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| The Wrong Regulator by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy short in a single office setting. (Confusingly, the production notes include the features of a featureless office.) |
| Synopsis | A routine stocktake reveals that the numbers of one important and resource-hungry item have risen enormously to eight billion. The control room team must find a way to reduce the number. |
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| Wuthering Heights by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with minimal settings, adapted from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. |
| Synopsis | A duo of comic narrators guide us through the familiar story including all of the important characters with the exception of Heathcliff who unfortunately could not attend. His last minute replacement - Tarzan! - admirably fills his shoes. |
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| X-Traordinary Factor by Gary Diamond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Whilst PC Gorgonzola is written male, we believe that the character could easily be female (evening-up the numbers a little). |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Minimal set and simple props (so could easily serve as a very funny festival piece). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | In an attempt to escape the law, two bungling would-be thieves crash the auditions for a reality TV talent show. Unfortunately for them, there's a policeman auditioning, as well as a couple of other surprises in store... |
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| Yard Sale by Michael Paul |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Two main characters plus six others who could be played by two people. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single set. |
| Synopsis | Mark and Julie are holding a yard sale, but having strangers rummaging through their possessions brings some darker thoughts and feelings to light, and it's not long before their marriage is at crisis point. |
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Yards Apart by Mary Stone
Won 'Best Original Script' award at the Totton Festival of Drama 2022 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy with a good mix of physical and verbal humour, and two strongly written characters who develop well through their interactions with one another. Single garden set. |
| Synopsis | Retired Mark spends his days pottering around his garden, avoiding the neighbours, and scaring off the local cats with his BB gun. When his new neighbour Viki literally crashes into his world, he's eager to send her packing and return to his quiet, solitary life. |
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| Yes Dear by Jos Biggs |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedic sketch with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | This henpecked husband hasn't many words for his wife, but he manages to convey quite a lot with just the two, and there's a surprise waiting when she talks herself into a corner. |
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| Yes, but how was the play, Mrs Lincoln? 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 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Philosophical argument, set in a scrap yard! Single simple set. |
| Synopsis | Does happiness come from going out and getting experiences or from appreciating what you have? (Or, come to that, from finding a distributor for a 1985 Ford Fiesta?) |
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Yo Ho Ho! (A Pirate Christmas) by Sue Gordon
Best Seller Performance by The Shaun Winterflood Academy of Theatrical Studies won the GADOC Jubilee Trophy in the Guernsey One-Act Play Festival, 2009. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. None of the characters are gender-specific! |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for five original songs is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | One Act musical (secular) Christmas play for kids. |
| Synopsis | The captain has banned his pirates from celebrating Christmas. Can they win the captain over? |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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You And Me Makes Three by Mark Seaman
Performance by The Sodbury Players Drama Group picked-up the adjudicator's award at the Avon Festival and the Best Actor award at The Cheltenham Festival, 2010 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Emotionally-charged one-act play. Single domestic set. |
| Synopsis | Paul and Kathy have just returned from Tony's funeral. Though remaining outwardly happy with one another, Kathy remembers the brief affair she had with Tony that might have made him the father of her dead child, and Paul remembers cutting Tony out of their lives, and regrets it. |
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| You Are What You Eat by Hugh Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There is a suggestion for an extract from an out-of-copyright Music Hall song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A funny, efficient, and easy to stage sketch. |
| Synopsis | A doctor has problems with a patient who has not responded to organic hummus and with another who has overdosed on Tuscan olives and sun-dried tomatoes. |
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