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Play Script Collections
Collections of Play Scripts. Each play in the collection can be read in full online. Copies of the scripts and performance licences are available from Lazy Bee Scripts

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.


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.]
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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.
	Synopsis	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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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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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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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.
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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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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!
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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

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!
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