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| Whose Baby? by John Collings |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy with a single (hospital waiting room) setting. Adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Three pregnant women from very different backgrounds have come for a routine check-up. As they wait to be seen, they discuss their various experiences whilst conceiving. One of them goes into labour, with shocking results. |
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| Why Homo Erectus Died Out by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Optional gender for the Presenter role |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act comedy play, with a single simple setting. |
| Synopsis | Professor Anthony presents his imaginative theory as to why Homo-Erectus died out, as we watch the interaction between male and female played out in mime - and Ugs - before our very eyes. |
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| The Wild Wolves of Wyoming by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The characters are pigs and wolves! Additional wolf pups could be added to fit the available numbers. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for overture and five songs (using traditional tunes) is supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical for performance by a small cast of children. A cartoon brought to life! Minimal set requirements. Basic props. |
| Synopsis | It's the time-honoured battle between a wolf and three little pigs, only this time the pigs have the upper hand and the wolf is being oppressed - and boy does his family resent it! |
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| Will's Women by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play. Single set. |
| Synopsis | Hard at work on his new tragedy about a certain Scotsman, Will Shakespeare is visited by four women from the play, and they're not at all happy with him. They have something to say about the violence and negative portrayal of women. |
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| Willy Wonga by Connie Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. 20 roles, though most are gender non-specific and can be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short modernised adaptation of A Christmas Carol, in rhyming form. |
| Synopsis | The tale of A Christmas Carol brought up to date and presented in a rhyming form, starring Willy Wonga, the unrepentant Payday Lender who's keen to get every last penny out of everybody he meets. Until, that is, this Christmas night... |
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| Windmills and Millstones by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters and the offstage voice of their author. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play, exploring the life of fictional characters in the great maybe - before they have been committed to the page. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Three characters wait in the mind of an author who has abandoned their stories. They are joined by a new character who doesn't know her name or story. They try to prepare her for her new existence, not knowing she knows more than she's telling. |
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| Wink by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute romantic comedy. Single simple set (just a table and two chairs to simulate a small café ). |
| Synopsis | Ted is waiting nervously for his 'wink' - a sort of pre-date date. His nerves are soothed by a helpful waitress who lets him in on some of the mysteries of womankind. When his wink doesn't even stay for coffee, Ted finds love anyway... |
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| A Wiser Miser by Giles Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two songs are suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act verse play. The staging, as presented, may be slightly complex, but the Producer's Copy of the script includes a couple of alternatives for simplification. |
| Synopsis | The miser in question, is, of course, Ebenezer Scrooge, as this is a rhyming version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. |
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| Wonder Wall by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A topical comedy sketch with a single, simple setting. |
| Synopsis | Dave and George are spending a night out at the local pub. George is bemoaning the fact that his new neighbour intends to build a wall between their properties. |
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| The Wonderful World of the Weather by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. Lots of characters, but with just a few lines each, so lots of doubling possible. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 7 songs and three musical interludes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Rhyming play for young children. No set or props needed.
The text displayed on-line is in British English, but there is also an edition in US English (US spellings and 'Fall' instead of 'Autumn'). |
| Synopsis | A whirlwind tour of the weather and seasons. |
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