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| The Three Wise 'Men' by Croft & Barnett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple sketch requiring a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | The three wise men arrive at Bethlehem and pick up their gifts, but one is less manly than expected. Could one of them be a wise... woman? |
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Three Women and Shakespeare's Will by Joan Greening
Best Seller 2022 Edinburgh Fringe production received a 5-Star review from Arts Reviews Edinburgh. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Quick-witted one-act comedy. Single set requiring only a few items of furniture. |
| Synopsis | After the death of William Shakespeare, Anne Hathaway is visited by two women with shocking revelations. Both claim to have known her husband intimately, and each want a piece of Will's will. |
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| Three's Company by Lorraine Forrest-Turner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch, with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Harry and his girlfriend Amy are at a theme park with Harry's best friend Colin. Amy is not happy about Colin's presence, and Colin doesn't see why he should give way to Amy. Harry gives them both an ultimatum... |
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| A Throw of the Dice by Ben Alexander |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One male character is voice-only and more suited to being pre-recorded than performed live. The hospital staff (surgeon, nurse and duty manager) are written female but could be either. |
| Run Time | Around 104 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 7 songs are suggested, to be played (but not performed by cast) at specified points in the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length thriller on a single (hospital waiting room) set. |
| Synopsis | Henry, whose father is close to death, and Judy, whose husband has been seriously injured, meet for the first time one evening in a waiting room of a private hospital. During the course of a long night, they get to know each other sufficiently for Henry to be able to help Judy when her husband's two brothers arrive the following morning to intimidate her into signing away her rights to her husband's wealth. However, Henry has a hidden agenda. |
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| Thrusting Edifice by Susie Casson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A gentle, enjoyable sketch that would fit comfortably into a variety night and is easy to stage - minimal furniture and two actors of any gender. |
| Synopsis | Two strangers meet at an art gallery and discuss the paintings and what they assume the artists intended. |
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| Tiddley Pum by Frances Bartram |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Minimal set (an ante-room for an audition, no particular requirements). Well-drawn characters and sparkling dialogue. |
| Synopsis | Six characters meeting each other for the first time as they gather to audition for a television show. Their talents are as disparate as their personalities. |
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The Tide is Coming In by Michael C. Appleby
Production by The Edinburgh Makars won First Prize (and the Edith Forbes Trophy) in the Scottish Community Drama Association's One Act Play Festival, Edinburgh, 2020 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters written as 2m, 2F, but can be played by any combination with permissible tweaks to names and pronouns. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A witty one-act comedy with funny characters and plenty of action. Set on a beach, furnished with rocks and (not necessarily visibly) sand! |
| Synopsis | Angela gets stuck in quicksand while walking along the beach. Her friend Brian helpfully explains the physics of thixotropy, but can’t think of a way to get her out. Deirdre and Colin pass by and are recruited into the rescue, but are more interested in a nearby black-throated diver. |
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| Tiger, Tiger by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length farce. Single set - a private lounge in a Dartmoor holiday lodge - with plenty of entrancesand exits. Contains (mild) swearing.
First published September 2010, Revised November 2015. |
| Synopsis | Sir Maynard Bullivant, MP, arranges a quiet weekend with Judge Dorothy Tranter at Beacon Tor Lodge in deepest Devon. The planne romatic trist is derailed by Dorothy's need to prepare a case, and Maynard's unxepected appointment to the Cabinet.
There's also the matter of an old flame of Maynard's arriving with a bag of stolen diamonds, which she expects Maynard to smuggle for her - a bit tricky, since henow has a Civil Service minder and a Special Branch Protection Officer monitoring his every move. Then there's the ex-con, the ambitious cub reporter and... oh yes, an escaped tiger.
Now, did someone mention a quiet weekend? |
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Tilapia by Rosemary Frisino Toohey
Tilapia was named Finalist in the Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Competition in 2009. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are middle-aged or above. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play. Single dinner table set (only needs to be indicative). |
| Synopsis | An elegant couple discuss their meal, the recent past and some very peculiar events that took place during an abortive dinner party that very evening.
What the protagonists don't understand soon becomes clear to the audience! |
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Time and Chance by Audrey Lee
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act play built from three monologues. Strongly developed characters, emotion and humour, and a strong payoff.. Set in the mid 20th century. Requires only furniture. (Oh, all right. And actors.) |
| Synopsis | Miss Bradford is the supervisor of a secretarial typing pool who has devoted her life to her career and avoided any personal connections. Mr Fish is the head of mailing who fancies himself and Miss Bradford spending their retirement together. And Tracey Spencer is a young woman applying for a job, who gets caught in the middle of the two. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Zip file containing Intro and play-out music written for the original production of Audrey Lee's 'Time and Chance'.
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