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The Frustrated Poet by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Simple set (desk and chair). Contains mild swearing. And poetry. |
Synopsis | A poet tries, but, sadly, fails, to write an ode to nightingales... |
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Frying Nemo by Amelia Armande |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 33. No chorus. Enormous flexibility! The author presents a doubling table showing how the thirty-three characters can be played by 10 actors (with a lot of swift - and necessarily simple - costume changes). |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy contains suggestions for (the style of) accompanying music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one-act nautical comedy play (with opportunities for dance music). Written for minimal set - because it was originally performed in a sea-life centre! |
Synopsis | An old man in a care home is telling the story of his younger days - as the seafaring adventurer Captain Nemo! We see things that Jules Verne never got to write about in this stirring tale of derring do and mermaids, with a surprisingly affecting ending. |
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Full Speed Ahead by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy with a fun set of characters and a good satirical sense of humour. No set, other than a few chairs and tables - location and transitions indicated by lighting. |
Synopsis | Sophie and Jack are singles who independently decide to attend a speed dating session, where they are each paired with a highly unsuitable prospective partner. By the time they are eventually due to meet, Sophie is so upset by her earlier encounter that she is intending to leave, but Jack's thoughtfulness convinces her otherwise. |
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The Fumblings at Friar's Bottom by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy, verging on light farce |
Synopsis | Friar's Bottom is a decaying English Boarding School in the 1950s. Most of the staff are looking to escape - not necessarily with their current partners. Full of double dealings with a shady bookmaker and an American property developer. |
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Fundraiser by David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A very short comedy sketch, with no set requirements. |
Synopsis | With funding running low, how might the Cruttock's End Lap Dance and Pole Artistes Collective raise some capital? |
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The Gala Programme by Tony Best |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst there isn't a formal requirement for a chorus, one could easily be added, as the protagonists refer to the reactions of crowd. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play, adapting a story by Saki. Single set (as simple as you like). A comedy, if you have Saki's very dark sense of humour. |
Synopsis | A sufragette rebellion is projected back to Roman times. The Romans, needless to say, did not have very modern attitudes to female participation in the political process, and the emperor's solution to the problem is calculated to please the crowd of the circus maximus rather than twenty-first century sensibilities! |
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The Game is a Foote by Peter Robbie |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes a suggestion for a song to be played at opening and close. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A wordplay-heavy one-act comedy on a single sitting room set. |
Synopsis | Lord and Lady Cardigan of Punaway Manor receive an unexpected visitor - Inspector Foote of the Yard, investigating the baffling murder of the young bank clerk, Clark Clarke. The real Inspector Foote announces himself from the audience and the case is brought to a shuddering denouement with the arrest of the ‘real’ criminal. |
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Gentlemen Callers by Pam Mackenzie |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy - play with a single set. |
Synopsis | Lavinia and her friends like to meet regularly for afternoon tea and cribbage. The old ladies are disturbed by three burglars who quickly find that, with these wily old ladies, they have taken on more than they expected. In fact it's the last job they ever do. |
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The Gentlemen of the Press by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A very short humorous costume drama. Two simple sets. |
Synopsis | During the Napoleonic wars, two junior officers are sent out to find men to fill the complement of their ship. One of them has other motives. |
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Geraldine's Fine Art by Frank Gibbons |
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 | Short comedy sketch which turns on the nature of the props! From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | An antique dealer visits a car boot sale, hoping to snatch a bargain from under the nose of a stall-holder. |
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