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Normal For by Tony Domaille
Winner UK Community Drama Festivals Federation 'Geoffrey Whitworth Trophy' for the Best Original script of 2022 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama in a single set. A great festival piece with potential for use in child protection workshops as a discussion starter. |
| Synopsis | Teacher Emma worries about a nine-year-old boy in her class. But when she raises concerns, they are dismissed as 'Normal for here'. As she struggles against a culture of indifference, Emma finds herself facing a real dilemma.
Articulates the dilemmas of teachers suspecting that pupils are abuse victims. The classroom setting and focus on the teacher allows it to honestly and openly explore these issues while not actually having to use any child actors or depict any abuse. |
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| Parents' Evening at Magic School by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch with a simple (table and chairs) set. |
| Synopsis | It is parents' evening at this particular school - a concern for these parents... |
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| Playing Out by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. 3 characters are children played by adults. 2 characters are offstage voices only, which can be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama with no set required. |
| Synopsis | Susan Trent, a woman in her seventies, looks back on her childhood in post-war London, and the friends she loved - and hated. Her childish love for Stanley endures throughout her life, despite an early tragedy. And her intense rivalry with Stan's older sister, Sandra, will probably never be resolved. If we could meet our younger selves - just once - what would we say to them? |
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| The Primary Candidate by Damian Woods |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play, set in a primary school staffroom (though featuring language that is decidedly unsuitable for children) |
| Synopsis | Headmaster Gordon Lewis has called an extraordinary staff meeting, but has excluded one department in doing so. He announces a forthcoming VIP visit along with the vacancy for Assistant Head, causing much lively discussion. Rivalries between staff bubble to the surface, as political opinions, back-stabbing and even threats of violence are thrown into the mix. |
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| Race to the Bottom by Graham Dillistone |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Cast largely adults, but also a couple of students in their late teens. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act farce with set in a school headmaster's office. |
| Synopsis | Schools are always tense when the Ofsted inspectors are in, but this time the Principal has even more to worry about - his own son is trying to convince teachers to take part in his fund raising scheme involving photocopied bottoms. |
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Red-Handed by Alan David Pritchard
WINNER, Miracle Makers International Film and Writing Festival, July 2021, Stage Play Category, Las Vegas, USA |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama on a single (school store room) set. |
| Synopsis | Four boys sneak into the storage area where the exam papers are filed, but one boy betrays the others and locks them in. The three incarcerated boys must face their own demons as well as their problems with each other. |
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| Samuel Stickleby's Saucy Secret by Louise Bramley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two-act comedy drama on a single set. Some adult themes. |
| Synopsis | It’s a new day at Logan Bay Primary School, and it’s starting badly for Sam. Stuck in his shocking outfit from the night before, he has to change in secret in the staff room. But a new teacher brings a wave of bigger problems for everyone. |
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| Saving Grace by Len Cuthbert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. If using minimum cast numbers, re-assigning lines is recommended. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script makes suggestions for three songs. One of them is, of course, 'Amazing Grace'. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act drama with optional music. |
| Synopsis | Set in a Canadian High School, this play was inspired by the life of John Newton, the writer of 'Amazing Grace'. It tells of the arrival of a new student and the life-changing effect she has on her fellow students. |
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| The School for Scandal (abridged) by Sheridan abridged by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Eighteenth century comedy of manners, abridged to one-act play length. |
| Synopsis | Plots and intrigues abound to blacken names and ruin reputations, but when true love is expressed it awakens the good characters of some of the school's members. |
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| School Survivor by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. As written, the characters are two TV show presenters and two (non-speaking) secondary school students. We don't think this should be a constraint on the ages of the actors. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dark comedy sketch in which the stresses of reality TV meet the stresses of the education system. |
| Synopsis | The latest TV reality show. Can the competing students survive the challenges? |
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