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| We Love Barney by Joseph A. Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act farce. Single domestic set. |
| Synopsis | Barney is to decide who is to become the Assistant Branch Manager, and competition is fierce. Will newly-separated Barney give in to the wiles of Sharon, or will he be persuaded by Phyllis's experience and dedication? And what of Nigel, who doesn't want the job, but is marrying a woman who wants him to have it? It's going to be a busy night at the company drinks party. |
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We're All Dead by Jonathan Edgington
Selected for and performed (by Precipice Productions) at Stockwell Playhouse's 2019 One Act Playwriting Festival in London where it received a 'Highly Commended' award. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two of the male characters should look alike. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act ghostly drama with multiple settings (arranged by the actors). With adult themes and strong language.
First published in 2013, revised edition published 2019. |
| Synopsis | With time shifting between the present day and 1973, Russ and Rachel experience life changing events brought about by Russ's encounter with his younger self. |
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Wedding Day by John F. Glen
Performance by Thurso Players won two trophies and came second overall in the SCDA Caithness Adult Festival of One Act Plays, Feb 2008 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Range of ages - three adult generations of one family. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play. Simple set (two pieces of furniture - so easy to stage as a competition piece). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Annie, elderly matriarch of a family, looks back on a long life on the day her granddaughter gets married. She recalls the wedding of her daughter and her own wedding day, as well as some sadder memories. |
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| Weir of Hermiston by David McVey from Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. Characters are adults, plus one boy with a playing age of around 10, as the young Archie Weir. The chorus (non-speaking townspeople, servants, etc.) is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama, focusing on the relationship between Archie Weir and his tyrannical father. Adapted from an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Uses broad Scots (though omitting the less fathomable language from Stevenson's draft.) |
| Synopsis | Archie Weir is the son of the Lord Justice Clerk and in training to be a lawyer himself, though he is fearful of his hard father. Following advice from a family friend, Archie watches a trial held by his father and is horrified at the old man's apparent glee at hanging the poor wretch. He speaks out in public against the death penalty and is exiled to the family's country estate. |
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| Welcome Home by Roger Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act drama, with a single setting and some strong language. |
| Synopsis | Jimmy is finally out of prison, having served twenty years for murdering his wife's lover. He returns to his old house to face his son, where he expects and receives a hostile reception. |
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Welcome to Paradise Road by Brian Coyle
Best Script in Festival - Page to Stage Theatre Festival, Liverpool (2016) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A satirical thriller with a set alternating between an office and a living room. |
| Synopsis | In a society where nothing is private and no one knows who to trust, a woman’s partner has disappeared. She is visiting her neighbour, head of the local Neighbourhood Watch, to find out if she’s heard anything about his disappearance. Will her neighbour help her or is this the person she should be most afraid of? |
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| Well Well Well by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. The chorus - additional peasants - is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for six original songs (Lyrics by Bill Tordoff, Music by Adrian Watts & Jonny Ardern) is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | One act musical play for kids. A pantomime setting, with panto characters, though not strictly a pantomime in terms of its original plot! |
| Synopsis | The down-trodden Pantoville peasants earn meagre wages singing happy choruses and smiling for tourists. When Councillor Purslove makes them redundant they're desperate for work and are grateful to Dick Whittington for using them in his TV commercials. But when he plans to privatise their well and employ them at starvation wages they take matters into their own hands. |
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| Westerfield at War by Marcus Grollman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions are made within the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A serious school play - but with a good deal of humour - set in World War 2. Mixture of full-stage sets and front-of-curtain scenes (allowing for set changes). |
| Synopsis | A series of modern-day reminiscences of the Second World War, played out through scenes of school, village and military life in war-time. |
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| What A Performance! by Trevor Suthers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play set in a theatre (stage and dressing room). Some adult language. |
| Synopsis | A small group of actors are in a small provincial theatre as their performance ends - the action follows them to the (shared) dressing room. Petty jealousies give way to their assessments of what acting and theatre are all about. |
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| What Did You Do In The War? by Richard Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Children play a mixture of adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Production notes list recommended period songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Acted reminiscences of World War 2 (covering areas of the English National Curriculum Key Stage 2 topic on WW2). |
| Synopsis | An old lady reminisces with a group of kids about England during World War two. The children become characters from that era and act out some of the scenes. Covers air raids, evacuation, military life, the evacuation of Dunkirque and Battle of Britain. |
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