Plays for kids

Our complete selection of play scripts designed for schools' drama, youth theatre and anywhere else children and teenagers get to grips with plays.  (Note that thesewere written as school plays or youth theatre pieces, in some cases there are scripts for adults which are also suitable for some young actors.)

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The play scripts listed below are designed to be acted by young people, whether as school plays, in youth theatre (or youth theater, if you use American English), in drama workshops or as a part of other youth activities.

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This page does not cover full-length, full-cast [British] pantomimes, aimed at older performers - they can be found on the pantomime scripts site. Most of the pantomimes on the pantomime site are within the grasp of (and have been played by) teenagers. This page also ignores the one-act play scripts and full-length plays, some of which could also be performed by teenagers.
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 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 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.
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** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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.
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A Letter to SantaAuthorSue Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Two of the characters are nominally adults. It is written so that the cast can be divided into two - a school class and Santa's elves.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for 5 original songs is provided with the producer's copy of the script.
Style A light musical for young children. Basic sets.
Synopsis A school class write Christmas letters to Santa, and we discover that they are dealt with by Mrs. Santa and a bunch of fractious elves.
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
A Little Elfin MagicAuthorDonna Brightwell
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are written as male or female, this is largely a matter of personal pronouns, so the script can easily be adjusted to accommodate anything from ten boys through to ten girls.
Run time Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act (well, technically two acts, but of one-act play length!) secular Christmas play. Aimed at junior school children, but could enjoyably be played for laughs by older groups!
Synopsis It's September and the Elves in Santa’s toy workshop are in a spot of bother - they've only just woken up after their New Year Party and they have three months to make a year's worth of toys. Worse still, could the new department member be a spy?
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A Load of Rubbish - MusicalAuthorSue Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. The characters described as 'a few small pieces of fruit and veg' play a chorus role. Their numbers are very flexible. The characters are inanimate objects, so gender is flexible!
Run time Around 60 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Piano and vocal scores for eight original songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script.
Style One-act large-cast musical (probably a whole school class) for kids. A comedy with a strong ecological message. Little in the way of set or props - mostly characters instead of props! (The Producer's copy of the script includes costume suggestions!)
Synopsis Life on an overspill rubbish dump takes a philosophical turn, with items of garbage asking 'why are we here?' - and making a song and dance about it!
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
A Load of Rubbish - Play

Performance by Thurso Junior Players, Winner of SCDA One Act Play Festival Highland Division Intermediate Section, 2007

