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| Stairway to Heaven by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three middle-aged blokes, one of whom is the Archangel Gabriel. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single set (or lack of set, since it takes place at the the ultimate ephemeral location - just outside the pearly gates). Australian in tone, but universal in humour. |
| Synopsis | Robbie, a biker, meets Alfred, a civil servant, outside the gates to heaven. Unpredictably, they get on quite well, but there's been a bit of a mix-up, and the angel Gabe isn't sure if either of them should be going in... |
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| Stan and Tony by Clive David Lloyd Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy drama on a single (living room) set. |
| Synopsis | One afternoon in the 1960s, two giants of British comedy met briefly, when Tony Hancock visited Stan Laurel at his home in Santa Monica. Hancock was a very successful radio and TV star of the 1950s and 60s whilst Laurel’s slapstick movies with Oliver Hardy were top box office in the 1920s-40s. This is a play suggesting events which may have taken place during their unpublicised encounter. |
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| Stand and Deliver [Kids Play] by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. The numbers are made flexible by the presence of the Earl of Scarborough's Guards (who stand around, look nervous and shout a bit. This is called acting.) |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids. |
| Synopsis | Emily Jenks, a poor farmer's daughter, accidentally robs the King, finds herself mistaken for a notorious highwayman and consequently on trial for her life. |
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| Stand and Deliver [Panto] by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for six songs are made in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with an original story. |
| Synopsis | The villagers of Widdledown are sad the old lord of the manor has died, but are looking forward to meetng his son, who is returning from the Navy. The new Lord wants to double the rents... but is he really who he claims to be? |
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| Standards by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two-handed sketch. Simple set. |
| Synopsis | Penelope tries to help Philip come to terms with his middle age! |
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| Standing Room Only by James Harvey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The characters are written as 4M, 3F, a lot more flexibility is possible! |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play, single set (the minimum required to indicate a waiting room). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A group of people are being kept waiting - in hell. How long are they going to have to hang around for their share of eternal damnation? |
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| The Star by Annette Cameron |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 39. Chorus. (It might well be possible to perform this with a smaller cast by reassigning some of the lines. Likewise, an even bigger cast!) Characters include reindeer, robins, Santas and snowmen. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Nine songs and a dance are suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A Christmas play for a large cast of young children. Mainly modern secular characters with the star adding the link to the first Christmas story. |
| Synopsis | It's Christmas time again, and the workers at Mr Kindthought's Christmas Card Factory are excited - who's going to be on the cards this year? The Snowmen, Santas and Robins are all in, but the Star is too old-fashioned this year. Or is it? |
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| The Star's Nativity by Martin Kirkland |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the scripts suggest the use of four Christmas songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Nativity play. |
| Synopsis | A school nativity play with a difference, with the story charmingly told from the star's point of view. With appealing humour and characters the story shines through and the cleverly placed amusing colloquial asides will give opportunities for some cheeky young chappies to shine. |
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| Stardust by 10 x 10 Writers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Six short plays inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. |
| Synopsis | Six short plays, a mixture of comedy and drama, inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. All were winners of the October 2016 Chesil Theatre New Writing Festival. The plays are available individually, but are provided here as a collection at a discount. |
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| Starting All Over by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 111 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Daisy and Roz share a house in the country - since Roz's latest husband died and Daisy's divorce. But Daisy's daughter still wants her parents to reunite. The pair struggle to find their place in the community and the wider world... with an unexpected ending? |
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