All the scripts described below can be read in full on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site (click on the titles).
Click on the "Price" links for details of the script prices and licensing arrangements.
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A 21st Century Nativity by Peter van der Sluijs |
| 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 = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] Carols can be sung between scenes that would extend the length of this play. |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script suggests six carols to be interspersed between the scenes. (These would increase the run time to up to 30 minutes.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short nativity play (though considerably longer if the suggested carols are sung), with optional traditional nativity tableau. Six scenes, but minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | What would the story of the birth of Jesus be like if it were to happen now? |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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An Almost Correct Christmas Story by James O'Sullivan |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Most of the characters are written male, but since their activities are gender-neutral, reassignment would not change the piece. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light hearted take on the Nativity. |
| Synopsis | Following the gospels relatively closely with a few whimsical modifications, the play makes for a humorous end of year festival production with the added benefit of being suitable for performance as a satirical piece by adults or as a tongue in cheek comedy by children and youth groups. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Anna of Nazareth by Sue Gordon |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal score for 16 songs supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | One-act musical for performance by teenagers, young adults or a mixture of adults and teenagers. No specific set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Christmas musical telling the story of Mary from her betrothal to Joseph up to the birth of Jesus (roughly Matthew 1, 18-25, Luke 1, 26-38 and Luke 2, 1-7). Told from the point of view of a teenage girl, Anna, a jealous friend of Mary. It brings out the difficulty of Mary's situation within her community, but the resolution is joyous and uplifting. |
| 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
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Apparently Not by Hayley Gordon |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| 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. [Estimated!] |
| 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. |
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Are We There Yet? by Damian Trasler |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| 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. [Estimated!] |
| 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. |
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The Atheist Missionaries by Damian Trasler |
| 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 = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| 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. |
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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. |
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The Best in the Book by Bill Tordoff |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Chorus includes unspecified numbers of (talking) sheep and camels |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes sheet music for three original songs. A number of traditional carols are also suggested in the script. |
| Style | Irreverend, humorous nativity play. Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | A humorous nativity story, with pantomime camels, talkative sheep, Queens as well as kings and lots of angels. The shepherds really don't like their job and spend the cold winter's night in drinking too much! They are very alarmed when angels appear. Meanwhile, one of the kings' camels develops a puncture... |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Bradley No Mates by Linda Stephenson |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Written to be performed with four groups of three narrators. The chorus is non-speaking but interacts with the action. The adult roles might be played by adults or children. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for a school company on the theme of bullying. Multiple locations but little or nothing needed in the way of set. |
| Synopsis | Bradley is at a new school and having trouble fitting in. Worse, the school bully, who's reputed to carry a knife, has got it in for him. But Bradley has found he can visit the past, and the village school that was knocked down years ago. Maybe his trips there can help him in the present. |
| Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Bright - A Play About Heaven by David Webb |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
| 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. [Estimated!] |
| 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. |
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