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| The Innkeeper's Cat by Liz Ansell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. Very flexible casting. The script specifies the numbers of various character types, but they do not have individual lines, so numbers can be varied in either direction. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics to familiar out-of-copyright tunes are embedded in the script (with additional lyrics that fit to a copyrighted song supplied in the Producer's copy of the script). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Nativity play for young children (with enough roles for a primary school class). |
| Synopsis | The Innkeeper's cat, Moses, is constantly disturbed and gets a little annoyed by all the fuss and visitors going on in the stables but his mood soon changes when he sees the new born baby. |
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| The Innkeeper's Christmas by Mike Sparks |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. An Innkeeper tells us of the frantic time he and his staff have had during the Roman Census in Judea. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Modern version of a medieval mystery play. Single, minimal set, basic props. |
| Synopsis | An Innkeeper tells us of the frantic time he and his staff have had during the Roman Census in Judea. |
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| Insider by Katherine Melmore |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act female monologue, with a basic set - a chair. |
| Synopsis | A young woman undergoes a startling transformation into a spider, scurrying around the very hospital where she used to be a patient - or perhaps she still is... Movements should be carefully choreographed. |
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| Inspector Quaker of the Yard by Peter Stallard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play - a spoof detective story. |
| Synopsis | Cecil has gone missing (from his position on the mantlepiece) and Lady Boulder has to find him - and his urn. The stage is set for
Inspector Quaker of the Yard in The Return of the Cecil Vessel. |
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| Inspector Snow and the Elf-Inflicted Wounds by Skip Chalker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act Christmas story for children with various simple settings. US English. |
| Synopsis | Inspector Snow and Sergeant Merryman are back on the case, hunting the killer of not one, but two Mall Santas. Before the killer can strike for a superstitiously crucial third time, Snow and Merryman must catch them! |
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Inspector Snow and the Sleeping Santa by Skip Chalker
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Without any doubling, the script has 8 speaking roles, 8 non-speaking roles, and 2 optional clucking roles. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act Christmas story for children with various simple settings. US English. |
| Synopsis | Inspector Snow and Sergeant Merryman are called to the McGrew house one Christmas Eve, where Santa has been found fast asleep. As well as getting him on his way, they must find out who drugged him, and why they want to delay Christmas. The investigation takes them to interviews with the Easter Bunny, April Fool, and the Tooth Fairy, and ultimately back to the McGrew house. |
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| Inspector Snow and The Twelve Murders of Christmas by Skip Chalker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Alternate lyrics to 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' are included, to be performed at the end of the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act festive comedy on a variety of simple sets. Suitable for a family audience. |
| Synopsis | Inspector Snow and his sidekick, Sergeant Merryman, have to catch the fiend who has embarked on a killing spree in the run up to Christmas. But what, if anything, connects all these murders? |
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Inspector Snow And Toto Too by Skip Chalker
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy for a family audience, a deft mixture of police procedural and the wonderful world of Oz. |
| Synopsis | Inspector Snow and Sergeant Merryman have been assigned to the Merry Old Land of Oz for a while. Almost at once, a witch arrives to accuse a girl called Dorothy of murder, and assembling a gang for a hostile takeover... |
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| Inspector Whalley's Casebook by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A play in three episodes. (Think of this as three acts!) |
| Synopsis | Three cases involving Inspector Whalley and the hapless PC Hitchcock. They try to catch the Battersea Batterer, the Wandsworth Weirdo, and solve the mystery of Hitchcock's breakdown. All with the help of a profiler and Doctor Boffin. |
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| Inspector Whalley's Casebook - Volume 2 by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Same principal characters as Inspector Whalley's Casebook, but functions completely independently. |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door). |
| Synopsis | Inspector 'Bloodhound' Whalley and his team take on a trio of tricky cases - missing persons, ATM cash theft, and ...Team Building! |
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