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| Family Ties by Mark Seaman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. All characters are adults, with a range of ages. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama in three acts. Single domestic set. Contains swearing, intolerance and other forms of familial behaviour. |
| Synopsis | It's Ted's sixtieth birthday and Doris has planned a family get together. Son Ian and his wife Sally only live down the road, but Paul has been living away in London, and doesn't get on with his Dad. It was always going to be tough, but Paul lets slip a devastating secret. |
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| Family Time by Helen Spencer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 35. Minimum total without doubling = 56. No chorus. The cast list can be very flexible, with doubling or additional parts. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 5 songs are included in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act comedy for children, with simple settings. |
| Synopsis | The schoolchildren are looking forward with excitement to the summer holidays, except for Marty whose mum has boring plans for the family... We join Marty on an emotional journey, as he learns a few lessons in what is really important. |
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Family Vacation by Brooklyn Fredrickson
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. The roles are a mix of adults and children, but the style would suit a school or large youth theatre company. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in a single (tropical beach) set. (US English.) |
| Synopsis | Stan has taken his family on an exotic vacation, but his daughter is heartbroken, his son is petrified of sharks, and his wife won’t stick to the itinerary. The whole family have to learn to relax, or they’ll need another vacation. |
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| Famous People of the Twentieth Century by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Five scripts, six characters per script. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A set of five mini-plays (with run times around 10 minutes) designed for 'readers theatre' (i.e. use for small group reading), though they could also be performed as plays. No set requirements. Producer's Copy includes a quiz for each play. |
| Synopsis | Five short plays looking at the lives of famous people from the 20th century, including Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and a group of famous women : Diana, Princess of Wales, Margaret Thatcher, Madame Curie, Mother Theresa, Anne Frank and Helen Keller.
The scripts are aligned to the English National Curriculum, Key Stages 1 & 2, History Syllabus Unit 20 ('What can we learn about recent history from studying the life of a famous person?'), Citizenship Unit 5 (Living in a Diverse World) plus the R.E. Unit on Famous People. |
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| A Fantastic Feat of Muscular Manipulation by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The main character is the strong and silent type! All the words are spoken by the Music Hall chairman. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch for a Music Hall. |
| Synopsis | A Victorian strongman performs a feat never before attempted on the Music Hall stage. |
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| Fantasy Games by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as two children and their mother, but this is a comedy sketch, and could be equally funny played by all adults or all kids. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short skit. Single (minimal) set, but would be best costumed. |
| Synopsis | Two teenage online gaming addicts are hassled to do their daily chores by their mother. |
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| Far Away and Long Ago by Shari Gledhill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An emotional script with well-written dialogue that allows exploration of issues such as PTSD and family relationships without becoming overly sentimental. Good, thoughtful representation of deafness. |
| Synopsis | Harry, a homeless and deaf war veteran, intervenes when he sees Val being mugged at the bus stop. Harry is injured and so Val invites him home. But the arguments between Val's family cause great stress to Harry, which is worsened when Harry meets teenage Katie's new boyfriend. |
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| A Farewell to Annie Moore by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One traditional Irish song. Two uses of a well-known nursery rhyme with original lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act play for children on a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | At the end of the 19th Century, Annie Moore and her young siblings are to emigrate from Ireland to America to join their parents. They are visited by a number of characters from Irish history and culture to wish them luck. |
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| The Farmer and the Charuba Seeds by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short contemporary fable for children. No set requirements. A few simple props. Designed to be played on its own or as part of a broader entertainment. |
| Synopsis | A farmer tries to eke out a living from the land, whilst everyone around him believes that they know better. |
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| Fashion School by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | It's the first evening of fashion school and the tutor is putting the new students through their paces. |
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