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Tilapia by Rosemary Frisino Toohey
Tilapia was named Finalist in the Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Competition in 2009. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are middle-aged or above. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play. Single dinner table set (only needs to be indicative). |
| Synopsis | An elegant couple discuss their meal, the recent past and some very peculiar events that took place during an abortive dinner party that very evening.
What the protagonists don't understand soon becomes clear to the audience! |
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Time and Chance by Audrey Lee
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act play built from three monologues. Strongly developed characters, emotion and humour, and a strong payoff.. Set in the mid 20th century. Requires only furniture. (Oh, all right. And actors.) |
| Synopsis | Miss Bradford is the supervisor of a secretarial typing pool who has devoted her life to her career and avoided any personal connections. Mr Fish is the head of mailing who fancies himself and Miss Bradford spending their retirement together. And Tracey Spencer is a young woman applying for a job, who gets caught in the middle of the two. |
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** Zip file containing Intro and play-out music written for the original production of Audrey Lee's 'Time and Chance'.
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A Time for Farewells by Damian Trasler
Winner of the Author's Award, RAFTA One-Act Play Festival, 2003 & (amongst other things) the Buckhaven Trophy [Best Moment of Theatre] SCDA festival 2008. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Serious, touching play. One act, one simple set. [Includes mild swearing] |
| Synopsis | As they dress for a social event that will mark the end of their married life together, Sarah and Alex review their relationship to find out what brought them to this point. |
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| Time Telescope by Kitty Harper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two pairs of roles are written to be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A 1990s pop track is required as opening music. The producer's copy of the script gives a suggestion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short drama with a single (classroom) setting. |
| Synopsis | Opposed to one another in their youth, Amy and Brian reminisce at their High School reunion and, in a time-slip sequence, relive a painful memory from the night of the leavers’ ball as they reflect on how their lives have turned out. |
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| Time To Go by Charles Dennison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play set in the lounge of a (nursing) care home. A good review of lives lived by those about to leave them.
Written in British English - a slang word for a cigarette might surprise readers and audiences from elsewhere. |
| Synopsis | Alf, Elsie and William are three friends in a retirement home. They swap stories of their lives, until one by one they slip away. Elsie is the last to go, missing her friends and sharing her memories with Mel, their care worker. |
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| Time to Leave by Jackie Fitton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, intended to be played by kids (but could be done by a mixture of adults and children). |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of suggested songs is included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Play (with suggested songs) for kids. (Roughly half speech and half songs.) |
| Synopsis | A play for kids charting the passage of time through the music of different generations in different decades. |
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| Time To Move by Iris Winston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters are written as ninth graders (14- to 15-year-olds), but could be played at other ages. There is an option for an on-stage band, and possibly other extras. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for school kids. |
| Synopsis | It's the night of the big school dance, but Kim has something besides getting the gym ready on her mind. She's just found out she might be moving, and is scared to leave all her friends behind. A one act that examines the pros and cons of moving while young. |
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Time Travel Agent by Tony Domaille
Best Seller Winner 2018 international Pint Size Plays script writing competition |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with a single (travel agent shop) setting. |
| Synopsis | Brian would like to book a time travel holiday, but can't decide where and when to go. Meanwhile, Mr Jennings arrives back from his holiday with complaints. |
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| Time Will Tell by Jamie Hope |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two human characters and a dog. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch set at a service counter (which is the only essential set). |
| Synopsis | Mrs Striker has a problem with her alarm clock. However, after taking it to the receiving office for domestic emergencies, she soon has a problem with Mrs Whacker, who keeps offering solutions to problems she doesn't have. |
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| The Tin Cup by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. Whilst this was written for 27 players, it could - with a lot of doubling - be performed by a much smaller company. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Minimal staging requirements. |
| Synopsis | When the museum takes delivery of an antique silver cup with a royal pedigree but little else in its favour, there is no one to look after it for the weekend ahead of a visit from the Queen. A student, keen to secure a permanent job, undertakes the role of keeping the cup safe. Nothing can go wrong. Famous last words. |
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