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| Stardust by 10 x 10 Writers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Six short plays inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. |
| Synopsis | Six short plays, a mixture of comedy and drama, inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. All were winners of the October 2016 Chesil Theatre New Writing Festival. The plays are available individually, but are provided here as a collection at a discount. |
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Switched by Frances A. Lewis
Performance by Carbost Village Drama won the MacKinnon Salver and the Wakefield Quaich Award for stage presentation, Scottish One-Act Festival, 2014. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. There are two off-stage voices which might be live or recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act farce, with a single set split between a dentist's waiting room and a living room. |
| Synopsis | Jeffrey gets himself into a tangle when his girlfriend Veronica and wife Claudia end up with identical handbags...
Note that a companion piece - AKA Charlie - is also available. The two plays function independently, but can also be played together. |
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| Taking Minutes, Wasting Hours! by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All characters are adults. A range of ages! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single set, simple props. |
| Synopsis | It's committee night and the Chairman has been asked to introduce a surprise speaker. Little does he know what a surprise she'll be! |
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| Teething Troubles by Phil Birkett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single set one-act comedy. |
| Synopsis | Jane is reluctantly acting as daycare for her granddaughter, Dakota, but she's less than maternal. Then she gets a visit from her ex-husband, on the prowl for funds for his latest venture, and she decides to rearrange her priorities. |
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| Tiddley Pum by Frances Bartram |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Minimal set (an ante-room for an audition, no particular requirements). Well-drawn characters and sparkling dialogue. |
| Synopsis | Six characters meeting each other for the first time as they gather to audition for a television show. Their talents are as disparate as their personalities. |
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| A Twitch In Time by Horry Parsons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Single set. |
| Synopsis | John may have just spotted a Windy - a rare bird not seen in the UK for over a hundred years. But his wife is keen to start her drama group meeting and is cross her house has been invaded by Twitchers. Now the bird won't reappear and the meeting is bothering the Twitchers and vice versa. |
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| A Very Modern Wedding by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Some flexibility of ages would be suitable - at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 2 song suggestions are included with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act satirical comedy with a single (church nave) setting. |
| Synopsis | A satire on modern society, particularly the rush to litigation, is played out - as Charlie and Fenella, who have known each other for three weeks attempt to take their vows. There is quasi-legal squabbling between Best Man and Maid of Honour, and an impatient Vicar... |
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| Wait... What? by Ted Evans |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two (male) characters appear on stage, one of them only briefly. Two male and two female characters appear on a video shown on the stage. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, almost a monologue, in the style of a disjointed presentation. Some educational content about Attention Deficit Disorder. Includes opportunities for improvisation. Contains mild swearing |
| Synopsis | An Attention Deficit Disorder sufferer talks about his experiences with a new wonder-drug and ADD in general, but ends up saying a little too much for the drug manufacturer's liking. |
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| Waiting for Twist Stiffly by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play which takes place on the set of a 1950s science fiction serial, but is really about actors and their relationship to their characters. |
| Synopsis | Filming of the 1950s adventure serial 'Twist Stiffly - Space adventurer' is being held up because the leading man is nowhere to be found. While the remaining cast members lounge around waiting for him to turn up, they discuss their roles in the drama and their dissatisfactions with the main man. Then they come up with a great way to fill their time until he arrives... |
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| Watch This Space [Comedy Play] by Karrena Dewhurst |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One of the characters is the voice of the computer - conceivably recorded, but probably better live. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, set in space. (There is also a follow-up, 'Watch This Space Too', by Leo Finn, using the same characters.) |
| Synopsis | Rodney's just the cleaner on the spaceship, and he's the butt of everyone's jokes, even the shipboard computer. But when an Alien species threatens the ship, only Rodney's brain has the... spare capacity for telepathic communication. It's up to him to save the ship! |
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