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Birdseed by Ged Quayle
Published: 21 November 2024 |
| 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 | Sketch-length thriller in Grand Guignol style (where some elements might be classified as gross! You have been warned.) Set in an apartment - created by just a couple of pieces of furniture. |
| Synopsis | Ben likes strippers and has invited Ann back to his appartment. What seems like a nervous date is actually a deadly game between two people with dark secrets. |
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Never Mind the Bonnets by Lou Treleaven
Published: 19 November 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Fourteen characters, playable by a cast of 10 (plus a brief cameo from the stage crew, playing a conga of servants). |
| Run Time | Around 88 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes lyrics to three (mercifully short) songs from Lord Meddlesome (who fancies himself as a shantyman). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Engagingly comic parody of Jane Austen's 19th centrury romances. Nominally three locations, but these are all interiors and can be created with furniture and stage dressing. |
| Synopsis | In the Regency Era, a family of young women and their mother are forced to accept a small property on a relative's estate when the man of the family dies. Naturally, they must be thrown into the path of suitable husbands ... |
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Dastardly Devon by Deb Meyer
Published: 14 November 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. Optional, non-speaking (but definitely growling) chorus of wolves. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act children's play in American English. A single, simple set. |
| Synopsis | Blair, Mateo and Charles - better known as the Three Little Pigs - are terrified of Devon, the dastardly wolf. But Devon is not the monster they expect him to be, and has problems of his own, having been cast out of his bullying wolf pack. |
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Dreadfully Good by Peter Robbie
Published: 13 November 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for a cast of 5, set in a theatre. |
| Synopsis | As they await the adjudicator's verdict, two amateur actresses pass their own judgement on the performances at a drama festival. But their bitchiness causes trouble in the auditorium and the adjudicator turns out to be an old 'friend'. |
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Bon Appetit by Ged Quayle
Published: 8 November 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy-horror sketch - in the mode of Grand Guignol (where some elements might be classified as gross! You have been warned.) Set in appartment - created by just a couple of pieces of furniture. |
| Synopsis | Edwin Tusk, the third richest man in the world, is planning the ultimate banquet. The chef he's chosen has met (and been bankrupted by) Mr Tusk before. As discussions turn dark, the chef wreaks a terrible revenge. |
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The Consultation by Rosemary Enright
Published: 8 November 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two main characters - consultant and patient - and a cameo from the nurse. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script suggests one piece of incidental music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short drama set in a doctor's consulting room (furniture only). |
| Synopsis | A very determined and opinionated patient confronts her Oncology specialist about his intended treatment of her condition. She challenges his views on a number of fronts, leaving him unsure of almost everything. |
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Turning The Tables by Bob Hartwell
Published: 5 November 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Nine on-stage characters and two offstage (male) voices. |
| Run Time | Around 114 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length, fast-paced comedy in a single café set. |
| Synopsis | Londoner Freddie Fleetwood buys the Cozee Corner Café in a rural village, planning to open an upmarket eaterie. But the cook and waitress regard themselves as fixtures and fittings, and an elderly customer always shows up even when the place is closed. Throw in Freddie's dodgy business adviser and a French chef who cannot speak French, and all seems lost. |
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Can There Be Justice For TJ? by Evonne Fields-Gould
Published: 1 November 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Cast with mixed ages and some specific ethnicities. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short American drama. Single set (a kitchen, but with parts of the stage used for action that takes place elsewhere). |
| Synopsis | Vivian, a distraught mother, recalls the events that led up to the death of her son, killed by a police officer, and the impact it has had on herself and the remaining family members. She has turned to heavy drinking, and wonders whether she can still be a good mother to Little Man. |
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Pigeon Syndrome by Benjamin Keyser
Published: 30 October 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two actors and a puppeteer who operates and voices various pigeons. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestion for a couple of recordings that might be played during the performance. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A relationship comedy with a mix of dry humour and heart. One act, one set. |
| Synopsis | When a husband steps on a bee that his wife has been trying to save, it seems their marriage has hit rock bottom. But he inadvertently gets back into her good books by saving an injured pigeon that's flown into the window, and finally believes he's found a way to restore their passion for each other. |
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Time and Chance by Audrey Lee
Published: 29 October 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act play built from three monologues. Strongly developed characters, emotion and humour, and a strong payoff.. Set in the mid 20th century. Requires only furniture. (Oh, all right. And actors.) |
| Synopsis | Miss Bradford is the supervisor of a secretarial typing pool who has devoted her life to her career and avoided any personal connections. Mr Fish is the head of mailing who fancies himself and Miss Bradford spending their retirement together. And Tracey Spencer is a young woman applying for a job, who gets caught in the middle of the two. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Zip file containing Intro and play-out music written for the original production of Audrey Lee's 'Time and Chance'.
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