Plays with Moral Themes

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What counts as a play with a moral theme is very much a matter of judgement.  The fact that a play doesn't appear in this listing doesn't mean that a moral cannot be drawn from it!
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For convenience, we have grouped the scripts by age ranges (Scripts for Younger Primary School Children, Scripts for Juniors and Scripts for Teenagers) - however this is a matter of opinion!  What we think suits a particular group may not match with your opinion, therefore we strongly advise you to read the script on-line before purchasing!


Scripts for Younger Primary School Children - from Lazy Bee Scripts

A Letter to SantaAuthorSue Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Two of the characters are nominally adults. It is written so that the cast can be divided into two - a school class and Santa's elves.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for 5 original songs is provided with the producer's copy of the script.
Style A light musical for young children. Basic sets.
Synopsis A school class write Christmas letters to Santa, and we discover that they are dealt with by Mrs. Santa and a bunch of fractious elves.
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:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show

A Magic Paint BrushAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Whilst Chen is written as a girl, the character could easily be switched to a boy (likewise Old Sing and the Magician are written male but could be female). Cast includes a cow and a small flock of (talking) chickens.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for children, based on a Chinese folk tale. Simple set (the set calls for a hut upstage, but that could merely be implied by an upstage exit), simple props.
Synopsis In feudal China, Chen and her mother are oppressed by their landlord and his greedy, vindictive family. Then a magician arrives and gives Chen a magic paint brush, painting with it makes dreams come true...
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Minny Pinny Makes a DifferenceAuthorStuart Ardern
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Two songs. Words and sheet music supplied with the producer's copy of the script.
Style Simple moral story, designed as a class assembly piece (with a target age group of around 8 years old). A small number of central characters and a Greek Chorus commenting on the action with words and songs.
Synopsis The farmer can't get to market, the driver can't drive him because his truck tyre is flat and there's nobody to take it to the garage. Minny Pinny is only a little girl, how can she help the farmer? How can she make a difference?
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
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Rhyming Two SistersAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Characters include a talking cow and, even more unusually, a talking tree!
Run time Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short morality tale, told as a verse play.
Synopsis Joan and Jill are sisters, one helpful, one unkind
To seek their fortunes in the world is what they have in mind
But though they set out boldly, alas there is a hitch
Whilst out to see what they can do, they meet a wicked witch!
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Squirrel Plays His PartAuthorStuart Ardern
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The characters are three narrators and lots of jungle animals. The numbers are intended to be flexible, with options to combine or redistribute lines.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for two original songs is included with the Producer's Copy of the script.
Style Musical play for young children. No set requirements. A few simple props. A moral story about prioritisation and co-operation!
Synopsis The jungle animals are supposed to be growing crops, but they keep getting distracted by ants!
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:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show

The Bullies at Sam's CaféAuthorStuart Ardern
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. There are three distinct chorus groups with flexible number - the piece was designed to be performed by a whole class. All roles are gender-neutral.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for two original songs is included with the Producer's Copy of the script.
Style Short one-act play for primary school children, with two songs. Nominally two sets, but no specific scenery, and only simple props.
Synopsis A bully with a gang disturbs the staff and customers at Sam's café, but when the bullies get into trouble, should Sam and his friends help them?
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:
** Midi files of songs from the show


Plays for Juniors - from Lazy Bee Scripts

A Lesson LearntAuthorJackie Fitton
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. All roles are intended to be played by children.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music The Producer's Copy of the script includes a list of suggested songs and one set of modified lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style One-act play for kids. No set requirements. A set of four short scenes (with separate casts) tied together by a final vignette which delivers the message of the piece.
Synopsis Four short sketches written for children leaving Primary school, dealing with fears about starting Secondary school and the long holiday to come.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

A Letter to SantaAuthorSue Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Two of the characters are nominally adults. It is written so that the cast can be divided into two - a school class and Santa's elves.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for 5 original songs is provided with the producer's copy of the script.
Style A light musical for young children. Basic sets.
Synopsis A school class write Christmas letters to Santa, and we discover that they are dealt with by Mrs. Santa and a bunch of fractious elves.
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:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show

