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| Scriptaholic by Billy Doyle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. Chorus. In the author's draft of the script, the 'New Member' is male and the 'Group Leader' female, but there doesn't seem to be any necessity for this! |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short comedy sketch with no specific requirements for set or props. |
| Synopsis | When a new member joins Scriptaholic, a support group for script writers who have lost sight of the boundaries between fantasy and reality, even the group leader finds him too far gone for help. |
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| Scripted by Brenna McBride |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Quirky comedy short on a coffee shop set. |
| Synopsis | Coffee house waitress Jenny has written her own happy ending for herself and her favorite customer, Kevin - and she's hired the perfect director, Linda, to make her fantasy a reality. But what happens if life refuses to imitate art? |
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| Scrooge Lives Next Door by Croft & Barnett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch, with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Jolly Jim was having a merry Christmas, until some unwelcome spirits pay him a visit and spill some unpleasant beans. |
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| Scrooge's Christmas Carol by Darren Humphries |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions (and new lyrics) for five songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Mid-length, British pantomime. A comic rendition of Dickens' Christmas melodrama. |
| Synopsis | The Dickens tale with some huge liberties taken to make it as much of a pantomime as possible!
Scrooge and his housekeeper Lottie the Hottie go on a ghostly journey through the past, present and future in an attempt to make the old skinflint change his ways. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Sealed With A Loving Kiss by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama, single cottage living-room set. |
| Synopsis | Don arrives on Jill's doorstep twenty one years after their relationship ended. Can he explain why he never came back from the army? |
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| The Séance by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play - a ghost/horror story. Single set. Lots of fun for the special effects crew. Contains swearing and intolerance. |
| Synopsis | Graham and Deborah have invited four old friends to their housewarming party - and the house certainly needs it - the attic was the scene of a brutal murder, and little seems to have changed since that time. Tensions rise as the members of the group begin to feel that the room is haunted. |
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| The Search for Pyrrha by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short fantasy drama with an air of mystery. A stand-alone play, but also the sequel to the award-winning Gone. |
| Synopsis | Ten years after her disappearance, George is still searching for his wife. In a field scheduled to be turned into a nature reserve, he finds a mysterious door. |
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| Searching by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute comedy play. Single set (a reception area, so little more than a coffee table and a couple of chairs). |
| Synopsis | David is going to be on a new television show where he picks from a selection of six women and dates them to determine his match. Trouble is, he seems to be scaring them off before the show even starts... |
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| The Second Amendment by Damian Trasler & Steve Clark |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The police officer could be male or female. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Five minute comedy sketch. Single set (a police interrogation room - so just a couple of chairs and possibly a table). |
| Synopsis | A police officer explores a hunter's constitutional right to bear arms. |
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| A Second Chance by Jim Pinnock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. One voice is an offstage announcer. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act thriller - single set. |
| Synopsis | Customers and staff are put through psychological torment as a man with a bomb holds them hostage, but all but one of them benefit from the experience. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'A Second Chance' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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