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Even Numbers by Tony Domaille
Best Seller Winner of the Derek Jacobi Award for New Playwriting 2023. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Dr Vincent is written male, but could be played female. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Multi-award-winning thriller with strongly written dialogue and good roles for three actors. One-act, one set (prison consulting room) with a scene in a prison cell created purely by lighting. |
| Synopsis | Mary-Ann has poisoned and killed five people and Doctor Vincent must make an assessment of her mental state for the court. In trying to establish if she is insane, or just plain evil, a shocking truth is discovered. |
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| An Evening to Forget by Rupert Dick |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | The 'Boss coming to dinner' trope is one that has been used for years, but this script succeeds in taking it in a new direction in spectacular fashion with elements of light comedy, farce and thriller. |
| Synopsis | Olivia is worried, because her boss is coming to dinner and it’s very short notice. And he’s bringing a companion. And it’s a very important dinner. But when things really go wrong, it’s not any of the issues she was imagining. |
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| Every Dog Has Its Day by Peter May |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch for two actors, no props or set required. |
| Synopsis | A long line of disembodied souls are waiting to see God, to find out what the future holds for them. |
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Every Pantomime That Ever There Was by Tony Domaille
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 50. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Whilst the author suggests that there should be a final song, he doesn't suggest what it shouldbe! Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | For youth theatre - a very short pantomime with large cast and minimal set. |
| Synopsis | This is a quickfire trip through pantoland, with many characters and much panto fun - in a short space of time! |
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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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| Everybody wants to be a Cat by Louise Arnold |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. The characters are all cats and dogs! There is an optional 'chorus' of cats - members of Daphne's coterie. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for kids about friendship. |
| Synopsis | A young cat makes an unusual friend, and then has to learn to deal with peer pressure and prejudice. |
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| Everybody's Talking by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 47. No chorus. Some scripts require offstage voices which could be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of comedy sketches, with a variety of simple sets. |
| Synopsis | A collection of confrontations, revelations, and scenes of a gossipy nature. |
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| Everything All Right, Sir? by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. The characters are largely adults (with a few children), but intended to be played by a school group. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy (of a broad-brush, knock-about kind), set in a restaurant. |
| Synopsis | It's opening night at Jolyon's, a new restaurant. Jolyon and Leo are hoping for some customers, but they get a lot more than they bargained for, with a grumpy couple, the family from Hell, a paranoid man who hides under a table... In the end they're relieved to see a Policeman. |
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| Everything Stops for Tea by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy (prose) monologue. |
| Synopsis | It is the day of the village fete, and Joyce Bernard, stalwart of the WI manages to keep her composure when the organiser casts a critical eye on her tea tent. |
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| Everything's Coming Up Roses by Cheryl Barrett |
| 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 romantic comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | Hayfever sufferer Rose has been advised to relieve her work stress by sitting and smelling the roses. Her visit to the park does little to relieve her stress until she meets gardener Brad and romance blooms. |
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| Everything's Eventual by Kieron Toner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Episodic drama with a single coffee shop set - which can just be tables and chairs (with the counter implicitly offstage). |
| Synopsis | It's a normal sort of evening in Sally's café, although some of the clientele are a trifle unusual. |
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