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| Love in the Time of Zombies by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One of the few one-act stage treatments of the zombie apocalypse. Single living room set. Contains mild (especially for a world over-run by the living dead) swearing. |
| Synopsis | Sometime in the near future. As flesh eating zombies terrorise the world, Brian and Susan attempt to maintain a normal life... |
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| Love Me Tender by Roger Woodcock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Four Elvis Presley songs are suggested, to be sung by character within the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act drama with a mix of comedy and pathos. A single kitchen setting. |
| Synopsis | In an economic downturn, a fish and chip shop owner and his wife can't decide whether to stay open or move to Spain, while their part-time potato peeler Billy happily sings Elvis songs and dreams of what's under Olga Pike's duffle coat. A tragedy will turn all their lives upside down. |
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| Love's Labour's Lost [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 60-minute abridgement of the Shakespeare comedy.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Ferdinand, King of Navarre, has decided that he and his court will devote three years to an ascetic life of studying, fasting, and forswearing the company of women. However, he has forgotten that the Princess of France and her retinue are due to visit. So, will the court pursue asceticism or pretty women? |
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| Lucky Balls by Louise Roche |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The chorus is optional (bar staff and band members). The script includes an on-stage band. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggested songs (titles only) are embedded in the script. These are intended to be played by the on-stage band. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play. Single set (with various locations within a wedding reception indicated by lighting and set dressing). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Nine wedding guests are the victims of a really bad seating plan. They try to get along, then one suggests they chip in to buy a lottery ticket. When they win all their masks slip away to reveal who they really are. The poor maitre d' tries to keep the reception on track but in the end he can only watch as relationships unravel. |
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| Lucky Dip by Jim Hollingsworth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy, featuring the characters from the author’s previous play ‘Out for the Count’. Single living room set. |
| Synopsis | William and Marilyn are holding a coffee morning to raise funds for the mayor's anti-drugs campaign. Rumours of a drugs ring in the village stoke William's paranoia - what are the 'special plants' Vaslav is growing in his greenhouse, and what's in the mysterious package in the lucky dip? |
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| Lucy Locket by Ian Cartwright |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Ten principal roles, cameos and chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] The run-time assumes the use of the 16 suggested songs. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 16 songs with some parody lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length pantomime, inspired by the nursery rhyme of the same name. Includes lively characters, physical and verbal comedy and lots of songs. |
| Synopsis | When Demon Debt introduces a magic coin into circulation via Lucy's lost pocket, all manner of havoc is wreaked at the Locket, Stocket and Barrel bank,with Nanny Fanny Fisher being accused of stealing the bank's assets. Helped by Fairy Frugal and security guards Nick and Knock, the heroes head for Switzerland to recover the stolen money. |
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Macbeth by Geoff Bamber
Best Seller Production by Blairgowrie Players won two rounds of the SCDA festival 2023, then won the Colin Peter Award for showing the greatest creativity in the Scottish Youth Final. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Shakespeare's Macbeth as a modern language play (with modern humour) for kids. A one act play in five acts. Simple sets and props. Options for songs and dances. |
| Synopsis | There should be three witches, but one of them is having problems with her satellite navigation system. Eventually they give a fateful prediction to Macbeth, who likes the idea of being the new king enough to dispatch the old one. Much murder and wringing of hands ensues. All this and a mad Scottish doctor. The bard will be spinning in his grave! |
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| Macbeth [75-Minute Abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. Twenty-nine roles, but playable by a cast of ten. (The producer's copy of the script includes a table of roles per scene to help figure out the doubling options.) |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 75-minute abridgement of Shakespeare's Scottish play.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Witchcraft, prophecies, hallucination, regicide, porterage, portents, usurpation, amicide, phantom at the feast, apparitions, equivocations, blood-boltered spectre, family massacre, somnambulation, suicide, tyrannicide, decapitation.
All good clean fun. |
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| Macbeth [a 60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare abridged by Dwayne Lawler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', with the original text of around three hours cut down to 60 minutes.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Witches, prophesies, murders, battles and ghosts. Shakespeare's Macbeth compressed to the compass of a small cast. |
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Macbeth The Musical by Gerald P. Murphy
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | All songs included in the script are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | A one act musical play for older children, with simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Seeking a plot on which to base a musical, two young writers decide that the Scottish Play would be an ideal choice for their tragical comedy musical farce . It turns out as such... |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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