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| Romeo and Juliet [75-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 75-minute abridgement of Shakespeare's tragedy.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Two households in Verona are sworn foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows,
do with their death bury their parents' strife. |
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Romeo and Juliet in Sixteen and a Half Minutes or Less by Christine Harvey
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] This would be a calm production but it is intended to be played faster! |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Modern language version of Romeo and Juliet. No set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Does what it says on the label - although to get down below sixteen and a half minutes, the play needs to be done (as intended) at manic pace. [Our estimate is that a steadty pace would run to 18 minutes.] Follows the plot and structure of the original work (so structurally in five acts). |
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| The Sacrifice by Rebecca Preen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Emotionally powerful fifteen minute drama that manages to examine the effect of trauma on a whole family without stepping outside the hospital room of the patient. |
| Synopsis | Beth is in a coma, and her family wait by her bedside, but as time passes it becomes clear Beth is not going to wake up. Her Mum is the most reluctant to move on, but even she can't fool herself any longer. But they can't hear what's happening inside Beth's head... |
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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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| 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 Sequence of Events by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Two (male) characters are voice-only and could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 3 tracks, to be played at the closing of scenes, are suggested in the producer's copy of the script Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A 50-minute drama, structured into two acts with set redecoration required between them. |
| Synopsis | The loss of her father when she was just sixteen really affected Anne, but the unplanned pregnancy that followed was even more of a blow. Putting the child up for adoption, she tried to forget it all, but thirty years later she receives a letter. |
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| The Shadows Of Antiquity by Adora Pingstock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Opportunities for doubling and pre-recording parts. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act gothic horror tale with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Madame Carlotta is the custodian of the shop in which each of the items on sale has a gruesome story attached to it. A young couple sheltering from a severe storm find refuge in the shop and are enthralled as Madame Carlotta's tales come to life, little knowing that they will be the subject of the next tale. |
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| Shah Jahan by Subrata Das |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 16. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 31. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 160 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | At the discretion of the Producer Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length translation and adaptation of D.L.Roy's epic saga of the Mughal Empire. |
| Synopsis | The retelling of last turbulent years of Shah Jahan's reign are brought to life in this powerful and gripping play, written in the spirit of a Shakespearean tragedy. |
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| Shakespeare - It's All Greek To Me! by Sarah Brown |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Various doubling options possible, depending on cast number available. |
| Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for older children, with various simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Rosie and her classmates are struggling with understanding the works of William Shakespeare. Rosie gets help with her project - not only from her teacher and her family but also from the Bard himself, along with Hermia and Lysander - who appear to her in an animated dream and the magic of Shakespeare's work is revealed to her... |
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| The Shelter Secrets by Deborah Heath |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Doubling possible for two characters, plus two offstage voices. |
| Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play, suitable for secondary age or youth theatre, with split staging to enable multiple rapid scene changes. |
| Synopsis | Taking shelter from an air raid in their school's boiler room, four children swap secrets in the form of stories. They're surprised to find their tales all meet up and form a larger narrative, one that's completed by their teacher. |
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