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There's More to Love than Dog Meets Bitch by Rupert Haigh
Shortlisted in the pint sized plays competition, 2014. |
| 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 | A satirical comedy sketch with a single (bar) setting. |
| Synopsis | Two laddish dogs, Rex and Fido, are enjoying a pint or two in their local, when their boy's night out is interrupted by the glamorous and mysterious Paula. Her feminine guiles have a surprising effect on the lads' relationship - with unexpected results. |
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| There's No Place Like Home by Peter Harrison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters and an off-stage female voice (which could be recorded, but, in our view, would be better performed live). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy in a single domestic setting. |
| Synopsis | When elderly Howard claims his dead wife Nancy has been talking to him, his daughter and her partner think he is suffering dementia and plan to move him into a home. But there's a surprise in store when he demonstrates how he contacts Nancy. |
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| There's No Place Like Rome by Mark Jack |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Characters include everything from emperors to plebeians (and a camel). |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] Experiential run time (first production) 1 hours 40 minutes. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 12 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime, set in Rome (and occasionally in Egypt). |
| Synopsis | The Emperor Nauseous is poisoned by his wicked son Bilious, but blame falls on Alexander, the visiting son of Cleopatra. Can the recovered Nauseous and his friends prevent Bilious conquering Egypt? |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| There's One in Every Show by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One of the characters is a young boy, the rest are adults (mainly over-the-top thespians). |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy, set around a struggling (American) theatre company. Contains very minor swearing. |
| Synopsis | For years Sheldon has held together his troupe of actors with the promise of a show, but now his accountant has signed up a producer, who's found a backer and they're going to have to perform at last. But the script is bad - worse than the actors themselves - and they have the Sponsor's idiot son involved too... |
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There's Something about Bernard by Richard James
Performance by Dunvegan Players won the Philip Rose Bowl, Scottish One Act Play Festival, Skye Division, 2010 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single (simple, domestic) set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Bernard's wife, best friend and daughter are gathered to surprise him with a party on his birthday, but it's his ex-wife who walks in first. Some hard truths are exchanged, and in the end, it's Bernard who surprises them all. |
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| There's Something Under the Bed by Andy Johnson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for kids - designed for a whole school class. Single bedroom set. |
| Synopsis | A child who fears going to bed visits the word of dreams, and helps save the dream factory from being sabotaged by the Bad Dream Gang. |
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| Thesaurians by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 1 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very short comedy sketch of words set in an office. |
| Synopsis | An interviewer attempts to conduct an interview with a candidate who appears to have swallowed a Thesaurus. |
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These Are The Days by Shari Gledhill
TOPs (The Oldland Players) won 1st place at the Bristol One Act Drama Festival 2024 for their production of 'These Are The Days'. The group also won awards for Best Actress, Best Director, Best Lighting and the Audience Award. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act dramatic duologue with no set required. |
| Synopsis | Married couple Matt and Vicki re-live their relationship from its unlikely beginnings to its poignantly tragic end. |
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| Theseus - The Journey To Athens by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 17. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Additional chorus members could be included. |
| Run Time | Around 72 minutes. [Estimated!] This allows for including the song |
| Music | One song with score provided with the Producer's copy of the script |
| Style | A one act play for a class-sized cast, with an optional finishing song. |
| Synopsis | A fun presentation of an early episode in the life of a hero, Theseus.
It could be used as the first part of a double bill with 'Theseus - The Maze and the Minotaur'. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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| Theseus - The Maze and the Minotaur by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 19. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 33. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The scores for one optional song and one musical piece are included with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | A full length play for schools or youth theatre. |
| Synopsis | After only a couple of months in Athens, Theseus discovers that children are being sent in tribute to King Minos of Crete, and fed to his monstrous Minotaur. Joining the children, Theseus is determined to destroy the beast and end the tribute.
This is the second half of the Theseus legend, and so might form a double bill with 'Theseus - The Journey To Athens' |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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