A Magic Paint BrushAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Whilst Chen is written as a girl, the character could easily be switched to a boy (likewise Old Sing and the Magician are written male but could be female). Cast includes a cow and a small flock of (talking) chickens.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for children, based on a Chinese folk tale. Simple set (the set calls for a hut upstage, but that could merely be implied by an upstage exit), simple props.
Synopsis In feudal China, Chen and her mother are oppressed by their landlord and his greedy, vindictive family. Then a magician arrives and gives Chen a magic paint brush, painting with it makes dreams come true...
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Apparently NotAuthorHayley Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. Principal characters are four girls (plus the school principal and a teacher). The chorus is the bullies gang - number unspecified. The chorus lines could be spoken by one person or shared amongst several.
Run time Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One act play, set in and around a school.
Synopsis A new girl in school, is forced to choose between supporting her new friend and fitting in with a gang of bullies, and makes the easier choice.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Are We There Yet?AuthorDamian Trasler
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two adults and one child. The child is written as a boy, but could easily be chaged into a girl.
Run time Around 6 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style An allegorical sketch about Advent! (Minimal staging requirements)
Synopsis A family explore a different way to start their holiday. A play with an Advent theme.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Castle RoyalAuthorBill Tordoff
Roles Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 28. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. There is flexibility to assign the parts amongst a greater or lesser number of actors.
Run time Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for kids. Simple sets (two scenes, but using the same set furniture). Mainly simple props (though the King and Queen ride a tandem!)
Synopsis The worlds smallest country advertises for a royal family - then have to deal with the results when ridiculous rules get in the way of common sense.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

In God's OfficeAuthorDamian Trasler
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run time Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short two-handed play with a Christian perspective. Single office set.
Synopsis A delivery man enters the wrong office by mistake and finds himself discussing free will with God.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Minny Pinny Makes a DifferenceAuthorStuart Ardern
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Two songs. Words and sheet music supplied with the producer's copy of the script.
Style Simple moral story, designed as a class assembly piece (with a target age group of around 8 years old). A small number of central characters and a Greek Chorus commenting on the action with words and songs.
Synopsis The farmer can't get to market, the driver can't drive him because his truck tyre is flat and there's nobody to take it to the garage. Minny Pinny is only a little girl, how can she help the farmer? How can she make a difference?
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Feedback Click here to find out what other customers said about this script.

Rhyming Christmas GiftAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. All characters are adults. (Except the elves.) Opportunity for a chorus as a choir of carol singers.
Run time Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A simple verse play. Assumed to be done with minimal set - imagination substituting for scenery. Simple props.
Synopsis A liberal adaptation (updated and versified) of the O. Henry story 'The Gift of the Magi'. An arguing couple demonstrate their love through Christmas gifts.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Rhyming Two SistersAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Characters include a talking cow and, even more unusually, a talking tree!
Run time Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short morality tale, told as a verse play.
Synopsis Joan and Jill are sisters, one helpful, one unkind
To seek their fortunes in the world is what they have in mind
But though they set out boldly, alas there is a hitch
Whilst out to see what they can do, they meet a wicked witch!
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Squirrel Plays His PartAuthorStuart Ardern
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The characters are three narrators and lots of jungle animals. The numbers are intended to be flexible, with options to combine or redistribute lines.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for two original songs is included with the Producer's Copy of the script.
Style Musical play for young children. No set requirements. A few simple props. A moral story about prioritisation and co-operation!
Synopsis The jungle animals are supposed to be growing crops, but they keep getting distracted by ants!
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:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show

The Bullies at Sam's CaféAuthorStuart Ardern
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. There are three distinct chorus groups with flexible number - the piece was designed to be performed by a whole class. All roles are gender-neutral.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for two original songs is included with the Producer's Copy of the script.
Style Short one-act play for primary school children, with two songs. Nominally two sets, but no specific scenery, and only simple props.
Synopsis A bully with a gang disturbs the staff and customers at Sam's café, but when the bullies get into trouble, should Sam and his friends help them?
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:
** Midi files of songs from the show

The Bully in the GraveyardAuthorSarah Cowan
Roles Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. Cast of school children plus a ghost - who might be an adult or a large child (assuming that you don't have a real ghost to hand).
Run time Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Suggestions for seven pieces of backing music are included in the Producer's Copy of the scripts. (The cast is not required to sing, but might do so! One dance is suggested.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style School play about bullying. A serious theme, but lots of comedy, and strong characters.
Synopsis Billy and his friends are picked-on by Preson's gang. Their response is to demonstrate to the bullies what it is like to be frightened.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

The GossipAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The characters are adults, intended to be played by children. (Two of the female characters could be switched to male by changing two words.)
Run time Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Simple play in rhyming couplets. No specific set requirements. One prop (a wedding cake!)
Synopsis Mrs. Grey tries to stop a rumour spreading by telling everyone that it isn't true. The result is that the rumour spreads rapidly, and her daughter's wedding is ruined.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.


