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When the Cherry Blossoms Bloom by Steven A. Shapiro |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama set around a park bench. |
Synopsis | Unfit Morty meets athletic Sandy when he has a coronary while out for a run. Over a series of encounters at the same park bench, the two bond and eventually share their secrets. |
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When The Hurly-Burly's Done by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Male cameo - offstage voice - could be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act comedic play, with a 'blasted heath' setting. |
Synopsis | Three very familiar hags are gathered around a cauldron on a blasted heath, but a certain Thane is running late. The ladies discuss their options and possible plans, before finally getting down to the business of the night. |
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When We Were Young by Allan Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama (with minimum staging requirements) set in World War One. |
Synopsis | Six monologues from three different characters, set during the First World War. Two soldiers who were childhood friends, recound their wartime experiences, as does a nurse who meets one of the men when he becomes one of the many casualties of the Great War |
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Where Babies Come From by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are played by people older than the stated age. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch |
Synopsis | Two children, seven and seven and three quarters, discuss the big mystery of where babies come from. |
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Where the Brass Bands Play by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Detective Sergeant Cross is written female, but could be male with minor adjustments to the text. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length farce. Single interior set (with inevitable French window and sundry places to hide). Warning - contains entendres, some of them twice. |
Synopsis | Simeon Gandalf, one-time thespian, now theatrical agent, settles into Mrs Esme Golightly's Seaview Guest House, keen to develop the career of his young protégée, Louise Laverne. Despite Simeon's allegedly innocent intentions towards Louise, the last things he needs are the arrivals in quick succession of his long-estranged fifth wife, seeking a divorce and his long-term mistress, keen to be made into an honest woman. It's just as well that Simeon's solicitor is on hand to dig him out of the hole he is digging for himself. Also present, but wishing they weren't, are a hapless burglar and a member of the local constabulary. Will Mrs Golightly's no hanky-panky policy hold up and is there really a contract killer on Simeon's trail? |
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Where There's A Will... by Alan Tibbles |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length thriller in a single domestic set. |
Synopsis | Set in the 1950s English countryside this thriller starts with the Nesbitts and their spouses being called together unexpectedly by their widowed step mother Violet. They gather in the peaceful country home of wealthy Esmerelda Barton for whom Violet has been acting as companion. Old enmities and rivalries emerge and secrets are exposed. All is definitely not as it seems and death is in the air. All is eventually revealed in this cleverly-constructed thriller. |
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Where There's Blame by John Chambers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, minimal set requirements, simple props, three strong characters and an involving story. Contains strong language and adult themes. |
Synopsis | Lennie is fronting an accident claim company to raise money for his property speculating in Spain, Tina's waiting for Kevin to bring her some money for the week's shopping, but he's got caught up with Lennie's pie in the sky. |
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Where's George by Gary Diamond & Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Character ages range from thirties to eighties. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play. Single set (living room). Contemporary realism. |
Synopsis | It's Sunday afternoon. Arthur and Vera face the weekly ordeal of tea with Vera's mother, the fearsome Rose, and her carer-son, Edward. Rose is awaiting the arrival of her favourite son, George, but Edward has other surprises in store. |
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Where's Nigel by Jim Pinnock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Some non-speaking roles essential to the play. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act farce. |
Synopsis | A group of friends meet for a party at Nigel and Stephanie's house. Events take an unusual turn as the services of a doctor and the police are needed as identities become confused and people are not who they seem. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'Where's Nigel?' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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While You Were Gone by Catherine Gourdie |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 18. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 61 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The script can be performed with or without music. There are eight points in script where songs to be performed are suggested. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Two-act historical drama set in a 1940s factory, with a large cast. |
Synopsis | Edie reminisces on her experiences working in a factory during World War II. |
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