband and wife - each experience a major moment of crisis in their lives while sitting in their cars at a (US) shopping mall parking lot. |
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| The Parrots Of Penzance by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 89 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for four songs, with alternate lyrics for songs 1&2. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime. |
| Synopsis | Dame Patsy’s seriously unhygienic Cornish Pasty factory is under threat as ferreter Bill arrives to deal with the vermin problem. Meanwhile wreckage from a ship wreck reveals Edmundo and Consuela, two valuable giant Peruvian parrots and the race to capture them descends into hilarious panto fun. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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Partners by Henry P. Gravelle
Red River Screenplay Comp.-2023-Winner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Barry and Diego are on the run after just robbing a bank. They choose the wrong apartment to hide in. |
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| The Party Poopers by Damian Woods |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three speaking roles, with optional non-speaking extras. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch for three actors set at a party. |
| Synopsis | At a party, one guest tries his best to impress a beautiful lady. |
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