Lazy Bee Scripts

15/08/2024

Duologue for a teenager and an older woman mediated by a park bench (which, as usual, puts in a wooden performance)...

Short drama in which fourteen-year-old Evie and Freda, well into her sixties, meet on a park bench. Truant by Gill Medway. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

12/08/2024

Family-friendly comedy show with a small cast of actors playing actors playing characters. Winter Tails by Jackie Carreira. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

09/08/2024

Fancy a family-friendly fable?

Short play for children to perform. A fairytale with an original story. The Perfect Princess and the Wonky Wizard by Jonathan Edgington. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

07/08/2024

You may not have an immediate need for a farce set on election night, but it will come round again...

Full-length comedy/farce set in a TV studio on election night. Losing Count by Alan Hargreaves. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

02/08/2024

A full-length comedy play finds work colleagues trapped in an escape room for a team-building exercise. Escape! by Sharon Rutland. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

01/08/2024

A (theatrical) long-range weather forecast:

Festive one-act pantomime, with Christmas at risk! A minimum cast of 11, which would require a lot of doubling - otherwise, lots of small roles. Cloudy with a Chance of Reindeer by Alison McDonald. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

29/07/2024

27/07/2024

A full-length mystery set in Baker Street. The redoubtable Holmes is presented with a murder mystery that took place three weeks previously, hundreds of miles away. With his usual brilliance, he solves the case from the comfort of his sitting room. Sherlock Holmes and The Mystery at Mallen Hall by R...

25/07/2024

(One-act) fun in retirement:

One-act comedy set in a retirement home where the residents are threatened with an exercise class. Nine roles (of which 4M, 4F and one either.) Leave it to Lulu by Jim Hollingsworth. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

23/07/2024

To lose one butler, Mr. Murphy, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Wilde's comedy of manners cut down to one-act length, with a couple of narrators to set scenes, so that the play can be performed with minimal set. The Importance Of Being Earnest [45 minute abridgement] by Oscar Wilde abridged by Gerald P Murphy. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web...

22/07/2024

Fancy a theatrical brush with fine art?

Full-length comedy play in a single set amidst an auction of artworks by local painters. 4M, 5 or 6F and a news anchor's voiceover. A Change of Art by Philippa Smith. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

17/07/2024

Barmy about bones or scared of skeletons?

Short comedy drama for a cast of three. A Tour In The Vaults by Olivia Arieti. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

17/07/2024

A murder at a songwriting workshop. (Someone could write a song about it.)

Full-length play, a murder mystery set at a country music songwriting workshop, incorporating fragments of songs. Single interior set with a cast of 4M, 5F. Country Fried Murder by Judy Klass. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

16/07/2024

Introduce your audience to the strange delights of a querky coffee shop (13 characters, but playable by 3F, 4M):

One-act play set in a coffee shop (with some strange customers). Thirteen roles playable by a cast of 7. Everything's Eventual by Kieron Toner. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

12/07/2024

A one-act comedy play in which two men find themselves in a featureless room, with no memory of how they arrived there, or even who they are. Their only clues come from scraps of paper on the floor... The Dreaming by Richard James. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

12/07/2024

Short duologue for two elderly ladies and the ubiquitous bench.

Short comedy drama in which two elderly ladies react to a skateboarder in the vicinity of their park bench. The Skateboard by Jamesine Cundell Walker. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

08/07/2024

The terrors of a primary school staff room (and wait till you meet the head) ...

Short drama, set in a primary school. Head and six other teachers plus two offstage children's voices (which could be recorded). The Staff Room by Juliet Devon. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

03/07/2024

Not long now until our next production!

Never Mind The Butler is an hilarious comedy, you are guaranteed a brilliant evening out.

Licensed bar, tea, coffee and delicious homemade cakes.

Note the later start time - doors open 7.30pm with curtain up at 8pm.

Due to the popularity of last year's SELL OUT production we have added a third date this year!

Tickets available from https://thelittleboxoffice.com/nats/ or Newport Village Stores

We can't wait to see you there 🎭

(If the link for tickets doesn't work, typing it directly into your search engine usually does 😊)

03/07/2024

Pantomime in which a family of dancing bears join a circus! Goldilocks And The Three Bears [Version 3] by Warren McWilliams. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

03/07/2024

It's time to roll-out your park bench for a monologue:

Dramatic monologue. A woman reflects on her life and that of her child. The First Born by Jamesine Cundell Walker. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

02/07/2024

A comedy skit for a cast of 3 in which a Shakespeare obsessive visits the doctor. All's Will That Ends Will by Barry Wood. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

02/07/2024

Fancy a short play for two women?
[The English language is full of ambiguity. I just read that back and thought that I should clarify: I mean a stage play.]

A short play. Jo is reluctant to look at the results of her pregnancy test, despite encouragement from her partner Danni. (Lazy Bee Scripts has also published a one-act version of the same story.) 50/50 [Short play] by Jamesine Cundell Walker. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web sit...

28/06/2024

There's ten minutes of the Zombie Apocalypse here (along with Chekhov's cheese grater):

Ten-minute comedy/horror play for a cast of three. The Theatre of the Zombie Apocalypse. 10 Minutes And Counting by Barry Wood. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

27/06/2024

Another benchmark in short drama

Poignant short vignette in which Harriet, a young care-home worker, meets the retired Georgie on a park bench. The Care Home by Jamesine Cundell Walker. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

26/06/2024

What's the best thing about your new apartment? (Find out in a comedy thriller for a cast of 6 or 7.)

Comedy thriller in two acts for a cast of 6 or 7 with a single apartment setting. Look at the View by Rupert Dick. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.

25/06/2024

Ten minute play for 2F (of strikingly different ages)

Ten-minute play: Teenager Alex gets talking to elderly Gladys in a hospital waiting room. Kippers Can’t Swim by Jamesine Cundell Walker. Read the complete script on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.