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You Butterfly by Steve Eddison
Published: 27 November 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 24 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act drama. Single, simple set. Includes adult themes.
SynopsisElderly Betty is suffering memory loss and dementia. Her odd behaviour in the middle of the night leads to the uncovering of a family skeleton that would have been best left in the cupboard, or perhaps her father's shed.
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Potted Pride & Prejudice by Nadya Henwood
Published: 26 November 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Written for a cast of 4 playing 14 roles (with one of the men playing the older female roles).
Run TimeAround 50 minutes. [Estimated!]
The original production (with a cast of 4) ran between 45 and 50 minutes.
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, designed to be performed in a simple set (just furniture brought on by the cast). Essentially a drama, but with comedy, not least from the casting.
SynopsisMrs Bennet is keen to find husbands for her four daughters, especially when the wealthy Mr Bingley moves into the area. Elizabeth instantly dislikes the snobbish Darcy, and Lydia runs off with the charming Wickham, but not everyone is how they first seem.
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Birdseed by Ged Quayle
Published: 21 November 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleSketch-length thriller in Grand Guignol style (where some elements might be classified as gross! You have been warned.) Set in an apartment - created by just a couple of pieces of furniture.
SynopsisBen likes strippers and has invited Ann back to his appartment. What seems like a nervous date is actually a deadly game between two people with dark secrets.
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Never Mind the Bonnets by Lou Treleaven
Published: 19 November 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Fourteen characters, playable by a cast of 10 (plus a brief cameo from the stage crew, playing a conga of servants).
Run TimeAround 88 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThe Producer's Copy of the script includes lyrics to three (mercifully short) songs from Lord Meddlesome (who fancies himself as a shantyman). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleEngagingly comic parody of Jane Austen's 19th century romances. Nominally three locations, but these are all interiors and can be created with furniture and stage dressing.
SynopsisIn the Regency Era, a family of young women and their mother are forced to accept a small property on a relative's estate when the man of the family dies. Naturally, they must be thrown into the path of suitable husbands ...
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Dastardly Devon by Deb Meyer
Published: 14 November 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. Optional, non-speaking (but definitely growling) chorus of wolves.
Run TimeAround 28 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act children's play in American English. A single, simple set.
SynopsisBlair, Mateo and Charles - better known as the Three Little Pigs - are terrified of Devon, the dastardly wolf. But Devon is not the monster they expect him to be, and has problems of his own, having been cast out of his bullying wolf pack.
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Dreadfully Good by Peter Robbie
Published: 13 November 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 22 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act play for a cast of 5, set in a theatre.
SynopsisAs they await the adjudicator's verdict, two amateur actresses pass their own judgement on the performances at a drama festival. But their bitchiness causes trouble in the auditorium and the adjudicator turns out to be an old 'friend'.
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Bon Appetit by Ged Quayle
Published: 8 November 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 9 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleComedy-horror sketch - in the mode of Grand Guignol (where some elements might be classified as gross! You have been warned.) Set in appartment - created by just a couple of pieces of furniture.
SynopsisEdwin Tusk, the third richest man in the world, is planning the ultimate banquet. The chef he's chosen has met (and been bankrupted by) Mr Tusk before. As discussions turn dark, the chef wreaks a terrible revenge.
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The Consultation by Rosemary Enright
Published: 8 November 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two main characters - consultant and patient - and a cameo from the nurse.
Run TimeAround 20 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThe Producer's Copy of the script suggests one piece of incidental music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleShort drama set in a doctor's consulting room (furniture only).
SynopsisA very determined and opinionated patient confronts her Oncology specialist about his intended treatment of her condition. She challenges his views on a number of fronts, leaving him unsure of almost everything.
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Turning The Tables by Bob Hartwell
Published: 5 November 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Nine on-stage characters and two offstage (male) voices.
Run TimeAround 114 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFull-length, fast-paced comedy in a single café set.
SynopsisLondoner Freddie Fleetwood buys the Cozee Corner Café in a rural village, planning to open an upmarket eaterie. But the cook and waitress regard themselves as fixtures and fittings, and an elderly customer always shows up even when the place is closed. Throw in Freddie's dodgy business adviser and a French chef who cannot speak French, and all seems lost.
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Can There Be Justice For TJ? by Evonne Fields-Gould
Published: 1 November 2024
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Cast with mixed ages and some specific ethnicities.
Run TimeAround 18 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort American drama. Single set (a kitchen, but with parts of the stage used for action that takes place elsewhere).
SynopsisVivian, a distraught mother, recalls the events that led up to the death of her son, killed by a police officer, and the impact it has had on herself and the remaining family members. She has turned to heavy drinking, and wonders whether she can still be a good mother to Little Man.
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