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The scripts described here are collections. Some parts of some collections are available as individual scripts, but in general buying the complete collection is cheaper than buying each of the individual scripts. (Some of the collections also include sketches that are not available individually - usually because they are either very short or because they are embedded within the concept of the collection.)

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Acting FunnyAuthorJack Burgess
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 52. Chorus. Three of the characters (two in one sketch, one in another) are intended to be played by children.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Piano and vocal scores for the opening and closing songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. (Original lyrics, music by Sir Arthur Sullivan)
Style A revue - a set of 17 comedy sketches and songs, varying in length from one to ten minutes. Basically a family show, but includes mild swearing in a few of the sketches.
Synopsis A collection of sketches, including opening and closing songs, five Great Moments from History, two French Lessons, three monologues, a very small circus, the ante-rooms to the after-life, a spoof of a medical soap opera, a martial arts demonstration and the Dead Carrot sketch. [Note that some of the longer sketches are also available individually.]
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
An Hour You Won't Get BackAuthortlc Creative
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 41. No chorus.
Run time Around 60 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Collection of comedy sketches.
Synopsis Nineteen sketches, each running between 1 and 5 minutes. No particular theme other than a desire to make the audience laugh!
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
BeastsAuthorTony Best
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of adults and children, intended to be played by a Youth Theatre company or a mixed company.
Run time Around 175 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Collection of five one-act plays based on short stories by Saki (H H Munro). Following the originals, the humour is very dark - verging on wicked.
Synopsis The stories are:
Sredni Vashtar in which a boy oppressed by his aunt extracts an unexpected revenge
Gabriel-Ernest about a werewolf
The Storyteller featuring a subversive entertainer
The Open Window in which the hero does not discover a rest cure and
The Gala Programme which revisits Roman attitudes to female emancipation and entertainment
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Bite-Size - Six Vampire PlaysAuthor10 x 10 Writers
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Three or four characters per piece.
Run time Around 37 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Collecton of six sketches, generally comedic, but with the occasional sharp edge.
Synopsis A collection of six short plays/sketches for teenagers with the theme of vampires. (All the plays are available individually, but are provided here as a collection at a discount.)
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Diamond Jubilee 2012AuthorRay Lawrence
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. Generally, the characters are fairly normal, although one of them is a football.
Run time Around 120 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Revue - that is to say, a themed sketch show. Structured with a chairman (of the Music Hall sort) to introduce the act. Few set requirements.
Synopsis A collection of twenty four sketches suitable for the celebration of Queen Elizabeth the Second's Diamond Jubilee (and probably other occasions).
Not a musical show as written, but structured so that musical numbers could easily be inserted between the acts.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
EmotionsAuthor10 x 10 Writers
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 42. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of adults and children of various ages, intended to be played either by that mixture or by youth theatre groups.
Run time Around 55 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A collection of eleven short plays. Basic sets, a few simple props.
Synopsis The collection was commissioned for a Youth Theatre workshop.
Each play is for four actors or fewer, playing a mixture of adults and children, and intended - as you might deduce from the title - to demonstrate emotions.
The plays are not designed to be performed in any particular order.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Emotions 2Author10 x 10 Writers
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of adults and teenagers, intended to be played either by that mixture or by youth theatre groups.
Run time Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A collection of eight short plays. Basic sets, a few simple props. (Some of the scripts include swearing, as do some teenagers.)
Synopsis Scripts designed for Youth Theatre groups.
Each play is for six actors or fewer, playing teenagers or a mixture of adults and teenagers, and intended - as you might deduce from the title - to demonstrate emotions.
There is no particular order to the presentation of the scripts
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Grimm Tales - For Little HorrorsAuthorPeter Nuttall
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus.
Run time Around 70 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Collection of four short one-act plays for children based on stories from the Grimm Brothers' collection.
Synopsis The four stories are:-
The Bird, the Mouse and the Sausage
The Elf and the Shoemaker
Jack and the Giant
Mother Holle
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Laughter LinesAuthorFrank Gibbons
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. Most of the characters are adults in middle age or older. Some of the women are intended to be played by men (in gossipy, unglamorous middle-aged drag).
Run time Around 75 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Collection of 18 comedy sketches (ranging in duration from 2 minutes to ten minutes). Few set requirements (although one sketch takes place in and around a bed). There are a couple of mild swearwords buried in there somewhere.
Synopsis Sketches about life, death, relationships and cream cakes.
Most of the sketches are available individually. (The collection allows the set to be purchased at a discount to the sum of the individual components.)
There is no particular order to the sketches, but there are occasional common themes.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Nursery Crimes - the Complete SeriesAuthortlc Creative
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus.
Run time Around 95 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Six one act plays (durations from 10 to 30 minutes) with simple staging requirements.
Synopsis A series of six short plays - using nursery rhyme characters to parody other forms, notably film noir. Most of them could be performed by children, but all of them would amuse adults as well as children. The plays are Nursery Crimes, More Nursery Crimes, Nursery Crimes - The Egg's Files, Nursery Crime Scene Investigation, Nursery Crimes - Four and Twenty and Finally Nursery Crimes - The Da Wincey Code.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
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