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| A Servant Plays for High Stakes by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
| Synopsis | Game Four in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. British Chess Champion Sultan Khan recreates his 1932 defeat of Frederick Yates as an allegory for Gandhi's non-violent resistance to British colonial occupation of India. |
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| Setting The Record Straight by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play set in a day room at a nursing home for the elderly. |
| Synopsis | Stuart is visiting his Aunt in the home again. She's refused any pain medication so she can keep her mind clear - she wants to set the record straight. She tells Stuart things her never knew about her own past, things that involve his mother and her family. |
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| Seven Ages of Love by Robert Burns |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act play with an interesting structure. (As our reviewer remarked, 'It's what you'd get if MC Escher was a playwright'.) Several locations, but can be done with indicative sets. Contains a mild swearword. |
| Synopsis | Mike's written a play about his failed love, telling the story in reverse for the benefit of his friend Phil. If you run a sad love story backwards, you end up with a happy ending, don't you? |
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| The Seven Wonders by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 17. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 72 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An accessible educational play for schools with a single (play room) setting. |
| Synopsis | A boy is given a book which tells him about the Seven Wonders of the ancient world in surprising 3D. As well as a lightly educational fantasy tour of the Seven Wonders of the World and associated historical matters this play is also a paean to the power of books in educating and inspiring children. |
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| Sex And Curry by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 93 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce for an adult audience. |
| Synopsis | Hannah's boyfriend has walked out, leaving her pregnant, but that's only the start of her troubles. Telling her parents that her gay flatmate is her fiancé and the child's father didn't solve the problem But Hannah is not the only one keeping secrets. |
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| Shadows In The Middle by Patti Veconi |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. Contains scenes altered for either predominantly male or female casts. |
| Run Time | Around 51 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A Shakespearean themed play for youth theatre (American English). |
| Synopsis | Puck's final monologue from A Midsummer Night's Dream is dramatically examined in the context of modern school life and everyday teenage angsts and relationships. |
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| The Shadows Of Antiquity by Adora Pingstock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Opportunities for doubling and pre-recording parts. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act gothic horror tale with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Madame Carlotta is the custodian of the shop in which each of the items on sale has a gruesome story attached to it. A young couple sheltering from a severe storm find refuge in the shop and are enthralled as Madame Carlotta's tales come to life, little knowing that they will be the subject of the next tale. |
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| Shah Jahan by Subrata Das |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 16. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 31. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 160 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | At the discretion of the Producer Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length translation and adaptation of D.L.Roy's epic saga of the Mughal Empire. |
| Synopsis | The retelling of last turbulent years of Shah Jahan's reign are brought to life in this powerful and gripping play, written in the spirit of a Shakespearean tragedy. |
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| Shakespeare - It's All Greek To Me! by Sarah Brown |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Various doubling options possible, depending on cast number available. |
| Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for older children, with various simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Rosie and her classmates are struggling with understanding the works of William Shakespeare. Rosie gets help with her project - not only from her teacher and her family but also from the Bard himself, along with Hermia and Lysander - who appear to her in an animated dream and the magic of Shakespeare's work is revealed to her... |
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| The Shelter Secrets by Deborah Heath |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Doubling possible for two characters, plus two offstage voices. |
| Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play, suitable for secondary age or youth theatre, with split staging to enable multiple rapid scene changes. |
| Synopsis | Taking shelter from an air raid in their school's boiler room, four children swap secrets in the form of stories. They're surprised to find their tales all meet up and form a larger narrative, one that's completed by their teacher. |
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