AuthorSue Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. The characters described as 'a few small pieces of fruit and veg' play a chorus role. Their numbers are very flexible. The characters are inanimate objects, so gender is flexible!
Run time Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act large-cast play (probably a whole school class) for kids. A comedy with a strong ecological message. Little in the way of set or props - mostly characters instead of props! (The Producer's copy of the script includes costume suggestions!)
Synopsis Life on an overspill rubbish dump takes a philosophical turn, with items of garbage asking 'why are we here?'
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A Magic Paint BrushAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Whilst Chen is written as a girl, the character could easily be switched to a boy (likewise Old Sing and the Magician are written male but could be female). Cast includes a cow and a small flock of (talking) chickens.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for children, based on a Chinese folk tale. Simple set (the set calls for a hut upstage, but that could merely be implied by an upstage exit), simple props.
Synopsis In feudal China, Chen and her mother are oppressed by their landlord and his greedy, vindictive family. Then a magician arrives and gives Chen a magic paint brush, painting with it makes dreams come true...
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A New YouAuthorWesley A. Knoch
Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus.
Run time Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Piano and Vocal sheet music for nine original songs is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script
Style One act musical comedy play - set in the studio of a TV make-over show complete with cheesy presenters and sponsorship jingles.
Synopsis A Nasally over-blessed heroine (Miss Nodda Tragtiff) takes part in a reality Makeover show, only to find that the New You promised has caused her to lose her old friends and only gained her fleeting popularity with new people. She comes to understand that real beauty comes from within, and true friends aren't swayed by appearance.
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** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
A Trip to the BeachAuthorSarah Cowan
Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, assumed to be played by children. The roles could be redistributed over a larger or smaller group.
Run time Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Song and incidental music suggestions included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Humorous tale of a contemporary school outing. Suitable for a full class production.
Synopsis Miss Brown takes her class on an educational trip to the seaside. A diverse, argumentative group of children sets out to examine cliff-top habitat, an examination which comes too close to comfort for Miss Brown.
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Aesop's FablesAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Characters include a wolf, a lamb, a lion, a mouse, three ants, a grasshopper, an owl, a dog, a tortoise, and a hare.
Run time Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for children - a narrated dramatisation of four of Aesop's fables. Very flexible format - no specific props or set needed and the stories could be presented individually or as a set.
Synopsis Four tales in which wolf bullies lamb, mouse befriends lion, ants ignore grasshopper and tortoise out-runs hare.
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After School SpecialAuthorDonna Brightwell
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters are teenagers (plus a waitress).
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for teenagers, single café set.
Synopsis With the guys too shy to ask the girls, and the girls too shy to ask the guys, will anyone be going to the Senior Prom? Luckily, the waitress at the coffee shop takes a hand...
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Aladdin [Short Version]AuthorGeoff Bamber
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. There is a lot of flexibility available in the casting: it would be possible, for example, to play Aladdin as a pantomime principal boy (played by F) and Widow Twankey as a Dame (played by M).
Run time Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short pantomime (generally, but not exclusively, intended to be played by children). Single set (as simple or complex as you wish). Few props.
Synopsis The Emperor has arranged the marriage of his daughter, Yasmin, to the son of the Grand Vizier. However, Princess Yasmin, Aladdin and the Genie of the Lamp have other ideas.
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
All in the StarsAuthorMark Billen
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus.
Run time Around 110 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Two act play aimed at a large cast of children.
Synopsis King Confort is worried. He can't find a citizen who is willing to criticise him or his government, and tradition demands the execution of a critic to accompany his birthday celebrations. Discouraged, he informs his Astrologer that, dissatisfied with endless gloomy predictions, he has written into his will that the Astrologer must die fifteen minutes after the king breathes his last. The king's sisters then gang up on the Astrologer, pressuring him into predicting that the king will die, in the hope of worrying him into an early grave. Into all this confusion come a heavily disguised princess and her father, investigating the kingdom before her marriage to the king. All sorts of unfortunate and unforseen consequences follow!
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Ancient Greek AssemblyAuthorSue Russell
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 64. Chorus. Immortals, Mortals, legendary characters, cartoon characters and the Minotaur.
Run time Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Suggestions for 10 pieces of music to accompany the script are included in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Full class assembly piece - essentially a series of linked, themed, skits, summarising Ancient Greek civilisation and myth! Aimed at the English National Curriculum Key Stage 2 topic on Ancient Greece.
Synopsis A variety of characters from History and Mythology appear on the stage for the entertainment and education of the audience, occasionally with musical accompaniment.
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And Then There Were Three!AuthorJohn F. Glen
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One of the listed characters is a voice-over which is used at the start of the piece and could be pre-recorded. Whilst the characters are named in the script (for readability) they are presented to the audience anonymously.
Run time Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One act play for teenagers. Single set (which changes slightly through the play). Contains swearing.
Synopsis A disparate group of children meet up in the aftermath of a disaster with a biological weapon that has killed all the adults. Can they learn to co-operate and survive? And what will happen when they reach adulthood?
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Anna of NazarethAuthorSue Gordon
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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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.
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** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
Anyone for Bison?AuthorBill Tordoff
Roles Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. All characters are adults, intended to be played by children. Whilst there isn't a formal requirement for a chorus, other characters could easily be added.
Run time Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Costumed comedy for kids. Single set (with teepee).
Synopsis This is what might of happened when a bunch of English settlers first encountered native Americans - a clash of cultures resolved in a uniquely American way.
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Apparently NotAuthorHayley Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. Principal characters are four girls (plus the school principal and a teacher). The chorus is the bullies gang - number unspecified. The chorus lines could be spoken by one person or shared amongst several.
Run time Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One act play, set in and around a school.
Synopsis A new girl in school, is forced to choose between supporting her new friend and fitting in with a gang of bullies, and makes the easier choice.
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Bad Reception

Performance by Little Eyases Theatre Co. won best play at The Golden Beaks Comedy Festival at Theatre-on-the-Steps, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, September 2007

