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| Tainted Love by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Thirteen song suggestions, to be played between scenes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | An irreverent full-length comedy for adults with a single (living room) setting. Potentially offensive language. |
| Synopsis | Julie has invited her friends Vanessa, Sheila, and Carol over to her house, on the pretence of showing off her recently installed gazebo. Unbeknownst to her friends, Julie has something far more tantalising to share with them. |
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| Take a Hike by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with no set required. |
| Synopsis | Sarah is fed up with everyday routine and wants to make a few changes to her life. Sarah’s husband Richard thinks she is having a mid-life crisis and humours her ever-changing moods. When Sarah suggests an outdoor picnic, Richard is only too happy to oblige. |
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| Take a Seat by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute light comedy monologue with poignant moments. |
| Synopsis | Freda loves her favourite bench in the park, where she can watch the world go by. But nothing has prepared her for the sudden appearance of a runaway bride. What advice if any can Freda give, especially when a desperate young man appears on the scene? |
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| Take Me To Your Leader by Caroline Spencer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch, set in a school headteacher's office.
Part of the Aliens collection of short plays for youth people. |
| Synopsis | Mr Golightly has a strict rule for his school - there is no such thing as an Alien Being. Is his insistence on enforcing this rule a device to hide his own identity? |
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| Take Three Girls by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters are six teenagers plus one adult (assumed to be all played by teenage actors) |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Studio theatre piece - multiple scenes, but little set required. Set in the present day. |
| Synopsis | The vacations of Keira, Emily and Megan don't turn out the way they'd planned. |
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| Take-Away by Pat Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two older teens and two middle-aged characters. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play of shorter length, split set - in two flats with a lift, set between them. |
| Synopsis | Gail and Josh share a flat, but their relationship has soured - Josh is harsh and demanding, and Gail is quiet and compliant. The Barnstables live in the flat across from them, an older couple with a happy marriage. But no one seems happy with the way things are between Josh and Gail - not even Josh. |
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| Taken! by Jordon Hadfield |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play well suited for youth theatres. |
| Synopsis | A group of teenage boys are struggling to find their way in life and become involved in criminal behaviour. It takes the death of their friend to bring them into adulthood. |
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| Taking An Interest by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch for three actors, with minimal or no set. |
| Synopsis | Older ladies Mary and Alice are in a long queue at the bank and they pass the time in idle conversation full of malapropisms, when young Ben joins the queue. The ladies' interest in Ben grows as they wait, until Mary comes to a startling and somewhat irritating realisation. |
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| Taking Minutes, Wasting Hours! by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All characters are adults. A range of ages! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single set, simple props. |
| Synopsis | It's committee night and the Chairman has been asked to introduce a surprise speaker. Little does he know what a surprise she'll be! |
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| A Tale Of A Nail - A Musical Play by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 37. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for four original songs (and two original pieces of music) is provided with the producer's copy of this script. |
| Style | A play (with music) for children featuring the human immune system - as an injured man imagines what is happening inside his body. |
| Synopsis | When Mr Gauche accidentally hammers a nail through his thumb, he only wants medical help from the Doctor, but he gets a thorough lesson in the body's defence mechanisms anyway. A version without any music is available here. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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