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| The Treasure of Adrian Caesar by Marcus Grollman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. A mixture of children and adults (assumed to be played by children). |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act adventure play for children, with a little light history thrown in! |
| Synopsis | 'The Eagle of the Ninth' meets 'The famous five' as a group of schoolchildren on a history field trip to Hadrian's wall foil a gang of jewel thieves. |
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| Tribes United by Richard Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. Very flexible cast - the two tribes largely behave as ensembles. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play written to be used to develop children's movement, group work and dialogue skills. |
| Synopsis | The Sculptor Tribe are bored with each other because they all look the same. They go to the Clay Mountains and make a new tribe out of clay. All goes well between them until the Evil Beaky Bird intervenes. |
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| A Trip to the Beach by Sarah Cowan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, assumed to be played by children. The roles could be redistributed over a larger or smaller group. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song and incidental music suggestions included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Humorous tale of a contemporary school outing. Suitable for a full class production. |
| Synopsis | Miss Brown takes her class on an educational trip to the seaside. A diverse, argumentative group of children sets out to examine cliff-top habitat, an examination which comes too close to comfort for Miss Brown. |
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| Trouble at Inverbraw by Alan J. Laing |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. The main characters include English, Scottish and American accents. There are 6 'hotel workers' whose numbers could be cut a little if needed, plus two silent 'elves!' There is also an optional 'prelude' to allow speaking roles to other actors. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes a list of suggested songs (plus original lyrics set to two traditional tunes). There are also opportunities for dances. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids. Single (simple hotel) set, with imaginary bus probably played front-of-curtain. (One-act in length, two-act in structure!) |
| Synopsis | Jenny and Jack run a hotel in financial trouble. There's a chance that some of the new guests may want to buy the place and solve the problem, but of course, things are never that simple in the hotel business. |
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| Trouble in Troy! by Mark Ash |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 15. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very funny comedy play for kids, set amidst the Trojan war. Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | Spectakles (pronounced in the Greek way!) the slave has a hard life in Troy, but the siege has made it harder. The King won't listen to any of his war machine inventions, and now Helen herself is causing him trouble too. Sent to the Greeks as an envoy, he gets them mad at him too. Can he survive the war? |
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| Troy Story by Graham Milton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for schools - ideal as a classroom or assembly piece. |
| Synopsis | A comic take on the story of the Trojan War, with a rapping and bloodthirsty Greek chorus keeping the audience up to date. This short play covers argument between Achilles and Agamemnon over two captive women, through Achilles' sulk and Patroclus' sacrifice, through Hector's and Achilles' death, to the destruction of Troy via Odysseus' stratagem of the Wooden Horse. |
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| The Tudor Times by Richard Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Some song suggestions are made in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Rhyming play for schools (designed for the English National Curriculum Key Stage 2 topic 'The Tudors'). No set requirements. Simple props (as long as you don't take the cook too seriously). |
| Synopsis | A rhyming romp from the last Henry to the first Elizabeth. Wives, discoveries, the Armada and an introduction to Elizabethan cookery. |
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| The Tudors by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Five songs with new lyrics set to well-known tunes are suggested (with the lyrics embedded in the script). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Educational and entertaining one-act musical for kids. |
| Synopsis | A humorous journey through the life and times of the Tudors, from Henry VII to Queen Elizabeth I, with lots of facts to complement the national school curriculum. |
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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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| Tumultus by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Most of the named characters are written male (for reasons of historical verisimilitude), but some could be played female. The two groups of supporters could accommodate a large number of extras, up to the capacity of your amphitheatre. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama (played for comedy) in which the protagonists speak Latin and the narrators, where necessary, translate. This is based on a real event, reported by the military historian Tacitus. |
| Synopsis | In 59 AD, a disgraced Roman Senator, Livineius Regulus, put on a spectacular gladiatorial contest in Pompeii. An incident at the contest sparked a riot (the Tumultus of the title) between Pompeians and rival supporters from Nuceria. This play takes us through the events.
(The run time may be extended, depending on the time spent in gladiatorial contests and riot.) |
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| The Twelve Labours Exchange by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Hera is represented by an offstage laugh which might be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short Ancient Greek comedy - a riff on myth. |
| Synopsis | Hercules (Heracles to the Greeks) is out of work and looking for a job at the Labour Exchange. Preferably one where Hera won't find it easy to continue trying to kill him. |
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