AuthorPaul Vincent
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and teenagers, intended to be played by teenagers. For the purpose of showcasing, it could be performed by a cast of three (all female, but playing female and male roles) or a cast of three girls and one boy.
Run time Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Single set (easy to do in a minimalist way), contemporary setting, simple props. Comedy. (Limited use of mildly offensive language.)
Synopsis Kayleigh and Lucy are put in charge of their school’s reception desk for the morning. To get herself out of a fix, Kayleigh pretends to be the Headmistress when answering the phone, setting up a chain of events that spins out of control...
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Between the Lines

Winner of the VIP Arts Playwriting Competition, One-Act Musical Category, 2004

AuthorErica Glenn
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Characters include a (fairytale) wolf! The chorus (children) is optional.
Run time Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Musical scores for 13 songs are included with the Producer's copy of the script.
Style One-act comedy musical for kids. Minimal set requirements, simple props.
Synopsis It's time for a bedtime story, but things are not as we've come to expect them... The big, bad wolf is afraid of small children and princesses take to fighting dragons to rescue sleeping princes.
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** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
Billy Goat Gruff - PlayAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The troll is nominally male. One male goat and two female goats. The narrators are elves.
Run time Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Simple play for young children. Basic stage set (a bridge!). Costumes, but no props.
Synopsis Overweight goats meet greedy troll. The troll's dinner menu changes when Billy Goat butts in.
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Bl... Bl... BluebeardAuthorMark Billen
Roles Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. All characters are adults, intended to be played by children or by a mix of adults and children.
Run time Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A comic dramatisation of the Bluebeard legend (owing more to Offenbach's opera than to Perrault's fairy tale). Three sets, simple props.
Synopsis Duke Bluebeard lives in a grim castle and is feared by all. No one really knows what dark things happen in his castle. Having disposed of wife number five Bluebeard decides that Boulotte, the local May Queen will be his next wife, little knowing what he has let himself in for! Presenting his new wife at the court of King Bobeche and Queen Hortensia he spies their daughter Princess Marie and immediately decides that she shall be wife number seven. He orders his personal inventor, Popolani, to make the arrangements and proceeds to the palace. Challenged to a duel Bluebeard apparently kills Marie's fiancé, Prince Bruno, and demands the princess's hand in marriage. Suddenly Boulotte and Bluebeard's previous wives reappear and confront him.
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Bobbin and the TravellersAuthorGeoff Bamber
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus.
Run time Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Humorous fantasy, minimal sets.
Synopsis The town is terrorised by the evil witch, Phlegma. So great is the fear that the Mayor and town council take the drastic step of sealing off the town, and appoint the hapless Bobbin to the post of Guardian of the Mystic Pathway (the road to town). Enthusiastically assisted by Skank, best friend and village idiot, all goes well for Bobbin until a motley band of travellers turn up, keen to get to the safety of town, not least as they have just had a run-in with Phlegma. Can the evil witch be thwarted? Can Bobbin become a hero? Surely the diverse talents of Captain Scramble, Miss Marcia Thesp, the Pied Piper of Hamelin and the mighty Valgar, Dragon Slayer will be more than a match for Phlegma. Don't count on it.
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BondingAuthorGeoff Bamber
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. A dysfunctional family and some fully-functional aliens. The character split assumes that the aliens and the tramp are female and that the police officer is male. These parts could easily be changed to suit a different split of actors.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act comedy for kids. Single set.
Synopsis Pa Hoskins believes that the family would benefit from a 'bonding' weekend in the countryside where wholesome, healthy, old-fashioned activities will be the order of the day. The family have other ideas. Junior has brought a satellite dish and Cheryl is permanently attached to her mobile phone. What none of the family bargained on was the arrival of a couple of angry aliens, brought crashing to earth by Junior's satellite dish and bent on a rather nasty revenge - at least till help comes from an unexpected quarter!
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Brian the Christmas TreeAuthorSarah Cowan
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. The number of characters is very flexible. It would be easy, for example, to add a number of dancing Christmas trees!
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Musical suggestions made in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Non-religious Christmas play for young(ish) children. Simple sets, simple props.
Synopsis It's Christmas and the trees are waiting to be sold. All except grumpy Brian, who doesn't want to be a Christmas Tree - he wants to grow up to be a telegraph pole.
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BulliesAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children. (Could all be played by children.)
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Scores for eight songs are included with the Producer's Copy of the script
Style One-act musical play for performance by children or a mixture of adults and children. Very simple set and no specific requirements for props.
Synopsis A review and also a revue! A series of linked musical sketches presenting an investigation of issues surrounding bullying at school, covering reasons for bullying and approaches to dealing with it.
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Bully Dancers

Winner of the Annual Derek Lomas Playwriting Competition (youth section), 2005.

