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| Honeyrose and Hayseed by Ged Quayle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. In the original draft, Agg was written female and Enna male, but it doesn't really matter. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A horror short, with a fun twist on expectations. (It's horror in the Grand Guignol style, so contains considerable levels of gore.) |
| Synopsis | In a seemingly post-apocalyptic Britain, two young people talk of the terrible dangers they face - and of a forbidden trip to a city. |
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| The Honorable Knight by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Nothing remarkable in the characters (apart from the dragon, obviously). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light comedy, playing on the traditions of the knightly stories. Split-stage set, with one permanent location and the other half of the stage doubling for two other locations. |
| Synopsis | Before leaving his castle for the last time, Sir Gawain of the renowned Round Table reluctantly reveals a tale of his exploits that shows him in a less than favourable light. |
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| Hope - A Monologue by Frank Flynn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act monologue. Single outdoor set (which can be implied rather than fully built). Written in Canadian English. |
| Synopsis | Young mother Hope waits in the park for a meeting that will change her life. She tries to comfort her tiny baby, though she has no new clothes, nor food for her. A very emotive piece. |
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| The Horrible Hot Air Homicide by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Melodrama stereotypes - the wicked squire, the poor-but-hones heroine, etc. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One song (to a G&S tune). Sheet music for the song is supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Melodrama set in Victorian times, but written in the 21st century - so something of a send-up of the format. |
| Synopsis | 'The Horrible Hot Air Homicide' - or 'Fanny's Free For All' sees the wicked squire in pursuit of the poor heroine, Fanny. However, in fear that his past misdeeds will be exposed, the squire frames his rival for murder, then furnishes a fiendish fate for Fanny. |
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| Horror-scopes by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The male role is a phone-in voice. This might be better done live but it could conceivably be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two minute comedy sketch with no specific requirements for set or props. (A couple of comfortable seats would help.) |
| Synopsis | Tony calls the astrology section of a chat show and gets to learn a bit more than he expected about his future... |
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Horseplay by Graham Jones
The precursor full-length version of this play won the Drama Association of Wales playwriting competition in 1980. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Compelling one-act drama. Single set - just a committee room table and chairs. Contains adult themes. |
| Synopsis | After a post-match celebration, three rugby players are accused of raping a girl. Through the old boys' network, the matter is dropped, but the club barmaid won't let it rest. Thanks to her persistence, one of the other members starts to see things in a different light too. |
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| Hot Air by Mary Portalska |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny and fast sketch. Easy to stage with something resembling the front of a hot air balloon basket as a set - this could be as simple as a table with a bit of cloth, or a cardboard cut-out. |
| Synopsis | When their hot air balloon takes off without a pilot, two bickering sisters find themselves adrift. And then they find the pilot, dangling on a rope below the basket. |
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| Hot and Sweet by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. Single domestic set. |
| Synopsis | Janet is trying to persuade her mother Ivy, who is suffering from the first stages of Alzheimer's, to come and live with her. Janet's concerns are increased when she hears about a con man operating in the area. Ivy refuses to consider her daughter's request, stating that her late husband Harry will protect her. Janet responds by saying to her mother, 'He can’t look after you if he's not here'... but can he? |
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| The Hot Tub by Brian Coyle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy with a single (bedroom) setting. Adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Frank gets a shock when he looks out his window in the middle of the night. Who are those people in his hot tub and what are they doing? His wife Mary is not so shocked - she’s rather amused by their antics. What she really wants to know is - why don’t she and Frank use the hot tub anymore? |
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| Hotel Casablanca by S. J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One song Is suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act comedy on 4 minimal sets, suitable for youth theatre. |
| Synopsis | The Hotel Casablanca is unfortunately short on staff, just as Lady Chalfont arrives, trying to protect her necklace from a jewel thief. But will the thief be spotted in amongst the James Bond conventioneers and detective Sam Shovel? |
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