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| In the Mood by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single (café) setting. |
| Synopsis | Jeanie's little café is struggling to survive and a pending family problem could easily prove to be the last straw. Also, her apparent reluctance to tackle issues such as poor hygiene, inferior cooking, power supply malfunctions and a mischievous deaf cat isn't helping the situation. |
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| In the Opticians by Damian Trasler & David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The optician is written as male (but only because he refers to his wife), so gender reassignment could be possible. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch of the punning kind. Minimal set requirements, a few simple props. |
| Synopsis | A customer visits the opticians. Cue a string of daft eye and eyesight gags! |
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| In The Same Boat by Peter May |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch for two actors, no set necessary. |
| Synopsis | Noel is in his garden shed trying to make a rabbit hutch when he hears the voice of God. |
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| In the Secret Service by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. In addition to the principal male protagonists, there are voice-overs from two female characters - of course these could be recordings or voiced live. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. Single office set - a desk and two chairs. |
| Synopsis | A hopeful job applicant attends an interview for the Secret Service. |
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| In The White Time by Tony Frier |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 62 minutes. [Estimated!] Structurally in one act, but could be performed as a full evening's entertainment. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A Victorian historical drama, based on a true murder case |
| Synopsis | As a young teenager Mary Wheeler had witnessed her father being convicted and hanged for murder. The trauma resulted in her having intermittent blackouts which she termed her ‘White Time’. Mary invites her lover's mistress Phoebe around one afternoon, leading to her disappearance. Mary is trialled for murder, and only a mysterious letter may reveal the truth of the case. |
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| In Through The Exit by Karen Fitzsimmons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch for a youth theatre group. No set. A few props. |
| Synopsis | A clever, circular ghost story! |
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| In Transition by Simon Darlington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy with a single (triathlon transition area) setting. |
| Synopsis | Divorced Brian, an experienced triathlete, and spinster May, a first-timer, meet at the start point of the race. Both have widely different reasons for participating and neither had any thoughts of romance before the event, but their thoughts are soon dispelled as their relationship develops. |
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| In Vino Veritas by Charles Alverson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single setting, on the verandah of a large house in America. |
| Synopsis | As a group of female friends wave off the bride and groom to their honeymoon the champagne flows and loosens their tongues, as each confide secrets about themselves and their relationships with some surprising results. |
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In Whose Eyes? by George Kappaz
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Justice Peter and Abaddon are written male and Gabriella female, but casting that way is not essential. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy for the script suggests a couple of pices to be played over the opening of two of the scenes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act drama in a single, simple courtroom set. Historical images are intended to be projected during the show. The script has two endings, determined by the audience. |
| Synopsis | In a court where everything is at stake, the life and actions in the colourful career of Major Charles Derudio are challenged and defended. Are his reasons for the lives he has taken sufficient to earn forgiveness? His final destination hangs in the balance. |
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| Incident at Mulberry Road by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two of the cast are definitely children. The rest could be played by children or by adults. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Sketch. Minimal set requirements. Simple props. |
| Synopsis | The Council attempts to replace Mrs. Dugdale, the Lollipop Lady with a Traffic Regulation Operative. A duel ensues. |
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