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| To Shut The Mouth Of Lions by Dave Clark |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play, containing strong adult language. |
| Synopsis | At a dysfunctional family’s Christmas gathering, head of the family William is facing a terminal illness. His wilful refusal to acknowledge his gay son's right to full humanity forces him to choose between dying alone or facing his homophobic feelings and their cause. |
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| The Toad Society by John Waterhouse |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage actors (two of whom each play two roles in Act 2) and an off-stage voice. |
| Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play in two acts (each with its own set). |
| Synopsis | The Harpington Toad Fanciers meet to share their fascination with amphibians, only to discover that they have more interests in common than just the common toad. This leads on to the formation of TARTS and a rather eventful camping expidition...
Act one is available as a stand-alone one-act play, The Harpington Toad Fanciers' Social |
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| Toil and Trouble by Karina Fernandez |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy, set backstage at a school production of 'The Scottish Play'. |
| Synopsis | Tensions mount as the young actors ready themselves for the impending curtain up, and things are made worse when the director announces that a West End producer is in the audience. |
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| A Toll Of Bells by Patricia Gay |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | With action jumping between time zones and crossing three generations, the play depicts people who are faced with huge events that are beyond their control. They must, however, continue the quest for survival in their more mundane lives. The three generations depicted in the play react in different ways to accomplish that goal. |
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| Tom-Tom by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One of the characters is a synthesised voice that might possibly be recorded, though that requires a lot of cues to be executed well by the sound desk! |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play (an extended sketch which, with a bit of stage business, might just creep into the one-act play category). Minimal set - a couple of chairs to indicate a car. |
| Synopsis | A couple struggle to reach their destination despite - or because of - the use of their sat-nav. |
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| Tomboy by Stuart Smithers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An efficient one-act drama with some well-placed twists. Deals sympathetically with the issues of bullying and gender transition. |
| Synopsis | Andy is attending his first school reunion since leaving 50 years ago, and meets reunion regulars Gerry and Val. Gerry has very fond memories of school, but doesn't remember Andy. Andy's memories aren't so fond, but he seems to know a lot about Gerry, and is determined to coax a secret out of him. |
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| Tommy's Burglar by Rob Burbidge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. One adult and one child. Both characters are written as male, but the child could easily be changed to female. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very short play for two actors (based on a short story by O. Henry). |
| Synopsis | Tommy is a sweet child, doomed to be in a story where he interrupts a burglar about his nefarious business and inevitably sets back on the road to righteousness. The burglar for his part, is disgruntled about endlessly burgling houses at the whim of the narrator only to be redirected by a succession of sickly sweet kids. A knowing comic sketch. |
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| Tony and Bee-ing Cleopatra by Fiona Scott Patrick |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Lindsay is dressed in a bumble bee costume with a Cleopatra wig. (Just in case you need a hint about the provenance of the strange title.) The cast includes four numbered tourists. Others might drift through! |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute character-driven play, minimal set. (I realise that the residents of Edinburgh might be offended by the description of one of their streets as minimal, but it doesn't need to be a realistic set!) |
| Synopsis | Lindsay is handing out flyers for her show at the Edinburgh Fringe, but she feels she's too old to be there - she's a serious actress. Then she meets Tony, a little drunk and recently dumped by her boyfriend, and the pair find a new enthusiasm for acting. |
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| Too Hot to Handle by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One of the characters sings a snatch from a 1970s pop song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A strong short with a good balance of comedy and pathos. Two well-written characters with a believably messy friendship. Would make a fun challenge for a pair of actresses. |
| Synopsis | It's summer 1976 and Britain is roasting. Long-term friends Stella and Avril are now in their 40s and much divorced, but while Stella seems to have settled for the single life, Avril enthusiastically announces yet another engagement. |
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| Too Many Fish by Alison Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. 12 roles, including two singers, plus an onstage band of approx 4. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] Photo by Robert Skears at shotz4u.co.uk. |
| Music | 15 existing songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Two-act musical comedy. Three sets. Adult content and language. |
| Synopsis | All of life is on display in The Happy Onion, the local shop, sorry, Upper Wallop’s Finest Delicatessen: Sandra’s dealing with her divorce, Brenda with her abusive husband, and Bert the owner with his unrequited love and a big, fake, fish. |
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