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The Family Planning Clinic 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 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute comedy play, single set (or four pieces of furniture to indicate a set). |
Synopsis | When Suzie visits her local Family Planning Clinic, the advice she receives is not quite what she expected |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Family Time by Helen Spencer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 35. Minimum total without doubling = 56. No chorus. The cast list can be very flexible, with doubling or additional parts. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Song suggestions for 5 songs are included in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act comedy for children, with simple settings. |
Synopsis | The schoolchildren are looking forward with excitement to the summer holidays, except for Marty whose mum has boring plans for the family... We join Marty on an emotional journey, as he learns a few lessons in what is really important. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Family Vacation by Brooklyn Fredrickson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. The roles are a mix of adults and children, but the style would suit a school or large youth theatre company. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy in a single (tropical beach) set. (US English.) |
Synopsis | Stan has taken his family on an exotic vacation, but his daughter is heartbroken, his son is petrified of sharks, and his wife won’t stick to the itinerary. The whole family have to learn to relax, or they’ll need another vacation. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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A Fantastic Feat of Muscular Manipulation by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The main character is the strong and silent type! All the words are spoken by the Music Hall chairman. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch for a Music Hall. |
Synopsis | A Victorian strongman performs a feat never before attempted on the Music Hall stage. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Fantasy Games by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as two children and their mother, but this is a comedy sketch, and could be equally funny played by all adults or all kids. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short skit. Single (minimal) set, but would be best costumed. |
Synopsis | Two teenage online gaming addicts are hassled to do their daily chores by their mother. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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The Farmer and the Charuba Seeds by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short contemporary fable for children. No set requirements. A few simple props. Designed to be played on its own or as part of a broader entertainment. |
Synopsis | A farmer tries to eke out a living from the land, whilst everyone around him believes that they know better. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Fashion School by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | It's the first evening of fashion school and the tutor is putting the new students through their paces. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Fast and Furious by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. A customer, a helpdesk operator and a voiceover (which could be recorded) |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch requiring a couple of desks. Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | A computer user tries to get help with a technical problem. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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The Fat Of The Land by Richard James 20% of the authors royalties from this play will be donated to The Alzheimer's Society. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 93 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length farcical comedy, based upon an idea by Gerry Anderson. |
Synopsis | Second son Peter has inherited the crumbling stately pile but none of the money, which has gone to his brother. Peter, faced with the prospect of selling the delapidated home, is determined to restore the house to its former glory. The buyer turns out to be his elder brother Andrew who has designs on turning the ancestral home into his new corporate HQ. Peter makes a last ditch attempt to make the Manor profitable and so Merridale Spa is born, playground of the rich and gullible. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Feeding the Ducks by Paul Mathews |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play - a two-handed comedy with some serious edges and good acting opportunities. Simple set (a bench) and ducks brought to life by sound effects. |
Synopsis | Moira loves to feed the ducks, and has done so ever since her husband died. But Paul is an ornithologist on a mission to save ducks from those who clog their crops with damp bread! |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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