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| A Slight Misunderstanding by Janet S. Tiger |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 0. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Easily stageable comedy skit, with minimal set/props and just two actors. Could make a good addition to a sketch night. |
| Synopsis | Many years ago, John’s wife Eleanor told him he should always strive to be the better man. He misheard it, and has strived to be the bitter man ever since. |
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| The Slim Blonde Beauty by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All characters are young adults. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short romantic comedy with two simple settings. |
| Synopsis | It starts with an ad in the free paper... Insecure Jack's search for the woman of his dreams has hit troubled waters. His friend Tom persuades him to try speed dating with hilarious (but ultimately satisfying) consequences. |
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| Slimmers' Planet by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
| 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 | Short drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
| Synopsis | Martin, looking for love, meets Lorna, looking for weight loss. |
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| Small Miracles by Maureen Speller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 54. Chorus. Three short plays, one cast can perform all three or they can have separate casts. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Choral music to be played at various points in play, at discretion of director. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Collection of three short plays with Biblical themes. Suitable for performance by children. |
| Synopsis | A trio of short plays following the story of Mary, Joseph and Jesus from the end of most Nativity stories to the early days of Christianity in Rome. |
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A Smell of Burnt Feathers by Paul Gisby
Winner of the 1999 Royal Mail 'Write Now' play award.
Production by Penrhos Players won Best Drama in the Hale One-Act-Play festival, 2012. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two characters are adult sisters of a similar age (assumed mid-thirties). |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Contemporary realism. One-act play, single modern set, simple props. (Contains swearing.) |
| Synopsis | Oriole is events manager for an important conference, and her detailed plans didn't involve the arrival of her sister Jenny, fresh from their father's funeral. However, Oriole has some surprises in store for Jenny. |
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| The Smell of Dirt by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with no set necessary. |
| Synopsis | The friends of a recently released thief confront him for their share of a heist gone bad. |
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Smoke and Mirrors by E. C. Chapman
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. 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 | Dramatic monologue recounted by a theatre director. |
| Synopsis | A director talks through the trials and tribulations on an outdoor production of one of Shakespeare's most celebrated plays. |
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Smokes by Mike Smith
Short-listed for the Sydney Short+Sweet festival, January 2009 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play - a mime with words. No props (which is rather the point!) The set is a door and a pile of chairs. Note that this is written in British English which differs from US English in one of its slang synonyms for 'cigarette'. |
| Synopsis | A man and woman discover one another while hiding from a book launch and looking for a cigarette. They resort to imagination for smokes and escape to the top of a mountain, before regaining their courage and rejoining the launch. |
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Smokin' Cinders by Leo Finn
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Characters change role within the action. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short rhyming modern pantomime, with a basic set. |
| Synopsis | A potted-panto version of the Cinderella story in three short scenes, with a feisty Cinders and with minimal effects. |
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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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Smugglers by Geoff Bamber
Production by Plockton ADS Youth won the EML Quaich at the SCDA Highland Youth Festival, 2016 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. The number of smugglers, soldiers and inn customers can be varied according to demand, recruitment and thirst. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy adventure for kids. |
| Synopsis | John Fisher is an ambitious reporter, despatched to the darkest depths of the west country to investigate smuggling. Where better to start than the atmospheric 'Smuggler's Rest' inn, despite the landlady's assurances that there are no smugglers? The constant attentions of Captain Elwood of His Majesty's Revenue Service persuade John that there are indeed rum goings-on to look into. John and Lucy, the landlady's daughter, find themselves caught between the determined excise men and the ruthless smugglers with only the questionable assistance of the ghost of Old Granny Steggles to aid them. |
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