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Wordsworth's Harem by Joan Greening Published: 15 July 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act historical, emotional drama in a single livingroom set. |
Synopsis | In 1801, William Wordsworth is in love with his sister Dorothy. To hide their forbidden relationship, the siblings plan a marriage for William. |
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In Whose Eyes? by George Kappaz Published: 12 July 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Justice Peter and Abaddon are written male and Gabriella female, but casting that way is not essential. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy for the script suggests a couple of pices to be played over the opening of two of the scenes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act drama in a single, simple courtroom set. Historical images are intended to be projected during the show. The script has two endings, determined by the audience. |
Synopsis | In a court where everything is at stake, the life and actions in the colourful career of Major Charles Derudio are challenged and defended. Are his reasons for the lives he has taken sufficient to earn forgiveness? His final destination hangs in the balance. |
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I'm Not Dead Yet by Graham Andrews Published: 8 July 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Alex, the manager is written male (by means of the occasional pronoun) but could be played female. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play in a single (residents' lounge) set. |
Synopsis | The manager of Sleepy Pines, a small nursing home, appears to be involved in a dodgy deal with a ruthless developer to get rid of the residents. Can the residents find a way to stop the deal going through or will they all have to leave by one means or another? |
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Augustin Homes and the Lost Juliet by Bob Hammond Published: 3 July 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy in a single office set. The third in the series of Augustin Homes cases. |
Synopsis | Barrat Homes, an actor, shows up at the office of his brother, World-Famous Detective Augustin Homes. He's up for an audition to play a detective and wants some advice. But Augustin is out and when a client walks in, Barrat sees an opportunity to do some method-style research. |
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The Invitation by Juliet Devon Published: 24 June 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. In theory there are four sets (three individual locations and a composite), but it's actually stageable in a single set with changes of lighting and props. |
Synopsis | Eve is working hard on her wedding plans, which seem to involve doing everything her mother wants, regardless of how Eve feels about it. Eventually Eve's creativity takes over and the plans change in rather surprising ways. |
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Telling It by Annie Connell Published: 24 June 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama. Two settings, but easily combined into a single set. |
Synopsis | As two officers interview a woman claiming to be the victim of domestic violence, problems with her story make them suspicious. Despite her deception, she's still a victim, and it looks like there could be a violent offender out there. |
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Four Sinister Bookworms by Paul John Matthews Published: 13 June 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A quirky and clever comedy - a murder mystery where there hasn't been a murder. Two simple sets (that can be constructed with the same furniture and just minor changes in decoration and layout between scenes). One act. |
Synopsis | Library employee Mandy is desperate for something interesting to happen. She gets more than she hoped for when the library's four most eccentric regulars all receive anonymous notes that one of them is a murderer, and gather to solve the case. |
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Mrs Hudson and the Twisted Pilchard by Richard Moon Published: 13 June 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy in a single set, loosely based on The Second Stain, a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A fun update of a Holmes mystery using modern sensibilities and humour. |
Synopsis | An exciting tale of international spies, blackmail and tinned fish. A top-secret document has gone missing. If it gets into the wrong hands, it would mean war! Sherlock Holmes is struggling to work out where it is, but Mrs Hudson has her own ways of finding the answer. |
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Leave it to Lulu by Jim Hollingsworth Published: 24 May 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy in a single set. |
Synopsis | The residents of Sandcliffe Retirement Home gather to plan a summer fair, but first they must submit to the exercise routine of Lulu, a trainer sent from the council. And she's not the only council representative, as a corrupt councillor is intent on closing the home down. |
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Everything's Eventual by Kieron Toner Published: 15 May 2024 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Episodic drama with a single coffee shop set - which can just be tables and chairs (with the counter implicitly offstage). |
Synopsis | It's a normal sort of evening in Sally's café, although some of the clientele are a trifle unusual. |
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