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Second Honeymoon by Alan Barkley
Finalist in the Sky Blue Theatre International play-writing competition, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play, set in 1952. |
| Synopsis | Claire is looking for a way out of her marriage, but instead runs into someone who knows all about trying to cope with a demanding life - Marilyn Monroe. They trade lives for an afternoon and learn a little about life from each other. |
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| Second Thoughts by Colin Calvert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. (The max. and min. numbers depend on whether the production follows the author's intention and uses a quartet of four female singers to punctuate the action. There are also a few lines addressed to passers-by who might or might not appear on stage.) |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single minimalist set - a bus stop. Few props. A study of an attempted mid-life affair. |
| Synopsis | Harold is waiting at the appointed spot, a bus shelter, for a meeting with his old school friend Patti, and wondering if he's up to having an affair, if that's even what's on offer. |
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| A Secret Life by Horry Parsons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, with a single domestic set. |
| Synopsis | Trying to organise a secret This is Your Life for her husband's retirement party, Freda and her two daughters have to battle the plumbing, the nosey neighbour and a deaf vicar. Can they keep the secret without losing the plot? |
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| Secret Of A Vampire by Sarah Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for teenagers. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
| Synopsis | Angeline and Tom seem to be getting on fine, but discovering what seems to be a dead body in the woods shakes them both up. Luckily Victor is not dead, but he seems to know Angeline - know her too well, in fact, and she's not happy to see him, dead or alive... or undead. |
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| The Secret of Buccaneer Bay by Rajapillai Pillai |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's script suggests an extract from a well-known song to be sung at one point in the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act comedy, to be performed by adults to children, with various simple settings. |
| Synopsis | On the eve of a royal wedding, the groom is taken by pirates. It is up to Princess Odelia and her loyal servants, with help from the audience, to rescue him. But there is more to this kidnapping than first meets the eye, as an ancient legend is about to be fulfilled. |
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| The Secret of Giving Up Smoking by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The script is written with the characters as two women and one man, however other mixes are possible. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play. Contemporary realism. Simple set, simple props. |
| Synopsis | Barry and Nancy attend Celia's 'Give up smoking' seminar, but will it be the painless solution they're both looking for, or just another expensive con? |
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| Secrets by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-Minute comedy play. Single interior set. (Contains a little swearing.) |
| Synopsis | A case of mistaken identity leads D.I. Dourbridge and Daphne, his probationary constable, to the home of Dafydd Jones, a home which Jones seems to be in a hurry to depart. |
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| Securing the Sponsor by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst Leonard and the director have masculine names, any of the characters could be played female. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent. |
| Synopsis | For many shows, securing a sponsor to help finance the production is a crucial task. It doesn't always go as well as this... |
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| Self Centre by Jackie Carreira |
| 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 prose monologue. |
| Synopsis | As she deals with a series of customers, Vivi, a receptionist at a new age health centre, reflects on the circumstances that brought her here and the loss of her brother. |
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| Selfie Beauty and the Beast by Warren McWilliams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act pantomime designed to be performed in individual video recordings to be stitched together to form a show! |
| Synopsis | Prince is transformed into a mean beast (for being mean) and has to redeem himself by making Beauty fall in love with him. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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