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| Truant by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Freda occurs as a character in other Gill Medway plays. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama for two and a bench. |
| Synopsis | Fourteen-year-old Evie has bunked off school to escape her bullies, and takes refuge on Freda's favourite park bench Meeting Freda for the first time, she's frightened and hostile at first, but Freda's irreverent take on life gradually helps her confidence to blossom. |
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| A TV With Just One Button by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two men and a child. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. Set indicative of a living room (seating, a television).
Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
| Synopsis | Mark and Bob grapple with a new television. |
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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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| Voice of a Flea by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | The fifth in Gill Medway's series of monologues about cleaning lady, Violet Brimley. Minimal set (a chair). |
| Synopsis | Violet's latest job finds her at the house of a celebrated actor, whose chances of a prestigious TV award are in serious jeopardy when he appears to jump into some very hot water. Can Violet's famous tact and diplomacy save the day? |
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| Waiting For God... Only Knows What by Anna Russon and Mike Collins |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Two characters (1M, 1 either) are voice only and can be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (kitchen) setting. |
| Synopsis | Seven people are trapped in a kitchen, unable to face whatever awaits them outside... |
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| The Wakefields at War by Tom Mather |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. Characters are mainly adults, but include three children (who age two years from 9, 10 and 12 during the course of the play). |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Drama in three acts with multiple settings depicting the horrors of World War One through its effect on one family. |
| Synopsis | The true story of the Wakefields, an ordinary Lancashire working class family whose three eldest sons were all killed in action fighting in the First World War. |
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| Warm Crayons by Ashley Harris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama on a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Mr Hughes doesn't have the greatest patience as a schoolteacher but he does love his job. A routine student prank seems to be the trigger for a vile and immoral act. Is Hughes innocent or has he been hiding his evil ways all along? Warm Crayons questions the way the world looks upon physical and sexual abuse. |
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| Weir of Hermiston by David McVey from Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. Characters are adults, plus one boy with a playing age of around 10, as the young Archie Weir. The chorus (non-speaking townspeople, servants, etc.) is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama, focusing on the relationship between Archie Weir and his tyrannical father. Adapted from an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Uses broad Scots (though omitting the less fathomable language from Stevenson's draft.) |
| Synopsis | Archie Weir is the son of the Lord Justice Clerk and in training to be a lawyer himself, though he is fearful of his hard father. Following advice from a family friend, Archie watches a trial held by his father and is horrified at the old man's apparent glee at hanging the poor wretch. He speaks out in public against the death penalty and is exiled to the family's country estate. |
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| What's The Time, Virginia Woolf? by Doc Watson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One of the M characters is recorded voice only. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act black comedy on a single living room set. |
| Synopsis | George and Martha tell each other about their interesting days - both have been visited by Alice, with varying accusations of infidelity. The truth will eventually out in this convoluted black comedy - with one of them dead! |
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| Wheels by Chloe C.D. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. Doctors, patients and extras can be doubled if need be. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for three pieces of background music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act drama for schools and youth theatre, with a simple set and flexible casting. |
| Synopsis | A one act play that follows the everyday struggles of a wheelchair-bound teenager, focusing on what is thought but not always said, and the aspects of life which an abled person may overlook. Issues and difficulties that often go unnoticed are brought to life in a story based on the author's own experiences. |
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