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Missing by Sue Bevan
Finalist in the Sky Blue Theatre International play-writing competition, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Voices of 7 parents may be off stage or recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A gritty one act play for youth theatre. |
| Synopsis | Tom's run away from home but finds he's spent his first night on Lizzie's 'turf'. Is she going to help him, or take his stuff? Perhaps Lizzie's idea of helping Tom isn't the same as his... |
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| Monty's Barrow by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play in two acts (by which we mean it's reasonably short but divided into two sections!) for performance by kids. No specific set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Self-confessed serial failure Monty sets out to make his way in life, equipped only with his sole asset, a rickety wheelbarrow. He enjoys initial success in thwarting a band of robbers and thus becomes enough of a celebrity to get a job with a travelling circus. Things quickly go downhill and he leaves the circus in ruins and loses his barrow. The barrow indirectly falls into the hands of the vengeful robbers who use it in the commission of a crime. Monty finds himself implicated, on trial for his life and desperately hoping that his long-absent Guardian Angel will turn up and save him. |
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| More Nursery Crimes by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Old Mother Hubbard is nominally female, but could be played as a pantomime dame (by a male). |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play, parodying the style of Raymond Chandler, with Puss-in-Boots as a hard-boiled detective. No set requirements. The only listed prop is a handkerchief. |
| Synopsis | There is consternation at court! The famed slipper belonging to Princess Cinderella has been stolen! The Palace guards suspect the identity of the thief but do they have the right man? Enter private investigator extraordinaire, Puss In Boots to solve the baffling crime! A short crime story in film noir style, set in Nursery Land! |
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| Moses in the Bullrushes by Bill Siviter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Flexible cast, with options for multiple narrators, maidens, Egyptians, Hebrews and members of the Egyptian army. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming play for kids. No set requirements and props are optional. |
| Synopsis | A fun version of the Exodus story that includes all the relevant elements and allows a fair sized (and flexible) cast to present the story in a dramatized but simple fashion. |
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| The Most Beautiful Flower by Tony Best, adapted from Antonia Barber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for junior/secondary school children, based on an Eastern European folk tale (translated by Antonia Barber). No formal scenes, but several location changes which, in the original production, were managed by the soldiers moving furniture! |
| Synopsis | The young prince of a kingdom inherits the throne and decrees that, since his late father was given a lot of bad advice by his elderly advisors, all old people must be banished. In the meantime his daughter must find a husband from the remaining young men of the kingdom. One young farmer enlists the help and wisdom of his grandfather, who hid from the guards rather than face exile, to win the princess's heart - and restore the new king's trust in the wisdom of age. |
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| Mother Holle by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Characters include three disembodied voices (who could, concievably, be recorded). |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Twenty-minute play for kids. |
| Synopsis | Mrs. Wade favours her lazy daughter, Ayla, and gives all the domestic work to her step-daughter, Wendy. However, Mother Holle is to impressed with Wendy's work that she showers her with gold. Mrs. Wade is jelous and sends Ayla to work for Mother Holle, hoping for the same reward - but there Ayla gets her come-uppance.
One of Peter Nuttall's Grimm Tales (for Little Horrors) |
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| Mrs Santa Claus's Tea Party by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. One of the few stage plays to offer lines to talking pies. Whilst many of the characters have a specific gender, it doesn't really matter for the purposes of casting. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for seven songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act (largely secular) Christmas play for children with no set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Mrs Santa Claus invites familiar Christmas characters to her annual tea party. Everyone joins in the spirit of Christmas as they sing and dance their way through the preparations for the big day. |
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| Mrs Stonely's Solution by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Victorian Melodrama (with a few contemporary references!) Simple sets, few props. A good vehicle for introducing children to melodrama! |
| Synopsis | Whilst Mr. Stonely spends his meagre wages at the pub, his children are desperately eating crumbs, and his wife is harassed by the rent collector. Forced to go out to work, Mrs. Stonely finds a cunning route to their salvation. |
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| Much Ado About William by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Could be played by kids or by a mixed group of adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy play. |
| Synopsis | A harassed Shakespeare tries to complete a play while his Stratford family bring noise, combat and teenage strife into the room where he works, until the silent Bard can take no more. |
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Murder at Haynes Manor by Rebecca Preen
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comical murder mystery play for junior school children! (In theory it's set in a manor house, but designed to be performable with minimal scenery.) |
| Synopsis | There's a family gathering at Haynes Manor, with more than a few surprises planned, but someone has murder in mind. Is it the greedy housekeeper, or someone with a different grudge? Can the family ghost help to solve the case? |
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