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| Isn't It Odd? by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Margaret should be at least 45 years old. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy monologue with a single (kitchen) set. |
| Synopsis | Margaret is sitting in her kitchen reflecting on the past and the antics of her neighbours - not that she's nosey...! |
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| It'll All End In Tiers by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Beverley is described as 'an older woman', but without a specific age, so there's considerable flexibility. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short prose comedy monologue. |
| Synopsis | Beverley, an older lady who lives alone, has found a novel way to combat loneliness - attending weddings uninvited. |
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| It's A Cat's Life by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for youth theatre. |
| Synopsis | A group of cats are introducing the latest kitten to life on the lane, when a stray offers a differing view of humans and their houses. Before any conclusions can be drawn, the kitten gets into danger and needs rescue. |
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| It's A Funny Old Game 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 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Whimsical two-men-in-a-pub sketch. |
| Synopsis | Dave and George spending a night out at the local pub watching a televised football match. They get philosophical after the final whistle. |
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| It's A Funny Old World by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music to one song is provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. (The tune is 'John Brown's Body' - or 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' if you prefer.) |
| Style | One-act youth comedy play. Single set (though a cricket pavillion on Neptune is a rather bizarre location). |
| Synopsis | A group of ladies from 1913 are marooned on Neptune. How did they get there, and why are they still alive? Two crews from competing nations arrive to try and puzzle out the mystery, but they need to know what happened to the other missions first... |
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| It's About Time by James P Brosnahan & Joseph S Kubu |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice, optionally recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act, light comedy, play. |
| Synopsis | Nick has brought Kim to the museum to look at art, but also to propose. Unfortunately they are interrupted by Nicholas who seems to know a lot about art and the two of them. He is actually a future version of Nick, and has his own plans for the evening. |
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| It's Been A While by Bibi Berki & Mark Lingwood |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Non-specific lift muzak is to be briefly played at one point in the scene. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with a hotel set suggested by props and lighting. Adult content. |
| Synopsis | A couple have booked a hotel room for the consummation of their clandestine love affair. Being inexperienced in this sort of thing, they find there is more to it than they first thought. |
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| It's Christmas Time! by Sharon Stace-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Flexible cast plus the option of a separate choir (otherwise choir pieces are sung by the acting ensemble.) |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] (Run time of the first production was 35 minutes!) |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for the 9 songs plus optional overture and 8 pieces of incidental music. |
| Style | A musical nativity play for schools, with minimal staging requirements. |
| Synopsis | A lop eared donkey who wants to be a horse, sets the scene for this nativity play with a difference. |
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| It's Not Brain Surgery! by Jamie Hope |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy (on the boundary between a one-act play and a short) in a single set, most of which is a hospital bed. |
| Synopsis | A parody doctor with a very questionable bedside manner has to fill in a patient on the unusual results of the operation to re-attach his severed thumb. |
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| It's not the end of the World by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. Minimal office setting |
| Synopsis | One of the most important questions about the zombie apocalypse: what happens to the advertising industry? After all, it's not the end of the world... |
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