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| Room for Another by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A well-written 65-minute ensemble drama on a single set, with stories developing naturally for all the characters. Suited to groups with a range of playing ages, with good roles for all. |
| Synopsis | It's November 1940 and Hitler's bombs are raining down on London. Elsie and her daughter Carrie have their favourite night-time spot on a platform in the Underground - and on two successive nights they welcome a motley group of strangers to join them. |
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| A Room With A Clue by Matthew Lynch |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play. Single set (clinical reception area). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | This waiting room is a busy place. Eddie has arrived with a damaged arm and is impatient to get the receptionist to get him processed. But then there are the other arrivals, with a range of experiences... |
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| Room with a View by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A dramatic sketch with a single (hotel room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Four thieves meet in a high rise hotel room after a botched bank heist. The situation only gets worse. |
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| The Room by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters cover a range of ages from twenties to seventies. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play, single set - character study with a rather sinister edge! |
| Synopsis | Four women of varying ages and infirmities enter a room, supposedly in a rest home/hospice called 'Pleasantways'. They're told to enter the room but not to leave. The women open up to each other about the circumstances that brought them to this place and their feelings about the treatment they have received. Exploration of their current position leads to a sinister discovery... |
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| A Rose for Danny by Kevin James Moriarty |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Great opportunities for character acting! |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dramatisation of the lives of a dysfunctional Irish-American family. Contains swearing and drinking. (Not necessarily in that order.) |
| Synopsis | An old man seems to have reached the end of his luck - his wife is dead, he's behind on the rent and his wealthy son-in-law doesn't want to take him in. Is it too late to repair his relationship with his two daughters and find some redemption? |
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| Rossetti's Women by Joan Greening |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three roles. Written to be played by one actress, but could be performed by three. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | The three women describe their relationships and contrasting lives, shared with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Their emotions are gradually revealed - through which he captured their hearts and minds. In such a different era to the present day, the Pre-Raphaelites were a force to be reckoned with. |
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| Run Out by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two (female) characters are intended to be played by the same actress, and there is a further pair of characters that can be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's script suggests music to be played at the end of Act 1. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length comedy drama with a single (hilltop bench) setting. |
| Synopsis | Malcolm and his wife Mavis have come to scatter his late mother’s ashes at her special place. Family tensions arise as they reminisce and question what made this place special for her. All is revealed as we are taken back to her young days in the 1950s. |
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| The Sacrifice by Rebecca Preen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Emotionally powerful fifteen minute drama that manages to examine the effect of trauma on a whole family without stepping outside the hospital room of the patient. |
| Synopsis | Beth is in a coma, and her family wait by her bedside, but as time passes it becomes clear Beth is not going to wake up. Her Mum is the most reluctant to move on, but even she can't fool herself any longer. But they can't hear what's happening inside Beth's head... |
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| Sad Angel by Robert Foylan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama set in a park. |
| Synopsis | Grace is walking in the park, preparing herself for a dramatic moment in her life, when she meets a sad-looking man. He seems to know a lot about her and her life, but could he really be her guardian angel? |
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| Samaritans, Can I Help You? by Brendan Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, dealing with a disturbing subject. Single simple set, simple props. Contains swearing and sexual themes. |
| Synopsis | A man in torment over a love affair calls the one organisation he feels might listen without prejudice. |
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