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Call To Duty by Nettie Baskcomb Brown
The original production won the Five Counties and Mercia division trophies and was a semi-finalist in 2014 All England Theatre Festival, winning adjudicator's award for excellence. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Award winning One Act play for youth theatre with various (simple) settings. |
| Synopsis | Sam is bored by his school history and drama lessons about the First World War, but through his brother's console games, he learns more than he expected.
The play vividly brings to life the bravery of ordinary soldiers who fought in World War One by merging modern virtual war games with the shocking reality of the WW1 trenches and using comedy and tragedy to take actors and audiences on an emotional, thought provoking journey. |
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| The Camel Lot by Sian Nixon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. It's a pantomime. Make your own mind up as to who plays what! |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for 12 songs (with some original lyrics) can be found in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime - jokes, wordplay, physical comedy and that sort of thing. |
| Synopsis | A tale of quests for Sir Lovesalot and the knights of the round table... well, not actually a round table. At Camel Lot, it's more of a desk. Anyway, there are knights, wizards and dragons... and a camel. There's also a very unexpected super-hero. |
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Camelot - The Knights of the Square Table by Richard Coleman
Performance by Hyde Little Theatre won the Greater Manchester Youth One Act Festival, 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. Characters include various knights (one of whom is definitely female, and others who could well be) and a dragon. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comic compilation of Camelot characters in a rhyming romp round the realm. |
| Synopsis | Camelot is under attack from the Black Knight - not only that, there's the dietary requirements of a dragon to take into consideration. |
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| Camp David by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An energetic and witty comedy. Minimal in staging/cast but hits a nice range of emotional and comic beats.
(Also available as part of the Love and Marriage collection of short comedies by Tony Domaille) |
| Synopsis | On a trip camping in the wilderness, supposedly to fix their failing marriage, David plans to murder Fay. Fay, however, has other ideas. |
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| Camping by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute comedy play. Single, simple set (a camp site office). |
| Synopsis | A truculent campsite owner in France is giving some English clients the run-around and making a tidy sum. We discover he's not all he seems, except in the matter of his skulduggery. |
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| Can Malone Die? by David Pollard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama on a study set. Part of the 'Illusion/Delusion' trio of plays, which can be bought separately or as a collection. |
| Synopsis | Max Feeney is a best-selling author on the point of killing off his character the ‘Ethical Assassin’ when the fictional character appears to argue to be spared. In the ensuing debate, hidden and unacknowledged truths are surfaced and the question of the debt owed by creator to creature is examined. Ultimately, Max succumbs to a heart attack while grappling with his creation. Has this all been the result of Feeney’s descent into madness or is illusion more real than we think? |
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| Can We Stop It There? by Trevor Suthers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play/sketch. Bare stage set (could even be done front of tabs). Contains some swearing. |
| Synopsis | A play about a director directing a play about a director directing a play about a director directing a play about... er... well, that's not important really. Can I try that again from my cue? |
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Can You See It From Here? by Geoff Bamber
Performance by Chelford Junior Players won the Best Junior Play award at Chelford Drama Festival 2013 and the adjudicator's award at the Wilmslow Guild Festival, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Whilst there is no requirement for a chorus, the lines of the variously coloured planetary life-forms could be distributed amongst a greater number of sentient beings. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Sci-Fi comedy play for kids. |
| Synopsis | A space fantasy set in a galaxy of diversely coloured planets, each of which is on the brink of declaring war on the others. When news of impending mayhem reaches the Control Centre of Inter-Galactic Security, it happens to be a weekend and suitable operatives are in short supply. Can Eric, the computer nerd, and Jenny, a secretary on her first day at work, prevent a horrifying conflict? A task, it should be said, hardly made any easier by the influence of unscrupulous dark-side cosmic villain, Lord Velkro. |
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| Can't Explain by Steve Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. A chorus of 4F, 4M is assumed. (This could be enlarged, particularly for the songs.) |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for 17 rock/pop songs are included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Musical play set in a high school (or other form of secondary education establishment). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Lou Harris is trying to cope with his Dad walking out and has buried himself in the music collection he left behind. His friends want him to get a grip, but when he does shape up, they do'nt like the person he becomes. Can he find the right balance? |
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| The Cape and the Klan by Ted Ryan and Tin Penavic |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice only and could be doubled with another (male or female) role. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are 13 points in the script, mostly at start of scenes, where music is cued. The Producer's script includes specifric suggestions for 6 of these and the rest are at the producer's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length drama based on a true historical story, with various suggested settings. |
| Synopsis | 1946. As the civil rights movement for desegregation is about to get underway, lone reporter Harry goes undercover to expose the Ku Klux Klan. He realises that changing the hearts and minds of others will take the help of a powerful, famous individual, so brings his story to an old war buddy of his, the producer of the radio show The Adventures of Superman. Ultimately, the Man of Steel brings the fight against racism and bigotry to millions of listeners. |
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