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When the Cherry Blossoms Bloom by Steven A. Shapiro |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama set around a park bench. |
Synopsis | Unfit Morty meets athletic Sandy when he has a coronary while out for a run. Over a series of encounters at the same park bench, the two bond and eventually share their secrets. |
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When The Hurly-Burly's Done by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Male cameo - offstage voice - could be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act comedic play, with a 'blasted heath' setting. |
Synopsis | Three very familiar hags are gathered around a cauldron on a blasted heath, but a certain Thane is running late. The ladies discuss their options and possible plans, before finally getting down to the business of the night. |
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When We Were Young by Allan Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama (with minimum staging requirements) set in World War One. |
Synopsis | Six monologues from three different characters, set during the First World War. Two soldiers who were childhood friends, recound their wartime experiences, as does a nurse who meets one of the men when he becomes one of the many casualties of the Great War |
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When You Wish Upon a Star... Fish by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Most of the characters are sea creatures. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Simple play for young children. Partly in verse, and with song suggestions. |
Synopsis | A little girl finds a starfish and is transported to the sea bed, where she meets many wondrous creatures who speak to her in rhyme about their life underwater. |
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Where Babies Come From by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are played by people older than the stated age. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch |
Synopsis | Two children, seven and seven and three quarters, discuss the big mystery of where babies come from. |
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Where Have You Been? by Steve Menary |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are a mother and son, but it is intended as a youth theatre piece. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch for youth theatre. A few simple props to indicate location. Also available as part of the Fright Size collection. |
Synopsis | On the surface, this is a routine conversation between a mother and her teenage son after a night out... But appearances can be deceptive. |
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Where Is The Moon by Charles Eades |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | School play based on a folk tale. |
Synopsis | The people who live near the marsh have no problems when the moon lights their way through the bog at night, but when the bad things - witches, boggles, boggarts and Qicks - take the moon prisoner and hold her in a pond, the villagers must turn to the Tiddy Mun for help. |
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Where the Brass Bands Play by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Detective Sergeant Cross is written female, but could be male with minor adjustments to the text. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length farce. Single interior set (with inevitable French window and sundry places to hide). Warning - contains entendres, some of them twice. |
Synopsis | Simeon Gandalf, one-time thespian, now theatrical agent, settles into Mrs Esme Golightly's Seaview Guest House, keen to develop the career of his young protégée, Louise Laverne. Despite Simeon's allegedly innocent intentions towards Louise, the last things he needs are the arrivals in quick succession of his long-estranged fifth wife, seeking a divorce and his long-term mistress, keen to be made into an honest woman. It's just as well that Simeon's solicitor is on hand to dig him out of the hole he is digging for himself. Also present, but wishing they weren't, are a hapless burglar and a member of the local constabulary. Will Mrs Golightly's no hanky-panky policy hold up and is there really a contract killer on Simeon's trail? |
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Where There's A Will... by Alan Tibbles |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length thriller in a single domestic set. |
Synopsis | Set in the 1950s English countryside this thriller starts with the Nesbitts and their spouses being called together unexpectedly by their widowed step mother Violet. They gather in the peaceful country home of wealthy Esmerelda Barton for whom Violet has been acting as companion. Old enmities and rivalries emerge and secrets are exposed. All is definitely not as it seems and death is in the air. All is eventually revealed in this cleverly-constructed thriller. |
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Where There's Blame by John Chambers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, minimal set requirements, simple props, three strong characters and an involving story. Contains strong language and adult themes. |
Synopsis | Lennie is fronting an accident claim company to raise money for his property speculating in Spain, Tina's waiting for Kevin to bring her some money for the week's shopping, but he's got caught up with Lennie's pie in the sky. |
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