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| Tommy's Burglar by Rob Burbidge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. One adult and one child. Both characters are written as male, but the child could easily be changed to female. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very short play for two actors (based on a short story by O. Henry). |
| Synopsis | Tommy is a sweet child, doomed to be in a story where he interrupts a burglar about his nefarious business and inevitably sets back on the road to righteousness. The burglar for his part, is disgruntled about endlessly burgling houses at the whim of the narrator only to be redirected by a succession of sickly sweet kids. A knowing comic sketch. |
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| Tony and Bee-ing Cleopatra by Fiona Scott Patrick |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Lindsay is dressed in a bumble bee costume with a Cleopatra wig. (Just in case you need a hint about the provenance of the strange title.) The cast includes four numbered tourists. Others might drift through! |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute character-driven play, minimal set. (I realise that the residents of Edinburgh might be offended by the description of one of their streets as minimal, but it doesn't need to be a realistic set!) |
| Synopsis | Lindsay is handing out flyers for her show at the Edinburgh Fringe, but she feels she's too old to be there - she's a serious actress. Then she meets Tony, a little drunk and recently dumped by her boyfriend, and the pair find a new enthusiasm for acting. |
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| Too Hot to Handle by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One of the characters sings a snatch from a 1970s pop song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A strong short with a good balance of comedy and pathos. Two well-written characters with a believably messy friendship. Would make a fun challenge for a pair of actresses. |
| Synopsis | It's summer 1976 and Britain is roasting. Long-term friends Stella and Avril are now in their 40s and much divorced, but while Stella seems to have settled for the single life, Avril enthusiastically announces yet another engagement. |
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| Too Many Crooks by Mike Warrick |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 131 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length farce on a single living room set. |
| Synopsis | In an attempt to spice up his life, Colin is trying to be a crime fighter, but has trouble finding any crime. His wife and best friend try to set up a fake crime for him to fight, but end up involving real criminals and genuine peril. |
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| Too Many Fish by Alison Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. 12 roles, including two singers, plus an onstage band of approx 4. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] Photo by Robert Skears at shotz4u.co.uk. |
| Music | 15 existing songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Two-act musical comedy. Three sets. Adult content and language. |
| Synopsis | All of life is on display in The Happy Onion, the local shop, sorry, Upper Wallop’s Finest Delicatessen: Sandra’s dealing with her divorce, Brenda with her abusive husband, and Bert the owner with his unrequited love and a big, fake, fish. |
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| Too Mean To Be Green by Lynda Bray |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Play for kids about 'greening' the working environment. (Complete with a rap.) |
| Synopsis | A group of office workers are under threat of redundancy if they can't make the financial report look better before the next visit by the big boss. Lucky for them, Dizzy Lizzy has some Eco-Friendly money saving ideas. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| A Too Naughty Cinderella by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for children with a single (garden) setting. |
| Synopsis | Not the Cinderella we know - this one is petulant and shallow to the extent that her Fairy Godmother has disowned her. In this situation, the Ugly Sisters find happiness with Prince Charming and his brother. |
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| Tooling Around by Gene Washington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fifteen-minute monody - a play for one actor (so a monologue that is more than just a recitation). Comedy and pathos. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | The aftermath of a fatal attraction - in this case the attraction of the narrator's wife to the contractor they hired to renovate their house, or, more specifically, to his tool belt. Whilst grieving the loss of his wife, the narrator is determined to finish the renovation, despite it clearly being beyond his capabilities. |
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| The Tooth Fairy by Anthony Deacon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Cast includes a dinosaur. (And lots of fairies.) |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 5 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Original British Pantomime in two acts. |
| Synopsis | With Dino the friendly dinosaur, a wicked Queen, a knockabout Dame, a quartet of stupid henchmen and, of course, a handsome hero and a beautiful girl this original pantomime takes us to the land of the tooth fairies. Using children's teeth collected from beneath pillows they valiantly strive to fill a hole in their sky to keep out the evil ones who constantly chip away at the teeth. They are frustrated by the evil Queen Veneer, who is not what she appears, and her stupid henchmen Gum and Molar. As in all good pantomimes good defeats evil and Fairy Dentine weds his true love Fairy Fluoride. |
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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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| A Tour In The Vaults by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short light-comedy/drama. |
| Synopsis | A couple of tourists are waiting to take their tour in the city's vaults, unaware that the place is still haunted. |
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