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The Necklace by Tony Best Performance by Cheshire Academy of Performing Arts won best Youth Production and the Syd Mence cup for a piece of theatre magic at the Wilmslow Guild One Act play Festival, 2012 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. There are two main roles, and a 'chorus of voices' playing all the other roles, thus the numbers are very flexible. The chorus members play specific roles but also act as a 'Greek Chorus' to comment on the story. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play based on a short story (a moral fable) by Guy de Maupassant. Written for a youth theatre production but could be performed by adults. |
Synopsis | Mathilde is a vain, proud woman, who regrets that the she has been born into the humbler classes. She longs to be an aristocrat. Given her chance to shine, she borrows a stunning necklace, but that is the start of her woes. |
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A New You by Wesley 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. [Estimated!] |
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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Extras | 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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Nigel and the Musketeer-ettes by Lee Sofianos |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music (piano and vocal) for 8 oiginal songs is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | One-act musical pantomime. |
Synopsis | The days of the Three Musketeers are over. The only one left is Porthos, and it's his daughters, Angel and Crystal, who are given the job of guarding a princess, under theat from the arch-villain, Esmeralda - advisor to the king, but bent on the ruling in her own right. Angel, Crystal and the princess flee from a kidnap plot, and look for help from the legendary d'Artagnan. What they find is not d'Artagnan but his unlikely son, Nigel, who is going to need a little training to become a hero... |
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Extras | 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 ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Noah, Yes Noah! by Richard Cowling |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Very flexible cast, with solo roles and (potentially) a very large chorus, described as the people of earth and dancing pairs of animals. (There is even a non-speaking cameo for God.) |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy comes with a piano and vocal score for the 19 songs and instrumentals. (There is a conductors score and band parts as an optional extra.) |
Style | Lively, expressive, epic musical with some light humour. Designed to not rely heavily on props or set. |
Synopsis | Noah receives a message from God that the earth will be washed away. With his wife, his three sons and their respective wives, all of them ignoring the sneers of the ignorant townsfolk, he begins crafting an ark to bear them and the animals of the world to safety. |
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Extras | 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 ** CD of the orchestrated version of Noah, Yes Noah! by Richard Cowling. (Note that this is backing music, the tracks are purely instrumental and do not necessarily have a prominent instrument playing the vocal parts) ** Conductor's score and band parts - Flute, Clarinet, Alto Sax and Tenor Sax (for two reed players), Trumpet, Trombone, Bass, and Keyboard - for 'Noah, Yes Noah' by Richard Cowling.
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Noah's Ark [Version 2] by Steven Bergman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. The cast includes a number of animals, with an optional crowd of all the animals available! |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act dramatisation. (The setting is described as a desert! Minimal staging is implied.) |
Synopsis | The biblical story of Noah brought to life with contributions by a pigeon, a pig, a monkey and a cow. |
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Nottingham by Luke Simmons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. Characters include the Sheriff's dog, Rodrick. (His lines include the ever popular 'Woof!') |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy twist on the Robin Hood legend. Two-act structure, but one-act length. |
Synopsis | A revolutionary take on the familiar story of Robin Hood and his foe. What if everything we know about Robin was propaganda and the Sheriff was really the good guy? And maybe Marion wasn't the beautiful, feisty woman of the tales... |
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The Nutcracker by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 131 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | 15 songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script, 7 with original lyrics provided. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full-length pantomime adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffman's story, with various settings. |
Synopsis | When the evil King Mousemat tries to invade Sweet Land and imprison the Sugar Plum Fairy, he is thwarted by Nicholas, nephew of Professor Drosselmeyer. In revenge, he has Nicholas turned into a nutcracker.To break the spell, Nicholas must defeat Mousemat and also find true love. |
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Odysseus and the Cyclops by Tony North |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Cast numbers are very flexible. The chorus is nominally the 12 great gods of Ancient Greece. The 'characters' include soldiers (nominally 3) and sheep (nominally 4) |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play for kids in the style of Ancient Greek drama. (Appropriate for the English National Curriculum KS2 History topic Ancient Greece.) Includes the violence inherent in the story! |
Synopsis | The tale of Odysseus and the Cyclops (from Homer's Odyssey) told as a short play for children, in the style of an Ancient Greek play. |
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Oedipus - Swollen Foot by Graham Milton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play for schools - ideal as a classroom or assembly piece. |
Synopsis | A light-hearted, accessible take on the Greek myth. Oedipus gradually discovers he has killed his father and married his mother. He learns how one cannot avoid fate, however hard one tries, and that great fortune is often followed by great misfortune. |
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Old King Cole by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. It's a panto - normal pantomime gender confusion applies! We also have the ever-popular pantomime pirates. (Say Aar!) And we have some rather unusual pantomime creatures. (Yes, all panto animals are unusual, but these are more unusual than that.) |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Producer's copy includes original lyrics to fifteen suggested songs. (Other songs may be substituted at the discretion of the production.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | British pantomime - songs, dances, jokes, mayhem. |
Synopsis | The hero has gone missing - or, at least, the King, and Old King Cole ought to be some sort of hero. Anyway, he's done a runner, and since then, everything at the court has turned sour. The princess has turned into a talking encyclopaedia and the Queen can barely speak. A doctor proposes a remedy - the Queen needs to laugh, but nobody seems to be able to make her so much as smile, least of all Gooseberry, the jester. Fairy Crackers sends Gooseberry on a mission - to bring back the world's funniest joke! But even if he finds it, will the Queen regain her sense of humour? |
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