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| The Ghosts of Marvin Grange by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Principal characters nominally adults but could be played by teenagers or a mixed group of teenagers and adults. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] (Dependent on how much the actors ham up the death scene!) |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Melodrama - with the playwright's tongue firmly in his cheek. (Two acts - but relatively short.) |
| Synopsis | Christopher Sinclair receives a strange summons and returns to Marvin Grange, a remote estate on a lonely moor to unravel the mystery of a haunting that is driving his cousin's wife mad... |
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| The Giant Wolverine by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy drama set in Canada, therefore in a mix of English and French (with a smattering of the local Ya'ma'kawa'ya language) |
| Synopsis | The town of Windshock (as represented by a handful of people in Greg and Meg's, a bar on the edge of town) is surprised to learn from two visiting employees of ExCav, a mining company that large deposits of a valuable mineral ore, Rupertite, have been found in the Clearview Hills nearby. This leads to tesions between those who might benefit from change and those who want to preserve the pristine environment. There's also the local legend of a dangerous wild beast - The Giant Wolverine. This is not taken seriously - until strange howls are heard outside the bar... |
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| A Gift Horse by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy, part of the It's All Greek collection. |
| Synopsis | Troy has been under siege for ten years and the nightshift for guards on the ramparts is very boring. At least, until an exciting development occurs and the Spartans are leaving. |
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| Gifts by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. There is no formal chorus, but an option for a live choir. (Not many people will take up this option.) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute comedy play, single set. A fantasia on the theme of the twelve days of Christmas. |
| Synopsis | A customer enters a shop that claims to arrange any type of gift with a very specific Christmas list... One that sounds awfully familiar. |
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| Gino of the Lamp by Paul Bovino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two on-stage characters plus an offstage voice (which could be recorded). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Single New York apartment set Contains swearing (and fantasy). |
| Synopsis | Betsy is trying to get used to her lousy apartment after finally breaking up with Eddie after thirteen years. When she absently rubs an old lamp, Gino emerges and offers her a single wish. Out of the whole, what is it that Betsy will wish for? |
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| The Girls of Autumn by Paul Barile |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 53 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy, structurally in two acts but of one-act length, on a split (park bench/jewellery store) set. US English. |
| Synopsis | The legendary Summer Set - an all-woman jewel-thief circle from the 1970s - has retired to a quiet life. In their early sixties, they seem content, until the elusive Autumn Diamond makes it way to their little patch of the earth. Enter a mysterious visitor and an old friend-turned-nemesis, and the race is on to steal the diamond and go out in style. |
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Girls' Night by Louise Roche
Best Seller 2009 Off-Broadway production extended after sell-out of initial 8-week run. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Five women with playing ages between 17 and 40. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] (including 14 songs) |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for all the songs (12 songs plus two reprises) to be sung by the characters as part of there karaoke night out. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Set largely in and around a karaoke night club, with occasional rapid flashbacks (implying figurative sets rather than realistic locations). Simple props, give or take the moped. |
| Synopsis | Sharon's daughter, Candi-Rose is getting married, and Sharon has joined her friends on a celebration night out. And the fact that Sharon has been dead for twenty years isn't going to spoil her enjoyment one little bit! Her friends laugh, cry, fight and sing in this joyous evocation of a group out to enjoy life, despite its trials and complications. |
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| Girls' Talk by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of six comedy sketches, each with a cast of two women. |
| Synopsis | Sketches tackling the difficulties of office life, men, gossiping and more men.
(Each of the sketches is available individually.) |
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| Give Her One From Me by Croft & Barnett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An adult comedy sketch with a single, pharmacy counter, setting. |
| Synopsis | Thomas has come to Jeremy's pharmacy to buy condoms. In his 'nudge, nudge, wink, wink' way Jeremy sufficiently embarrasses Thomas - to lead him to reveal what he is planning to use the condoms for. |
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| Give Me the Money by Stephen Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are an 18-year-old and a much older lady, but that's playing age, and there's plenty of scope for the wardrobe and make-up departments to accommodate actors of other ages. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun, punchy sketch. Easy to stage and could fit well into variety evenings. |
| Synopsis | A youth attempts to rob a post office, but the elderly postmistress turns the tables on him. |
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