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Baboushka by Peter Bond	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Whilst there is no formal requirement for a chorus, there are options for attendants for the Wise Men, and a choir. Run Time Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] Music There are places for a couple of carols during the performance. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. Style Short, charming dramatisation of the Russian Christmastide folk tale. Synopsis Baboushka welcomes the Three Wise Men into her spotless home as they pause overnight on their journey to Bethlehem. She is too busy cleaning her house to accompany them as they follow the star and subsequently spends the rest of her life searching for the Christ child. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
A Christmas Carol - The Real Story by Colin Calvert	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Two characters required for performance as a simple duologue, a further 7 (nominally 5F, 2M) required if the action is staged. Run Time Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Essentially a duologue which could either be done without additional actors, (as an after-dinner piece) or be staged as a narrated mime. Minimal staging requirements. Makes no attempt to be 'politically correct'! Synopsis Two narrators tell the story of a modern day Scrooge who's having the wool pulled over his eyes by dishonest Bob Cratchit and his gang of cronies. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Crime Done in Rhyme by tlc Creative	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Run Time Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Rhyming skit (parody of Dr. Seuss) no set requirements, a few common props. Synopsis There's been murder afoot, but who can have done it? If there's a prize for rhymed mystery, this one has won it! The victim's a cat, but much more than that, He's a cat that has often been seen in a hat. A detective is called and a Mistress is found, (while the corpse of the cat is left there on the ground). It's funny, irreverent and won't take much time, and the best of it is, every line is in rhyme! Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Elves and the Shoemaker [Verse Play] by Peter Bond	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters include two elves. Run Time Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Short rhyming play. Single set (mainly a workbench). Synopsis A Grimm Fairytale brought to the stage. An honest cobbler is helped to make ends meet by a pair of hard-working elves. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Great Divide by Howard Lipson	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Cast is five adults and two children. (The children are non-speaking - and a minimal production might leave them out, with the other characters were to mime meeting them. As written, they perform a brief musical entertainment.) Run Time Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Ten-minute play with a Christian theme. Minimal staging requirements. Synopsis Binky and Astrid are shocked to see that they are at a dinner party with three smelly, badly dressed people. It turns out one of them was once a famous author, and another is a poet. Can Astrid accept the message their host is trying to send? Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Great Moments in History, Number 1 by Jack Burgess	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Run Time Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Historical skit in three short scenes. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) Synopsis The Norman Conquest. Up-to-the-minute news reports from the Battle of Hastings, using state-of-the-art news-gathering tapestry... Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Great Moments in History, Number 3 by Jack Burgess	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. Run Time Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] Music Script includes a parody of the title song from Oklahoma. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. Style Musical skit, parodying the creative process! (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) Synopsis The Rogers and Frankenstein Story! Richard Rogers and his collaborator, Oscar Frankenstein III, ponder the creation of a new Broadway musical, whilst eating pizza. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Haunting of Hardup Hall by David Lovesy & Steve Clark	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters are all adults, but could easily be played by kids. Run Time Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Short humorous ghost story told in verse Synopsis Lord and Lady Hardup are at their wits end. Their mansion is being haunted by a fearsome spook and soon they will be forced to flee! Mystic Maureen, psychic extraordinaire is called to save them from the spirits! Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
An Inn Keeper's Tale by Mike Sparks	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Run Time Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Modern version of a medieval mystery play. Single, minimal set, basic props. Synopsis An Innkeeper relates the strange events surrounding a local crucifixion. Various members of the Easter Story drop in to give their view of the events. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Language Lessons by Nicholas Richards	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. There are two consistent characters throughout (plus an offstage voice). The rest are brought on for each 'lesson' so the 'Englishman' could be played by a different character in each scene (and need not be male). Run Time Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Prologue and eleven short comedy skits with no requirements for set. Could be done as written (one continuous performance) or could be split across a sketch show as a running gag. (Contains caricatures, silly accents and foreign words!) Synopsis Polly and Glott present an informative (and amusing) look into the necessity for having some skill with a foreign tongue. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.

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