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| Questions of French History by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 58. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A series of comic, educational sketches with no set necessary. Adaptable for presentation as a whole or as a pick and mix, for use as an assembly piece or a classroom aid. A large number of roles but performable by just a handful of actors. |
| Synopsis | A series of sketches touching light-heartedly on several episodes of French history, from the Stone Age to the Common Market, providing elementary oral French and a bit of fun with history. |
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| The Quickness of the Hand by Jim Hollingsworth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy loosely adapted from a short story by Saki (H. H. Munro). |
| Synopsis | Sarah is celebrating her fortieth birthday with husband Adrian and some friends. A relative not seen for years shows up, and they're not sure whether it's Sarah's kleptomaniac cousin Frank or Adrian's Frankfurter cousin Frank. And then a box with two gold rings goes missing. |
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| The Quintessential Quintet by Frances Bartram |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are five adventurous children, probably to be played by adults. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Parody in the style of Enid Blyton. |
| Synopsis | Four children (two boys, one girl, one tomboy) and their dog are out in the countryside for a picnic. They encounter some odd flashes of light that could be smugglers signalling, and an odd sort of boy who may be a new chum or someone more sinister. |
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| Quite a Buzz! by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. An unusual cast of characters! |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play, minimal set requirements (a chair), simple props. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Blue has got herself stuck, but Mr S is not helping her - in fact, he's tied her up. Two more fall victim to Mr S's trap, before we meet his lady-friend and find out what - or who - is really for dinner. |
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| Quizzers by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length farce in a single (study) set. |
| Synopsis | Just when Keith Smedley is looking forward to the pub quiz that he lives for, the arrival of daughter Alison’s boyfriend’s mother, Stella, throws him off his stride. Keith and Stella have a historical ‘connection’ Keith would rather gloss over, particularly when wife Lorna is around. Throw in womanising best friend Ross, highly-strung interior designer Binny, ex-con Rat and a misconception that Keith has arranged a contract killing and the quiz evening looks unlikely to go to plan. |
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Quota by James Hutchison
Audience Appreciation Award, 2017 British Theatre Challenge Act II, Produced by Sky Blue Theatre Company. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act satire on a simple living room set. |
| Synopsis | Dave Dixon is looking for a job online when he is interrupted by the Metro City Census Taker and finds himself being targeted for corrective action because of his unemployment and the fact that he’s left-handed. When a two-kilo bag of white sugar is found on the premises and Dixon faces jail time, he has to make a moral choice between naming names and protecting himself. |
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| R.S.V.P. by Stephen Condor |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. One male role is walk-on and non-speaking. |
| Run Time | Around 99 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One song is suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Additional background music is at the director's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length comedy with a single (garden) setting. Some strong language and adult themes. |
| Synopsis | At a neighbourhood garden party held to bring everyone together, to which the audience are cordially invited, each neighbour has their own story to tell or eccentricity to reveal. One uninvited guest threatens to disrupt the harmony for good, but the partygoers discover that a problem shared is a problem halved. |
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| Rabbie Burns' Night by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Whilst the characters are nominally gendered, this need not be taken too seriously. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A children's introduction to the celebration of the Scottish bard. No set or props required, but the odd display of tartan wouldn't go amiss. |
| Synopsis | It's Burns' Night, and some very special characters have gathered to tell us a little more about Scotland's most famous wordsmith. Mrs Haggis, Mr Whisky, Mr Bagpipes and Mrs Mousie, helped out by the Misses Neep and Tattie. |
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| Rabbits Are No Substitute For Men by Charlotte Court |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy for three thirty-something single women with one living room setting. There are adult themes but these are less raunchy than the title might suggest! |
| Synopsis | Housemates Jennifer, Jane and Gaby all have their own way of dealing with the death of Jane's pet rabbit, the vagaries of Jennifer's on- off relationship with Danny and Gaby's pregnancy. |
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| Race to the Bottom by Graham Dillistone |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Cast largely adults, but also a couple of students in their late teens. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act farce with set in a school headmaster's office. |
| Synopsis | Schools are always tense when the Ofsted inspectors are in, but this time the Principal has even more to worry about - his own son is trying to convince teachers to take part in his fund raising scheme involving photocopied bottoms. |
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