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	Scripts 1 to 7 of 7

Apple Strudel, Chess and Ethics by Vithal Rajan	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Run Time Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] 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 Game Five in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Albert Einstein challenges J. Robert Oppenheimer to a chess match, with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar looking on, as they discuss physics and ethics in the lead-up to the Manhattan Project. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Chess as Felony by Vithal Rajan	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Run Time Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] 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 Game Ten in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Convicts Claude Bloodgood and Ram Varadachary take a train with their guard to a chess tournament, but on the train they play a game for high stakes. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Filming of Das Kapital by Vithal Rajan	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Two of the characters make a brief non-speaking appearance (and therefore could be regarded as optional). Run Time Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] 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 Game Nine in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. A Bollywood producer has plans to make a film of the life of Karl Marx, part of which is played out through a chess game. An amateur theatre group - including the author! - runs through the script (and the chess game), criticising the producer's distortions of history! Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Heretic Queen by Vithal Rajan	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two of the characters are boys (age unspecified). Run Time Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] 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 Game Eight in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. The painter El Greco challenges the Lord High Admiral of the Spanish navy to a chess match on the eve of the launch of the Armada to invade Queen Elizabeth's England. (The other El Greco - the chess master - takes notes!) Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
A Load of Rubbish - Small Cast Musical by Sue Gordon	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 = 5. No chorus. The script is structured so that the five characters can be played by two actors. The characters are inanimate objects, so gender is flexible, though the script assumes, for some reason, that the beer can is male and the perfume box is female! Run Time Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] Music Piano and vocal scores for eight original songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. Style One-act musical for a small cast (designed to be played by an adult touring company to school audiences) Synopsis Life on an overspill rubbish dump takes a philosophical turn, with items of garbage asking 'why are we here?' - and making a song and dance about it! Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. Extras The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show ** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show Feedback Click here to find out what other customers said about this script.
The Parable of the Chess Game by Vithal Rajan	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Run Time Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] 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 Game Eleven in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Varadachary, revolutionary and storyteller, coming to the end of his life, receives a lesson in non-violent revolution from the spirits of his gurus, Ghandi and Tolstoy. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Skitskrieg by TLC Creative	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 = 44. Chorus. Whilst the minimum cast 'as written' is 4 male and 4 female, the humour would be suitable for actors playing across gender, so, in theory, it could be done by a cast of 4. Run Time Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] Period songs could be added to extend the run time. Music The script contains the lyrics to one song (to the tune of 12 days of Christmas) and suggestions for other songs which might be appropriate for the show. (Note that additional songs will add to the run-time.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. Style Collection of sketches. Minimal requirements for set and props. Synopsis Sixteen sketches with Second World War themes (although with a very modern perspective, including, amongst other things, pastiches of TV shows). Topics include rationing, air-raids, code breaking and various perspectives on the trials of military life. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.

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