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A Pig Tale by Kevin Jannetts
Production by Loch Duich Primary School won Adjudicator's special award. South West Ross District Youth SCDA Festival 2016. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. The chorus is the sort that rushes on to perform songs and dances in various guises! Most of the roles are gender-neutral, although one of the pigs is called Maureen and the wolf is called Alan, both of which tend to be specific. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] (This allows 20 minutes for 11 songs/dances.) |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 11 songs/dances Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act family comedy show with music. A fairytale send-up. Contains Scottish accents! |
| Synopsis | The story of the Three Pigs gets a revamp in this Scots story, allowing a couple of Narrators to bring the story to life with anthropomorphic pigs struggling to find a story they can take part in to keep their deal with a Fairy Solicitor. Add in a Big Bad Wolf called Alan, and it all works out fine in the end. |
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Pigeon Syndrome by Benjamin Keyser
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| 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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| Pilate's Wife by Julia Lee Dean |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. No formal chorus, but there is an off-stage crowd shouting - either live or recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Easter play (from an unusual perspective), of one-act length but structured in three acts. Three locations, which could be formed as one simple composite set. |
| Synopsis | The story of Easter week told from the point of view of Pontius Pilate's household. (Mary Magdalene is presented as Pilate's mistress, allowing three very different interpretations of the events as they unfold.) |
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Pipkin and the Angel by Geoff Bamber
Production by Chelford Junior Players won the Best Junior Play at Chelford Drama Festival 2014 & Best Junior individual Performance (for Cappuccino Angel) at Wilmslow Guild One-Act Play Festival. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Some of the characters are written with specific gender but can be changed very easily. More flexibility in numbers is possible by expanding or contracting the number of villagers, mechanics and police. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. No specific set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Pipkin is down on his luck. He really should turn over a new leaf and give up a deeply unsuccessful life of crime. Can he change his ways when he accidentally meets the similarly luckless Cappuccino Angel? The answer would seem to be no, even with the Angel's boss on the case. |
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| The Pirates of Penrith by Andy Johnson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Whilst the gender of some of the characters is implied by their names, there is lots of scope for variation! |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for a school class-sized cast. Packed with piratical puns. |
| Synopsis | A group of veteran retired pirates lead a motley chase across the oceans as they escape from their retirement home and go in search of the treasure of the Stinkas. A large cast comedy with some truly terrible jokes along the way. |
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Plan B by Robert Scott
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play, set in an accident and emergency waiting area. |
| Synopsis | Richie's had a bit of an accident while preparing the anniversary dinner, and he and his wife Susan are now waiting in the A&E department. Susan is more than a little disappointed, but perhaps some words from the eccentric Belinda will help? |
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| The Play Of The Year by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One M and one F voice are offstage, could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy, with a fairly simple set. |
| Synopsis | The committee tasked with choosing the winner of the 'Play of the Year' competition really has their work cut out, and they also have to contend with being both helped and hindered by the building janitor and tea lady. A comedy drama with twists - which may keep the audience misled until the last moment! |
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| Playing Around by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, set (very simply) on a golf course and in the clubhouse. |
| Synopsis | Andy, Colin and Ian are golfing, but Ian is having a terrible round, made worse by the others' helpful comments. And the following week, Andy is agonising about how to tell Ian that he's not really been womanising, but seeing Ian's own daughter, and they want to marry. |
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| Playing Out by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. 3 characters are children played by adults. 2 characters are offstage voices only, which can be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama with no set required. |
| Synopsis | Susan Trent, a woman in her seventies, looks back on her childhood in post-war London, and the friends she loved - and hated. Her childish love for Stanley endures throughout her life, despite an early tragedy. And her intense rivalry with Stan's older sister, Sandra, will probably never be resolved. If we could meet our younger selves - just once - what would we say to them? |
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| Playing With Elvis by James Skivington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (garden) setting. |
| Synopsis | Musicians John and Michelle have retired from showbusiness and taken up gardening. Their peace is interrupted by their old singing partner, the alcoholic Alec, who has news of a possible comeback. Comedy and pathos mingle as they consider their options. |
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