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| Treasure Island Discs by Hugh Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny, fast-paced one-act comedy, loosely based on Stevenson's Treasure Island (with an absurd overlay of BBC Radio's long-running Desert Island Discs). |
| Synopsis | At The Benbow Inn, Jim Hawkins finds a map showing the location of a collection of vinyl records that have been buried on a desert island. A career in the media awaits if he can find them and choose eight records to take back to a radio studio. |
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| The Treasure of Adrian Caesar by Marcus Grollman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. A mixture of children and adults (assumed to be played by children). |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act adventure play for children, with a little light history thrown in! |
| Synopsis | 'The Eagle of the Ninth' meets 'The famous five' as a group of schoolchildren on a history field trip to Hadrian's wall foil a gang of jewel thieves. |
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| Tremayne's Folly by John Garforth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Three adult males, three females and a thirteen-year-old boy. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A witty period script with some well-crafted characters. A single coastal setting. |
| Synopsis | In 1803, former soldier Parsons has taken up residence as the official hermit of Lord Tremayne's estate. But this simple life is threatened when he gets caught up in the extra-marital affairs of Sir William Pitt, and a dead Frenchman washes up on the beach. |
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| Trick Or Treat [One-Act Play] by Ron Asher |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama on a simple set. US English. Adult content. |
| Synopsis | Tom reluctantly lets in a late trick-or-treater on Halloween. Felix is after more than candy, however, and Tom isn’t sure he’s ready. If Felix does intend to stay with Tom, there’ll be a price to pay, whether Felix wants to or not. |
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| Tricksilver by Rob Burbidge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play based on a story by O. Henry - a tale of trickery and double-crossing. Two sets (or one composite set) plus front-of-curtain scene at a railway station. |
| Synopsis | As the twentieth century dawns, the United States of America is the land of opportunity. There are plenty of ways to make a quick buck, but the quickest and biggest bucks are made by the scam artists. Having a conscience is a bit of a handicap for confidence trickster Jeff Peters. He decides against the advice of his business partner to include a real woman in his marriage agency scam. Will he find out that women are the honest sex, or will he discover that a woman can be the equal of a man in dishonesty? Will he break the habit of a lifetime, and trust a bank? In this tale of cross and double-cross, who gets the loot? |
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| A Trifle Unwell by Jane Lockyer Willis |
| 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, single set. Difficult to categorise, but plenty of scope for characterisation. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Jo's hiding from the rest of the party out on the stairs, but she's disturbed by Flora, who's escaping with the trifle. The pair meet Phil, who shouldn't really be there and then the hostess comes along to ask some searching questions. A light drama with added custard and sherry. |
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| A Trip to the Beach by Sarah Cowan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, assumed to be played by children. The roles could be redistributed over a larger or smaller group. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song and incidental music suggestions included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Humorous tale of a contemporary school outing. Suitable for a full class production. |
| Synopsis | Miss Brown takes her class on an educational trip to the seaside. A diverse, argumentative group of children sets out to examine cliff-top habitat, an examination which comes too close to comfort for Miss Brown. |
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| The Trip by Jonathan Caldicot |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. The characters are all members of a high school class, and intended to be played by teenagers. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for a large cast of teenagers. Simple props, essentially a bare stage, except for a stone cairn! Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Twenty teenagers are on an outward bound-style field trip as a team-building exercise, but when they all reach the rendezvous point, the teacher is not there to meet them with the bus. Have the brain-boxes been reading the maps wrong? With the one cell phone lost, can they work out a solution before night falls? |
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| Trouble at Inverbraw by Alan J. Laing |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. The main characters include English, Scottish and American accents. There are 6 'hotel workers' whose numbers could be cut a little if needed, plus two silent 'elves!' There is also an optional 'prelude' to allow speaking roles to other actors. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes a list of suggested songs (plus original lyrics set to two traditional tunes). There are also opportunities for dances. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids. Single (simple hotel) set, with imaginary bus probably played front-of-curtain. (One-act in length, two-act in structure!) |
| Synopsis | Jenny and Jack run a hotel in financial trouble. There's a chance that some of the new guests may want to buy the place and solve the problem, but of course, things are never that simple in the hotel business. |
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True Reflection by Peter Stallard
Performance by West Midlands group won Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Overall Performance, Best Set and Peoples Choice awards at HASSRA Annual Drama Competition, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Single domestic interior set. (Contains mild swearing.) |
| Synopsis | Joe Parry is being harassed by his wife for lending money to his feckless friend, Dai German. He is sent to retrieve the cash, but returns instead with a mirror. To avoid more scorn, he convinces his wife it's a revolutionary dieting aid, and a few minutes in front of the mirror can remove pounds. While she sits in front of it, he fiddles the scales to give the correct result, and it's not long before all the local women are dropping in to check out the rumour. Meanwhile Joe has brought Dai round to sort the problem before the truth comes to light - but the result is a confrontation which ends with the mirror in shards... with an unexpected revelation. |
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