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| Did The Butler Do It? by Debbie Chalmers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 32. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. Extra chorus members can be added. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 13 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A comedy (with songs) for children, in simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Lady Jemima Fitzwilliam's valuable pearls have been stolen! This looks like a job for aged amateur sleuth Mrs Clues, but does Jeeves the butler know something important which can shed light on the subject? |
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| The Dieter's Lament by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One song suggestion is included with this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A comedy monologue, with a simple (table and chair) setting. |
| Synopsis | Amy has been dieting on and off for almost a year but has only lost a few pounds. As she attempts to eat yet another salad, she relates her difficulties. |
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| A Different League by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy on three simple sets. This is the sequel to Three Nil Down At Half Time, also published by Lazy Bee Scripts. The two can be performed individually or together. |
| Synopsis | A football team are looking forward to the new season when disaster strikes and the girls' league they are due to play in is disbanded. Fortunately (although much to the consternation of several parents), the team receive an unexpected invitation to play in a boy's league. |
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| Difficult People by Anton Chekhov, adapted Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two parents and their student son. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute play, single set, simple props, adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov. |
| Synopsis | A family disagreement over how the money should be spent - or is it? |
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| Dig In For Murder by Angela Lanyon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length thriller. |
| Synopsis | Tensions rise as final preparations for tomorrow's village fete become fractious and old enmities come to the surface. This results in a gruesome murder in the garden shed and everyone, including the vicar, is suspect. |
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Digging A Hole by Geoff Rose-Michael
Winner of Madeline Boden New Writing Award at Woking Drama Festival ((October 2023) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All Luka's speeches are recorded, since all her stage appearances are as a corpse. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy thriller in a single (livingroom) set. One-act in structure, but run-time on the boundary between full-length and one-act.
First published in 2022, revised 2024. |
| Synopsis | One night, Fi accidentally kills a stranger in her flat, who she believes to be a burglar, but who is in fact an acquaintance of her flatmate and ex-partner Ellie. They attempt to cover up what Fi has done by manufacturing evidence that their visitor was really a burglar. Then they discover the truth... |
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| Digging Deep by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters' playing ages are 86 (Robert) and 77 (Elaine), but they are sprightly (not to say frisky). |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch set on a bench in a graveyard. Contains a naughty word.
From the Laughter Lines collection. |
| Synopsis | A chance meeting in a graveyard could well lead on to other things (starting with a cup of tea and a slice of apple pie). |
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| Digging Up Edwin Plant by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama in two settings. |
| Synopsis | Bernard's been looking for traces of his old school bully - has he changed since the bad old days? Are these poems really by him, and if so, do they indicate regret? Lucy doesn't think so. |
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| Digging up the Past by Chris Hicks |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A ten-minute dramatic monologue (featuring some black comedy). |
| Synopsis | A building site manager struggles to cope when a body is discovered on school playing fields. When archaeologists turn up to excavate a Saxon burial ground, things take a turn for the worse. |
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| Dinner at Luigi's by Brian Coyle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama with a single (restaurant) setting. |
| Synopsis | A mother and her two grown-up children get together for a celebration meal. As dinner is served, the dynamics of their dysfunctional relationship are uncovered and family secrets revealed for the first time. The meal descends into deeper and deeper water. |
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