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Human Relations by Mark Niel
Winner in the Marie Curie One Page Play Competition competition, 2008 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The waiter is written male, but could easily be a waitress. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute comedy play, single (restaurant table) set, simple props. |
| Synopsis | Paula thinks she's just meeting her boyfriend for a pleasant evening out together, but he's an HR manager, and its been a year since they started going out, so there's got to be an annual review! |
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A Human Write by Amelia Armande
Best Seller Production by Ury Players won the 2018 Aberdeen SCDA district youth competition and the Kincardine district trophy. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. The writer is written male, though need not be. His thoughts - the chorus - are genderless. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fascinating one act drama that uses mime and rhyme to take us into the mind of a struggling writer. Contains one mild swearword. |
| Synopsis | The writer is grappling not only with his writing but also with his personal life as he desperately attempts to strike up a relationship with Janis, a beautiful girl he sees on a bus.
Well paced and gathering speed, the play uses the chorus to reveal the writer's thoughts - sometimes cogent, sometimes chaotic - come to life as the surreal become real. |
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| Humbug by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol presented as a short comedic play for kids. |
| Synopsis | When Jacob Marley dies he keeps his promise to come back and haunt his mean-spirited business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge has a particularly parsimonious attitude to Christmas and this reflects itself his treatment of his long-suffering employees, Bob and Molly Cratchit. In case Jacob's efforts to get Ebenezer to change his ways don't meet with success, he enlists the help of three ghostly friends. Will Christmas still be humbug or will Ebenezer see the light? |
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| Hump Day by Alan Hargreaves |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy with a single (office) setting. |
| Synopsis | Unassuming accountant Barry is auditing the books at the inefficiently run Reynolds head office when he discovers that new recruit Andy plots to take over the firm. But Barry has nefarious ideas of his own. |
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| Humpty Dumpty by Bob Heather and Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Humans, a witch, a fairy, a troll and a pantomime horse. It's a panto. Make your own mind up as to who plays what! |
| Run Time | Around 118 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 16 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime (with eggstra puns). |
| Synopsis | The kingdom of Albuminia, ruled by King Shelvis, is a shook-up when Humpty is broken and wicked witch Salmonella's plot to take over the kingdom nears completion. Fortunately Dame Egwina Snifffy-Yolk and her cohorts, ably assisted by Nutz the horse and a little magic from Fairy Soufle, are able to thwart her evil plans. |
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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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| Humpty Dumpty - The Egg's Factor by Jack Clancy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 122 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 15 pre-existing songs are suggested to be performed at certain points in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A British pantomime with an original story based around the classic rhyme. |
| Synopsis | Twenty years ago, a curse was placed on the Kingdom of Eggshellia that it would be drained of sunlight and happiness. The Court Magician managed to suspend the curse and trap it in a giant egg. As long as the egg remains intact, Eggshellia is safe, and it’s Humpty Dumpty’s job to keep it that way. And then the sorceress Salmonella shows up. |
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| The Hunter And The Hunted by JPS Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Two non-speaking roles. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length, emotive drama, set during the First World War. |
| Synopsis | A hunting party on General Franklin-Davies' Scottish estate in the early years of World War One, poignantly and dramatically presages events that the party are to experience in the trenches. |
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| Hunting Death by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. The narrator's role could be split amongst several actors. There are opening and closing choruses which could be performed by the ensemble or by additional actors/singers. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] (The estimated run time assumes the music; without music it could be performed in 12 minutes.) |
| Music | The music is designed to run continuously, so there is one 25-minute score. (It is divided into sections for rehearsal purposes.) |
| Style | A short musical play, retelling the Pardoner's Tale from the Canterbury Tales. (Could also be performed as a verse play without the music.) |
| Synopsis | This drama recounts the story of three young men who bestir themselves from their wine-sodden lives to hunt and kill Death, but instead fall victim to him through greed and treachery. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** CD with full backing track (25 minutes) and full sung demo for Hunting Death by Nicholas Richards.
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| Hunting Yetis by Andy Haynes |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Michael is definitely male. The Yeti seems to be male, but it's hard to tell owing to the Yeti costume. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy play, single set (mainly a couch). Simple, funny and touching. |
| Synopsis | Michael wasn't expecting anyone to call, certainly not wearing a yeti suit. But this yeti comes bearing gifts - a pair of binoculars, a butterfly net and a letter Michael wrote when he was small, about how he was off to hunt yetis. Oh, and there’s a ticket to the Himalayas too... |
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| I 'Aven't The Foggiest by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Brenda is a gauche, middle-aged Yorkshirewoman. (Make your own mind up as to what that means.) |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short prose monologue with no need for a set. |
| Synopsis | Brenda recounts the day she went for a walk and got a lot more than she bargained for. |
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