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| Acting, It’s Not Plumbing… by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act character comedy - set in a theatre workshop, so there's scope for over-acting! Single set - a village hall! Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Jill is running a drama workshop in the community centre, but is it really just for the benefit of those taking part? Whatever her motivation, Paul, Amy, Chelsea, Bob, Sandra and Fay are having a whale of a time. |
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| Activity Day - Inclusive of Aliens by Dian Donovan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act comedy for children with a single (school playing field) setting.
Part of the Aliens collection of short plays for youth people. |
| Synopsis | With a satirical look at a non-competitive school sports day some time in the future, this play transports us into a world where aliens have become integrated into everyday life. |
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| An Actor, A Director, His Wife and That Cat! by Sandy Truman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny take on the relationship comedy with things to say about mid-life crises and age-gap relationships, plus plenty of silliness on the side. A variety of settings, but all should be achievable with minimal furniture. |
| Synopsis | Theatre director Laurence is happily married to Samantha, but after he starts to notice one grey hair too many, he takes the first opportunity to recapture his youth and run away with the much younger Bella. Now there are four in the marriage - and one of them is the murderous moggy Biggles! |
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| The Actor by Ian Sharrock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The character is, rather obviously, an actor. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Monologue. No set requirements, just a phone. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | A short monologue presenting one side of a phone call by a wannabe actor who's really just a jumped-up extra. As he boasts of his next big role, he dreams of the opportunities it's going to bring, only to be brought back down to earth with a bump. |
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The Actress by Hilary Mackelden
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy prose monologue. Single set (a table and a phone), so could be performed front-of-curtain. |
| Synopsis | A phone call to the director of the village Harvest Festival pageant from an experienced actress who feels, yet again, that she has been mis-cast . |
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| Addiction by John Passadino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dark, dramatic monologue. Minimal set. (US English.) |
| Synopsis | Matthew talks to his wife, admitting his shortcomings as a partner and husband, but is finally overcome by rage. |
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| Additional Dialogue by Catherine Shelton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. All the characters are high school students. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Music from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet is suggested (subject to the ability of the on-stage band!) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length romantic comedy play. (Not strictly a musical or really a musical play, but requires an on-stage band, with a small share of the dialogue.) |
| Synopsis | A rehearsal for a school production of Romeo and Juliet contains far more drama amongst the cast members than onstage, as friendships, new loves and old flames are tested, torn apart and reunited in a very busy afternoon. |
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Adolf's Girls by Frank Gibbons
Young Portonians TC production won the East Stirlingshire Trophy at the SCDA Falkirk District Festival, 2016 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Has good scope to be performed by youth theatre groups, with some parts that could be played by either youth or adults. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play set in Germany during World War 2. Multiple locations, but intended to be indicated by lighting changes, so does not require major sets.
Originally published in 2010, revised edition published 2014 |
| Synopsis | In the midst of the German war effort, the young girls of a BDM group (the female equivalent of the Hitler Youth) are oblivious to the horrors of the European fronts. That is, until circumstances - and a Gestapo officer - threaten to change their lives for the worse. |
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| Adoption by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The interviewer is written male but could, at a pinch, be played female. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy short. Either two simple sets (just furniture) or, more likely, the stage split into two acting areas. |
| Synopsis | A husband and wife are faced with an unhelpful interviewer when they apply to adopt a child, but his says he has some relatives who might be able to help them out... unofficially. Soon they're passed from Aunt to Uncle and back to the original interviewer, but no one is really saying what they mean. |
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Adrian - The Alternative Pantomime (Clean Version) by Robert Scott
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 33. No chorus. Character genders, outside the principal characters', are interchangable. |
| Run Time | Around 121 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for ten songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime with one setting. |
| Synopsis | Adrian’s not your typical inhabitant of Pantoland. He’s level-headed, and can spot the difference between a wolf and a Granny. But due to unfortunate circumstances, he’s got the job of Fairy Godmother - for everyone! |
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