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| The Importance Of Peaches by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single setting |
| Synopsis | The Southbury Players Committee is meeting to discuss the group's poor record of success. Members are looking for a big idea to revive the group's fortunes, but when all seems lost, salvation comes from an unexpected source. |
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| In A Hole by Rupert Dick |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun and wildly unusual full-length play in two sets - one on the inside, looking out, and the second in the garden. |
| Synopsis | Woody Woodward is mildly interested in why his neighbour has dug a huge hole in the back garden, but when he involves his friend Benny in the mystery, things get serious. Is it a grave? A bunker? The answer leads to more questions. |
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In a League of His Own by Mark Griffin
Finalist in the Cambridge Theatre Challenge (International play-writing competition) 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characters and an offstage (or recorded) soccer commentator. |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play set in an Irish student flat (the main features of which are a couch and a TV set). |
| Synopsis | Soccer-obsessed student Eamo is unhappy with the progress of a local team because they're ruining his standing in the Fantasy Football league. And Eamo has a lot of money riding on the outcome. His flatmate, John, thinks Eamo should calm down, but then Mazza, a self-proclaimed legend, arrives to really stir things up. |
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| In At The Deep End by Kate Phimy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch, with an optional - living room - setting. |
| Synopsis | Shirley's mid-life crisis continues as she searches for something to take her out of the rut of domesticity, but husband Pete wants the quiet life. He surprises Shirley as she secretly rehearses for her very odd new hobby, but as it happens - all turns out rather well. |
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| In God's Office by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short two-handed play with a Christian perspective. Single office set. |
| Synopsis | A delivery man enters the wrong office by mistake and finds himself discussing free will with God. |
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In Her Defence by Helen Saxton
Original Playwriting Award at the Oxfordshire Drama Network Festival in June 2022. Production by The Compton Players |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Seven on-stage characters and an off-stage male voice. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act thriller with several nods to Agatha Christie. Single set, split between a courtroom and a living room. |
| Synopsis | London, 1947. Philip Mackinder is dead. His wife, Catherine, has just shot him. As a court hears the evidence leading up to the murder, we witness the disintegration of the couple's marriage and discover the real, surprising truth. |
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| In My Lady's Chamber by Giles Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Bedroom farce in the form of a medieval romp. Single (castle bedchamber) set. Contains adult goings on and the occasional French accent. |
| Synopsis | While Lord William has been away, Lady Jane has been dallying with his Squire, but now his Lordship has returned and intends to relieve Her Ladyship of the chastity belt she is no longer wearing and cannot find. This is just the start of the troubles... |
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| In One Form Or Another by Nikki Pontin |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Doctor could be played by m or f. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy includes 3 suggested pieces of music, to add atmosphere for this play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act gothic thriller, with a living room setting and specific lighting effects. |
| Synopsis | Helen, Edward and their son have moved into their dream home, unaware of its history and the events which took place there. With increasing horror, Jacob seems to be the catalyst for the terrifying happenings - which Helen in particular is unable to deal with. As she relates events to a psychiatrist, the full horror becomes apparent. |
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| In Out by Bruce Hunt |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters are written male, but could conceivably be female or a mixture. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for and about teenagers. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Ako is a new kid in school, and he has a great game on his phone. Sadly Chock decides he's not cool, and leads Ako's new friends to bully him. |
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| In Profile by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light-hearted short with good roles for 2F, 1M. Easy to stage (two locations in one set, but just created by furniture and lighting) and could fit easily into a programme of shorts. |
| Synopsis | Emma hopes to find the perfect partner for her brother Chris. So when she hijacks his laptop and starts chatting to Sally, what better way than to pretend to be him? This could be Emma's best effort at matchmaking since Jane Austen. But when Chris gets home, he's not amused. He thought she was only dog-sitting. |
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