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| Welcome Home by Roger Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act drama, with a single setting and some strong language. |
| Synopsis | Jimmy is finally out of prison, having served twenty years for murdering his wife's lover. He returns to his old house to face his son, where he expects and receives a hostile reception. |
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Welcome to Paradise Road by Brian Coyle
Best Script in Festival - Page to Stage Theatre Festival, Liverpool (2016) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A satirical thriller with a set alternating between an office and a living room. |
| Synopsis | In a society where nothing is private and no one knows who to trust, a woman’s partner has disappeared. She is visiting her neighbour, head of the local Neighbourhood Watch, to find out if she’s heard anything about his disappearance. Will her neighbour help her or is this the person she should be most afraid of? |
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| A Well Organised Rehearsal by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent. |
| Synopsis | The first rehearsal can sometimes be a nervous moment for a new cast... |
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| Well Well Well by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. The chorus - additional peasants - is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for six original songs (Lyrics by Bill Tordoff, Music by Adrian Watts & Jonny Ardern) is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | One act musical play for kids. A pantomime setting, with panto characters, though not strictly a pantomime in terms of its original plot! |
| Synopsis | The down-trodden Pantoville peasants earn meagre wages singing happy choruses and smiling for tourists. When Councillor Purslove makes them redundant they're desperate for work and are grateful to Dick Whittington for using them in his TV commercials. But when he plans to privatise their well and employ them at starvation wages they take matters into their own hands. |
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| Well-Read by Keith Badham |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play, set in the reference section of a library. |
| Synopsis | Bethany is in the library and trying to study, but Jason seems determined to engage her in conversation. Worse still, she's studying Shakespeare, to Jason's disgust. |
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| Westerfield at War by Marcus Grollman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions are made within the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A serious school play - but with a good deal of humour - set in World War 2. Mixture of full-stage sets and front-of-curtain scenes (allowing for set changes). |
| Synopsis | A series of modern-day reminiscences of the Second World War, played out through scenes of school, village and military life in war-time. |
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| What A Performance! by Trevor Suthers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play set in a theatre (stage and dressing room). Some adult language. |
| Synopsis | A small group of actors are in a small provincial theatre as their performance ends - the action follows them to the (shared) dressing room. Petty jealousies give way to their assessments of what acting and theatre are all about. |
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| What a Tangled Web We Weave by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short rhyming comedy play (with a moral) for children. Single (Town Square) setting. |
| Synopsis | Once upon a nursery crime - the cautionary tale of Incey Wincey Spider who enjoyed scaring people, until the day the tables were turned...
(The nursery rhyme character Incey Wincey Spider is, in the USA, called Itsy Bitsy Spider. The logic of this defeats the best minds.) |
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| What A Way To Go! by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A sketch for two men, with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Two men are lost while orienteering. It turns out the one with the map is not quite as experience as he claimed, and it might be a long walk home... If they can find it. |
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| What Are The Odds? by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | A couple meet on a blind date when it seems they should have met before. |
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