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| Two Left Feet by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama for three actors and one simple set. |
| Synopsis | Following her divorce, 40-something Joy has turned up at her sister Carole’s place, where she sags about on the sofa looking gloomy. Carole, on the other hand, has a richly fulfilling life in the ballroom with boyfriend Steve. Joy’s last dance, aged 15, was a disaster, but can she find strength on the dance floor at last? And is Steve really the romantic he's cracked up to be? |
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| Ugly Duckling by Ann Taylor |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play for schools with a single (playground) setting. |
| Synopsis | This anti-bullying play tells the story of a child who is bullied because he looks different. A resolution is reached when classmates step in to help. |
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| Under the Hood by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama (on the lower boundary of two-act length). Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | Rose, an actor, is rehearsing the title role in a new psychological interpretation of Red Riding Hood under a hot-shot director. Meanwhile, her husband, Mark, is torn between the frustrations of his well-paid dead-end job and the uncertainties of his dream of creating his own business. |
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Underground by Jon Boustead
Production by Tykes won Best Youth Production (Teignmouth Drama Festival, 2017) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. All cast should be of same or similar age. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act thriller for youth theatre, with a single - crashed Tube train carriage - setting. |
| Synopsis | A group of youth-age children on a school outing are left to fend for themselves, as they find themselves trapped in a crashed tube train and their teachers are nowhere to be found. They all have to deal with the horror in their own way and they take the plot along through intermittent narration and action. |
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| Underneath At Archie's by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, one-act drama. Single simple set. |
| Synopsis | Peter and Paula are contemplating some renovations, when Paula decides she doesn't want to get rid of the old painting from the nook. Peter is surprised, and this leads to a deep examination of their relationship and their roles as man and woman. |
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| An Unexpected Duty by Robin Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play which could be used as a full length play. |
| Synopsis | Charlie's rushing off to Home Guard duty, but takes time to warn his wife about their daughter's scandalous dress sense and his worries about her new man. Little does he know that before the night is out he'll be facing down an armed spy! |
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| A Universal Sorrow by Graham J Evans |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Ten on-stage roles plus two offstage voices. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Powerful, emotional one-act drama about a Welsh mining disaster in 1913. |
| Synopsis | Warning signs of an impending disaster are ignored by the mine owners and the colliers are left to deal with the consequences of over 400 of their colleagues, including a 14 year old boy, being trapped underground. The effect on the community of Senghenydd is poignantly brought to life as rescue attempts proceed. |
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| Unrelated Women by Daniel M. Wolpe |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The production notes contain suggestions for six classical pieces of music that feature in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A two act drama (though could be performed in one). Set in the US, though the play explores universal themes. |
| Synopsis | At her husband’s funeral, hard-bitten widow Fiona meets Laura, her husband’s young pregnant mistress, having been previously unaware of her existence. Their relationship, at first bitter, evolves into a profound and loving affiliation. |
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| Until Death Do Us Part by Catherine Hurd |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 89 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length drama with various sets. |
| Synopsis | George and Jean have been happily married for many years and, as dementia starts its grip on George, Jean is determined that she will care for him despite their daughters' insistence that he should be placed in residential care. Jean’s determination is severely tested when an old flame, Harry Holmes, former detective and now successful novelist, comes to town for a book tour and tries to rekindle his romance with her. Matters get further complicated when an ex-con bent on revenge stalks Harry, and becomes convinced that Harry and Jean are trying to murder George. |
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| up & down by Rob Ricards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. There is one speaking character. A second character makes two appearances to bring on props. (This might be done by a member of the stage crew.) The character is written as male, but could be played female with just a couple of name changes. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute play - essentially a monologue - set on the step ladder that is life! |
| Synopsis | A character reviews the events of his (or her) life, using a handy step ladder as a metaphor. |
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