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| Twist by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Whirlwind adaptation of Dickens' Oliver Twist as a one-act comedy for kids. |
| Synopsis | Wide-eyed innocent Oliver progresses from orphanage to workhouse to den of thieves to prison cell and then back onto the mean streets as a fugitive, and not only from the law. No matter, things can only get better, can't they? Even the ever-optimistic Oliver is beginning to have doubts about that. |
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| Two Farmers by Damian Trasler & David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters are farmers, hence the title. (Could be male or female.) |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch with no set and no props (give or take an implicit farm gate!) |
| Synopsis | Two farmers converse! A thinly disguised string of dreadful farmyard-related jokes! |
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| Two Gentlemen of Verona by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Flexible numbers of soldiers and outlaws |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A humorous retelling of Shakespeare's story as a modern-language one-act play. |
| Synopsis | When Proteus follows his best friend Valentine to fashionable Milan, he finds himself attracted to the Duke of Milan's daughter, Silvia, upon whom Valentine has already set his sights. Hatching a plot to remove Valentine from the scene and move in on Silvia, he does not realise that he is being followed by Julia, the girl he left behind in Verona and to whom he has sworn everlasting devotion. Will the faithless scoundrel succeed with Silvia or will his efforts founder? A no-brainer, really. |
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| Tyndale's Nativity by Paul Cockcroft |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Variable chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama, focusing on the spoken words rather than the actions. |
| Synopsis | A sombre presentation of the Nativity story taken from Matthew and Luke, based on the translation by William Tyndale in 1534. |
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| Ugly Duckling by Ann Taylor |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play for schools with a single (playground) setting. |
| Synopsis | This anti-bullying play tells the story of a child who is bullied because he looks different. A resolution is reached when classmates step in to help. |
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| Until Death Do Us Part by Catherine Hurd |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 89 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length drama with various sets. |
| Synopsis | George and Jean have been happily married for many years and, as dementia starts its grip on George, Jean is determined that she will care for him despite their daughters' insistence that he should be placed in residential care. Jean’s determination is severely tested when an old flame, Harry Holmes, former detective and now successful novelist, comes to town for a book tour and tries to rekindle his romance with her. Matters get further complicated when an ex-con bent on revenge stalks Harry, and becomes convinced that Harry and Jean are trying to murder George. |
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| Upgrades by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy skit. Single set. Some props for visual jokes! |
| Synopsis | Flushed with the success of his new invention, Alexander Graham Bell describes his plans for upgrading his phone to his assistant, Watson. |
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| V For Valentine by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Five songs with new lyrics to traditional tunes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A musical sketch perfect for teaching children about Valentine's Day. |
| Synopsis | It's Valentine's Day party time and Miss Daisy and her class are preparing for the event. Unusual guests arrive and help the teacher to introduce the festivity's traditions, nursery rhymes and songs. |
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| Vectors of Power by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Character genders may be changed at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for youth, set in a fantasy role-play computer game. |
| Synopsis | Chalera is a Warrior Chieftain, unable to pass through the portal and progress into the next zone. She seeks help from IT, where the small print seems to hold the clue. Then a range of obstacles appear in the paths of the participants, who must overcome them using the points available to them. Can the gamers reach their goal? |
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| A Victorian Street Scene by Roger Hurn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Cast flexibility comes by way of choruses of Passers-by, Urchins, and Salvaitonists, plus the option of the narrators doubling other roles. Four roles are nominally gendered, but this is really not important. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Vignette for a class or school assembly |
| Synopsis | A scene intended to convey the feel of a bustling Victorian street and give voice to the different types of tradespeople and characters who might be found there. |
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