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| Augustin Homes and the Eye of the Beholder by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dry, surreal one-act comedy play set in a detective's office. |
| Synopsis | Another case for the Word Famous Detective, Augustin Homes. A husband has disappeared. Or is he simply missing? Aided and abetted by his tabloid-reading associate, the World-Famous Detective stumbles his way through the case before it finally resolves itself. |
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| Augustin Homes and the Golden Floor by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in which a detective doesn't solve a case. Single office set and lots of witty, slightly surreal wordplay. |
| Synopsis | An upturned pot of gold paint, six acres of prime development land, a good solid dependable pair of shoes and a series of badly drawn cartoon sheep all combine to upset the ordered, if somewhat eccentric world of Augustin Homes, the world-famous private detective. |
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| Augustin Homes and the Lost Juliet by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in a single office set. The third in the series of Augustin Homes cases. |
| Synopsis | Barrat Homes, an actor, shows up at the office of his brother, World-Famous Detective Augustin Homes. He's up for an audition to play a detective and wants some advice. But Augustin is out and when a client walks in, Barrat sees an opportunity to do some method-style research. |
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| Aunt Matilda Comes For Christmas Dinner by Richard Hills |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage actors plus an off-stage voice (which could be recorded). |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single domestic setting. |
| Synopsis | Every Christmas for the last ten years, Gordon and Margaret have had to put up with Aunt Matilda coming round for Dinner, banning the television, pinching the best seat by the fire... Could it be she'll miss this year? |
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| An Awesome Award by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. Minimal set - could be done front of curtain. |
| Synopsis | An awards ceremony acceptance speech. Awesome.
I would like to thank Nicholas Richards for writing this sketch, Lazy Bee Scripts for publishing it, the inventers of computers and the internet for making it possible for these words to be present at all ponts around the world at the same time, all those little electrons skittering too and fro, but most of all, I'd like to thank you - yes, you - for reading it... |
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| AWOL by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A well-scripted short scene for two actors and a bench and gives good opportunity for two actors to explore a range of emotions. (The bench is expected to deliver a wooden performance.) |
| Synopsis | Danny is determined to desert the army and cross the border before his leave is over. He plans a future with Jane, his fiancée, but doubts and fears come out during their farewell. |
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| The Axe Of Albion by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Various parts can be doubled and played by m or f. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy suitable for school age or youth performers, minimal set required. |
| Synopsis | An original storyline in which King Arthur is suffering some unfortunate disappearances - his favourite crown, the round table... Then comes news that the fabled Axe of Albion has been stolen from the cave wherein it rests, and doom must befall the whole kingdom. The quest is on! |
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| The Axedowne Affair by Owen Marsh |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 125 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length whodunnit in a single set. |
| Synopsis | The proceeds of an armoured car robbery have been hidden at Axedowne Hall but the organised treasure hunt suddenly turns deadly with an armed robbery and then a murder. The situation steadily worsens and it seems MI5 may be involved but the residents press on, trying to solve the baffling mystery. |
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| B & B by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun and frantic, short one act farce. |
| Synopsis | It's opening week for the Bay View Bed and Breakfast, but the owners aren't getting the idyllic escape from the rat race they hoped for. Guests are leaving as fast as they arrive, and the demands are almost as bizarre as the pets and habits of the ones who try to stay. |
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| Ba Ba Land by David and Fiona Barker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Nine principal roles, five cameos and chorus (of villagers sheep and mice). |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] The timing assumes 18 songs, so there is scope for variation! |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with suggestions for 18 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length (British) pantomime with an original story (with some familiar characters). |
| Synopsis | There's a competition afoot in Ba-Ba Land to find a new nursery rhyme to bring things up to date. Bo Peep's certain to win, but she'd love Boy Blue to help her out. The Wolf, on the other hand, wants to put an end to all this rhyming... |
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