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Legacy by Lee Stewart |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 99 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy thriller with two settings. |
Synopsis | A dysfunctional family has arrived to hear the reading of Uncle John’s will disposing of his not insubstantial estate. Everyone is staggered by the provisos contained in the will but nevertheless decide to persevere. One of the family is determined to have it all and succeeds using shocking and nefarious means. |
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Leonardo da Panto by Simon Nunan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. It's a pantomime. A fair amount of cross-dressing is assumed! |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 14 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length British panto set in the (rather confused) Italian Renaissance. |
Synopsis | The wicked Cesare Borgia thinks the way to scupper this troublesome renaissance is to get rid of all the artists, but how to do that? Machiavelli suggests a competition, with the hand of Lucrezia as the prize. Leonardo desperately wants to win, but he can't paint... yet |
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Let Her Rip by Donna Brightwell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. In addition to the eight characters there are three off-stage voices. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act comedy play set in the southern USA. Intended to be played with minimal sets. |
Synopsis | Sixty-somethings behaving badly, when four ladies decide to have the wild time they've missed in the rest of their lives. |
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A Letter to Santa by Sue Gordon Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Two of the characters are nominally adults. It is written so that the cast can be divided into two - a school class and Santa's elves. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for 5 original songs is provided with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | A light musical for young children. Basic sets. |
Synopsis | A school class write Christmas letters to Santa, and we discover that they are dealt with by Mrs. Santa and a bunch of fractious elves. |
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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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Life by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The main characters are all 'mature ladies' - the production notes describe two as being in their sixties, the others a little younger. That's playing age. There is plenty of scope for younger players with make-up! |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute comedy play. Single café set. |
Synopsis | Three pairs of women take separate tales at a café and discuss their lives, only to find that all of them have at least their opinions in common. |
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Life Goes On by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 44. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Collection of 19 comedy sketches (ranging in duration from 4 minutes to 9 minutes). Few set requirements. There are a couple of mild swearwords buried in there somewhere. |
Synopsis | Sketches about life, love, work and cream cakes. All of the sketches are available individually. (The collection allows the set to be purchased at a discount to the sum of the individual components.) There is no particular order to the sketches, but there are occasional common themes. |
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Like it or Not by George Freek |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy. Single set (hotel sitting room), which need not be elaborate. |
Synopsis | A young playwright waits to meet the star who may produce his play, but his fiancée wants in on the act. More than that, her father has planned a meeting with the actress, and it turns out her mother is going to have her own surprising encounter. |
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Like You've Never Seen It Before by Christine Harvey & Elisha Lee |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 37. Chorus. 12 speaking parts, the rest mime. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Minimum set. Simple props. Intended as a junior school full-class play. Opportunities for mime, improvisation and dance. |
Synopsis | Jo and Mel are trying to write a play for their school, but, unknown to them, they are being fought over by a muse and Professor Block, the personification of writer's block. Unfortunately for the professor, he is in entirely the wrong place. |
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Lil Diamond The Snake Woman by Linda Stephenson and Alison Hudson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play-within-a-play for children. A story with a moral - and a puppet! |
Synopsis | Clem and his family have moved to California in 1886, and he’s missing his friends. He meets the strange snake woman when she rescues him from a Diamondback, but local prejudice stops him visiting her until his mother falls sick and he needs help. A puppet snake helps tell the story. |
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Lily and Mona by Naren Weiss |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One (female) character is offstage voice only. Three (gender non-specific) characters are non-speaking 'dead bodies'. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Oddball twins Lily and Mona are finding their superpowers a little difficult to control, resulting in mysterious deaths and parental admonition. |
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