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2B Or Not 2BAuthorBill Tordoff
Roles Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 29. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. Characters are (mainly) school children playing the parts of adults.
Run time Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Single set, simple props, comedy designed to be played by a whole school class.
Synopsis It's the Friday afternoon drama lesson - only the usual teacher has bunked off. The girls want to do a romantic costume drama, the boys want to fight. The time is ripe for an Arthurian romance...
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A Christmas BoxAuthorSharon Jenman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for 10 songs and 2 instrumentals is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script.
Style Short one-act musical play for (young) children.
Synopsis A school child gets his wish to see the Romanian child open the present he is sending. A Christmas play for infant schools.
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Plus The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
A Fishy School

Performance by Dean Hole Primary School won the 10th annual Wolfit drama and verse speaking competition.

AuthorRaymond Blakesley
Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 41. Chorus. The characters are mainly fish (with kingfishers and an angler's worm). Speaking chorus, divided up into several groups, commenting on the action.
Run time Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A large-cast fantasy, set in an underwater school. Minimal set and props. Opportunities for dance routines (music is not provided with the script).
Synopsis The tiddlers in the school are threatened by the pike family, King & Queenie Fisher, and the dangling worm. Only wimpy Wilfred Minnow can save them, but will he do it? Will Old Trout help him and who really is she? Can the stickleback teachers teach the tiddlers? Will the staff room run out of coffee?
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A Forty-Minute OthelloAuthorShakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff
Roles Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus.
Run time Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'Othello', with the original text of around three hours cut down to 40 minutes.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.)
Synopsis Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army, secretly marries Desdemona, daughter of a nobleman. Roderigo, a suitor of Desdemona, and Iago, a jealous soldier, conspire against Othello, turning him against Desdemona, with disastrous consequences.
An introduction to Shakespeare for schools.
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A Forty-Minute Richard IIAuthorShakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff
Roles Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 32. No chorus.
Run time Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'The Life and Death of King Richard II', with the original text cut down to under 40 minutes.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.)
Synopsis King Richard II is approached by both Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray, the Duke of Norfolk, who wish him to judge a duel between them. Both Richard and John of Gaunt oppose the duel, but Richard agrees to oversee it. As the duel commences Richard interrupts and banishes both men from England. Mowbray predicts this as the first act leading to Richard's downfall. Following John of Gaunt's death, Richard appropriates all his money and lands. As Richard plots a war on Ireland, the nobility seek to overthrow him and place Bolingbroke on the throne.
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A Forty-Minute Winter's TaleAuthorShakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff
Roles Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. The characters are adults plus one child and, famously, a bear, whose only role is to exit in pursuit of Antigonus (for an offstage lunch appointment - although only one of the parties is hungry.)
Run time Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'The Winter's Tale', with the original text cut down to 40 minutes.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.)
Synopsis Leontes, King of Sicilia, suspects his wife Hermione of having an affair with Polixenes, the King of Bohemia. (Herminone and Polixenes are innocent.) Polixenes escapes Leontes' wrath, but Hermione does not and is imprisoned. Hermione gives birth to a daughter, but Leontes does not believe the child, Perdita, to be his and sends her abroad. She is abandoned on the coast of Bohemia (a feat which would be frowned upon these days, owing to Geography) and Perdita is brought-up by a Shepherd. Time (making a guest appearance) moves the play on sixteen years, and Florizel, son of Polixenes, meets and falls in love with Perdita, the shepherdess, thus setting-up the inevitable reconcilliation and happy ending.
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A Grimm Night for Hans Christian Andersen (Musical)AuthorSue Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. Lots of speaking parts, but few characters per scene so easy to structure small rehearsals. Whilst it does not require a chorus, there is scope for extra characters in a few of the scenes. Some of the characters sing!
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for 7 original songs and 3 pieces of incidental music is provided with the producer's copy of the script.
Style Comic retelling of fairytales as a musical play. Many scenes, but using the same few pieces of 'set furniture'. Simple props.
Synopsis Hans Christian Andersen gets an unexpected visit from the Brothers Grimm - who seem to be upset over the matter of stealing story lines. A competition ensues, with characters from Andersen and Grimm stories taking the stage - often in unexpected ways.
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
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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A Grimm Night for Hans Christian Andersen (Play)AuthorSue Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. Lots of speaking parts, but few characters per scene so easy to structure small rehearsals. Whilst it does not require a chorus, there is scope for extra characters in a few of the scenes.
Run time Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Comic retelling of fairytales - many scenes, but using the same few pieces of 'set furniture'. Simple props.
Synopsis Hans Christian Andersen gets an unexpected visit from the Brothers Grimm - who seem to be upset over the matter of stealing story lines. A competition ensues, with characters from Andersen and Grimm stories taking the stage - often in unexpected ways.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
A History Of The Olympic Games - A Class PlayAuthorSue Russell
Roles Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 37. No chorus. Characters include a Greek god and a horse!
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A short play for a full school class.
Synopsis The history of the Olympic Games, beginning at the ancient games with a personal appearance by Zeus, followed by a whirlwind tour of the modern games, complete with a selection of famous medal winners.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
A History of the Olympics - Readers' TheatreAuthorSue Russell
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 36. No chorus. Six plays with six characters in each.
Run time Around 60 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A set of six mini-plays (with run times around 10 minutes) designed for 'readers theatre' (i.e. use for small group reading), though they could also be performed as plays. No set requirements. Producer's Copy includes a quiz for each play.
Synopsis Olympic history, comparing the ancient games to the modern olympics and studying the development of the modern Olympic games through references to events, sportsmen and controversies.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
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