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Ronnie Tumbler Gets Her Goat by Rajapillai Pillai |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | There is a set of lyrics built in which can either be put to the tune of 'Oh Susanna' or recited as a poem, with optional guitar accompaniment. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one-act comedy show performed by adults for children with various suggested settings. |
Synopsis | The tale of a wild west feud between Bullets McGraw and Otis Mills, with some educational gems thrown in. As the reasons for the feud start to become clear, Ronnie Tumbler and Rocky the talking goat do their best to bring the two sides together. |
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Ruth by Graham W Evans |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Choir parts double as crowd, with a minimum of eight. |
Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] (Including 5 minute overture.) Pilot production run-time: 75 minutes. |
Music | Full scores for the Overture plus 15 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of this script. Lyrics are embedded within the script. |
Style | A biblical musical in one act, Various settings, but simple (minimal) sets. |
Synopsis | A musical re-telling of the story of Ruth. The themes included follow closely the threads that weave through the book of Ruth in the Old Testament of the Bible, and relate to subjects close to the hearts of most of us - those of loving kindness, caring and the need for a safe refuge. The music is varied and modern, with sonorities and rhythms quickly recognised and readily learnt by young and old alike - ballads for solo singers and duets, interspersed with pieces, some serious and some comical, for a choir. |
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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 ** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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Salem Witches by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Characters cover a range of ages. Could be played by a youth theatre company or a mixed-age company. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for seven original songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Play with music. Structurally in two acts, but of one-act length (that is to say, it could form half an evening's entertainment!) |
Synopsis | Historical drama, based on the events in Salem Massachusetts in 1692 when personal disputes spilled-over into accusations of witchcraft and the prosecution of numerous townsfolk. |
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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
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Santa School by Louise Wade Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Characters include adults, elves and children. Who actually plays the roles is up to you! |
Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 8 songs (for which lyrics are embedded in the script). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Fun family entertainment for the Christmas period, which puts Santa into an original situation that avoids the clichés while fitting in lots of songs. |
Synopsis | Santa's test of a new sleigh has resulted in a crash, and while he waits for the recovery team of elves to arrive, he ambles off to investigate a Santa School. Can the real Santa pass muster for a corporation Santa at Toyland? |
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Sassenach by Ronnie Dykstra |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Eleven roles (plus two actors who play themselves before taking on characters), designed to be playable by a cast of three plus a cameo from the director. |
Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A spoof 'English' Macbeth based shamelessly on Shakespeare's tragedy, stealing many of his famous words and taking disgraceful liberties. One-act, single set (largely a living room). |
Synopsis | When a witch prophesises that Arthur Robinson could become chairman of the bath plug manufacturer he works for, his wife Samantha coerces him into speeding the process along by having his boss clobbered with a saucepan. His subsequent rise to power is hindered by the blood on their hands and rival employee Andrew Duff. |
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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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The Scramblings at Spriggly Torch by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comic play - a Second World War mystery. One set, divided into three locations. |
Synopsis | It is 1943, and enemy plans for a new fighter aircraft have fallen into the hands of British intelligence, but a traitor is suspected of attempting to retrieve them. |
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Screw Your Courage by Keith Badham |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A five-act play for youth theatre in one-act! |
Synopsis | An enthralling new look at Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in the modern world of teenage gang culture, which loses none of the power and excitement of the original. The Bard's plot and characters are given new life in this masterful interpretation as contemporary themes merge with age old human emotions. The audience are welcomed in to the action with imaginative use of asides and stage directions. An ideal piece for Youth Theatre with exciting and challenging opportunities for all involved, 'Screw Your Courage' provides a theatrical experience which will be long remembered. |
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A Second Chance by Jim Pinnock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. One voice is an offstage announcer. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act thriller - single set. |
Synopsis | Customers and staff are put through psychological torment as a man with a bomb holds them hostage, but all but one of them benefit from the experience. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'A Second Chance' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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