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| Brainstorm by Raymond Blakesley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. The chorus is an optional ensemble of brain cells |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for kids. Minimal set requirements. Opportunities for melodramatic over-acting! |
| Synopsis | The action takes place inside the brain of playwright Ivor Pippin, who is trying to write another melodramatic play. His characters and his brain cells conspire to turn things around, allowing the heroine and villain to escape, and a new play to emerge. |
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| Brave Saint George by Kate Goddard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. The script allows for - indeed, encourages - four different actors to play Saint George. Whilst many of the characters have a specific gender casting across gender would be entirely appropriate to the form! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script suggests suitable music to accompany the performance. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Modern version of a traditional English mummers' play. Since such things were often performed outdoors, informally, there is no requirement for a set. |
| Synopsis | St George, a noble knight is keen to marry Princess Saffron and to show how brave he is. The King and Queen set him a test - to fight the toughest enemies from faraway lands. He defeats each enemy in turn - though each is brought back to life by a different doctor (a special character with a strange cure.) St George is, unfortunately, a bit of a big-head, and by the time he defeats the last enemy, the Dragon, Princess Saffron has begun to have other ideas about a suitable partner... |
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| Breaking News by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The character is written female, but could be renamed and played male. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two minute sketch. Single set (a news desk). |
| Synopsis | A newsreader has to cope with unforseen technical problems in the newsroom. |
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Brian the Christmas Tree by Sarah Cowan
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. The number of characters is very flexible. It would be easy, for example, to add a number of dancing Christmas trees! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Musical suggestions made in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Non-religious Christmas play for young(ish) children. Simple sets, simple props. |
| Synopsis | It's Christmas and the trees are waiting to be sold. All except grumpy Brian, who doesn't want to be a Christmas Tree - he wants to grow up to be a telegraph pole. |
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| Brian's Day Out in the Snow by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, rhyming, humorous monologue. |
| Synopsis | Brian goes out in the snow to meet Steven. (All we'll say about that is that there is some misdirection involved.) |
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| The Bridge by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. Minimum numbers would be achieved by reassigning lines amongst the ministry workers! |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] This could get a lot longer if the bridge-building sequence is elaborated. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy for kids. No set requirements, but carry-on props include the materials for a simple bridge! A Short play, though it could get a lot longer if the bridge building section became elaborate. |
| Synopsis | A farmer and his family find their peaceful lives disturbed by representatives of various government ministries keen on making improvements to what is regarded as a rural backwater. Common sense flies out of the window as official policy documents are followed slavishly to provide the farmer with a fine, new and entirely unnecessary bridge. |
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| A Brief Guide To Greek Tragedy by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. Chorus. 2 narrators and 3 'actors' who each switch between multiple characters. Chorus can be any number of people, even just 1. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short educational sketch. |
| Synopsis | Learn about ancient Greek tragedy in ten minutes, using the story of Cassandra (the prophetess whom no one believed) as demonstration. |
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| A Brief History Of The Ancient Olympic Games by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Most of the characters are written male (it was a requirement for the athletes!) but don't let that stop you from casting it how you like. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for kids. An educational piece sprinkled with a good deal of light comedy. |
| Synopsis | An inspirational dramatic presentation using the creation of the original Olympic Games as a vehicle for bringing history and mythology to life. |
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| A Briefer History Of The Ancient Olympic Games by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Two narrating roles, four other speaking roles, one wailing role and various silent demonstrators of athletic prowess. (The strong silent types are written male, but nobody will mind if they aren't.) |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute play for kids. An educational piece sprinkled with a good deal of light comedy. (As you might deduce from the title, this is a cut-down version of 'A Brief History of the Ancient Olympic Games'. |
| Synopsis | A short inspirational dramatic presentation using the creation of the original Olympic Games as a vehicle for bringing history and mythology to life. |
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| The Brotherhood of Big Ben by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch for three actors, no set required. |
| Synopsis | Jack Steeple wants to join the secretive Brotherhood of Big Ben, but first he must undergo the initiation ceremony. |
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