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Play Script Collections |
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Collections of Play Scripts. Each play in the collection can be read
in full online. |
All the scripts described below can be read in full on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site. (Click on the links
to see the complete online scripts.) However, all the scripts on this site are copyrighted. They may not
be printed, quoted or performed without the permission of Lazy Bee Scripts. Click here for details of the script prices and licensing arrangements.
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| Acting Funny | Author | Jack Burgess |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 52. Chorus. Three of the characters (two in one sketch, one in another) are intended to be played by children. | |
| Run time | Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for the opening and closing songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. (Original lyrics, music by Sir Arthur Sullivan) | |
| Style | A revue - a set of 17 comedy sketches and songs, varying in length from one to ten minutes. Basically a family show, but includes mild swearing in a few of the sketches. | |
| Synopsis | A collection of sketches, including opening and closing songs, five Great Moments from History, two French Lessons, three monologues, a very small circus, the ante-rooms to the after-life, a spoof of a medical soap opera, a martial arts demonstration and the Dead Carrot sketch. [Note that some of the longer sketches are also available individually.] | |
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | |
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| Beasts | Author | Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of adults and children, intended to be played by a Youth Theatre company or a mixed company. | |
| Run time | Around 175 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | |
| Music | None. | |
| Style | Collection of five one-act plays based on short stories by Saki (H H Munro). Following the originals, the humour is very dark - verging on wicked. | |
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The stories are: Sredni Vashtar in which a boy oppressed by his aunt extracts an unexpected revenge Gabriel-Ernest about a werewolf The Storyteller featuring a subversive entertainer The Open Window in which the hero does not discover a rest cure and The Gala Programme which revisits Roman attitudes to female emancipation and entertainment |
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| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | |
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| Emotions | Author | 10 x 10 Writers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 42. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of adults and children of various ages, intended to be played either by that mixture or by youth theatre groups. | |
| Run time | Around 55 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | |
| Music | None. | |
| Style | A collection of eleven short plays. Basic sets, a few simple props. | |
| Synopsis |
The collection was commissioned for a Youth Theatre workshop. Each play is for four actors or fewer, playing a mixture of adults and children, and intended - as you might deduce from the title - to demonstrate emotions. The plays are not designed to be performed in any particular order. |
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| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | |
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| Grimm Tales - for Little Horrors | Author | Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. | |
| Run time | Around 70 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | |
| Music | None. | |
| Style | Collection of four short one-act plays for children based on stories from the Grimm Brothers' collection. | |
| Synopsis |
The four stories are:- The Bird, the Mouse and the Sausage The Elf and the Shoemaker Jack and the Giant Mother Holle |
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| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | |
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| Nursery Crimes - the Complete Series | Author | tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. | |
| Run time | Around 95 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | |
| Music | None. | |
| Style | Six one act plays (durations from 10 to 30 minutes) with simple staging requirements. | |
| Synopsis | A series of six short plays - using nursery rhyme characters to parody other forms, notably film noir. Most of them could be performed by children, but all of them would amuse adults as well as children. The plays are Nursery Crimes, More Nursery Crimes, Nursery Crimes - The Egg's Files, Nursery Crime Scene Investigation, Nursery Crimes - Four and Twenty and Finally Nursery Crimes - The Da Wincey Code. | |
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | |
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| Rusticesses | Author | Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. | |
| Run time | Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | |
| Music | None. | |
| Style | Collection of three linked sketches. No set requirements, simple props. The sketches could be presented together, or could be used separately (for example as front-of-curtain interludes in a sketch show). | |
| Synopsis |
Two ladies of dubious intellectual capacity discuss life, husbands and their impending motherhood in three encounters. Described by the author as a self-supporting companion to 'Rustics' by which he means that the concept is similar (this is the female counterpart), but the scripts are totally independent. |
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| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | |
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| Rustics | Author | Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. | |
| Run time | Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | |
| Music | None. | |
| Style | Collection of four sketches. No set requirements, simple props (and only two of those). The sketches could be presented together, or could be used separately (for example as front-of-curtain interludes in a sketch show). | |
| Synopsis | Two local yokels discuss whatever comes to mind! | |
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | |
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| The Complete Short Pants | Author | Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 80. Chorus. | |
| Run time | Around 95 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | |
| Music | None. | |
| Style | Collection of seven short rhyming pantomime scripts (ten to 15 minutes each) | |
| Synopsis | The tales of Cinderella, A Christmas Carol, Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk, Whittington and his Crazy Cat, Ali Baba and Mother Goose told in rhyme. | |
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | |
| Plus | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show |
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| Varadachary's Annotated Chess Masterpieces | Author | Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 44. No chorus. Characters include Ghandi, Tolstoy, Fidel Castro, Marcel DuChamp, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Napoleon! | |
| Run time | Around 230 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | |
| Music | None. | |
| Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. | |
| Synopsis | A cycle of 11 one-act plays, linked by the character of Ramanujan Varadachary, an old Indian story-teller - who uses the chess games as allegories for discussions about, art, ethics, politics, love and revolution! | |
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | |
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