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The Room by Graham Jones |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters cover a range of ages from twenties to seventies. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play, single set - character study with a rather sinister edge! |
Synopsis | Four women of varying ages and infirmities enter a room, supposedly in a rest home/hospice called 'Pleasantways'. They're told to enter the room but not to leave. The women open up to each other about the circumstances that brought them to this place and their feelings about the treatment they have received. Exploration of their current position leads to a sinister discovery... |
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A Rose for Danny by Kevin James Moriarty |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Great opportunities for character acting! |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Dramatisation of the lives of a dysfunctional Irish-American family. Contains swearing and drinking. (Not necessarily in that order.) |
Synopsis | An old man seems to have reached the end of his luck - his wife is dead, he's behind on the rent and his wealthy son-in-law doesn't want to take him in. Is it too late to repair his relationship with his two daughters and find some redemption? |
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Rossetti's Women by Joan Greening |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three roles. Written to be played by one actress, but could be performed by three. |
Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play with a minimal set. |
Synopsis | The three women describe their relationships and contrasting lives, shared with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Their emotions are gradually revealed - through which he captured their hearts and minds. In such a different era to the present day, the Pre-Raphaelites were a force to be reckoned with. |
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Round, Round by Linda Stephenson and Alison Hudson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Chorus size may be adjusted at Producer's discretion |
Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act fantasy adventure for children. |
Synopsis | Step brother and sister Carl and Becky discover an old magical carousel, which takes them back in time to 1919. Their adventure enables them to rescue Lucy and Joe from the clutches of their evil step father. In the process they are able to reconcile themselves to their own new relationship. |
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Rumpelstiltskin, Stella and the King by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The script calls for an unspecified number of non-speaking servants (whose main role is to bring props on and off). We think two would be a reasonable minimum. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act dramatisation of a fairytale for performance by a small company of children. |
Synopsis | A miller boasts that his daughter can spin straw into gold. This gains the daughter immediate employment in the king's treasury and the propsect of a short and unhappy life, due to her lack of any such ability. Enter a gnome, with an offer she can't refuse... |
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Run Out by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two (female) characters are intended to be played by the same actress, and there is a further pair of characters that can be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's script suggests music to be played at the end of Act 1. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full-length comedy drama with a single (hilltop bench) setting. |
Synopsis | Malcolm and his wife Mavis have come to scatter his late mother’s ashes at her special place. Family tensions arise as they reminisce and question what made this place special for her. All is revealed as we are taken back to her young days in the 1950s. |
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The Sacrifice by Rebecca Preen |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Emotionally powerful fifteen minute drama that manages to examine the effect of trauma on a whole family without stepping outside the hospital room of the patient. |
Synopsis | Beth is in a coma, and her family wait by her bedside, but as time passes it becomes clear Beth is not going to wake up. Her Mum is the most reluctant to move on, but even she can't fool herself any longer. But they can't hear what's happening inside Beth's head... |
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Sad Angel by Robert Foylan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama set in a park. |
Synopsis | Grace is walking in the park, preparing herself for a dramatic moment in her life, when she meets a sad-looking man. He seems to know a lot about her and her life, but could he really be her guardian angel? |
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The Sadist by Brent Holland |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The age of the Sadist is not specified, the rest are teenagers. |
Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act horror story for a teenage cast. Single (remote cabin) setting. |
Synopsis | A group of young friends are involved in a serious road accident deliberately contrived by the Sadist who imprisons the victims and puts them through a callous game. The strength of their friendship is severely tested. |
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Samaritans, Can I Help You? by Brendan Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, dealing with a disturbing subject. Single simple set, simple props. Contains swearing and sexual themes. |
Synopsis | A man in torment over a love affair calls the one organisation he feels might listen without prejudice. |
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