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| Sing by Tim O'Brien |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 50. Chorus. Very flexible cast numbers, with just a couple of central characters, and the rest of the ensemble appearing (amongst other things) as various musical groups and an on-stage choir. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy includes piano and vocal scores for 9 original songs (one of which is reprised). |
| Style | One-act musical. Single set (intended to be performed with a backdrop and simple props). |
| Synopsis | How could a musical take place inside a car? Well, it could if the passenger was on her way to a talent show audition - especially if the driver, her father, was attempting to give her advice. Sparks start flying, mostly between the father and daughter to the accompaniment of songs in a wide variety of styles - blues, rock, opera and country all fuse into one sizzling audition that... well, you be the judge. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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| Sing A Song Of Sixpence by Jilly McNeil |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for eleven songs, two musical intermission pieces and one dance routine. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A lively full length pantomime, based on the nursery rhyme of the same name. Plenty of slapstick and audience participation. |
| Synopsis | The evil Raven King and Queen are determined to remove all the happiness from the land and hypnotise the blackbirds to help them. Fortunately the Queen of Doves is able to recruit Dame Delightful and her friends to thwart the evil plan. |
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A Single Moment by Tony Domaille
Runner up UK Community Drama Festivals Federation Geoffrey Whitworth competition for Best Original Script, 2015 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play with a single (Betting Shop) setting. Part I of the author's 'Changes' trilogy. |
| Synopsis | Danny's gambling has finally brought him to rock bottom. He has lost everything and now finds himself in the bookmaker’s shop learning lessons from a bag lady and a bookmaker. Whilst salvation is offered from surprising sources, it is a single moment that saves him when his most unlikely bet is won because on 5th June 2009 snow fell across parts of the UK. |
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Singled Out by Geoff Rose-Michael
Nominated for New Writing Award and Set Design Award, and winner of Best Actress Award (Jo) at Leatherhead Drama Festival 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. There are two principal characters, one non-speaking (and largely immobile) character and an opening voice-over (which could be recorded, omitted or consigned to programme notes!) |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act thriller with a single (meeting room) setting. |
| Synopsis | When SODA, the Singles Online Dating Agency, arranges a social night for some of its members, the first two girls to arrive soon discover they have both previously suffered a similar disturbing experience, and that they have been lured there by person or persons unknown, and then locked in. |
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| Singulatitis by Troy Shearer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Dr. Swanson is written male but could be reassigned! |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute surreal comedy sketch, set in a doctor's surgery. |
| Synopsis | A man with extreme hiccups receives a strange and fateful diagnosis from his doctor. |
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| The Sinister Mrs Eaves by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play, single set (Sherlock Holmes' study). |
| Synopsis | Holmes and Watson tackle the bizarre case of the Sinister Mrs Eaves and twenty-one-and-a-half Harper Street without leaving their comfortable rooms at 221b Baker Street. A fine Holmes mystery with more than a touch of humour. |
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Sinister Synaster by Jilly McNeil
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 87 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy which draws a lot of humour from farcical confusion. Single set. |
| Synopsis | The Synaster siblings are trying to bump off their elder brother, Aloysius, so they can be free of their crumbling old house. Two stranded women stop by the house and one is accidentally murdered, though she doesn't realise it. Then ghost hunter Charles turns up looking for the mysterious Lady in Blue, but struggles to tell who is a ghost and who isn't. |
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| The Sisters Grimm by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A sketch for young teenagers, with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | The four witches Hubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble try to agree on the best way of dealing with Twitter trolls who are giving witches a bad name. Unfortunately there is little agreement... |
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| Sitting Pretty by Paul Bovino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. A couple and their recently-married daughter. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Drama (with elements of romantic comedy). One act in length, two acts in structure. Single New York apartment set. Contains swearing (and marriage). |
| Synopsis | A crisis for their newly-married daughter causes a couple to rediscover themselves. |
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| A Sixpenny War by Allan Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama set during World War Two in the staff restroom of a Woolworths store in London. |
| Synopsis | The horror of war (and the specific horros of the Second World War), seen through the eyes of a group of girls working at Woolworths each one of whom is personally affected, is dramatically evoked using contemporary political speeches as a background for the girls' experiences. |
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