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Ladies at the Seaside by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act drama on a simple set. Plenty of scope for the two actors to explore the emotional range. |
Synopsis | Maureen and Dot meet on a trip to the Eastbourne seafront. Dot is being bullied and robbed by her daughter and son-in-law, and Maureen helps her build up the confidence to take back control of her life. |
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Ladies' Room by Philip and Steven Schwadron |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Suggestion for one optional musical outro. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act play for an all-female cast of high school actors. Some strong language and adolescent themes. |
Synopsis | It's Prom night, but the Ladies’ room is seeing some brisk traffic as the girls take a break from dancing with their partners, and just the Prom itself. By the end of the night, hearts are broken, revealed and shared. |
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The Lady or the Tiger by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play adapted from Frank Stockton's short story. Simple props. |
Synopsis | The Princess's lover is on trial for his life. She can save him from certain death, but would the alternative be worse? |
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Last Duchess by Iris Winston Won first prize in the Ottawa Little Theatre National Playwriting Competition. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short stage adaptation of Robert Browning's poem, My Last Duchess. |
Synopsis | The spirit of a murdered wife steps from her portrait to try and warn the next fiancée of the fate that awaits her. |
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Last of the Meagans 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. Two parents and their young adult son. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play, single set. Minimal props. Contains adult themes. |
Synopsis | A father argues with his remaining son after the funeral of his youngest son, a victim of the Iraq war. Family revelations follow harsh words and it's left to Mom to hold the family together. |
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The Last Thing On His Mind by Mike Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two elderly men and a cameo female nurse. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute (or so) play. Single set - a couple of chairs and a table to indicate the terrace of a retirement home. A wonderful piece of writing which, very indirectly, says a lot about the characters. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | Sitting in the sun outside his nursing home, Mr James is consumed by the memory of sex with a woman he can't remember the name of. His companion wishes he would change the subject, but Mr James chases the thought around and around. |
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The Last Visitor by Allan Williams Winner [under the name of The Visitor] of the Anglesey, Leverhulme and Wilmslow Drama Festivals, 2013 (plus various best actor awards). |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play. |
Synopsis | Harry is an old man in a retirement home. Happy with the pace of life, he's surprised to receive a young visitor who seems to know a lot about Harry's wartime record. But there's more to the visitor than Harry suspects, because they have met before, just once - in a trench in France... |
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The Last Waltz by Johnny Grim This play won the author the Best Writer award at the 2009 Perth ITA (Independent Theatre Association) Dramafest. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two protagonists are an Australian and Australian of Indian origin. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama (with elements of black comedy!) Single set with two locations - a taxi and a park bench. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | Shane Grantham plans revenge on the man who stole his wife. He requests a taxi to take him to the place where the man lives. For driver Krishnan Singh, this is just another routine call, and his passenger just another face in the crowd. A chance meeting between two strangers, two men from very different worlds, who on this one night discover that love is universal. |
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Late Again by Bob Heather |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play with a single (sitting room) setting. |
Synopsis | Angela is annoyed when husband Richard is constantly late home from work. This time though it is a motorway pile-up which has detained him. Angela is devastated when a stranger comes to call for Richard. |
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Laura by Jonathan Edgington A winning entry in the Chesil Theatre's 10x10 play writing competition, 2016. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play |
Synopsis | A chance discovery in a second hand record store reveals the truth about a lost love. |
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