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A Darker Shade Of Closure by Richard Charles
Finalist in the Cambridge Theatre Challenge (International play-writing competition) 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage characers plus (probably recorded) radio voice. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act thriller, single (apartment) set. |
| Synopsis | Tina is in a tight spot, blackmailed over drug use that could make her ill father worse if revealed. Perhaps her friend Karen can really help her, by getting evidence of the blackmail? But Karen brings a gun too, and everything goes wrong. |
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| Darling Deborah by Peter Harrison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play in a single set dramatising events from the Diary of Samuel Pepys much in the manner of a Restoration Comedy. |
| Synopsis | A Victorian Transcriber is outlining sections of Samuel Pepys' diary as the events therein are brought to life by Pepys, Mrs Pepys and servant girl Deborah, reflecting the bawdy nature of 17th Century theatre. |
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| Darra's Coffin [Full-Length Version] by Roger Woodcock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce with a single (undertaker's workshop) setting. Contains adult language and themes. |
| Synopsis | Funeral Director Darra's death puts the future of the business in jeopardy and workers Gladwyn, Tom and Terry take drastic action to prevent Darra's blowsy widow Winnie from selling out to competitors Musgroves. Their tactics soon get out of hand... |
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Darra's Coffin [One-Act Version] by Roger Woodcock
Won the Audience Appreciation award, Best Overall Production award and best actor award at the 2017 Teignmouth Drama Festival of One Act Plays performed by the teignmouth touring theatre company. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play in a funereal shade of black! Single set. |
| Synopsis | The proprietor of a traditional undertaker's has died and his carpenters are discussing their future. Will his maneater of a wife keep the business on, or sell them out? When she arrives, things get a little out of hand, and desperate measures are called for. |
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| Darts! by Lucy Turmaine |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play, set in a public bar - with space for a darts game, and with a second minimal set. |
| Synopsis | It's ladies darts night and the team face their arch-rivals, the team from the White Lion. Rivalries in darts, love and life will raise their heads, but the conclusion of the night will see changes for almost everyone. Intended for adult audiences. |
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| Date Night by Dana Davies |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act comedy, with adult language and mature themes. |
| Synopsis | Liam has hired Robert to kidnap his wife for a night of kinky passion, and to film it all for posterity. The only problem is, when the hood comes off, it’s not Liam’s wife handcuffed to the bed! |
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| Date with Destiny by Karen Doling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The non-speaking 'barperson' is written female in the script, but could be either. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy (with a touch of romance) in two acts. One simple set in each act - an office and a bar. |
| Synopsis | Mrs White has been running her dating agency for over forty years, but now she's decided to advertise! The new influx of customers get matched up, but the files are dropped and the only clue Mrs White's decisions is her remark 'They all match up as famous couples'... |
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| A Date With Dracula by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 57 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 6 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act musical comedy, with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Florence is so desperate for a date that she turns to Dateze, the internet dating site, and finds she's set up with Count... sorry, Colin. Eager to meet a young woman, Colin, is also on the web. Luckily Florence's sister Tuna, takes Colin in hand, and even sorts out Florence's next date - Frankie. |
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| The Date by Franco Ambriz |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Filomena may be dead, but she has a speaking part! |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] First staged reading ran to 25 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A powerful, intriguing, American one act drama with a single (apartment room) set. Some strong, but appropriate language. |
| Synopsis | A psychological drama digging into a family's past and its effect on their present. |
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Dating by Jonathan Edgington
A winning entry in the Chesil Theatre's 10x10 playwriting competition, 2010. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play. Single (minimal set representing a corner of a wine bar). Lots of character work built from a very short script. |
| Synopsis | Eve and her friend Hope are comparing war stories of dating, even though Hope already has her man sorted. Just as Eve seems to have given up, she literally runs into Peter, an associate of her ex-husband. But is he too good to be true? |
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