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| Some People Like To Gossip by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Mabel and Ada do like to drink tea, eat cakes and exercise their vocal cords. |
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| Someday I'll Find You by Charles Alverson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Main two characters in late middle age |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy set in the office or waiting room of a retirement village in America. |
| Synopsis | Jack and Helen meet by chance at a retirement village some forty years after he abandoned her for her best friend. They discuss what has happened to them in the intervening forty years and whilst nothing is resolved, who knows what their future will be? |
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| Something for the Weekend by Jim Pinnock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single-set one-act comedy set in the 1960s in a hairdressing salon. |
| Synopsis | Charlie is desperately trying to breathe new life into his ailing hairdressing business. Much to the disgust of his stylists, Sharon and Maggie his solution is to use the vacant store room as a massage parlour. All goes well until an unfortunate incident brings the police to his door. |
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** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'Something for the Weekend' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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| Something of a Stir by Joseph A. Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy, single domestic set. |
| Synopsis | Dora is expecting her friend Paula for a cup of tea and a chat, but Paula brings Maisie Day, a card reader who Dora is convinced is a charlatan. Can Dora pull off a little tea leaf trickery of her own to put Maisie in her place? |
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| Something Off The Menu by Rupert Haigh |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Off-beat ten-minute comedy play. Cafe setting (little more than a table and chair). |
| Synopsis | The customer is always right, but this one isn't quite sure what he wants. The waitress has plenty to offer, but he's only interested in things that aren't on the menu. After a side trip to the cafe storeroom, he reveals his true identity, but the Waitress is a match for him. |
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| Something Old by Shari Gledhill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy with a good mix of humour and drama, with effective twists. Easy to stage, with one setting and a few standard items of furniture. |
| Synopsis | On the morning of her wedding day, Amy wakes up in a dark and dingy cellar. She's been kidnapped by Jack, who admired Amy at school and is determined to make up for his past failure to connect with her. |
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| Something That's Mine by Alexis Coward |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two characters are voice-only and gender non-specific - these roles can be doubled with two of the main characters. |
| Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act dark comedy on two sets. |
| Synopsis | Two couples seek couples therapy. But what are they hiding from each other? |
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| Something To Talk About by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch set around a coffee shop table. |
| Synopsis | When three middle-aged friends meet up for coffee and a natter, the confessions and revelations come thick and fast. They soon find, to amusement all around, that they have more in common than they realised. |
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| Something to Talk About - The Play by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 73 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in four scenes with various settings. An extension of the sketch of the same name. |
| Synopsis | Friends Grace, Alice and Doreen become increasingly amorously linked to each other’s partners. The settings move between England and Spain as their tangled relationships move forward and their infidelities become more surprising, leading to an eventful conclusion. |
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| The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Debbie Chalmers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 9 songs are included with the Producer's copy. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A two act musical play, of a one act length, suitable for children to perform - with various settings. |
| Synopsis | The evil Sorcerer works his magic to steal the villagers' crops. Hero Jim becomes the sorcerer's apprentice - to learn his magic spells and save the village. The Raven becomes his ally, and between them they save the day. |
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