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12hr Life by Robert Scott
People's Choice Award by Manchester High School's Lancer Theatre Company, USA 2017 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama for a cast of two and a minimalist setting. |
| Synopsis | Dylan should be going to a conference, but a chance encounter with Samantha and some forthright discussion, and he's playing truant and having the time of his life. Is it possible to live a life in one day? |
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After Esme by Kathryn West
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy for a female cast, set in three cafes and in the vicinity of a secluded bench. (So a single set with a variety of set dressing.) |
| Synopsis | Alice, Jenny and Pauline get together for regular catch-ups, though they have a habit of getting kicked out of restaurants - and there's someone missing. Each of the women reconciles in their own way with the loss of their friend Esme. |
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After School Special by Donna Brightwell
Production by ZigZag Theatre Group won four awards (including Best Youth Production) at Brantham Festival 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters are teenagers (plus a waitress). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for teenagers, single café set. |
| Synopsis | With the guys too shy to ask the girls, and the girls too shy to ask the guys, will anyone be going to the Senior Prom? Luckily, the waitress at the coffee shop takes a hand... |
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| Alvin And The Queen by Don Lowry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The characters are high school kids plus (nominally) adult narrator. Whilst there is no formal chorus, it's a cafe setting, so there is plenty of opportunity for extras milling around the cafe. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act play for youth. Single (US School) cafe setting. (One of those things we have difficulty classifying. A comedy in the sense of a happy ending. A light morality play, possibly!) Anyway, the trials of adolescenece. |
| Synopsis | Alvin is your typical high school nerd, and he's desperately in love with Barbie, the homecoming queen and beauty. She's got everything but good grades. Can Alvin make her see him as boyfriend material, or should he look elsewhere? |
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| Anger Management for Dogs by Rupert Haigh |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two characters are both dogs. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Bawdy sketch! Single set, with no specific requirements (in theory a pub - indeed could well be done in a pub). Includes mild swearing though in the context, the word 'bitch' is entirely non-pejorative. |
| Synopsis | Rex and Fido are having a drink in their local and discussing the week they've had. It's hard to keep your cool in Cat Tolerance Classes, especially when you have issues with abandonment. |
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| As They Like It by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light one act drama with a 17th Century Inn setting. |
| Synopsis | William Shakespeare is struggling to get the approval of his company, who are adamant that the first draft of the 'Scottish Play' is lacking in a number of key characters. His friends are quite persuasive and he is encouraged by barmaid Meg. So the bard relents and the play - as we now know it - is born. |
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| The Audition by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play, single set (café interior). Simple props. |
| Synopsis | Whilst their daughters audition for a ballet, a group of mothers assembles in a café for a backbiting competition! |
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| Balloons in the Bar by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy drama on a single (hotel bar) set. |
| Synopsis | Jessica has sneaked away from her own hen party, and found the quieter hotel bar tended by Jake. She’s just collecting her thoughts when Rob, the man hired as a stripper for the hens, staggers in, also having second thoughts. |
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| Bar Wars - Return Of The Sauce by Richard James |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute play (a comedy mystery), single set. |
| Synopsis | When 'Spanish Nights' restaurant opens up opposite 'Bella Italia', there's bound to be some rivalry. Then the famous secret pasta sauce recipe is stolen from Bella Italia and PI Fifi Phalange is called in. |
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| Bargain Burials by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 97 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Numerous tracks are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script, to be played pre-show, in the interval, and as sound effects at certain cued points. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length comedy with a single (bar) setting. Strong language. |
| Synopsis | In the little Australian town of Wedgiemuggurah in 1976, gravediggers Shane and Kev are made redundant, replaced by new technology. Undaunted, the pair decide to put their expertise to good use by opening an on-the-cheap funeral service. |
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