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| Mr Micawber Down Under by David Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Five narrating voices also have numerous character roles. |
| Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Five musical pieces are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length play with various (simple) settings. |
| Synopsis | In this Dickens spin-off, the Micawber family find themselves in Australia, where Mr Micawber's incorrigible optimism continues - he is sure that something will turn up. In many twists and turns the story, assisted by innovative narration here and there, unfolds - as the family, pursued by creditors finally sails into the sunset, convinced that something will turn up in New Zealand. |
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| The Mr Misty Mystery by Martin Clare |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy, set mainly in the living room of a cheap flat. |
| Synopsis | Abbey's brainwave intended to help her and flatmate Jess out of their financial difficulties becomes more and more complex. Her carefully planned art heist seems foolproof until accomplices Suzy and Eva become involved, as does the local police chief with surprising results. |
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Mr Scrooge by Peter Bond
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 7 or 8 songs (including some original lyrics). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act comedy with songs and elements of English pantomime, with plenty of opportunities for audience participation. All scenes are interiors, and it could be played with a single set with items of furniture brought on to indicate the different rooms. |
| Synopsis | This cut-down version of the Dickens' Christmas classic has a Sherlock Holmes cameo for good measure. Audience interaction, a moral and starving orphans mean there's something for everyone here. |
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| Mr. Willoughby by Peter Lancaster Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch (simple set, simple props) featuring a switchback conversation and corn circles! |
| Synopsis | An Alien Abductee is interviewed by a sceptical journalist, providing some surprising answers. |
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| Mrs Adapta Iago's Knitting Circle by Peter John Cooper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length drama with a single (living room) setting. Containing strong adult language. |
| Synopsis | The knitting circle has been meeting in the front room of Mrs Adapta Iago's bungalow every Tuesday and Thursday evening for the past forty years. But everything is not as it seems - there's conspiracy in the air. What is the project they've been working on all that time? Why are the knitting circle members all intellectual women graduates from one of Oxford's top colleges? What is the secret they want to keep from Michael, the bus driver? What actually did happen to Magda? What is the solution to the four colour problem? And what happened to Connie's rash? This darkly comic tale is as full of twists and turns as a ball of wool. |
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| Mrs Hudson and the Mystery of the Banker's Hat by Richard Moon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Three women and three or four men (John Collin could double with Mr Macduff). |
| Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in a single set. A fun take on the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, with modern sensibilities and humour. |
| Synopsis | Quietly, behind the scenes, Mrs Hudson and her friends solve a mystery that is baffling the great detective. |
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Mrs Hudson and the Mystery of the Disappearing Trombonist by Richard Moon
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Three male roles, but playable by the same actor. Five female roles, requiring at least four actors. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in a single set. An original case for Sherlock Holmes' housekeeper (although she does help solve a better-known Holmes case on the side). |
| Synopsis | A young man walks into his house and, apparently, disappears from the face of the Earth. But Daisy has fallen in love with him, and wants to know what happened. Mrs Hudson and Mrs Madingley investigate. |
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| Mrs Hudson and the Twisted Pilchard by Richard Moon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in a single set, loosely based on The Second Stain, a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A fun update of a Holmes mystery using modern sensibilities and humour. |
| Synopsis | An exciting tale of international spies, blackmail and tinned fish. A top-secret document has gone missing. If it gets into the wrong hands, it would mean war! Sherlock Holmes is struggling to work out where it is, but Mrs Hudson has her own ways of finding the answer. |
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| Mrs Noah by Robin Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple one act play. |
| Synopsis | The building of the Ark and the days of the Flood, as experienced by Noah and his less-than-understanding wife, Mrs Noah. |
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| Mrs Santa Claus's Tea Party by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. One of the few stage plays to offer lines to talking pies. Whilst many of the characters have a specific gender, it doesn't really matter for the purposes of casting. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for seven songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act (largely secular) Christmas play for children with no set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Mrs Santa Claus invites familiar Christmas characters to her annual tea party. Everyone joins in the spirit of Christmas as they sing and dance their way through the preparations for the big day. |
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