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| A Day at the Races by Will van der Lande |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short, absurd sketch. No set requirements, a few props. |
| Synopsis | It's the Duck Derby and an Aristocrat is exchanging small talk with the owner of today's favourite, Dangerous Dennis. Surely nothing can prevent a win for Dennis today? |
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| A Day at the Vets by Helen Bradley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedic sketch on a single set. |
| Synopsis | Mr Chalmers the vet has a bad day, as his three least favourite customers - and their imaginary pets - show up in succession. |
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| A Day in the Life by Gary Diamond & Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Wide range of playing ages. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A long one-act (or short full-length) farce. Single set. Contains a small amount of mild swearing and a large amount of fun! |
| Synopsis | A family gather for the reading of a late, but not lamented, step-Father's will. Unsurprisingly, there are surprises in store for the whole bunch. |
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Day Job by Janet S. Tiger
First Place, 2016 Script Tease of Short Plays |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, dark comedy in a single set. |
| Synopsis | A teacher is marking papers when he is interrupted by a drunk student with suicidal intent. |
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Day of Days by Allan Williams
'Day of Days' was Finalist at the British All Winners One-Act festival, July 2012, on the way to which the production picked-up numerous awards including Best Play, Best Actor and Best Individual Performance. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. Single domestic set (which can be done with minimal staging.) Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Maggie has some news for Tom. Unexpected news. News of his long-distant past - a time he has forgotten, or perhaps he wanted to forget... |
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| The Day The Woods Came To Dunsinane by Steve Eddison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. Characters include talking trees (allowing me to make the usual joke about wooden actors) and (unnumbered) dancers. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Full of the sort of verbal humour that graces British pantomime, though with a different structure (and more trees). |
| Synopsis | Four children on a hiking trip stumble into the plot of Macbeth (portentious witches, poor hospitality, portable forests - that sort of thing). Can they escape unscathed? |
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| Daylight Come by Myrna Moore |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 15 songs are suggested in the producers' copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length drama with a single multi-functional setting. |
| Synopsis | Daylight Come is a celebration of the Windrush generation, spanning the 1950s to the present day. At Grace’s funeral, her family and friends gather to remember her life - leaving Jamaica, her early days in England, and her marriage. The funeral brings a surprise or two as well, but that’s all part of life. |
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| De-Friend by Shari Gledhill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 15-minute monologue with an insightful and humourous take on social media addiction, leading to a nicely grim punchline. |
| Synopsis | Brian is a middle-aged man trying to navigate the world of social media. His mood turns from enthusiastic to thrilled to devastated. Someone has de-friended him and he is desperate to work out who it is. |
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| Dead Air 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 58 minutes. [Estimated!] Performance anticipated to be one act length. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes a suggestion for an opening song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A non-interactive Murder Mystery in two acts, with the performance anticipated to be one act length. |
| Synopsis | It is 1965 and obnoxious and demanding radio star Oscar learns that his show is to be axed, pushing his nastiness to even greater levels. There are many suspects for his inevitable murder and the investigation takes many turns. |
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| Dead Loss by Richard Charles |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy play in a single set. |
| Synopsis | Trevor Loss, an aging ex rock star, is in trouble with a drugs gang, having purloined from them one-million dollars of heroin. With the gang after him and police surveillance, he must resort to drastic measures to secure his future. Then fate intervenes before his plan comes to fruition, with hilarious results. |
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