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| Echo and Narcissus by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Simple piano/vocal scores for four original songs are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | A fifteen-minute musical based on Ancient Greek myth. |
| Synopsis | Hera, the queen of the gods, is furious when she discovers that her husband Zeus has been unfaithful, and she takes it out on the object of his affections, the articulate Echo. Echo falls for the handsome Narcissus, but she cannot make him understand because of Hera's curse, which confines Echo to repeating the words of others, and meanwhile Narcissus is in love with his own reflection. (Not a happy lot, the Ancient Greeks!) |
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| The Eco Hotel by Robert Hugh Mitchell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Whilst it isn't a formal musical, new lyrics to a couple of familiar melodies are included in the text. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play. Multiple sets, with changes to the main stage covered by front-of-cloth scenes. Contains swearing. And comedy. |
| Synopsis | A group of guests are enjoying their last night in the Environmentally-friendly Eco hotel. Little do they know that the lake has been polluted with irradiated water, and the formally mild and vegetarian turtles have grown bigger and hungrier.... |
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| The Editing Room by Christine Harvey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. The gender of most of the characters is flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script contains places where songs could be sung, but the songs are left to the discretion of the production. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play for a school or youth theatre. Single set divided into three acting areas. |
| Synopsis | We're in the editing room of a TV studio where a group of production staff are editing and manipulating the participants in a reality TV show, whilst the staff themselves are being manipulated by the studio boss... |
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| Edna Clouds by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming monologue (with no requirement for set or props.) |
| Synopsis | The cautionary tale of a girl wrapped-up in daydreaming! |
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| Eight Seconds by Stephen Scheurer-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy on a split (consulting and waiting room) set. |
| Synopsis | The average doctor interrupts their patient after eight seconds, often before they've revealed the information that would lead to a correct diagnosis. Gordon Bryson is not the average doctor. He's much ruder. Can be performed alongside its sister play 'Barbecue'. |
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| Elephant Jazz and the Intergalactic Spores by Barry Wood |
| 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 | Sci-fi comedy sketch in the manner of a cheesy 1950s B-Movie. Minimal set to indicate a living room.
The script notes include a strong authorial opinion on comparative merits of certain comestibles. (He's not wrong.) |
| Synopsis | Adam has shocking news for his wife - the Earth has been invaded by microscopic alien invaders! Who knows how far the infection might have spread? But Martha doesn't seem that worried. In fact, she doesn't seem like Martha at all... |
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| Elephants by Paul Bovino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play. Single New York apartment set (with a strongly-themed taste in decoration - see title for details!) Contains swearing (and also affection). First published Sept 2011, revised edition Nov 2017. |
| Synopsis | A strange birthday party reveals hidden love... |
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| Eleven Fifty-Six by Michael Pearcy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play (somewhere between drama and thriller) with a single sparse set. |
| Synopsis | Nathan seems certain to remain in the hospital - found wandering naked and confused, he has no records, no identity, no money. Dr Caulfield thinks he's deluded, but there's something compelling about his claim to be a time traveller. Then there's his urgent desire to leave London... |
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| The Elf and the Shoemaker by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute play for kids. |
| Synopsis | A shoemaker and his wife are amazed to find that their work is being completed for them whilst they are asleep at night. An investigation follows!
One of Peter Nuttall's Grimm Tales (for Little Horrors) |
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| An Elliot Steinway Mystery by Gary Diamond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length farce, a parody of murder mysteries with labyrinthine plots! Contains mild swearing and many shots in the dark. |
| Synopsis | Henri Gilbert is dead, and his will asserts that he was murdered. Unless all those who stood to gain for his death remain at his mansion for a fortnight, his money will go to charity. During those two weeks, Elliot Steinway, the TV detective (or rather, Donald Smart, the actor who portrayed him) must unmask the murderer and win the fortune for himself. Aided only by the solicitor and his faithful sidekick Badger, he struggles through labyrinthine plots to get to the truth... probably. |
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