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| Gino of the Lamp by Paul Bovino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two on-stage characters plus an offstage voice (which could be recorded). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Single New York apartment set Contains swearing (and fantasy). |
| Synopsis | Betsy is trying to get used to her lousy apartment after finally breaking up with Eddie after thirteen years. When she absently rubs an old lamp, Gino emerges and offers her a single wish. Out of the whole, what is it that Betsy will wish for? |
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| A Girl Next Door by Rupert Dick |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very funny full-length farce set in three apartments in the same block. (So a single set, redressed for each scene.) |
| Synopsis | Tom's trying to have a quiet morning, but his new neighbour on one side brings his marital suspicions, while the woman on the other side brings her mother and fake boyfriend, all followed by Tom's estranged wife and property damage. |
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| The Girls Are Back in Town by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 53 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One public domain song is suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act drama set in both the present day and WW1. Seven different settings, though all can be portrayed with minimal furniture. |
| Synopsis | Four iconic suffragettes are mysteriously transported to modern-day London to finish what they started. 100 years earlier, as Alan learns the horrors of life on the Western Front, his girlfriend Beatrice carries out important work for the suffragettes. |
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| The Girls of Autumn by Paul Barile |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 53 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy, structurally in two acts but of one-act length, on a split (park bench/jewellery store) set. US English. |
| Synopsis | The legendary Summer Set - an all-woman jewel-thief circle from the 1970s - has retired to a quiet life. In their early sixties, they seem content, until the elusive Autumn Diamond makes it way to their little patch of the earth. Enter a mysterious visitor and an old friend-turned-nemesis, and the race is on to steal the diamond and go out in style. |
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Girls' Night by Louise Roche
Best Seller 2009 Off-Broadway production extended after sell-out of initial 8-week run. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Five women with playing ages between 17 and 40. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] (including 14 songs) |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for all the songs (12 songs plus two reprises) to be sung by the characters as part of there karaoke night out. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Set largely in and around a karaoke night club, with occasional rapid flashbacks (implying figurative sets rather than realistic locations). Simple props, give or take the moped. |
| Synopsis | Sharon's daughter, Candi-Rose is getting married, and Sharon has joined her friends on a celebration night out. And the fact that Sharon has been dead for twenty years isn't going to spoil her enjoyment one little bit! Her friends laugh, cry, fight and sing in this joyous evocation of a group out to enjoy life, despite its trials and complications. |
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| Girls' Talk by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of six comedy sketches, each with a cast of two women. |
| Synopsis | Sketches tackling the difficulties of office life, men, gossiping and more men.
(Each of the sketches is available individually.) |
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| Give Her One From Me by Croft & Barnett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An adult comedy sketch with a single, pharmacy counter, setting. |
| Synopsis | Thomas has come to Jeremy's pharmacy to buy condoms. In his 'nudge, nudge, wink, wink' way Jeremy sufficiently embarrasses Thomas - to lead him to reveal what he is planning to use the condoms for. |
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| Give Me the Money by Stephen Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are an 18-year-old and a much older lady, but that's playing age, and there's plenty of scope for the wardrobe and make-up departments to accommodate actors of other ages. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun, punchy sketch. Easy to stage and could fit well into variety evenings. |
| Synopsis | A youth attempts to rob a post office, but the elderly postmistress turns the tables on him. |
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Give Us A Sign by Tony Domaille
Best Seller NODA South West Best Comedy nomination 2022. Octopus, Thornbury. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One (gender non-specific) character is voice-only and could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 107 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy on a single (dining room) set. |
| Synopsis | Ken is out of work and decides he will become a clairvoyant to make money. How hard could it be? What he doesn’t reckon on is MI5, the Russians and the Americans all wanting to use his skills to contact a dead scientist who has secrets they all need. |
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| A Gladiator In The House by John Waterhouse |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy (reminiscent of a Restoration Comedy) with various settings in Ancient Rome designed to be created simply (even in the round). |
| Synopsis | Ancient Rome is brought to life as the love affair between escaped gladiator, Marcus, and Livia, daughter of high ranking citizen Gallus, develops despite the efforts of gladiator owner Proculus and the lecherous banker Carus. |
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