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| Howard Does His Best by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The 10 'soldiers' are gender non-specific. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy suitable for performance by teens and chldren. |
| Synopsis | At the school dance, Howard, egged on by Wayne and Dave, sets out to cross the dance floor to ask Chardonnay (the most beautiful girl in the school) for a dance, but on the way various bits of his body begin to let him down. |
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| If Music be the Food of Love by Ethan Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Whilst all of the characters are written male, three could easily be played female (with minor name changes). |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute verse play for kids. Two scenes, but no set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A greedy and selfish king is taught the value of life by his caring son and a local musician. |
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| Inspector Snow and the Elf-Inflicted Wounds by Skip Chalker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act Christmas story for children with various simple settings. US English. |
| Synopsis | Inspector Snow and Sergeant Merryman are back on the case, hunting the killer of not one, but two Mall Santas. Before the killer can strike for a superstitiously crucial third time, Snow and Merryman must catch them! |
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Inspector Snow and the Sleeping Santa by Skip Chalker
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Without any doubling, the script has 8 speaking roles, 8 non-speaking roles, and 2 optional clucking roles. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act Christmas story for children with various simple settings. US English. |
| Synopsis | Inspector Snow and Sergeant Merryman are called to the McGrew house one Christmas Eve, where Santa has been found fast asleep. As well as getting him on his way, they must find out who drugged him, and why they want to delay Christmas. The investigation takes them to interviews with the Easter Bunny, April Fool, and the Tooth Fairy, and ultimately back to the McGrew house. |
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| Inspector Snow and The Twelve Murders of Christmas by Skip Chalker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Alternate lyrics to 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' are included, to be performed at the end of the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act festive comedy on a variety of simple sets. Suitable for a family audience. |
| Synopsis | Inspector Snow and his sidekick, Sergeant Merryman, have to catch the fiend who has embarked on a killing spree in the run up to Christmas. But what, if anything, connects all these murders? |
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Inspector Snow And Toto Too by Skip Chalker
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy for a family audience, a deft mixture of police procedural and the wonderful world of Oz. |
| Synopsis | Inspector Snow and Sergeant Merryman have been assigned to the Merry Old Land of Oz for a while. Almost at once, a witch arrives to accuse a girl called Dorothy of murder, and assembling a gang for a hostile takeover... |
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| Jack and the Giant by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Twenty-minute play for kids. |
| Synopsis | A brief telling of the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack gets tricked into exchanging all his mother's weath for a handful of magic beans. The beans grow into a giant beanstalk which enables Jack to climb to the clouds and meet Giant Biggins...
One of Peter Nuttall's Grimm Tales (for Little Horrors) |
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| Jetty by Stuart Smithers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama with a gentle edge of comedy in a simple set. Would make a good drama festival piece. |
| Synopsis | On a lakeside jetty, two strangers, both in their 60s, begin a conversation. As Edward teaches Veronica the tricks of skimming stones, they try to guess the circumstances of each other's lives. |
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Jungle Book - A Play For Schools by Cheryl Barrett
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for 5 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act play for schools and families with various settings. |
| Synopsis | Set in the Indian Jungle this play for schools combines poetic licence and plenty of humour and songs to retell Rudyard Kipling’s delightful Jungle Book story. A man-cub has escaped the clutches of Shere Khan, a ferocious tiger intent on revenge. Adopted by wolves Mowgli the man-cub is taught the ways of the jungle by Baloo the Bear and his friend Bagheera. Follow Mowgli on his adventures in the jungle as he gets to know the other animals, especially the hilarious Bandar Log monkeys. Will Mowgli and his birth mother, Messua, be reunited? |
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| Jungle Rock by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. A cast of lots of animals, five narrators and three lumberjacks! Whilst some of the characters are nominally male or female (for example, the narrators are referred to as 'she'), gender is not integral to the plot. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Scores for six original songs are supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Simple musical for children with little required by way of set or props. |
| Synopsis | The lions, rhinos and monkeys inhabit different parts of the jungle, which is fine because they can't agree on anything. Fine, that is, until the lumberjacks arrive and the jungle starts to get smaller. Can a strange hybrid animal called Eddie save them from themselves? |
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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
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
** Backing tracks for the songs from Jungle Rock - by Sue Gordon.
** CD with sung tracks for the songs from Jungle Rock - by Sue Gordon. (Recording by Jonny Ardern.)
** A zip file of backing tracks for the songs from Jungle Rock - by Sue Gordon.
** Zip file of MP3 sung tracks for the songs from Jungle Rock - by Sue Gordon. (Recording by Jonny Ardern.)
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