Our one-act plays are popular choices for competitions (where several have won awards) and play evenings and offer a wide range of challenging subjects and situations. Over 400 performances to date!

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A Time for Farewells - A couple face the end of their married life together.
Don't Mention the Dream - At the am-dram AGM the choice of play is discussed.
Fight for the Future - A time traveller visits the future.
Loitering Within Tent - There is more to the ‘Bedouin Desert experience’ than meets the eye…
Making Theatre History - The society chair reveals his plans for the next show.
Outside the Audition - Two hopeful actors waiting for an audition debate the merits of their chosen audition pieces.
Taking Minutes, Wasting Hours! - A committee is surprised by the visitor.
The Big Courtroom Drama - A drama class puts the teacher on trial.
The Crying Dame - high drama and theatrics at the am-dram committee meeting!
The Friday Night Radio Play - A family struggle to perform a radio play to their grandma.
The Golf War Widows - 3 wives meet at a golf tournament.
The Kitchen Skirmishes - A couple deal with parenthood.
The Red Balloon - A play in interupted and the meaning of true theatre discussed.
Waiting for Twist Stiffly - The cast of a 50's space drama series discuss their lot.
Work in Progress - A writer faces rebellion from the charatcers in his novel!

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A Time for Farewells
1m 1f
Running Time: 45 mins approx
As they dress for a social event that will mark the end of their married life together, Sarah and Alex review their relationship to find out what brought them to this point.
Licensing: This script is published through Lazy Bee Scripts. To read the whole script on line and to make an application to perform the show please visit Lazy Bee Scripts
Winner of the Author's Award, RAFTA One-Act Play Festival 2003
Winner of Bronze Medal in the Drama Association of Wales One-Act Play Competition 2003
Highly Commended by the Sussex Playwright's Club
Winner All Wales YFC Drama Festival 2007

Don't Mention the Dream
3f 1m
Running Time: 25 mins approx
It's the annual meeting of the Drama Society, but they're a bit thin on the ground this year. Will Russell get his way and produce a period "Midsummer Night's Dream" or will Lucy put a spanner in the works?
Licensing: This script is published through Lazy Bee Scripts. To read the whole script on line and to make an application to perform the show please visit Lazy Bee Scripts
Winner Best Play in Lincoln Drama Festival 2007

Fight for the Future
1m 2f
Running Time: 20 mins approx
The first ever time traveller journeys to the future and discovers a world very different to the one he imagined…
Licensing: This script is published through Lazy Bee Scripts. To read the whole script on line and to make an application to perform the show please visit Lazy Bee Scripts

Loitering Within Tent
1m 6f
Running Time: 20 mins approx
A Tourist party of ladies from the Women’s Institute are treated to the ‘Bedouin Desert experience’, unaware that there is more to it than meets the eye…
Licensing: This script is published through Lazy Bee Scripts. To read the whole script on line and to make an application to perform the show please visit Lazy Bee Scripts

Making Theatre History
3m 3f
Running Time: 25 mins approx
It is decision time for the Amdram society committee. The next show must be chosen tonight and after months of arguments and division, the task of making that choice has been handed to the chair, Richard, to make. But Richard’s announcement is not quite what everyone was expecting…
Licensing: This script is published through Lazy Bee Scripts. To read the whole script on line and to make an application to perform the show please visit Lazy Bee Scripts

Outside the Audition
2m
Running Time: 25 mins approx
Bill and Jeff are waiting for their audition slot and help each other out by rehearsing their lines together. Unfortunately, they can’t agree on what makes a good piece of drama.
Licensing: This script is published through Lazy Bee Scripts. To read the whole script on line and to make an application to perform the show please visit Lazy Bee Scripts

Taking Minutes, Wasting Hours!
3m 3f
Running Time: 20 mins approx
It's committee night and the Chairman has been asked to introduce a surprise speaker. Little does he know what a surprise she'll be!
Licensing: This script is published through Lazy Bee Scripts. To read the whole script on line and to make an application to perform the show please visit Lazy Bee Scripts

The Big Courtroom Drama
3m 2f
Running Time: 25 mins approx
A group of drama students improvise a courtroom scene, but when the teacher becomes the accused, can they tell where the make-believe ends?
Licensing: This script is published through Lazy Bee Scripts. To read the whole script on line and to make an application to perform the show please visit Lazy Bee Scripts

The Crying Dame
3f 3m
Running Time: 30 mins approx
A regular committee meeting of the Southern Sudbury-Regis Drama Club is rudely interrupted by one of the society members who has some strong ideas about the next pantomime. Little do they know just how far he is prepared to go!
Licensing: This script is published through Lazy Bee Scripts. To read the whole script on line and to make an application to perform the show please visit Lazy Bee Scripts

The Friday Night Radio Play
9 performers
Running Time: 35 mins approx
It's an exciting night for the Branston family. The premier of aspiring writer Geoff's radio play is about to be broadcast and the family is gathered to listen. But just as it is about to start, the fuses blow. To ensure that Grandma is not disappointed, the show must go on...
Licensing: This script is published through Lazy Bee Scripts. To read the whole script on line and to make an application to perform the show please visit Lazy Bee Scripts

The Golf War Widows
3f
Running Time: 30 mins approx
Three women meet behind the scenes at a corporate Golf Tournament. Theresa is a wife who has built her own business in response to her husband's obsession with work and her own fading looks. Dotty has brought up a family despite the disinterest of her husband and Rachel... became a crime-fighter.
Licensing: This script is published through Lazy Bee Scripts. To read the whole script on line and to make an application to perform the show please visit Lazy Bee Scripts

The Kitchen Skirmishes
2m 2f
Running Time: 40 mins approx
When Lucy and Bernard have their first child, they decide that Bernard will stay home and be the house husband while Lucy continues working. Bernard thinks it will be a walk in the park… he has a surprise in store…
Licensing: This script is published through Lazy Bee Scripts. To read the whole script on line and to make an application to perform the show please visit Lazy Bee Scripts

The Red Balloon
1m 2f
Running Time: 20 mins approx
A couple interrupt the premier of a piece of Modern Theatre and claim it's all rubbish. The performer challenges them to produce something better, and the three begin to work on the piece together. What will they come up with by the end of the evening?
Licensing: This script is published through Lazy Bee Scripts. To read the whole script on line and to make an application to perform the show please visit Lazy Bee Scripts
Winner of Best Play Award, GDA Festival 2006

Waiting for Twist Stiffly
3m 2f
Running Time: 30 mins approx
Filming of the 1950’s adventure serial “Twist Stiffly – Space adventurer” is being held up because the leading man is nowhere to be found. While the remaining cast members lounge around waiting for him to turn up, they discuss their roles in the drama and their dissatisfactions with the main man. Then they come up with a great way to fill their time until he arrives…
Licensing: This script is published through Lazy Bee Scripts. To read the whole script on line and to make an application to perform the show please visit Lazy Bee Scripts

Work in Progress
2m 2f
Running Time: 30 mins approx
Working on his Chandleresque detective novel, an author is confronted by his characters who are unsatisfied with the plot. They force him to take on the roles in the book and begin a rewrite.
Licensing: This script is published through Lazy Bee Scripts. To read the whole script on line and to make an application to perform the show please visit Lazy Bee Scripts
Winner of the Author's Award, RAFTA One-Act Play Festival 2000
Runner up in the Millennium One-Act Play competition 2000
Winner of the Adjudicator's Award, Anglesey Drama Festival 2005

We also offer two further one-act plays in our Nursery Crimes series.

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