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| Dear Diary - A Presentation For Christmas by Aberuthven Primary School ed. Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Variable numbers of non-speaking roles at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Words are provided for the 3 songs included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short narrative version of the Christmas story, with action and music. |
| Synopsis | A humorously narrated presentation of diary entries, by the central Christmas story personnel - brought up-to-date! |
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| Dear Diet Diary by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. A middle-aged lady who feels she needs to lose weight. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy play for one. |
| Synopsis | A woman who has been struggling with her weight addresses the issue of dieting through a monologue directed at her diary. |
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| Dear Lily by Lorraine Forrest-Turner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act romantic comedy. Lots of scenes and locations, but these are intended to be indicative rather than fully-dressed sets. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | After thirty years as 'Lily', the agony aunt of The Courrier, Ingrid loses her job and embarks on a radical reassessment of her life, beginning a stormy relationship with a man ten years her junior. |
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| Dear Stacy by Juliana Marie |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Over 15 years old. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short powerful play for older children, set in a US school with various (simple) settings. |
| Synopsis | High school senior Stacy, an accomplished dancer, seems to have it all. She lives in a very nice house, complete with her own dance studio. But everything is not as it seems as she is badly bullied to the extent that eventually the entire school, and even her parents, seem to turn against her, pushing her to drastic measures. |
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| Dearly Beloved by Sarah Archer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 81 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two song suggestions as well as a musical score for one original song, available with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | A comedy drama with music, for four actors. |
| Synopsis | A single mother, a businessman and a teenage girl find themselves trapped in a mysterious room. Eventually, the truth of their situation dawns, and the unlikely trio realise they’ll have to work together to find the answers that will set them free. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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| Death at the Deanery by Jim Hollingsworth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 31 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (large study) setting. |
| Synopsis | Horror grips the village of St Martini Mead when the body of General Rupert Stick-Monocle is discovered in the drawing room of the deanery. Is it suicide or has he been murdered? The doctor and local amateur sleuth Miss Marbles disagree, and it's left for Detective Inspector Titus Tyte-Canby to deduce what has happened. But if it is murder, who did it, and why? And who else may the murderer pounce on - the curate, the tennis-club alcoholic, the Russian au pair, the doctor, the Dean? A spoof whodunit inspired by Agatha Christie and Midsomer Murders. |
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| Death by Detective by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A witty and fast paced comedy loosely based on The Speckled Band with a solid mystery plot provided by the Conan Doyle source material. A lot of fun for cast and audience. Structured in two acts, but could form half an evening of one-act plays. |
| Synopsis | When a legendary detective solves a terrible murder and discovers his own guilty part in the affair, it is left to his closest friends to prevent him from arresting himself. |
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| Death in a Most Peculiar Manor by Roger Mathewson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length murder mystery play. Single box set - the classic domestic set, complete with French windows. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Old, right-wing Sir Edwin teagle-Bland is furious with his son for being thrown out of college and worried his wife will find out he's planning to sell off part of the estate to make a golf course. When he's killed in his own gun room, most people assume it's suicide, but there's much more than meets the eye. |
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| Death in Character by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Characters are all adults. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act whodunnit, with lots of comic potential. Single simple set (a theatre stage strewn with the debris of previous productions), one act play. |
| Synopsis | The management committee meets on the stage for the last time to arrange closure of their theatre. By the end of the evening the police are called in to investigate a murder with a rather unusual victim. |
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Death of an Angel by Young Theatre, edited by Helen Sharman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An emotionally charged one-act play for a youth theatre group set in a war zone. |
| Synopsis | A group of children are on the run in a war zone when a man saves one of the girls and joins the group. Can he be trusted, or is he leading them all into a trap? |
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