Index of All Available Scripts by Lee Shackleford
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Full-Length Plays
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How would you feel if your best friend and personal hero faked his own death -- then returned after three years, expecting you to act as if nothing had changed? That's the problem facing Dr. John H. Watson -- and to make matters worse, the return of Sherlock Holmes brings with it a threat from a deadly assassin, a sharpshooter who never misses... read more
The script is available in a handsome 130-page volume with production photos (including scenic designer Kel Laeger's gorgeous set for 221B Baker Street), tips on how to produce the show's special effects, and more. There's even a five-pound note you can photocopy right out of the book. All for a mere $14.95 plus shipping -- available only from Amazon.com!
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 Four gifted college students compete in a contest of intellect, with high-paying jobs as the prize. But in the process of answering the contest's probing questions, the four friends quickly find themselves at each other's throats and in each other's beds... read more
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 A new adaptation of Karel Capek's 1920 play, the political satire that gave the world the word "robot." I have tried to bring the play's characters and language into a more modern vernacular than in the literal translations. And I've tried to be as faithful as possible to Karel Capek's intentions while updating the details of the ethical issues raised, and -- above all -- approaching the story as a more realistic piece of science fiction with more fully-rounded characters. read more
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 A full-length comedy. Wisecracking twentysomething Jennifer Pierce makes a bet with her landlady, a wager Jennifer hopes will quash forever her landlady's attempts to save Jennifer's soul from Hell. Jennifer finds herself the focus of nationwide media attention when she apparently starts to undergo the exact temptations presented to Jesus during his forty days in the wilderness... read more
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Plays for Young Audiences
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 Mark Twain's immortal novel is brought to life in a roller-coaster-fast version that tells the whole story in under an hour. The novel's many and diverse characters are played by as few as five actors -- including a male who plays Aunt Polly and a female who plays Doc Robinson...
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 Most "children's versions" of The Thousand and One Nights focus on the same stories: Aladdin, Sinbad, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and so on. This version brings to life a few of many, many other stories in the centuries-old collection of tales from the medieval Middle East. Audiences see an ugly turtle transformed to a beautiful princess, an evil magician who kidnaps a young girl with his flying horse, and a wicked witch who will do anything to gain the unlimited power of the Genie...
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 Who was he really? A common thief, a pickpocket -- or a patriot who risked everything for his king? This high-energy amalgam of several Robin Hood legends celebrates the fun and frenzy of the familiar story while putting the Sherwood bandit on trial -- letting the audience decide if he is a force for good or evil...
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 The world-famous O.Henry short story is the basis for this rollicking play for five actors. A real treat for an actor or actress of diminutive stature who can credibly play the hellacious little boy who drives his kidnappers to the point of despair. Also includes the cross-dressing that somehow figures prominently in all of these plays...
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Short Plays
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PUSHED TO THE LIMIT
A collection of six short plays, most of them first produced as part of Theatre UAB's annual Festival of Ten-Minute Plays. Each tells the tale of someone driven to the edge of endurance ...
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A Company of Players Cometh Nigh
Two friends disagree so strongly over a question of politics that they end up in a fight to the death. Written in Elizabethan English and rhyming iambic pentameter. Yes, really. read more
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How Revolutions Get Started
A couple of millionaire executives try to one-up each other while the cleaning lady and window washer listen in growing astonishment...and mounting rage. (Incidentally, I do not by any means advocate the course of action the maintenance workers take.) read more
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Into Fire
What would it be like to literally hold the fate of the world in your hands? A soldier of fortune has that experience -- and decides to back out of the plan for which his partner has already sacrificed everything... read more
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The Road
What does the future hold for you? Will you live a long and happy life, full of love and promise? Or will your life be cut off far too soon and in hideous agony? The most popular and frequently-produced of my short plays. read more
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Two Kinds of Tired
In segregation-era Alabama, an African-American woman struggles to do things white women do with ease.
A winner of the Panoply Arts Festival and a popular competition piece. read more
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Why I Love My Doctor
A hapless patient (the playwright) is shuttled from one doctor to another, each more bizarrely unhelpful than the last. Every word entirely true -- including the heartwarming ending. read more
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Scripts
