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Scrabble, Stamps and Goldfish by Johnny Grim |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Nigel is fat and unhappy, so his friends are trying to find him a woman through an online dating service. Sadly, Nigel isn't very enthusiastic, or very decisive, so Bob and Ron have to make a lot of the decisions for him. Surely there's someone out there for him? |
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The Scramblings at Spriggly Torch by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comic play - a Second World War mystery. One set, divided into three locations. |
Synopsis | It is 1943, and enemy plans for a new fighter aircraft have fallen into the hands of British intelligence, but a traitor is suspected of attempting to retrieve them. |
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Screw Your Courage by Keith Badham |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A five-act play for youth theatre in one-act! |
Synopsis | An enthralling new look at Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in the modern world of teenage gang culture, which loses none of the power and excitement of the original. The Bard's plot and characters are given new life in this masterful interpretation as contemporary themes merge with age old human emotions. The audience are welcomed in to the action with imaginative use of asides and stage directions. An ideal piece for Youth Theatre with exciting and challenging opportunities for all involved, 'Screw Your Courage' provides a theatrical experience which will be long remembered. |
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Scrooge's Christmas Carol by Darren Humphries |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions (and new lyrics) for five songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Mid-length, British pantomime. A comic rendition of Dickens' Christmas melodrama. |
Synopsis | The Dickens tale with some huge liberties taken to make it as much of a pantomime as possible! Scrooge and his housekeeper Lottie the Hottie go on a ghostly journey through the past, present and future in an attempt to make the old skinflint change his ways. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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The Second Friday Of The Month by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A farce in two short acts (which puts it on the boundary between a one-act and full-length play). Single (small flat *) set. Contains mild swearing and adult themes. * I mean it's set in a small flat, not that the set is small and flat. |
Synopsis | Dan has a somewhat clinical sexual relationship with a psychologist who lives in the flat above him. They meet every second friday of the month, but their routine is broken by the arrival of some of Dan's diverse acquaintances. A clever, funny play, exploring some rather unconventional relationships. |
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Second Thoughts by Colin Calvert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. (The max. and min. numbers depend on whether the production follows the author's intention and uses a quartet of four female singers to punctuate the action. There are also a few lines addressed to passers-by who might or might not appear on stage.) |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, single minimalist set - a bus stop. Few props. A study of an attempted mid-life affair. |
Synopsis | Harold is waiting at the appointed spot, a bus shelter, for a meeting with his old school friend Patti, and wondering if he's up to having an affair, if that's even what's on offer. |
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A Secret Life by Horry Parsons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, with a single domestic set. |
Synopsis | Trying to organise a secret This is Your Life for her husband's retirement party, Freda and her two daughters have to battle the plumbing, the nosey neighbour and a deaf vicar. Can they keep the secret without losing the plot? |
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The Secret of Buccaneer Bay by Rajapillai Pillai |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's script suggests an extract from a well-known song to be sung at one point in the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one-act comedy, to be performed by adults to children, with various simple settings. |
Synopsis | On the eve of a royal wedding, the groom is taken by pirates. It is up to Princess Odelia and her loyal servants, with help from the audience, to rescue him. But there is more to this kidnapping than first meets the eye, as an ancient legend is about to be fulfilled. |
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Seeing Red by Karen Ankers Production by Dingwall Players won Best Play, SCDA One Act Festival (Moray Firth District) 2019 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama with humorous undertones, with a single, park bench setting. |
Synopsis | With a strong touch of satire, we find Nellie brazenly committing the supposed heinous offence of knitting. Young Belinda is horrified as she discovers Nellie openly and defiantly knitting in such a public place... but is liberated as Nellie's past experiences come to light. |
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Self Centre by Jackie Carreira |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act prose monologue. |
Synopsis | As she deals with a series of customers, Vivi, a receptionist at a new age health centre, reflects on the circumstances that brought her here and the loss of her brother. |
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