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| Shoes by Robert M. Barr |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama with a single (park bench) setting. US English. |
| Synopsis | When an older man meets a homeless, shoeless, middle-aged man in a park, the older one makes an offer that is both comforting and insulting. But when the younger one finds out the reason for the offer, he is intrigued. |
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| Shooting 'The War Game' by Michael Pearcy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Newscaster is an offstage voice. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama with a single (bomb damaged house) setting. Originally released 2015, revised 2018. |
| Synopsis | The play is set in 1964, at the height of the Cold War, during the filming of TV drama 'The War Game'. It begins with five actors involved in filming a dramatic rescue scene in a bombed building, and develops into a tense anti-war drama. |
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| The Shootout by Kenneth P. Langer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with no set requirements. |
| Synopsis | In the town of Deadrock, two gunfighters agree to a duel to settle their families’ age-old feud, but playing by the rules was never for either gunslinger and the resulting showdown goes terribly awry. |
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| The Shop by Allan Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama, taking place within a shop. |
| Synopsis | It's just another ordinary day in the Charity Shop for Elsie and Margaret, with new customers and old friends. But they discover that one visit in particular was very special and will never be forgotten. |
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Shop! by Geoff Bamber
Performance by Wilmslow Guild Players won The Syd Mence Cup for a Piece of Theatre Magic at the Wilmslow one-act play festival, 2017. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for a youth theatre company. Could be performed in front of a backdrop, but a bare stage will do! |
| Synopsis | A short stop for supplies at Mrs Popkiss’s shop turns into a frustrating afternoon for a group of would-be campers. |
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| Shopping Habits by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch |
| Synopsis | A doorstep caller gets more than he bargained for |
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| Short Break by Andrew Bawn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The travel agent is written female but could be male. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch set in a travel agent's shop. |
| Synopsis | Dorothy and Norman want to book a holiday, and the strangely behaved travel agent offers them a fantastic deal. |
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| Shot To The Heart by Kyle Forsyth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short, tense play, set in a vacant apartment, and with strong language. |
| Synopsis | Assassins, James and Tony are presented with a heart-stopping situation as they line up their target. Their position becomes ever more indecisive, as the action culminates in a shock ending. |
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| Show-Down at the Hoe-Down by Ed Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by a male. The hero could be a 'principal boy' (i.e. played by female). |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Twelve songs suggested in the production notes (part of the Producer's Copy of the script.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English Pantomime - jokes, visual humour, etc. - in a Wild West setting. |
| Synopsis | There's a hoe-down coming up and dame Ellie-May wants to look her best. Unfortunately her jewels have been stolen by Tex Gunslinger and his sidekick Heinz. Will Barrow, the new Sheriff, forces a show-down with Tex in the hope of impressing the beautiful Mary-Lou. (And if that isn't enough, there's added confusion from a snake-oil salesman and his Injun accomplice, a judge who cheats at cards and a troublesome barmaid.) |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Showdown at Shuddering Heights by Anne Graham |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One optional M or F |
| Run Time | Around 77 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce, in three acts. |
| Synopsis | Faced with bankruptcy Ella, the owner of the isolated Bear Inn, takes to the bottle. An unexpected visitor arrives and the contents of his luggage - a plastic carrier bag - starts a madcap sequence of events. |
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