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Sleepover Secrets by Tony Domaille
Plockton Amdram Youth Society - Intermediate section trophy winner Scottish Community Drama Association one act play youth festival, Highlands 2018. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One character is an offstage female voice. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama for youth theatre with a single (bedroom) setting. |
| Synopsis | Five sixteen-year-old girls are having a sleepover when they decide to share their most closely guarded secrets. Who has the biggest secret and who will believe whom? |
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| The Sleuth Slayer by Paul Mathews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy send-up of detective fiction in general and the country house murder mystery in particular. Single country house set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | The world's greatest detectives are invited to a murder at Carnage Hall, but no one there knows anything about it... Until one of the detectives is found dead! The hunt is on to find the killer before there's no one left to solve the crime! |
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| A Slice Of Elizabethan Life by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Variable chorus size and doubling of parts, at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One song suggestion and one rap are included with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short-ish one act play for schools, with song, dance, rap, and with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | This play portrays a slice of Elizabethan life and follows on from 'A Slice of Tudor Life' by the same author. They can be used separately or together to give an overview of the Tudor Dynasty. Narrators and various characters from Elizabeth's life, including the ghost of her father King Henry VIII, comment on her personality and events in her life until her death. |
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| A Slice Of Tudor Life - A Tale Of Two Henrys by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 45. Chorus. Many characters may be doubled, at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An historical play for children, with a single basic set. |
| Synopsis | A brief overview of Henry VII and how the Tudor dynasty started is followed by the life, strife, and every wife of Henry VIII. Narrators and Rappers, along with various characters from his life, comment on his personality and events in his life - until his death in 1547. Five Rap songs, but they need no music, included with this script. |
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| A Slight Misunderstanding by Janet S. Tiger |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 0. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Easily stageable comedy skit, with minimal set/props and just two actors. Could make a good addition to a sketch night. |
| Synopsis | Many years ago, John’s wife Eleanor told him he should always strive to be the better man. He misheard it, and has strived to be the bitter man ever since. |
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| The Slim Blonde Beauty by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All characters are young adults. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short romantic comedy with two simple settings. |
| Synopsis | It starts with an ad in the free paper... Insecure Jack's search for the woman of his dreams has hit troubled waters. His friend Tom persuades him to try speed dating with hilarious (but ultimately satisfying) consequences. |
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| Slimmers' Planet by Jamesine Cundell 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 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
| Synopsis | Martin, looking for love, meets Lorna, looking for weight loss. |
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| Small Miracles by Maureen Speller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 54. Chorus. Three short plays, one cast can perform all three or they can have separate casts. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Choral music to be played at various points in play, at discretion of director. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Collection of three short plays with Biblical themes. Suitable for performance by children. |
| Synopsis | A trio of short plays following the story of Mary, Joseph and Jesus from the end of most Nativity stories to the early days of Christianity in Rome. |
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| Small Talk by Martin Ward |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One song suggested, to be played at rise. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act drama with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Mark has invited Ian to his flat for a drink, but Ian doesn’t know why. In fact, they went to the same school twenty years before, and Ian was a bully who made Mark's life a misery. Now Mark has plans to gain revenge. |
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| The Smell of Almonds by Nigel Holloway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One (gender non-specific) character is an offstage voice only. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama with no set necessary, using cyclorama effects. |
| Synopsis | A play charting the dark and unexpected secrets which hide behind the disjointed memories and imaginings of an old man and his cat. Set during the Second World War, the play tells the story of Yitzhak, a migrant Jewish worker in the bulb fields near Amsterdam, his cat, Pushka, his son, Ibrahim, and his wife, Esther. Despite the apparently placid exterior of a man in the Autumn of his life, Yitzhak’s past has been dominated by violent and tragic events, both internal and external. What is the true nature of justice, and the price of survival? |
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