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Chance Encounters by Jamesine Cundell Walker Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Can be played with a different cast in every scene, or with the same cast throughout. |
Run Time | Around 76 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length play comprised of nine connected playlets with a single (park bench) setting. |
Synopsis | Nine encounters take place on a park bench during the course of a day in September. Some are dramatic, some comedic. |
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A Change of Art by Philippa Smith New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Ten on-stage characters and an offstage voice (which could be prerecorded). |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length comedy in a single set. Solid character development and a mix of character-based and physical humour. |
Synopsis | The Silver Sketchers painting group are auctioning off their latest works to raise money to restore the church spire. Auctioneer Miles notices one of the paintings bears an uncanny resemblance to a missing Van Gogh, and hatches a plan. |
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Change Of Plan by Frances A. Lewis |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | On her first visit to the house she has unexpectedly inherited from her late uncle Bill, Merina and husband Randall are shocked to find uncle Bill’s housekeeper Cynthia in residence along with a miscellany of oddball characters. |
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Changes Trilogy by Tony Domaille Award winning. 'A Single Moment' - Runner up best original play, Avon One Act Play Festival 2015. 'Me & You.' Winner of the Avon Short Play Festival Competition 2020, as well as awards for best director, best actor, best actress and supporting actor |
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Checkout Girls by Louise Roche Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for all the songs (12 songs plus reprises) to be sung in the course of the show. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full length feel-good comedy play interspersed with popular songs. Single composite set (multiple locations on one stage). |
Synopsis | Checkout staff gossip, bicker, joke, laugh, cry, hug and fight their way to supermarket singles night! |
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Chicks and Dogs by Clive Renton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy drama, with bawdy overtones. Revised 2023. |
Synopsis | Despite a clash of views over the problems of the world, and whether donating to charity is effective or if a more radical approach is needed. David Watson agrees to help the Vicar with his drive to provide chickens to the needy. And then he finds out what he has to wear... |
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A Christmas Carol by Andrew Yates Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 43. Chorus. Flexible cast - several scenes require lots of extras, many with speaking parts. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for seven original songs are provided with the producer's copy of the script. (The script also suggests the use of the carol 'God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen') |
Style | Adaptation of Dickens classic tale of redemption as a musical play. |
Synopsis | On Christmas eve, miser Ebenezer Scrooge receives a visit from the ghostly apparition of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley's ghost is followed by three more spectral visitors, who show visions of Scrooge's past present and future in an effort to show the old skinflint the error of his ways. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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Christmas Cat and the Pudding Pirates by Jeanette Ranger & Christopher Lillicrap |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. The chorus of additional ratlings is optional. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for the overture and 9 original songs are included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Musical family show - not a pantomime, but containing some of the elements - musical numbers, a comedy cooking scene, over the top heroes and villains, a magical helping hand, and plenty of audience participation. Single set. |
Synopsis | The good ship Santa Claus is sailing home with all the precious cargo needed for Christmas. When it's hijacked by the rat pirate Jolly Roger, it's up to Christmas the ship's cat, along with the ship's cook and a magical mermaid, to save the day. On the way there are excellent songs, jokes and physical comedy. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Vocal demo tracks for the 9 songs from Christmas Cat and the Pudding Pirates by Jeanette Ranger and Christopher Lillicrap.
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Cinderella's Sisters... Happy Ever After? by Mark Billen |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 92 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A two act play (not a pantomime), for school-aged actors, with simple staging. |
Synopsis | In this sequel to Cinderella we see how the ugly sisters fare in their attempts to emulate their sister - who is now happily married to her handsome prince. Their brother-in-law is determined to rid the kingdom of their nastiness and some visiting pirates help him to achieve his aims! |
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The Clamourings at Giggly Halt by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. One female character appears briefly in only one scene, so could easily be doubled. Two male characters are telephone voices, and could be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comic mystery. |
Synopsis | A daring robbery has taken place at Meddler's Top, but the thieves set off the alarms and need somewhere to stash the loot. Sir Pingnet Threefall is having an affair with Miranda from the holiday camp, and they need to be discrete. Harry Toxin is suffering from large-scale pilfering, a cash flow crisis and accusations of cruelty to donkeys. In the middle of all this, there's a campaign to protect a nesting corncrake, and all the threads are converging at Giggly Halt railway station. |
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