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| The Joy of Socks by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A poignant one act comedy with a single (pub yard) setting. |
| Synopsis | Geoff longs to be reunited with his two sons, Mary wants her own house in the country and Barry yearns to travel around the world. However, they are homeless and living rough on the streets. They have nothing but their memories, their dreams and each other. |
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| Jump by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Whilst there isn't a formal requirement for a chorus, this is the sort of event at which crowds gather. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Black comedy play. (One-act length, two act structure.) Needs a bit of imagination from the set designer, since we have a man on a roof and others on the ground, but otherwise simple to stage. Contains swearing (and references to soccer). |
| Synopsis | A fanatical football fan is devastated that his team has failed to qualify for Europe. Distraught, he decides to end his life by jumping from a rooftop.
(This is nominally set in London, but could be moved anywhere by changing the name of the team, and possibly the code of the sport in question.) |
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| Just a Bit of Fun by Angelika Nielsen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short black comedy with a single (restaurant) setting. Adult content and strong language. |
| Synopsis | Frank is confronted by a sexual harassment incident from his past which devastated Lisa’s life. She is at last able to challenge her abuser and, using some revealing photos of him, enact her revenge. |
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| Just an Act by Chantel Kuli |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. The chorus is optional, mainly for the final party scene. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act romantic comedy for teenagers. |
| Synopsis | Lisa is angry at Tommy because he hasn't learned his lines for the school production of Romeo and Juliet. Her anger is a mask for her growing attraction to Tommy, although she won't admit this to herself, Tommy or her jock-boyfriend Clark. Lisa finally realises her feelings when Clark provokes her, resulting in Lisa dumping Clark, but will Tommy take the initiative...? |
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| Just Breathe In, Dear by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act light comedy play set in a theatre wardrobe department. Originally published 2015, revised 2019. |
| Synopsis | As well as treading the boards in every show, Joyce is the wardrobe mistress for an amateur dramatic society. She is rather disorganised and leaves everything to the last minute. Deidre has piled on the pounds since the last pantomime, so her fairy costume won’t zip up. Joyce’s mood pre-show week swings from despair to rage and Deidre feels the full force of her wrath. Marjorie has been putting her DIY skills to good use. Julian has problems of his own. Ann has no sympathy for any of them. |
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| Just Desserts [One-act Comedy] by Judith Ezekiel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with elements of farce. Two simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Simon and Caroline's plans to renovate and resell an old house are thwarted by elderly sitting tenant, Dorothy. Assuming that the old lady will soon pass away they proceed, only to find that Dorothy is far from death's door. The only solution seems to be to hasten her death by nefarious means, but Dorothy is up to the challenge. |
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| Just Good Friends by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fifteen-minute play around a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Jane has just broken up with her latest boyfriend, and as usual, Tim is waiting to console her. But maybe this is his chance to step out of the friend zone and admit his feelings to her? |
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| Just Stop It by Katharine Earley and Hugh Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch that crosses modern satire with an edge of surrealism. Easily staged (the art gallery can be an empty stage) with a good balance of roles. |
| Synopsis | A man with a grievance against self-service tills arrives at an art exhibition armed with a tin of tomato soup. Does anyone have a tin opener? Can his daughter stop him damaging a valuable abstract painting? And, in any case, what’s it supposed to be? |
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Karaoke Nights by Terry Adlam
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. The chorus of punters in the Karaoke Bar is optional, but could add to the atmosphere. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for 8 songs appropriate to the Karaoke Bar setting. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play - a tragedy interwoven with comedy. Single pub setting. Contains swearing. (And Karaoke.) |
| Synopsis | A group of friends regularly gather at The Red Dragon for karaoke night where they always have a good night out, despite miserly landlord Len. We join them as they celebrate the eve of Spike's 40th birthday with another night of fun and karaoke - a night which will end in tragic circumstances. This one act play overflows with fine quickfire adult humour which clicks effortlessly into tragedy made all the more startlingly heart-breaking because we have become so close to the well drawn characters and laughed along with them. With inspired use of the karaoke theme this play has us laughing and crying in equal measure. |
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| Keep Taking The Tablets by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Nurse is trying to diagnose the problem, with a therapeutic chat... |
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