AuthorFrank Gibbons
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Characters are teenagers with a range of ages, plus two adults (intended to be played by teenagers).
Run time Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music It is open to the Producer to select dance music appropriate for the script and the specific cast! Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style One-act play for teenagers on the subject of bullying.
Synopsis Two rival dance troupes are preparing for a local competition, but they have to share rehearsal space. Their proximity increases the rivalry until tragedy strikes, provoking unexpected changes.
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Butterfly ShoesAuthorGeoff Bamber
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus.
Run time Around 60 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Humorous one-act fairy tale for kids, simple sets.
Synopsis An unheroic hero has to rescue a kidnapped granny from the clutches of a tribe of mountain Amazons, mainly, it appears, for the sake of the granny's shoes.
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Cagic MupAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters include a pantomime cow.
Run time Around 8 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A fable told as a Spoonerising verse play for children.
Synopsis Captain Spoon's family are starving. Their cow must be sold. The exchange for a magic cup provokes delight and disaster.
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Captain Kelly's DiamondAuthorAndrew Weaver
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus.
Run time Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Production notes list recommended songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Large cast one act play for schools.
Synopsis Pirate captain Kelly returns from his latest venture with a huge diamond. He’s planning to split it with his first mate as soon as he can, but an old flame appears and demands the diamond ring he promised her. The pair hide the diamond in a stuffed parrot, but are blackmailed by fellow pirate Blackbeard who wants the diamond for himself. They all end up with their just desserts.
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Castle RoyalAuthorBill Tordoff
Roles Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 28. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. There is flexibility to assign the parts amongst a greater or lesser number of actors.
Run time Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for kids. Simple sets (two scenes, but using the same set furniture). Mainly simple props (though the King and Queen ride a tandem!)
Synopsis The worlds smallest country advertises for a royal family - then have to deal with the results when ridiculous rules get in the way of common sense.
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Caterpillar CrawlAuthorRaymond Blakesley
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Lots of flexibility. The cast are a mix of children and adults (assumed to be played by children) with options for dances and a chorus (the class) who chant rhymes. The caterpillar role can be played by actors or could be a puppet.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for a flexible cast of children in a mixture of prose and rhyme. Options for dances. Includes information about the butterfly lifecycle.
Synopsis When Tom finds a talking, dancing caterpillar he thinks life is going to be easy, but Salome is almost as much trouble as his classmates. But he organises a concert for her anyway.
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Caught By ChristmasAuthorSharlee Glenn with songs by Erica Glenn
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Whilst the children are named as boys and girls, this is flexible! Both classes can be expanded by the chorus.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music (for three original songs) is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script.
Style Short one-act (secular) Christmas musical for kids. School set (two classrooms) but minimal set requirements and simple props.
Synopsis Mr Grump teaches class 4b and is ignoring the approach of Christmas, as usual. Miss Jingle and the jollier kids of 4a are celebrating, and they decide to take their party next door, with interesting consequences.
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** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
CindersAuthorGeoff Bamber
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. The ugly sisters could be played male or female. The Prince is assumed to be played male, but could be played female as a Principal Boy.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Opportunities for music at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Jokey, knowing telling of the familiar story, with entertaining plot twists and strong characterisation. Not strictly a pantomime, but can be played as one. Written to be played by children but appeals to all ages.
Synopsis Self-obsessed prince meets upwardly-mobile kitchen maid, bent on escaping from dreadful relatives. Cinderella has a ball and the plot has a twist.
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Crime WaveAuthorBill Tordoff
Roles Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children, assumed to be all played by children. Only a few of the characters are fixed, so lines could be reassigned amongst a different-sized cast.
Run time Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for kids. A modern rewriting of the story of Noah. Simple sets and props.
Synopsis The story so far... Originally a small farmer, Noah has built up his business over the years into a large Food Products company. As the only employer in the area he used to give work to most of the people on the local council estate, then a few years ago he automated his factory and sacked his workers. Since then he and his family have run the business on their own and grown rich while the locals have been out of work... Then God intervenes...
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Dog in the MangerAuthorRaymond Blakesley
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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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.
