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| Sixty-Love by Mike Rowbottom |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (tennis club veranda) setting. |
| Synopsis | Middle-aged widow Felicity, who pretends she's ten years younger, is having a sizzling relationship with Alan, who is 25 years her junior. They are observed by Deborah and Jennifer, two older women, who eventually discover suppressed feelings in themselves. |
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| Size Zero by Dave Payne |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama with a single (kitchen) setting. |
| Synopsis | Gill struggles to deal with her daughter's anorexia. She tries every trick in the book to persuade, cajole, beg and guilt-trip Claire into eating, but when Claire refuses, a tortured Gill snaps. |
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| The Skateboard by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy/drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
| Synopsis | Two elderly ladies react to a skateboarder in the vicinity of their park bench. |
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| Skeggy '62 by Anne Graham |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy, with a single (seaside café) setting. |
| Synopsis | It is the summer of 1962, just before The Beatles sack drummer Pete Best and replace him with Ringo Starr. Young Jane is about to leave for London when she encounters Liverpool girl Abbie - who has been courting Ringo Starr, but has decided that Pete Best has better prospects. Abbie points out the dangers of leaving home, as well as persuading café owner Charlie to give Jane a job. |
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| The Skeleton in the Cupboard by Martin Ward |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 112 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length thriller, set in the lounge of a seaside guesthouse in 1958. |
| Synopsis | Sussex, 1958. The Seaview Guesthouse has seen better days and owner Charles is worried the business is over, until a surprise visit from Hollywood star Joseph Fleming. But when another guest goes missing, police descend on the guesthouse and suspicion falls on Fleming. |
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| Skindeep Safari by David Lovesy & Brian Two |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch |
| Synopsis | Two tourists at the Safari park run into trouble and are helped by the park ranger |
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Skinny Cap to Go by Richard James
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch. Set in a coffee shop, but since there are no real set requirements, it could be done front-of-curtain to cover a set change in a sketch show. |
| Synopsis | A customer at a coffee shop just wants a coffee and a ham sandwich, but the barista has a few questions. Oh, and then a few more questions. |
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| Skitskrieg by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 51. Chorus. Whilst the minimum cast 'as written' is 5 male and 4 female, the humour would be suitable for actors playing across gender, so, in theory, most of it could be done by a cast of 4, with just The Land Army sketch requiring 5M, 2F. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] Period songs could be added to extend the run time. |
| Music | The script contains the lyrics to one song (to the tune of 12 days of Christmas) and suggestions for other songs which might be appropriate for the show. (Note that additional songs will add to the run-time.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Collection of sketches. Minimal requirements for set and props. |
| Synopsis | Fifteen sketches with Second World War themes (although with a very modern perspective, including, amongst other things, pastiches of TV shows). Topics include rationing, air-raids, code breaking and various perspectives on the trials of military life. |
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| Sleep Out by Jonathan Edgington (Song: Mark Laurent) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of adults plus four teenagers. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music (vocal line plus guitar chords) for 'Hope' by Mark Laurent is included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | One-act play (in length, though it's structured in two acts). Includes a modicum of swearing and adult themes. (And a song. And some comedy.) |
| Synopsis | A cross section of the population come together for a charity sleep out in aid of the homeless. Six months later, life has changed for quite a few of them.
Threads of life woven around a common focal point. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Guitar and Vocal recording by Mark Laurent of his song 'Hope' which is sung in Jonathan Edgington's play 'Sleep-Out'
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| Sleeping Beauty by Jon Dwyer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy by Female. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Production notes list recommended songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime. Slapstick, magic, petulance, puns, parody and visual gags (including the first stage appearance of the pantomime hamster) |
| Synopsis | The birthday of petulant Princess Briar Rose is sabotaged by Carbolic, the evil ogre and the princess falls into an impenetrable sleep. To the rescue comes the hero, with the aid of fairies and Fixit the Jester. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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