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| Meet the Anglo-Saxons by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Five plays with six characters in each. (Whilst the characters are nominally male or female, for the purpose of Readers' Theatre, the gender of the actors doesn't matter.) |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A set of five mini-plays (run times 4 to 6 minutes) for a class studying The Anglo-Saxons (English National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Unit 6B - invasions and settlements of Britain). No set requirements, no props. Producer's Copy includes a quiz. |
| Synopsis | Five plays covering Anglo-Saxon history, archaeology and myth. Includes King Alfred, the venerable Bede, Beowulf, Arthurian myth, and the Sutton Hoo discoveries.
Intended for guided reading or reader's theatre uses, but could also be staged. |
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| Meet the Vikings by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Five plays with six characters in each. (Whilst the characters are nominally male or female, for the purpose of Readers' Theatre, the gender of the actors doesn't matter.) |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A set of five mini-plays (run times 4 to 6 minutes) for a class studying The Vikings (English National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Unit 6C - invasions and settlements of Britain). No set requirements, no props. Producer's Copy includes a quiz. |
| Synopsis | The history of Viking invasion and settlement of Britain told in a series of guided reading plays covering Viking life and mythology. |
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Pipkin and the Angel by Geoff Bamber
Production by Chelford Junior Players won the Best Junior Play at Chelford Drama Festival 2014 & Best Junior individual Performance (for Cappuccino Angel) at Wilmslow Guild One-Act Play Festival. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Some of the characters are written with specific gender but can be changed very easily. More flexibility in numbers is possible by expanding or contracting the number of villagers, mechanics and police. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. No specific set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Pipkin is down on his luck. He really should turn over a new leaf and give up a deeply unsuccessful life of crime. Can he change his ways when he accidentally meets the similarly luckless Cappuccino Angel? The answer would seem to be no, even with the Angel's boss on the case. |
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| Pond Life by Nettie Baskcomb Brown |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two well-known songs are suggested for inclusion, with alternative lyrics provided for one of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Quirky one-act comedy for young actors, with songs and potential to use puppets. |
| Synopsis | Over one summer a newly planted pond becomes inhabited by a variety of amphibians and plants, but this delicately balanced ecosystem is threatened by an influx of new creatures. Will the ‘Newpond’ residents fight to retain their quiet way of life or is there another way to deal with this crisis? |
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| Poppies Never Forget by Christine Harvey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains a suggestion for one song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short play for schools |
| Synopsis | The poppies for the Remembrance Day wreath must explain the history and importance of Remembrance Day to the new poppy joining their ranks. |
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| Questions of French History by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 58. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A series of comic, educational sketches with no set necessary. Adaptable for presentation as a whole or as a pick and mix, for use as an assembly piece or a classroom aid. A large number of roles but performable by just a handful of actors. |
| Synopsis | A series of sketches touching light-heartedly on several episodes of French history, from the Stone Age to the Common Market, providing elementary oral French and a bit of fun with history. |
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| Rainforest Assembly by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script gives suggestions for songs/music to accompany the piece. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Educational piece for a school class with a good deal of information amongst the jokes and songs, and several jumping-off points for further study. No specific staging requirements. |
| Synopsis | An educational presentation on the animals and occupants of the rainforests of the Amazon. |
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| Shadows In The Middle by Patti Veconi |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. Contains scenes altered for either predominantly male or female casts. |
| Run Time | Around 51 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A Shakespearean themed play for youth theatre (American English). |
| Synopsis | Puck's final monologue from A Midsummer Night's Dream is dramatically examined in the context of modern school life and everyday teenage angsts and relationships. |
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| Spice Up Your Life by Sarah-May Simpson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Twenty roles (male and female) but written so that they might be played by the five principal characters. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The score for one original song is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script which also suggests the use of 3 other songs. |
| Style | Play-with-music. Written for teenagers, but contains strong language.
Single set (mainly a school dance studio, but lighting used to indicate changes to other unspecific locations). |
| Synopsis | Five girls are preparing a Spice Girls-themed entry to a school talent show. But the problems going on in all their lives cause tensions within the group to be stretched. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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| Sticky Snail and the Fire Dragons by Richard Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. All characters are animals. Numbers could be increased by multiplying the numbers of each sort of animal! |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming script aimed at an audience of young children (UK years 1-3, US K-2). |
| Synopsis | The animals are cold, damp and miserable - they need fire to warm them up, but for that, they must persuade the fire dragons to help. Unfortunately, the fire dragons only want to fight! |
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