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| Men of Harlech by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Gently humorous and life-affirming one-act play. Single set (a Welsh living room. Make your own mind up as to how that differs from, say, an English living room). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | It's the chance of a lifetime for Alun Evans - a friend is offering him a ticket to the Rugby World Cup Final to see Wales play. But it's in New Zealand. Then Alun's wife offers to buy his plane ticket for him... but it'll mean missing their 30th Wedding Anniversary. |
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| Merc-y by Michelle Drapeau |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. A married couple. (Currently.) |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch with a sharp edge. |
| Synopsis | Andrew is trying to tell his wife what's so special about the car he's drooling over. Trouble is, he's not listening to what she's saying to him until it's too late. |
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Merely Players by Damian Trasler
Performance by Debenhem Players won the Adjudicator's Award at the 2015 Woodbridge Drama Festival. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Each of the actors plays two contrasting roles. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play, morphing from light back-stage romantic comedy into a murder mystery and back again. Single set, most of which is put in place during the course of the play. |
| Synopsis | This is great fun. Starting with a bare stage, under the guise of tidying the theatre's store of props and costumes, the characters accidentally build the set of a drawing-room murder mystery, and Phyllis's daydream of being the Lady of the Manor suddenly comes to life as a period drama, until the spell is broken, leaving Phyllis with new insights into her life. |
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| The Merry England Blues by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Three music tracks are suggested to accompany the action. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act comedy on two sets with basic folk dancing and music.
Warning: contains Morris Dancers. |
| Synopsis | The Merry England Folk Dancers are in decline. The town carnival procession could be their final opportunity to attract new members. In a riotous conclusion and against all the odds, they give it their best shot. |
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| A Merry Lyttle Christmas by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Requires a mixture of adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act festive comedy. |
| Synopsis | Tess Steadman wants a Christmas like she had when she was a little girl, Tess Lyttle. She invites her brother and his family to Christmas Dinner, but not everyone has the same experience of Christmas as Tess. |
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| The Merry Wives of Windsor [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. 17 speaking parts (playable by 13 actors) plus at least three fairies, who might be played by doubled by some of the speaking roles, if they are not busy doubling other people. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 60-minute abridgement of the Shakespeare comedy.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Down on his luck, Sir John Falstaff arrives in Windsor and plots to turn his fortunes around by seducing the wives of two wealthy gentlemen. But the wives detect his unscrupulousness and put their own scheme together to humiliate him. |
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The Merry Women of Windham by Nicholas Conti
Winner in the Nov. 2005 Gettysburg College (PA.) World Premiere One Act Play Festival. Performance by Trinity Drama Group placed second in the Confined Category in the Balbriggan One Act Festival 2009 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Black comedy set in a modern American suburb. One-act, single set. |
| Synopsis | A Garden Mystery or 'Victoria's Secret'... The women of Victoria's Garden Club devise novel ways of dealing with problems in their domestic relationships. All the solutions are permanent, though they require a fair amount of digging, and Victoria's garden contains some unusual plants. All the club members are blissfully contented until the digging and the ceremonial chanting is brought to the attention of a local policewoman, who comes to investigate... |
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| Message For Sophie by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The Doctor should be considerably older than Sophie. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch, with minimal (a chair) set. |
| Synopsis | Sophie is really, really attached to her mobile and the Doctor thinks it's time for drastic measures. |
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| Micky Marvello by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Micky Marvello is Circus Fantastique’s accident prone magician and now he has disappeared. The police are investigating how and why he has gone missing, whilst people in the circus aren’t sure if it is a case of foul play or magic gone wrong. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream (Comedy Crew 60 Minute Version) by Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. 14 on-stage characters (played by a minimum of 9 actors) plus two offstage voices, which might be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 63 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very amateur theatre company present their take on Shakespeare. |
| Synopsis | Cowmoor Comedy Crew, a rural amateur group, perform a sixty-minute version of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The same story, with a preceding act, showing how the production came together, is told in The Dream! |
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