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Sleepover Secrets by Tony Domaille Plockton Amdram Youth Society - Intermediate section trophy winner Scottish Community Drama Association one act play youth festival, Highlands 2018. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One character is an offstage female voice. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama for youth theatre with a single (bedroom) setting. |
Synopsis | Five sixteen-year-old girls are having a sleepover when they decide to share their most closely guarded secrets. Who has the biggest secret and who will believe whom? |
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Slimmers' Planet by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
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 drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
Synopsis | Martin, looking for love, meets Lorna, looking for weight loss. |
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Small Miracles by Maureen Speller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 54. Chorus. Three short plays, one cast can perform all three or they can have separate casts. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Choral music to be played at various points in play, at discretion of director. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Collection of three short plays with Biblical themes. Suitable for performance by children. |
Synopsis | A trio of short plays following the story of Mary, Joseph and Jesus from the end of most Nativity stories to the early days of Christianity in Rome. |
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Small Talk by Martin Ward |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One song suggested, to be played at rise. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act drama with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Mark has invited Ian to his flat for a drink, but Ian doesn’t know why. In fact, they went to the same school twenty years before, and Ian was a bully who made Mark's life a misery. Now Mark has plans to gain revenge. |
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The Smell of Almonds by Nigel Holloway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One (gender non-specific) character is an offstage voice only. |
Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama with no set necessary, using cyclorama effects. |
Synopsis | A play charting the dark and unexpected secrets which hide behind the disjointed memories and imaginings of an old man and his cat. Set during the Second World War, the play tells the story of Yitzhak, a migrant Jewish worker in the bulb fields near Amsterdam, his cat, Pushka, his son, Ibrahim, and his wife, Esther. Despite the apparently placid exterior of a man in the Autumn of his life, Yitzhak’s past has been dominated by violent and tragic events, both internal and external. What is the true nature of justice, and the price of survival? |
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A Smell of Burnt Feathers by Paul Gisby Winner of the 1999 Royal Mail 'Write Now' play award. Production by Penrhos Players won Best Drama in the Hale One-Act-Play festival, 2012. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two characters are adult sisters of a similar age (assumed mid-thirties). |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Contemporary realism. One-act play, single modern set, simple props. (Contains swearing.) |
Synopsis | Oriole is events manager for an important conference, and her detailed plans didn't involve the arrival of her sister Jenny, fresh from their father's funeral. However, Oriole has some surprises in store for Jenny. |
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The Smell of Dirt by Henry P. Gravelle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play with no set necessary. |
Synopsis | The friends of a recently released thief confront him for their share of a heist gone bad. |
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Smoke and Mirrors by E. C. Chapman Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Dramatic monologue recounted by a theatre director. |
Synopsis | A director talks through the trials and tribulations on an outdoor production of one of Shakespeare's most celebrated plays. |
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Snakes and Ladders by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, 'furniture' only. |
Synopsis | After a secret liaison, Malcolm and Karen find themselves trapped in the office storeroom. |
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The Snow Queen [Version 4] by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 28. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | In two acts, this is a new look at the Hans Christian Andersen tale. |
Synopsis | When the Snow Queen breaks her magic mirror, shards fly out into the world. She'll only see herself as ugly in every mirror, unless she retrieves every last shard from the hearts and eyes of men... Kay has the last two shards and the Snow Queen takes him prisoner, so Gerda must rescue her love from the queen. |
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