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Bank Holiday Mondays and Other Ways to Kill a Marriage by Lorraine Forrest-Turner |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short two handed play, containing swearing. |
Synopsis | Pippa and Jake are stranded in a traffic jam on their way home from Jake's parents' house. Worse, they don't have the bag with the baby things for little Josh. He's asleep for now, but surely things couldn't get worse? |
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Behind Closed Doors by Iris Winston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute play. Single set (three separate apartments, but could be done in a minimal way). |
Synopsis | Michael is trying to get some Christmas commitment from his lover, Harry is waiting for his son to collect him for their meal, and Herta just wants her daughter to phone. Three lonely Christmasses along the same corridor. |
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Bench Mark 2 by Emma Wise |
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 | A short one act play with a single (park bench) setting. |
Synopsis | A man and a woman conduct an increasingly tense enigmatic conversation on a park bench, culminating in an abrupt, shocking ending. |
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Best Served Cold by Alan Robinson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Reginald is described as being in his twilight years and should give the impression of being - how shall we put this? - well padded. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play for a gastronome. Set simply a table, chair and napkin. |
Synopsis | In this bitter sweet monologue we have all the ingredients of an enthralling menu with a delicious twist for dessert. As food critic Reginald assesses another average meal, something has left a bad taste in his mouth - a taste that triggers memories of a sweet love, a bitter betrayal and a sour revenge. |
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The Board Meeting by Alexis Coward |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One traditional song is suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short comedy drama on a simple (meeting room) set. |
Synopsis | A group of imaginary friends from Layla’s childhood desperately try to come up with a plan to revive an adult Layla from a coma. |
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Body Confident by E. C. Chapman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short dramatic monologue, with no set requirements (assuming that a pilates mat counts as a prop rather than set). |
Synopsis | Caroline, a Pilates teacher, attempts to counter ugly rumours which threaten to destroy her reputation and luxury lifestyle. |
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Bright - A Play About Heaven by David Webb |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play with a Christian theme delivered in a direct style. No specific set - requires only a bench. |
Synopsis | A man suffering after his second heart attack meets a friend in a beautiful garden, where the air makes him feel better than the doctors have managed. Then he remembers that friend was badly hurt in an accident and begins to realise where he is. |
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Can We Stop It There? by Trevor Suthers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play/sketch. Bare stage set (could even be done front of tabs). Contains some swearing. |
Synopsis | A play about a director directing a play about a director directing a play about a director directing a play about... er... well, that's not important really. Can I try that again from my cue? |
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A Children's Christmas Carol by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute play. No set requirements. |
Synopsis | Charles Dickens' festive classic much abbreviated as a play for an audience of young children, to be performed by a cast of adults (or possibly by a company of older children.) |
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Class Divide by Damian Woods |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two adult roles (teachers) and one role for a 14/15 year old (the student). |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama on a single (teacher's office) set. No props required. |
Synopsis | A passionate teacher tries to show a troubled pupil the error of his ways before it's too late and his future is compromised. |
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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