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| The Spasm by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. Flexible chorus size |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A play in five short acts. |
| Synopsis | Based loosely on the short story by Guy de Maupassant, the play explores manservant Prosper's journey to heaven, and his discovery that his heaven may become his hell. |
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| Speak Your Mind by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A family drama (with comic moments). Single set. Structurally in two acts, but at 70 minutes, it offers the options of standing alone or being paired with a shorter piece. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Ever since her father died, Ruth has been concerned about her mother Mildred. Ruth's husband Richard has his worries too, as Ruth's reverence for her father's memory seems to cloud her judgment. An unexpected guest in the form of Richard's boss Harry turns a simple dinner party into a stage for confessions and accusations. |
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| Speakeasy by Jane Quill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama in a single (minimal set). |
| Synopsis | Spend a few evenings with the Speakeasy group, an informal talking session where people can deal with their issues, helped by Gary, the founder. Michael is struggling with depression, Rachel is alcoholic and Bettina is really Johnathan, but they all have the group in common. |
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| Special Occasions by Roger Hodge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act play adapted from the middle act of Roger Hodge's full-length Eating Out. |
| Synopsis | Three very different couples eat at the same restaurant. It's a special occasion for all of them - or will turn out to be. |
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| Spelled by Adrian Cale |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 75-minute comic murder mystery play in a single set. Structurally in two acts, but could be paired with a much shorter play to create a longer entertainment. |
| Synopsis | Zelda is the head witch of a modern-day coven, but is despised by its members - she's plagiarised Florence's Big Book of Spells, turned Ethel's owl into vol-au-vents, and made Dora quack like a duck. When Zelda is found dead, the Council of Witches send an investigator to solve the case. |
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| Spiked by S. J. Bailey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Eleven on-stage characters plus three voices which might be recordings. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play set in a shared house.
Contains swearing and the sort of adult themes (or as near adult as students get) that you'd expect from the summary. |
| Synopsis | Housemates Rosie and Joe have the usual student problems - a looming essay deadline, a useless property manager, and Joe's spoiled girlfriend spending too long in their shower. Oh, and there's also a notorious drug baron holding them hostage, and the police besieging the building. |
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| A Spirit for Evermore by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Cast include the usual pantomime juxtapositions (Dame played by a male, principal boy by a female) plus a pantomime dog! |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for songs (but not sheet music). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime with an original story. |
| Synopsis | The Kingdom of Evermore is nearly bankrupt, thanks to the thieving of evil butler Skulk. To restore their fortunes, the Princess Daisy is to be married to rich but thick Lord Larry of Luton, but then she meets George and falls in love. Will Skulk stop the match to get his hands on Larry's loot too, or can Willow the ghost come to the rescue? |
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| Spirits of the Age by John Chambers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play, with a single (multi-functional) set. |
| Synopsis | The relationship between Houdini and Conan Doyle is examined - through the medium of their investigation of the spirit world and its practitioners, in an intriguingly-staged drama. |
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| Spirits! by Karin Diann Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Eight roles but two of them are written to be doubled by specific cast members. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very silly, raucous farce set around a séance. Fun characters, cheeky wit, a lot of physical humour, and some audience interaction. (American English.) |
| Synopsis | Madame Sirena prepares to conduct a séance at the mansion of wealthy widower Taffy, who has sworn to bring his late wife's murderer to justice before he remarries - but the clock is ticking for his fiancée, Felicity, who must wed before she turns 30 to claim her inheritance. Meanwhile, escape artist Harry Hugweenie resists the advances of his spirited assistant as he waits on a promised message from the other side. |
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| Split Infinitives by JJ Crossley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All three characers are written as male, but need not be! |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple-to-stage one-act comedy play (packed with sci-fi silliness.) |
| Synopsis | An unscrupulous pair of business executives hatch a plan to establish once and for all the exact age of the universe, and reap the fame and rewards, by recruiting a test pilot for their recently acquired, but rather unreliable time machine. |
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