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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
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.
Dog in the Manger by Raymond Blakesley	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 = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Characters include a dog, a camel, a donkey, three stars and a flock of sheep! Run Time Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Simple Nativity play for young children, told from the point of view of the animals! (No set or prop requirements.) Synopsis A dog, a camel a donkey and a star are all complaining about their lot in life, but they have important roles to play in Bethlehem. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Easter Story by Sue Russell	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. Run Time Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Simple version of the Easter story as a play for children. Multiple locations (following the story!) but no specific set requirments. Synopsis A classroom/church group rendition of the Easter Story from the arrival in Jerusalem to Mary's encounter with Jesus outside the tomb. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Frank Sent This... by Aaron Warren	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 28. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Chorus size may vary Run Time Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] This allows for 17 songs or music pieces included Music Mostly song suggestions with one original song and score provided with the Producer's copy. Style A one act nativity comedy, with fun centering on events in Bethlehem. Synopsis A school nativity rehearsal is causing three students to question whether the events they're portraying ever took place at all. Their teacher makes a Christmas wish, and the three find themselves back in Bethlehem, dressed as the three kings... Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
God's Messenger Department by Bill Siviter	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 = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. Option for more animals to be added to the stable tableau. One of the characters is a star. Well, they're all stars, but you know what I mean. Run Time Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Irreverent approach to the nativity (the story is all there, but the perspective is unorthodox!). Likely to appeal to older children rather than the youngest element normally associated with such plays. Synopsis The Archangels are all relaxing in their common room when they get a call from the Boss... There are messages to be delivered, to Joseph, Mary and the three kings. Not to mention the shepherds in the fields too - Gabriel has to put down his Nintendo and get busy! Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Little Donkey by Dominique Vaughan	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. Characters include a donkey (obviously) and lots of other animals. Flexibility for more non-speaking (but singing) chorus members. Run Time Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] Music The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 9 songs to accompany the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. Style Children's nativity play. Synopsis A charming and refreshing retelling of the nativity story. The old donkey uses flashbacks to tell the children about his younger days and his part in the events of the very first Christmas. The nativity happenings unfold before us as all of the customary human and animal characters come to life with lots of opportunity for children of all abilities to take part. There is even the prospect of a comedy double act as the chickens get into their stride. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Nativity - The Christmas Story by Geoff Bamber	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. The numbers of shepherds and Roman soldiers are flexible. Run Time Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style One-act play for a class-sized cast, with a good range of speaking parts. No set requirements. A deliberately comic piece but keeping the traditional story in view. Synopsis The traditional nativity story takes an inventive comic turn, with lazy shepherds, an unlikely group of visitors with Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh, and a bit of confusion over what to call the baby... but all the elements of the traditional story come together in the end. After all, this is how it really happened... well, more or less. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Nativity Problem by Damian Trasler	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. Four male secondary school pupils and their teacher Run Time Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Fifteen minute play, with a Christian theme. Nominally set in a Church of England school, but no specific set requirements, and minimal simple props. Synopsis It's time to start rehearsals for the school Christmas play, but with some understandable reluctance among the all male cast to play angels and virgin mothers, an alternative slant on the story must be found... Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Nativity Story by S. J. Edwards	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 32. No chorus. There are multiple narrators, villagers, servants, shepherds, sheep and angels. Numbers can be expanded or contracted to suit the production. Characters include a number of talking animals. Run Time Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] Music One carol is suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Others might be added at the discretion of the production team. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. Style One act, humorous play suitable for 9-12 year olds. Simple set requirements. It's fun, but still contains all the relevant information and doesn't mock the subject of the story. Synopsis The story of the birth of Jesus retold with a light touch of humour, retaining the original story intact. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.

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