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An Arrowing Experience by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The character is an arrow. (Presumably the acting style required is pointed - even barbed - but essentially wooden!) |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy monologue, no set, no props. Might even be regarded as educational (English Key Stage 3 history topic 'The Normans') |
Synopsis | The famous arrow that took King Harold in the eye at Hastings gives his (or her) side of the story. A humorous monologue with comedy accent. |
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Art and Treasures by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch. Little required in the way of set (a table and a couple of chairs). |
Synopsis | An antiques valuation event (run as a village hall fundraiser) has a number of unexpected outcomes. |
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Art for Art's Sake 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 130 minutes. [Estimated!] A slick production could be completed in under 2 hours. |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length colourful farce, centering on a wedding and a work of art! |
Synopsis | As art dealer David Gibson prepares for the wedding of his daughter Samantha, he finds himself in a position to make a financial killing by arranging the sale of a valuable French Impressionist painting. Unfortunately the prospective buyer from Los Angeles, Mrs Delores Van Zuyl, insists on the work being authenticated by an expert. When the expert doesn't turn up David turns to his less than reliable step-brother to fill the gap. What David doesn't know is that Mrs Van Zuyl has her own agenda and it has little to do with French Impressionism. |
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The Art of Nero by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. All written male (on the grounds of history), but that isn't essential to the plot. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Roman romp for kids. Single location (preferably decorated according to the taste of the emperor Nero). |
Synopsis | As Nero constructs the Golden House amongst the Ashes of burnt Rome, three friends hatch a plot to end the tyranny and, more importantly, the dreadful singing, acting, poetry and painting of the mad emperor. Sadly, Nero's 'Art' defeats them all. |
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Art's Gallery by Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy drama |
Synopsis | Art lover Amy takes philistine Jeff to a small art gallery to give him an appreciation of the value of art. Gallery owner Art soon dispels any pretensions Amy has and the tables are turned. |
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Artists Anonymous by John Passadino |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Ralph's mother is an offstage voice and could, conceivably, be a recording. The pizza deliverer is silent and compatible with whatever gender range is open to the producer! |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, single set. A sharp script with some interesting characters and real emotion in it. |
Synopsis | Three long-serving writers meet up for their weekly writing meeting. Will this be the one where they finally crack the winning formula, or just the one where Ralph, living in his parent's basement again after his latest marriage break up, cracks? That was a lousy sentence, but this time they think they've come up with a winner... they'll fake the death of one of the writing team and use the publicity to sell a story at last! But who will get the chop for the sake of success? |
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As You Like It (60-minute abridgement) by Shakespeare abridged by Philip Schwadron |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. There are optional roles for non-speaking lords and attendants. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'As You Like It', with the original text pruned to 60 minutes. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. Shakespeare's pastoral comedy pared down to around 60 minutes. A play, set in the Forest of Arden, for fans of romance, jesters, dukes, wrestlers, foresters, shepherds, exiles and cross-dressers. There. Who does that leave out? |
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As You Like It [75-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing allows for the three Shakespearian songs embedded in the script. |
Music | Three of Shakespeare's songs (without music) are included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A 75-minute abridgement of Shakespeare's pastoral 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 | Boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall in love. Girl exiled into forest by powerful uncle and disguises self as boy. Boy kicked out of home by grumpy brother. Boy meets girl again. Girl, as boy, tricks boy into seducing her. Another girl meets girl, and thinking she's a boy, falls in love. Subplot about a jester. Classic love story all round. |
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Assignation by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Whilst the two characters are women, they might be played as women by men in non-glamorous drag. (British people with long memories are invited to contemplate Les Dawson in this context.) |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch. Simple set. |
Synopsis | Two holidaymakers review their vacation experiences over breakfast. |
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At Least the Trains Run on Time by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | As two people wait for a bus that is a long time coming, they come to a mutual conclusion about public transport. |
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