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Look After The Cat, Darling by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy, with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Jonty returns home from an activity weekend with his sister and brother-in-law to find that his partner has left him. He finally finds solace with another cat lover. |
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Look For The Silver Lining by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play with a single (living room) set. |
Synopsis | George hates change and is not happy that his mother-in-law, Nora, is coming to stay. How will he react to her news? |
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Looks Like Rain by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. The animals are puppets of unspecified kind and unspecified number (therefore requiring an unspecified number (chorus) of puppeteers. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A light-hearted re-telling of the Noah's Ark story, in about 20 minutes, freely adapted for young performers. |
Synopsis | Noah's family are shocked when the weather forecaster announces the imminent arrival of something called 'rain'. A visit from the Archangel Michael clears things up for Noah, but leaves him with the task of building an Ark - and convincing the animals to come onboard. |
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Lord of the Mince Pies by Ashley Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. The pupils of St Hippocampus' School are written male, but really could be any combination. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Three Christmas Carols are suggested during the course of the show. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Comedy melodrama for kids - with a gruesome flavour! Alternates between full-stage sets and front-of-curtain scenes. Simple props. |
Synopsis | An outbreak of Tebbit's Disease (which turns teachers insane and mean) coincides with a heavy fall of snow, cutting off St Hippocampus' school (from the village of Chipping King Edwards). The teachers' nerves are at breaking point, supplies are low and now the roads are cut off by snow! What will the teachers do for food? (If you need a clue, it is likely that the teachers are familiar with Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal'...) |
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Love by John Collings |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. The chorus of dancers is optional. |
Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act romantic comedy drama with a single multi-functional set. |
Synopsis | A young girl dreams of finding real love and breaking away from her dominant mother. |
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Love and Marriage by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of four ten-minute comedies. (No sets, a few props.) |
Synopsis | Four couples (supplimented, in one case, by a clergyman) address or reveal their approach to their relationships. |
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Love at Twilight [One-Act Play] by Bob Hammond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 67 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy drama with a single (garden bench) setting. An extended version of the short play of the same name. |
Synopsis | The residents and management at Glossop Hall care home are discomforted by single residents Clive and Liz firstly sharing a bed and then deciding to run off together. However, all become reconciled to it and enlightened to the possibilities open to them, even at their age. |
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Love's Labour's Lost [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 60-minute abridgement of the Shakespeare comedy. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | Ferdinand, King of Navarre, has decided that he and his court will devote three years to an ascetic life of studying, fasting, and forswearing the company of women. However, he has forgotten that the Princess of France and her retinue are due to visit. So, will the court pursue asceticism or pretty women? |
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Lucky Dip by Jim Hollingsworth |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy, featuring the characters from the author’s previous play ‘Out for the Count’. Single living room set. |
Synopsis | William and Marilyn are holding a coffee morning to raise funds for the mayor's anti-drugs campaign. Rumours of a drugs ring in the village stoke William's paranoia - what are the 'special plants' Vaslav is growing in his greenhouse, and what's in the mysterious package in the lucky dip? |
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Macbeth by Geoff Bamber Best Seller Production by Blairgowrie Players won two rounds of the SCDA festival 2023, then won the Colin Peter Award for showing the greatest creativity in the Scottish Youth Final. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Shakespeare's Macbeth as a modern language play (with modern humour) for kids. A one act play in five acts. Simple sets and props. Options for songs and dances. |
Synopsis | There should be three witches, but one of them is having problems with her satellite navigation system. Eventually they give a fateful prediction to Macbeth, who likes the idea of being the new king enough to dispatch the old one. Much murder and wringing of hands ensues. All this and a mad Scottish doctor. The bard will be spinning in his grave! |
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