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A Forty-Minute Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's comedy 'Love's Labours Lost', 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 | The King of Navarre makes a vow to devote a year to scolarship, and three of his lords (albeit reluctantly) join him. Their resolve is sorely tested by the arrival of the Princess of France and her pretty ladies in waiting... |
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A Forty-Minute Merry Wives of Windsor by Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. The listed characters are four women, nine men, two servants (nominally male) and a boy. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', 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 | Sir John Falstaff arrives in Windsor short of ready cash and decides his coffers would best be filled from the resources of two married ladies. They have no interest in him, but play him along for their own amusement. Fun with a laundry basket ensues. |
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A Forty-Minute Two Gentlemen of Verona by Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. There are two groups which give numerical flexibility - 'outlaws' and 'musicians'. This is the Shakespeare play with the dog. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona', 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 | The two gentlemen in question are Valentine and Proteus. Valentine wants Proteus to be his travelling companion on a tour, but Proteus wishes to stay behind and court Julia, a coy young lady who likes Proteus, but is too shy to admit it - at least until Proteus's father sends him away to join Valentine in Milan. However, in Milan, Proteus falls for Sylvia, whom Valentine is courting. There follows rivalry, betrayal, banishment, outlaws, cross-dressing and the occasional swoon before all ends happily! |
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Frank Sent This... by Aaron Warren |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 28. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Chorus size may vary |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] This allows for 17 songs or music pieces included |
Music | Mostly song suggestions with one original song and score provided with the Producer's copy. |
Style | A one act nativity comedy, with fun centering on events in Bethlehem. |
Synopsis | A school nativity rehearsal is causing three students to question whether the events they're portraying ever took place at all. Their teacher makes a Christmas wish, and the three find themselves back in Bethlehem, dressed as the three kings... |
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Frankenstein's Last Chance by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy melodrama, for school-age, youth performers. |
Synopsis | Having given up his medical practice to concentrate on his career as an inventor, Doctor Viktor Frankenstein desperately needs to raise funds to pay for his daughter's forthcoming wedding. Success at the annual Mad Scientists' Convention would be well-rewarded, but Viktor finds himself singularly short of inspiration until... No, that would be absurd - wouldn't it? |
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A Frog Too Far by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | 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. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play set in a classroom - represented by the teacher's chair and her story book. |
Synopsis | 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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The Generation Game by Alan J. Laing |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Characters are (mainly) a mixture of children and their grandparents, intended to be played by a cast of children. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Three songs are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script with positions for two others in the text. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act play for kids with songs. Single simple set. |
Synopsis | A gang of oldies in a home refuse to grow old gracefully, to the delight of their grandchildren and the despair of the matron. |
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Germs by Andy 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. [Estimated!] |
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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A Gift Horse by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy, part of the It's All Greek collection. |
Synopsis | Troy has been under siege for ten years and the nightshift for guards on the ramparts is very boring. At least, until an exciting development occurs and the Spartans are leaving. |
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Global Wetting by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. A mother and her three sons. The location of the piece is part of the joke, and the names of the protagonists make it obvious, however they can easily be withheld from the audience. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch based on a familiar story, though, in this case, not told with any particular moral. No set required. |
Synopsis | Tempers are running high between the three lads. So much so that they won't stop arguing to hear the good news their mother has for them. |
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