Please Note: In many of the scripts, several characters can be played by one actor or actress. I like to write plays with roles of varying sizes -- as many adults do not have the time to commit to memorizing a large role.
There are numerous female roles, since I have a dedicated core of women who come out each year to perform. I have had great success with women playing male roles and managing to hoodwink the audience. (Hence my website title - Ladybug Plays.)
Oren and Fay Larson's first guests will soon be arriving at their bed-and-breakfast The Eagle's Nest, and Fay is in a panic. She didn't actually expect to get any customers; she just wanted to do some renovations to their home. The fact that Leonard Flaman, the local pest control officer, is constantly underfoot doesn't make things any easier. 46 pages. 11 characters.
On One July Night the residents of Flatdale are invaded by -- not one -- but TWO alien landing parties. Inspired by the appearance of crop circles near Midale in 1999. 57 pages. 18 Characters
Three farmwives and an eighty-something CCFer pull off The Great Casino Robbery under the noses of the sauve Casino Regina manager and a biker gang. 73 pages. 18 characters.
Imperfect Harmony tells the story of a quartet of Sweet Adelines from Toad Hill, Saskatchewan. They travel to Europe to take part in an international convention and instead become entangled in international intrigue. Will Natasha and Grigori succeed in carrying out a diabolical scheme to assassinate the newly elected Borovian president? Or will they be thwarted by Alessandro, a Level One Operative from TSN (The Spy Network)? 73 pages. 15 characters.
A Tale of Two Sisters is a murder-mystery set in River Heights, Saskatchewan. Lottie and Lizzie Stone are two well-to-do sisters who are surrounded by bizarre relatives. Lizzie, a pyschic, is just a bit bizarre herself! This play contains all the requisites of a comic-murder mystery - a family jewel, a last will and testament, a seance, and a surly Romanian housekeeper. 59 pages. 12 characters.
In Farmers in Paradise, the members of the newly formed Western Farmers Alliance are having their first annual convention in the island country of San Paradisio, which is reputed to be a cheap holiday spot. San Paradisio was at one time a colony of France and Spain, and is inundated with both cultures and languages, as well as its native culture. In the midst of the inaugural supper, General Allende, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces overthrows the recently democratically elected government in a military coup, and throws the president behind bars. The members of the WFA are taken hostage and become political pawns in General Allende's scheme to make San Paradisio a world power. Within hours, the farmers and their wives organize themselves into a crack guerrilla squad, who are able to help coordinate a people's revolt against the military regime. 65 pages. 18 characters.
The citizens of Flatdale are eagerly preparing for their town's Homecoming. They are especially excited about the goods and services auction and talent show, which will star country music celebrity and hometown gal Jaycee Bell. Will the town survive a tornado and a sinister plot to turn their rink into a storage facility for toxic waste? 67 pages. 17 characters.