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| Looking for Nancy by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A tight, efficient dramatic (somewhat melodramatic) sketch set on a ferry (indicated by a ship's rail and a bench). |
| Synopsis | Edith is heading to the mainland with her daughter, Nancy, to do some shopping, but the little girl hasn’t been seen anywhere on the ferry. |
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| Looking for the Rainbow by Philip Bird (music Isabelle Michalakis) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. More children can be added at the producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] Dance music, which is not provided, is at the Producer's discretion. |
| Music | Full scores for the 3 songs are included with the Producer's copy of the script. Dance music, not provided, is at the Producer's discretion. |
| Style | A play with music and dance for children, set on an open stage. |
| Synopsis | A fantastical adventure in which two groups of children living on opposite sides of the mountain manage, despite their differing cultures, to join together to find their rainbow. |
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| Looks Like Rain by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. The animals are puppets of unspecified kind and unspecified number (therefore requiring an unspecified number (chorus) of puppeteers. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light-hearted re-telling of the Noah's Ark story, in about 20 minutes, freely adapted for young performers. |
| Synopsis | Noah's family are shocked when the weather forecaster announces the imminent arrival of something called 'rain'. A visit from the Archangel Michael clears things up for Noah, but leaves him with the task of building an Ark - and convincing the animals to come onboard. |
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| Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Charlie Cook adapted from Oscar Wilde |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length period comedy adapted from the short story by Oscar Wilde. Single drawing-room set and plenty of Wildean wit. |
| Synopsis | Lord Arthur gets himself in a tangle, postponing his wedding to Sybil so as to concentrate on his plot to murder his rich aunt from whom he is to inherit the family fortune. Unfortunately, his aunt dies a natural death, and Lord Arthur must again postpone his wedding, not least so that he can retrieve the poison capsule he had intended for his aunt. His inept murderous career continues with yet another wedding postponement for his ultimately and inevitably failed attempt to construct an exploding carriage clock to get rid of the Dean of Chichester. Of course, there's a happy ending, but which would you prefer - a murder, or a wedding? |
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| Lord Byron: Mad, Bad, And Dangerous To Know by Jim and Bronwyn Jameson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 91 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length historical drama with multiple sets adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Set in the early 19th century, this is the gripping story of Lord Byron’s turbulent life and loves, told largely from the female perspective, and including Byron - in vivid language. |
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| Lord of the Mince Pies by Ashley Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. The pupils of St Hippocampus' School are written male, but really could be any combination. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Three Christmas Carols are suggested during the course of the show. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Comedy melodrama for kids - with a gruesome flavour! Alternates between full-stage sets and front-of-curtain scenes. Simple props. |
| Synopsis | An outbreak of Tebbit's Disease (which turns teachers insane and mean) coincides with a heavy fall of snow, cutting off St Hippocampus' school (from the village of Chipping King Edwards). The teachers' nerves are at breaking point, supplies are low and now the roads are cut off by snow! What will the teachers do for food?
(If you need a clue, it is likely that the teachers are familiar with Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal'...) |
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| Lorelei by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Lorelei has a playing age of around 23. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A dramatic monologue for a young woman, Single set (three pieces of furniture) and a few props. |
| Synopsis | Lorelei's story is a sad one, of a life gone wrong and a struggle to cope with a new identity and the loss of the past. |
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| Losing Count by Alan Hargreaves |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Eleven on-stage characters plus a brief offstage voice, which might be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play in a single set. A balance of fun farcical comedy and satisfying character development. |
| Synopsis | Oli is the producer at a low-budget TV station attempting an ambitious live election night broadcast. But the show starts to go downhill when the guests don't show up, the host gets drunk, and a reporter picks a fight with a lager-lout. With so much happening, it can only be sabotage. |
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| Losing Purpose by Jim Pinnock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Ten speaking parts, two non-speaking (who could double with other roles). |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short light comedy in a single set. |
| Synopsis | Having abandoned his car, a man is desperate to find someone who can direct him through the tortuous one way system and back on the road to London. Everyone is willing to stop and talk, but no one has the help he needs. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'Losing Purpose' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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| The Loss of Atlantis 2 by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Sketch, minimal set, a few simple props. |
| Synopsis | Subtitled 'An Atlantean at the Court of King Hotcotapetappl'. Three survivors from the deluge compare strategies for introducing Atlantean civilization to the savage land on which they have been washed up. The sequel to the 'Loss of Atlantis' (though it also works as an independent play.) |
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