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| Time To Go by Charles Dennison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play set in the lounge of a (nursing) care home. A good review of lives lived by those about to leave them.
Written in British English - a slang word for a cigarette might surprise readers and audiences from elsewhere. |
| Synopsis | Alf, Elsie and William are three friends in a retirement home. They swap stories of their lives, until one by one they slip away. Elsie is the last to go, missing her friends and sharing her memories with Mel, their care worker. |
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Time Travel Agent by Tony Domaille
Best Seller Winner 2018 international Pint Size Plays script writing competition |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with a single (travel agent shop) setting. |
| Synopsis | Brian would like to book a time travel holiday, but can't decide where and when to go. Meanwhile, Mr Jennings arrives back from his holiday with complaints. |
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| Time Will Tell by Jamie Hope |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two human characters and a dog. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch set at a service counter (which is the only essential set). |
| Synopsis | Mrs Striker has a problem with her alarm clock. However, after taking it to the receiving office for domestic emergencies, she soon has a problem with Mrs Whacker, who keeps offering solutions to problems she doesn't have. |
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| The Tinmaster's Tale by Mike Sparks |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script suggests the option of one song at the end of the piece. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play (with an optional suggested song) for Passiontide, using a mixture of biblical sources and British legend. |
| Synopsis | Soon after the execution of certain Nazarene, an Innkeeper is woken by a woman looking for her husband, who works for Joseph of Arimathea. It transpires that Joseph has taken the man with him to Britain, seeking to escape the animosity of the other Sanhedrin members. |
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| Tissues and Wine by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. Single domestic setting. Set in Australia, though the situation is universal, and it could easily be moved. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Sonia has just caught her husband having an affair, and has retreated to her mother's house for solace. That's not quite what she gets when Julia, the nosey neighbour, invites herself over to share in the bottle of wine and the advice. |
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| The Titanic by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute presentational play for a school class. |
| Synopsis | The tragic story of the Titanic retold in Assembly form, with survivors and the less fortunate passengers telling their stories. |
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| To Be Hamlet by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play. Simplest set - a bare stage - simple props. |
| Synopsis | An actor struggles with the role of Hamlet as Hamlet struggles with his destiny. |
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| To Hell With The Housework by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The gender of the speaker is not identified (but he or she definitely has a downer on domesticity). |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming comedy monologue. |
| Synopsis | A rhyming monologue about a big old fight in the cleaning equipment cupboard. |
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| To My Roommate by Erica Glenn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The speaker is a girl of college age. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short monologue. (No set or props required.) |
| Synopsis | A brief rant about the joys of sharing a room with someone given to anxiety! |
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| A to Z The Universe In Me by Michal Y Noah |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. Variable number of characters may double at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short rhyming piece for young children, with no set requirements. Based on the author's best-selling award-winning children's book of the same name. |
| Synopsis | A piece to encourage children to vocalise positive attributes - using the whole alphabet! |
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