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A Spy With A View by Robert Scott
Best Seller The Maidenhead Drama Guild (UK) won Best Comedy and came 2nd in the Open Class at the Maidenhead Drama Festival. (2019) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Paulo is written male but could be reassigned. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy thriller with a single hotel room set.. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | David and Vicky are on holiday, but the weather has trapped them in their hotel room. The monotony is broken by the delivery of a mysterious briefcase, with a recording that self-destructs! Where's the real spy? |
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| A Square Peg in a Round Hole by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short monologue with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Peggy has had to go into a care home and reflects on the changes to her life. |
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| Squeezy and the Wicked Queen by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act rhyming pantomine with a variety of settings. Includes roles suitable for young children. |
| Synopsis | This story picks ups where 'Snow White' ends. The Seven Dwarves, who work for the Queen down the mine, decide to go and help Santa instead by working in his workshop. Snow White is now on a reality TV series, so the Dwarves need some money of their own. However, all does not go to plan, and the Queen tries to ruin Christmas by poisoning Santa's reindeer. Who will save the day? |
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| Squirrel Caper by Jamie Hope |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (park bench) setting. |
| Synopsis | A gang of squirrels mastermind a plan to mug an old lady who visits the park every day. Their meticulous plan hits a snag when the old lady unexpectedly brings her dog with her and a pesky chipmunk tries to muscle in on the action. |
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| The Staff Room by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Seven on-stage teachers and two off-stage pupil's voices (which could be recordings). The Headteacher is written as female, but can be played as male with the necessary minimal changes to the script. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama, set in a primary school (with a set requiring furniture only). |
| Synopsis | Unable to escape the staff room in time, a number of teachers are trapped by the Head and must - volunteer - for some unpopular duties. |
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| Stairway to Heaven by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three middle-aged blokes, one of whom is the Archangel Gabriel. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single set (or lack of set, since it takes place at the the ultimate ephemeral location - just outside the pearly gates). Australian in tone, but universal in humour. |
| Synopsis | Robbie, a biker, meets Alfred, a civil servant, outside the gates to heaven. Unpredictably, they get on quite well, but there's been a bit of a mix-up, and the angel Gabe isn't sure if either of them should be going in... |
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| Stan and Tony by Clive David Lloyd Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy drama on a single (living room) set. |
| Synopsis | One afternoon in the 1960s, two giants of British comedy met briefly, when Tony Hancock visited Stan Laurel at his home in Santa Monica. Hancock was a very successful radio and TV star of the 1950s and 60s whilst Laurel’s slapstick movies with Oliver Hardy were top box office in the 1920s-40s. This is a play suggesting events which may have taken place during their unpublicised encounter. |
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| Stand and Deliver [Panto] by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for six songs are made in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with an original story. |
| Synopsis | The villagers of Widdledown are sad the old lord of the manor has died, but are looking forward to meetng his son, who is returning from the Navy. The new Lord wants to double the rents... but is he really who he claims to be? |
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| Standards by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two-handed sketch. Simple set. |
| Synopsis | Penelope tries to help Philip come to terms with his middle age! |
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| Standing Room Only by James Harvey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The characters are written as 4M, 3F, a lot more flexibility is possible! |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play, single set (the minimum required to indicate a waiting room). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A group of people are being kept waiting - in hell. How long are they going to have to hang around for their share of eternal damnation? |
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