New Plays for Kids from Lazy Bee Scripts
including plays for young children through to scripts for high schools. (For specific requirements (such as age group), go to the schools and youth theatre home page.)
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New Plays for Kids from Lazy Bee Scripts |
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On this page you can find a list of our most recently published scripts (those published
inthe last 60 days). This covers the whole age range,
including plays for young children through to scripts for high schools. (For specific requirements (such as age group), go to the schools and youth theatre home page.) |
All the scripts described below can be read in full on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site.
(Click on the script titles to see the complete scripts.)
However, all the scripts on this site are copyrighted. They may not be printed, quoted or performed without the permission of Lazy Bee Scripts.
Click on the "Price" links for details of the script prices and licensing arrangements.
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| Get to Dance Published | Author | Frank Gibbons | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The characters are 7 female youth actor-dancers (playing ages 14-16) and one 1 adult female actor (playing age aroung 50) | ||||||
| Run time | Around 60 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | One-act play for a youth-theatre company. | ||||||
| Synopsis | A window in to the lives of the members of a dance academy and their 'welcome' for new member Georgina, an overweight teenager who has decided to try dancing as a last resort in her determination to overcome her weight problem. This one act play deals with bullying in all of its forms with humour, music, dance and pathos as Georgina's journey progresses to its uplifting conclusion. Along the way her stoic strength of character enables her to peel away repressed emotions in others and helps them to come to terms with their own difficulties. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Harmony Published | Author | Neil Armstrong | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. Four of the roles are non-speaking. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | Piano/vocal score for the song 'Harmony' is included with the Producer's copy of the script. | ||||||
| Style | One act play (with a song) for a youth theatre group. (Originally commissioned for the youth of the South Shields Customs House Theatre.) | ||||||
| Synopsis | Established as a haven or harmonious living, the village of Harmony is waiting for the prophesied visitors that will declare the village the happiest in the world and bring about world peace. But Lizzy and Bez have dropped in on the vital day, and they will change everything. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
| Plus | 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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| Murder Mansion Published | Author | Don Lowry | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters have gender-specific names (because it's easier if characters have names), in the production notes alternatives are given - Bruce, for example, might be Brenda! | ||||||
| Run time | Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | One-act comedy detective story for a high-school group. Single (barely-furnished old house) set. | ||||||
| Synopsis | Alex and Tabby are Private Detectives, and their latest case is really tricky, because the house they are supposed to be looking for clues in, is full of a movie crew rehearsing a horror film. Can they find the murderer and lost diamonds? | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| The Strictly Talent Factory Published | Author | David Pemberton | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Intended for a youth theatre group, but could well be performed by adults or a company of mixed ages. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 70 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | The script suggests 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. | ||||||
| Style | Comedy play with (suggested) songs. In length it's on the boundary between a one-act play and a full-length play (it could occupy a full evening or be paired with a shorter piece). Structurally in two acts. | ||||||
| Synopsis | A musical play with energy, fizz, music and dance. In a world dominated by television talent competitions two families with great ambition battle it out for the ultimate prize of celebrity. The Lemons and the Greens continue a long-running feud with each other on to a TV talent show. With an astute use of Shakespearian themes and quotations ('the perfect antidote to all this madness') along with imaginative settings and flashbacks we are taken on a modern journey with a wry and satirical comment on reality television and the culture of celebrity. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Marvellous Marie Published | Author | Richard Cowling | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 31. Minimum total without doubling = 38. Chorus. Many of the characters appear in only one or two scenes, so a lot of doubling is possible. There are also numerous choruses - Polish Dancers, Parisians, and an American crowd, for example. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for 28 songs, instrumentals and pieces of scene-change music. | ||||||
| Style | School musical. Lots of scenes but with location indicaters rather than lavish sets. | ||||||
| Synopsis |
Moving, inspirational musical exploration of the life and work of Marie Curie from Polish upbringing to Paris and the Nobel Prize. Original songs for an original scientific life. |
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| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
| Plus | 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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| The Waiting Room Published | Author | John Waterhouse | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 95 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | Full-length play for a youth theatre company. | ||||||
| Synopsis | Becky is surprised to find herself in the afterlife, following a fall from a cliff. Since she died so young, she is offered the chance to return to the world for five 'experiences' that will round out her life before she moves on. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Caesar and the Pirates [Short Version] Published | Author | Nicholas Richards | |||||
| 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 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| 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. |
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| 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. | ||||||
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| Rhyming Treasure Island Published | Author | Richard Coleman | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. More major female roles than the original tale. (It should be noted that female pirates were not unknown!) There is a chorus of three pirates which could be expanded to as many pirates are aboard your ship. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | Rhyming comedy (with some of the characteristics of a British panto). | ||||||
| Synopsis | Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of buried treasure adapted for the stage as a verse play. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Ali Baba and the Four Thieves Published | Author | Geoff Bamber | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. The cast could be extended with additional policemen. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | Comedy play for kids, with an economic rendering of the Arabian classic. | ||||||
| Synopsis | When Makram the miller is robbed of some bags of gold dust he decides to retire and turn over the mill to his elder son, Cassim. However it is his other son, Ali Baba, who locates the thieves' secret cave and retrieves his father's gold. When Cassim learns of the cave his greed gets the better of him. Unfortunately the brutal thieves then get the better of Cassim. To make matters worse they vow to track down whoever found their cave in the first place. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Detective Mimms and The Snaffler Published | Author | Geoff Bamber | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are nominally gendered, only the King and Queen should be regarded as prescriptive. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Multiple sets, but these are minimal - indicative only, and in any case most of them are stolen during the course of the play. | ||||||
| Synopsis | Ace sleuth Detective Mimms is called in to oversee the hunt for the daring thief known only as The Snaffler. The Snaffler will, quite literally, snaffle anything and the whole country is in a state of high anxiety. Can Mimms, assisted by PC Flint, halt this alarming crime wave before it is too late? | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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