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Dracula - the Final CountdownAuthorGeoff Bamber
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. Very flexible cast, with a mixture of speaking and non-speaking parts, opportunities for doubling and opportunities for changing the gender of some of the characters.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A comic and melodramatic retelling of Bram Stoker's story as a full-length play for kids. Sets can be relatively simple, but a fair number of props are required - coffins, that sort of thing.
Synopsis Solicitor Jonathan Harker finds himself despatched to Transylvania to sort out a property deal for a mysterious Dr. Acula. On arrival, Harker realises that that he has been the victim of a misprint, but he is so charmed by his welcome that he fails to realise that he has become something of a prisoner. Harker's plight is made more acute by the attentions of the Brides of Dracula, a voracious trio, who appear to have less than honourable intentions. With the improbable assistance of Dracula's servant, Igoretta, Harker escapes and returns to England, where, shortly afterwards, his fiancé finds herself in the company of a mysterious foreign gentleman. Little does she realise what is at stake...
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Drama Club Must Die!AuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children, but all could be played by children.
Run time Around 70 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Complete set of original lyrics and musical arrangements based on traditional tunes supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script.
Style Musical play set in an American High School (but could be played by younger children). Simple sets.
Synopsis The High School budget needs to be cut. The drama club is under threat from the unsympathetic principal. Can the Drama Club save themselves by creating a production of The Wizard of Oz from scratch?
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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Echo and NarcissusAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus.
Run time Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Simple piano/vocal scores for four original songs are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script.
Style A fifteen-minute musical based on Ancient Greek myth.
Synopsis Hera, the queen of the gods, is furious when she discovers that her husband Zeus has been unfaithful, and she takes it out on the object of his affections, the articulate Echo. Echo falls for the handsome Narcissus, but she cannot make him understand because of Hera's curse, which confines Echo to repeating the words of others, and meanwhile Narcissus is in love with his own reflection. (Not a happy lot, the Ancient Greeks!)
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Exodus in XX MinutesAuthorJohn F. Glen
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music A set of song and music suggestions are included with the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style One-act irreverent, humorous, biblical epic play for kids, simple sets.
Synopsis The Second Book of Moses (complete with bulrushes, plagues, red sea and commandments) told in 20 minutes - hence the title! This version of the story takes place close to Alexandria - however in this case, it is the Alexandria just south of Loch Lomond, hence the script is written in (phonetic) Scots.
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GermsAuthorAndy Johnson
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus.
Run time Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act comedy play for kids, parodying Star Trek.
Synopsis When three known germs sneak past the laughable security at the Nasal Air airport and start to wreak havoc in the body, it’s up to James D Burk and the hardy crew of the Starship Endocrine to stop them! But could this be one mission too far, with rogue cleaners, a lost tour and the sinister Germinator getting in on the act? Coming soon to an immune system near you!
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Greece! - The MusicalAuthorSue Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. This could be performed in Ancient Greek style, with three actors playing all the principal parts, or the principal roles could be shared amongst a larger company. The Greek chorus comments on the action, individually, in unison (chant) or in song.
Run time Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for six original songs supplied with the Producer's copy of the script.
Style Modern version of Ancient Greek drama with a humorous interpretation of Greek myths and legends. No set requirements, few props. The text is identical to Greece! - The Play, except that some of the chants are replaced by songs.
Synopsis There's trouble on Mount Olympus - the boiler has stopped working and Zeus isn't getting any hot water. Zeus is in a temper and Dionysus has a hangover. It's up to Hera to sort things out by calling for Heracles, the odd job man of Ancient Greece...
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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
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Greece! - the PlayAuthorSue Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. This could be performed in an Ancient Greek style, with three actors playing all the principal parts, or the principal roles could be shared out amongst a larger company. The Greek chorus comments on the action, individually or in unison.
Run time Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Modern version of Ancient Greek drama with a humorous interpretation of Greek myths and legends. No set requirements, few props. The text is identical to Greece! - The Musical, except that some of the chants are replaced by songs.
Synopsis There's trouble on Mount Olympus - the boiler has stopped working and Zeus isn't getting any hot water. Zeus is in a temper and Dionysus has a hangover. It's up to Hera to sort things out by calling for Heracles, the odd job man of Ancient Greece...
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Halloween in the LighthouseAuthorOlivia Arieti
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. All the chara