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Ancient Greek Assembly by Sue Russell	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 64. Chorus. Immortals, Mortals, legendary characters, cartoon characters and the Minotaur. Run Time Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] Music Suggestions for 10 pieces of music to accompany the script are included in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. Style Full class assembly piece - essentially a series of linked, themed, skits, summarising Ancient Greek civilisation and myth! Aimed at the English National Curriculum Key Stage 2 topic on Ancient Greece. Synopsis A variety of characters from History and Mythology appear on the stage for the entertainment and education of the audience, occasionally with musical accompaniment. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Androcles et Leo by Nicholas Richards	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. Most of the characters are written male (even the lion), for reasons of historical verisimilitude. Don't let that put you off. Run Time Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Short drama (played for comedy) in which the protagonists speak Latin and the narrators, where necessary, translate. Synopsis The optimistic story of the slip-away slave meeting the limping lion - with a side-order of the private life of Emperor Claudius. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Art of Nero by Nicholas Richards	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 = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. All written male (on the grounds of history), but that isn't essential to the plot. Run Time Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Roman romp for kids. Single location (preferably decorated according to the taste of the emperor Nero). Synopsis As Nero constructs the Golden House amongst the Ashes of burnt Rome, three friends hatch a plot to end the tyranny and, more importantly, the dreadful singing, acting, poetry and painting of the mad emperor. Sadly, Nero's 'Art' defeats them all. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
A Brief History Of The Ancient Olympic Games by Nicholas Richards	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Most of the characters are written male (it was a requirement for the athletes!) but don't let that stop you from casting it how you like. Run Time Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style One-act play for kids. An educational piece sprinkled with a good deal of light comedy. Synopsis An inspirational dramatic presentation using the creation of the original Olympic Games as a vehicle for bringing history and mythology to life. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
A Briefer History Of The Ancient Olympic Games by Nicholas Richards	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 = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Two narrating roles, four other speaking roles, one wailing role and various silent demonstrators of athletic prowess. (The strong silent types are written male, but nobody will mind if they aren't.) Run Time Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Fifteen minute play for kids. An educational piece sprinkled with a good deal of light comedy. (As you might deduce from the title, this is a cut-down version of 'A Brief History of the Ancient Olympic Games'. Synopsis A short inspirational dramatic presentation using the creation of the original Olympic Games as a vehicle for bringing history and mythology to life. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Caesar and the Pirates [Full Version] by Nicholas Richards and Timothy Hallett	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Flexible - the pirates roles could easily be shared by a smaller number and other doubling is possible. On the other hand, there is scope for pirate and soldier chourses. Only one specfied female role - Venus! - but others could be cast female. Run Time Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] Music The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for six songs. Style Musical comedy play for kids - great fun (and secretly educational) about a genuine event in Caesar's life. A shorter version of the same play is available. First published in 2011, revised in 2012. Synopsis An older Caesar is recounting his campaigns in Gaul to a bored scribe, who suggests that it might benefit Caesar's public image to tell a tale of his younger days... Something dashing, perhaps, involving pirates? As it happens, Caesar does know such a story... 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: ** Vocal recording for five tracks and six rehearsal tracks (accompaniment with an instrument playing the vocal line) for the songs from Caesar and the Pirates [Full Version].
Caesar and the Pirates [Short Version] by Nicholas Richards and Timothy Hallett	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Flexible - the pirates roles could easily be shared by a smaller number and other doubling is possible. On the other hand, there is scope for pirate and soldier chourses. Only one specfied female roles but some could be cast female. Run Time Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] Music The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for six songs. Style Comedy play for kids - great fun (and secretly educational) about a genuine event in Caesar's life. A longer version of the same play is available. Synopsis An older Caesar is recounting his campaigns in Gaul to a bored scribe, who suggests that it might benefit Caesar's public image to tell a tale of his younger days... Something dashing, perhaps, involving pirates? As it happens, Caesar does know such a story... 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: ** Vocal recording for five tracks and six rehearsal tracks (accompaniment with an instrument playing the vocal line) for the songs from Caesar and the Pirates [Short Version].
Cleopatra and the Roman Way by Geoff Bamber	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. No formal chorus, but opportunities for extras. Run Time Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Comedy play for kids. A solid grounding in ancient history, but it's comedy, so there are plenty of anachronisms. Synopsis When the glamorous Queen Cleopatra takes over the throne of Egypt along with her brother Ptolemy XIII it coincides with the expansion of the Roman Republic (soon to be Empire) in her direction. Cleopatra does not find the advances of a succession of stylish Romans entirely unwelcome, even if her brother has to be disposed of in the process. Unfortunately, Roman politics being what they are, none of her suitors can be viewed as having any long-term prospects. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Echo and Narcissus by Gerald P. Murphy	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. Run Time Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] Music Simple piano/vocal scores for four original songs are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. Style A fifteen-minute musical based on Ancient Greek myth. Synopsis Hera, the queen of the gods, is furious when she discovers that her husband Zeus has been unfaithful, and she takes it out on the object of his affections, the articulate Echo. Echo falls for the handsome Narcissus, but she cannot make him understand because of Hera's curse, which confines Echo to repeating the words of others, and meanwhile Narcissus is in love with his own reflection. (Not a happy lot, the Ancient Greeks!) Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Adrian Jarvis	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 = 28. No chorus. Run Time Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Four thousand-year-old Sumerian epic brought to life. This play skilfully combines dance, mime and music with challenging acting and technical opportunities together with a gripping story, ideal for Secondary Schools, Drama Acadamies, and Youth Groups. Synopsis King Gilgamesh is convinced that he can find the secret of eternal life and his dramatic odyssey is brought to life as he wanders the mythological world in his quest for immortality. We travel with him as his travails become ever more arduous and he becmes embroiled in ever more dramatic conflicts. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.

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