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| A 21st Century Nativity | Author | Peter van der Sluijs |
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Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus.
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| Run time |
Around 7 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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The producer's copy of the script suggests six carols to be interspersed between the scenes. (These would increase the run time to up to 30 minutes.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
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Short nativity play (though considerably longer if the suggested carols are sung), with optional traditional nativity tableau. Six scenes, but minimal set requirements.
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| Synopsis |
What would the story of the birth of Jesus be like if it were to happen now?
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| A Beautiful Day for a Duel | Author | Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles |
Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
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| Run time |
Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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Ten-minute comedy skit. Single set (with no specific requirements) and a pair as duelling pistols as the main props.
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| Synopsis |
Andre arrives for his sixth duel of the year to find that his day is in danger of being spoiled by his inexperienced opponent.
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| A Captivating Situation | Author | Damian Trasler |
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Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
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| Run time |
Around 12 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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Short play. Contemporary realism. Single set, simple props.
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Howie's having a bad day - he left the house for little shopping, now, a few hours later, he's holed up in an abandoned house with a hostage upstairs and a bullet in his stomach. Can he negotiate a solution with Police Officer Zip before the SWAT team arrives?
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| A Children's Christmas Carol | Author | Richard James |
| Roles |
Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
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| Run time |
Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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| Music |
None.
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Fifteen-minute play. No set requirements.
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| Synopsis |
Charles Dickens' festive classic much abbreviated as a play for an audience of young children, to be performed by a cast of adults (or possibly by a company of older children.)
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| A Christmas Carol - The Real Story | Author | Colin Calvert |
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Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Two characters required for performance as a simple duologue, a further 7 (nominally 5F, 2M) required if the action is staged.
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| Run time |
Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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Essentially a duologue which could either be done without additional actors, (as an after-dinner piece) or be staged as a narrated mime. Minimal staging requirements. Makes no attempt to be 'politically correct'!
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Two narrators tell the story of a modern day Scrooge who's having the wool pulled over his eyes by dishonest Bob Cratchit and his gang of cronies.
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| A Day at the Races | Author | Will van der Lande |
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Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
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| Run time |
Around 6 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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A short, absurd sketch. No set requirements, a few props.
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It's the Duck Derby and an Aristocrat is exchanging small talk with the owner of today's favourite, Dangerous Dennis. Surely nothing can prevent a win for Dennis today?
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| A Double-Decker For Santa Claus | Author | Olivia Arieti |
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Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
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| Run time |
Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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Fifteen-minute play, a modern Christmas Carol without the ghosts! Single set.
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Christmas doesn't mean much to Mr Howard - he just wants people to buy his cars, whatever the time of year. But now there's a customer in a red suit, looking to for something to replace his old sleigh...
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| A Fairy Trial | Author | Robert Scott |
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Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
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| Run time |
Around 8 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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Comic courtroom sketch.
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We are all entitled to a fair trial. Nursery rhyme characters get a fairy trial. In this case, Wee Willy Winkie is in the dock for indecency and causing a public nuisance. (Something like that.) His future looks bleak, but things look up when a prosecution witness goes to pieces. Without Humpty, is there a case against Wee Willie? Can the prosecution or defence sway the jury - played by the audience?
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| A Fantastic Feat of Muscular Manipulation | Author | Stuart Ardern |
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Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The main character is the strong and silent type! All the words are spoken by the Music Hall chairman.
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| Run time |
Around 3 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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Short comedy sketch for a Music Hall.
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| Synopsis |
A Victorian strongman performs a feat never before attempted on the Music Hall stage.
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| A Frog Too Far | Author | Nicholas Richards |
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Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children. Could be played by the same, or by a company of either.
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| Run time |
Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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None.
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Short comedy play set in a classroom - represented by the teacher's chair and her story book.
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Miss Primrose tries to tell her class their daily story - a tale of princess meets frog - with the aid of a small troupe of mimes. The children, shall we say, have bright enquiring minds...
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