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Under the Hood by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama (on the lower boundary of two-act length). Simple sets. |
Synopsis | Rose, an actor, is rehearsing the title role in a new psychological interpretation of Red Riding Hood under a hot-shot director. Meanwhile, her husband, Mark, is torn between the frustrations of his well-paid dead-end job and the uncertainties of his dream of creating his own business. |
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Underground by Jon Boustead Production by Tykes won Best Youth Production (Teignmouth Drama Festival, 2017) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. All cast should be of same or similar age. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act thriller for youth theatre, with a single - crashed Tube train carriage - setting. |
Synopsis | A group of youth-age children on a school outing are left to fend for themselves, as they find themselves trapped in a crashed tube train and their teachers are nowhere to be found. They all have to deal with the horror in their own way and they take the plot along through intermittent narration and action. |
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An Unexpected Duty by Robin Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play which could be used as a full length play. |
Synopsis | Charlie's rushing off to Home Guard duty, but takes time to warn his wife about their daughter's scandalous dress sense and his worries about her new man. Little does he know that before the night is out he'll be facing down an armed spy! |
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A Universal Sorrow by Graham J Evans |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Ten on-stage roles plus two offstage voices. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Powerful, emotional one-act drama about a Welsh mining disaster in 1913. |
Synopsis | Warning signs of an impending disaster are ignored by the mine owners and the colliers are left to deal with the consequences of over 400 of their colleagues, including a 14 year old boy, being trapped underground. The effect on the community of Senghenydd is poignantly brought to life as rescue attempts proceed. |
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Unrelated Women by Daniel M. Wolpe |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The production notes contain suggestions for six classical pieces of music that feature in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A two act drama (though could be performed in one). Set in the US, though the play explores universal themes. |
Synopsis | At her husband’s funeral, hard-bitten widow Fiona meets Laura, her husband’s young pregnant mistress, having been previously unaware of her existence. Their relationship, at first bitter, evolves into a profound and loving affiliation. |
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Up the Garden Path by Barry Blaize |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act farce. Single set - quite complex to stage but the rewards are worth it! Contains mild swearing and drug abuse. |
Synopsis | When Susan agreed to be on the end of the phone for Marie during a quiz, she thought she'd be a help. But she didn't give the right answer, and now Marie's husband wants Susan and Trevor to cough up the sixty thousand she didn't win... |
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Urban Hymns by Keith Badham Performance by Up-Stage Theatre Company won Best Youth Actress award in the Bedfordshire One Act Play Festival, 2011 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 65. No chorus. The nine scripts have casts ranging from two to twenty, however the author expects that some groups will reorganise the twenty-character script for a smaller group - his estimated minimum cast is six. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A series of short scripts for teenagers. Simple to set, but with plenty of performance challenges. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | Nine short scripts: Introduction (Nominally twenty roles) Bittersweet Symphony (Seven roles) The Drugs Don't Work (Four roles) Sonnet (Four roles) Juliet (Two roles) Romeo (Two roles) There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Five roles) 24 Minutes From Tulse Hill (Six roles) Lucky (Nominally 15 roles) |
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The Vanity of Dorian Gray by Valerie Goodwin |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 5 (public domain) songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Seventy-five minute adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel, peppered with Victorian and Edwardian music hall songs and comedy. |
Synopsis | The hedonistic young man Dorian Gray makes a wish that his portrait would age instead of himself, and the wish comes true. He takes advantage of his eternal youth to court and then dispose of a never-ending line of young women, but four decades later, his sins catch up with him. |
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Varadachary The Dadaist by Vithal Rajan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
Synopsis | Game Three in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Marcel Duchamp explains the influences of his Dadaist art on his 1929 victory over Belgian chess champion Georges Koltanowski. |
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Variations by Peter Appleton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two couples (otherwise no limitation on ages). |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act play, single interior set, simple props. (Contains mild swearing) |
Synopsis | Two couples are rounding off a nice evening with drinks and talk, but a story in the local paper changes the mood and secrets are uncovered. |
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