Scripts for Teenagers - from Lazy Bee Scripts

Apparently NotAuthorHayley Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. Principal characters are four girls (plus the school principal and a teacher). The chorus is the bullies gang - number unspecified. The chorus lines could be spoken by one person or shared amongst several.
Run time Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One act play, set in and around a school.
Synopsis A new girl in school, is forced to choose between supporting her new friend and fitting in with a gang of bullies, and makes the easier choice.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Are We There Yet?AuthorDamian Trasler
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two adults and one child. The child is written as a boy, but could easily be chaged into a girl.
Run time Around 6 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style An allegorical sketch about Advent! (Minimal staging requirements)
Synopsis A family explore a different way to start their holiday. A play with an Advent theme.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Bright - A Play About HeavenAuthorDavid Webb
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run time Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Ten minute play with a Christian theme delivered in a direct style. No specific set - requires only a bench.
Synopsis A man suffering after his second heart attack meets a friend in a beautiful garden, where the air makes him feel better than the doctors have managed. Then he remembers that friend was badly hurt in an accident and begins to realise where he is.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Bully Dancers

Winner of the Annual Derek Lomas Playwriting Competition (youth section), 2005.

AuthorFrank Gibbons
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Characters are teenagers with a range of ages, plus two adults (intended to be played by teenagers).
Run time Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music It is open to the Producer to select dance music appropriate for the script and the specific cast! Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style One-act play for teenagers on the subject of bullying.
Synopsis Two rival dance troupes are preparing for a local competition, but they have to share rehearsal space. Their proximity increases the rivalry until tragedy strikes, provoking unexpected changes.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Castle RoyalAuthorBill Tordoff
Roles Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 28. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. There is flexibility to assign the parts amongst a greater or lesser number of actors.
Run time Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for kids. Simple sets (two scenes, but using the same set furniture). Mainly simple props (though the King and Queen ride a tandem!)
Synopsis The worlds smallest country advertises for a royal family - then have to deal with the results when ridiculous rules get in the way of common sense.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

End of the Road Pub - a play about HellAuthorDavid Webb
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as Australians, though there is no reason that they couldn't come from other places.
Run time Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Ten-minute play with a Christian perspective on the riskier areas of the afterlife. (Single public bar setting, simple props.)
Synopsis Marty and Jim stagger into a pub after a nasty car crash. They have a drink to steady their nerves but soon notice something strange about the pub. It turns out that crash was nastier than they thought and they've got their own lock-in, forever!
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

In God's OfficeAuthorDamian Trasler
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run time Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short two-handed play with a Christian perspective. Single office set.
Synopsis A delivery man enters the wrong office by mistake and finds himself discussing free will with God.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Rhyming Christmas GiftAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. All characters are adults. (Except the elves.) Opportunity for a chorus as a choir of carol singers.
Run time Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A simple verse play. Assumed to be done with minimal set - imagination substituting for scenery. Simple props.
Synopsis A liberal adaptation (updated and versified) of the O. Henry story 'The Gift of the Magi'. An arguing couple demonstrate their love through Christmas gifts.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

The Atheist MissionariesAuthorDamian Trasler
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run time Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short play with a Christian perspective. Single set (informal party)
Synopsis A party is no place for Religion or Politics, but Brian is a recent convert to Christianity. Will his friends resist the urge to un-convert him?
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

The Bully in the GraveyardAuthorSarah Cowan
Roles Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. Cast of school children plus a ghost - who might be an adult or a large child (assuming that you don't have a real ghost to hand).
Run time Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Suggestions for seven pieces of backing music are included in the Producer's Copy of the scripts. (The cast is not required to sing, but might do so! One dance is suggested.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style School play about bullying. A serious theme, but lots of comedy, and strong characters.
Synopsis Billy and his friends are picked-on by Preson's gang. Their response is to demonstrate to the bullies what it is like to be frightened.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

The Football ManagerAuthorDamian Trasler
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Because the writer is English, the manager is the manager of a football (soccer!) team - but it could just as well be another team game.
Run time Around 4 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style An allegorical sketch about Advent! (Minimal staging requirements)
Synopsis A football manager has a novel approach to the game. A play with an Advent theme.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

The GossipAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The characters are adults, intended to be played by children. (Two of the female characters could be switched to male by changing two words.)
Run time Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Simple play in rhyming couplets. No specific set requirements. One prop (a wedding cake!)
Synopsis Mrs. Grey tries to stop a rumour spreading by telling everyone that it isn't true. The result is that the rumour spreads rapidly, and her daughter's wedding is ruined.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

The Match Girl ControversyAuthorDamian Trasler
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run time Around 6 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style An allegorical sketch about Advent! (Minimal staging requirements)
Synopsis Discussions about the new 'Seasonal School presentation' get heated. An Advent-themed play.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

The Pilgrim's ProgressAuthorChristopher Morgan
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 54. No chorus. Whilst there are fifty-four named roles, with a minimum of around ten, the author believes the optimal cast to be around twenty-two.
Run time Around 75 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Allegorical play, with minimal set requirements and reasonably simple props.
Synopsis A stage adaptation of John Bunyan's allegorical story ('The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come', written in 1678) - the journey of Christian, a pilgrim, through the trials of Earth to the destination of Heaven.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.


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