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| Mum! by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One female character is a non-speaking cameo role. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A monologue-style short play, with a single, old folks' home, setting. |
| Synopsis | Ever since his mum had gone into the old folks' home Colin and his wife Iris made sure that they visited her every day. They did not realise that their visits were not as important to Mum as they thought, and we learn exactly what she thinks about life in general. The inevitable end is respectfully handled by Colin. |
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| A Mum's Life by Ginny Davis |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. One actress voices seven characters. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute monologue on a simple set with one actress as seven characters. |
| Synopsis | Overworked and underappreciated mother Ruth Rich struggles to take her three children, plus one extra, swimming. |
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Murder at Haynes Manor by Rebecca Preen
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comical murder mystery play for junior school children! (In theory it's set in a manor house, but designed to be performable with minimal scenery.) |
| Synopsis | There's a family gathering at Haynes Manor, with more than a few surprises planned, but someone has murder in mind. Is it the greedy housekeeper, or someone with a different grudge? Can the family ghost help to solve the case? |
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| Murder At Merryweather Mansion by Lauren Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Sketch-length murder mystery parody. In theory, two sets, but the opening scene could be delivered front-of curtain or in a spotlight to one side of the stage. |
| Synopsis | When the odorous Mike Merryweather is murdered in his own living room, Detective McGloclyn is left with a roomful of suspects and more than a few clues and motives. His keen detective sense may not be up to unmasking the killer. |
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| Murder in the Green Room by Iris Winston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short one-act play. A murder mystery with a single simple set (backstage at a theatre) and good opportunities for character acting. |
| Synopsis | It looks like the new members of the 'Oak Six' drama club are getting on the nerves of the founders, but surely the old guard wouldn't resort to murder? Or would they? |
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| Murdering Muriel by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The paramedic is written male, but could be either (with the occasional change of pronoun). |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short, one act play, with no set requirement, and includes adult themes and language. |
| Synopsis | Barry's affair with shapely neighbour Caroline is the catalyst for their plan to get rid of Barry's wife Muriel. Death by poisoned chocolate pudding is their weapon of choice, but things go badly awry for Barry. |
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| Museum Pieces by Joan Greening |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An all female, one act comedy, with a single (museum staff room) setting. |
| Synopsis | The volunteer ladies are dismayed to find their museum is to be closed. Salvation arrives in a most surprising way. |
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| Musical Genius by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch. Minimal set requirements, but requires a few musical instruments. |
| Synopsis | A man walks into a music shop looking for the perfect instrument on which to express himself. |
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| Musical Maurice and the History Hop by Cat Durning |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. Thirteen principals (although the lead character could be played by three different actors) and scope for a large chorus (the original production employed three school classes!) |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script gives suggestions for three songs and various pieces of incidental music to accompany the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Time-travelling school play, Multiple locations but little needed in the way of stage furniture. (Locations indicated by music or acting!) |
| Synopsis | A child and a grandfather get sucked into a whirlwind history tour by a time-traveller with a magic wand. |
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| A Musical Mother Goose by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Very flexible cast size, with the option of a non-acting chorus singing the songs (or even different groups singing different songs). |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for 8 original songs is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical play (a series of linked sketches) for young children. Minimal set requirements |
| Synopsis | This is 'Mother Goose' in the American sense - a vehicle for stories and rhymes, rather than the English sense of a particular story about a character called Mother Goose. (For anyone curious about this difference, the American sense is taken from Charles Perrault's collection of fairy stories 'Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye' - literally 'The Tales of my mother the Goose' whilst the English version is the tale of the Goose that laid the golden eggs - generally given the English pantomime treatment, for which see elsewhere on this site.)
Anyway, in this case it's a collection of original stories and songs based on nursery stories and characters. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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