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The Tragedie of Macbreth by Robert Hunter Allan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth with a single (dark moor) setting. |
Synopsis | Macbreth encounters three witches, who can satisfy his avaricious ambitions if he complies with their demands for unpalatable tasks. |
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Tree Audition by Hugh Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | An actress uses underhand tactics to put off a rival while waiting to audition for the part of Lady Macbeth. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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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. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Twelfth Night [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night', with every word remaining Shakespeare's. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | A cross-dressing survivor of a shipwreck, separated from her twin brother, finds herself in the centre of a confusing love triangle. |
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Two Gentlemen of Verona by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Flexible numbers of soldiers and outlaws |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A humorous retelling of Shakespeare's story as a modern-language one-act play. |
Synopsis | When Proteus follows his best friend Valentine to fashionable Milan, he finds himself attracted to the Duke of Milan's daughter, Silvia, upon whom Valentine has already set his sights. Hatching a plot to remove Valentine from the scene and move in on Silvia, he does not realise that he is being followed by Julia, the girl he left behind in Verona and to whom he has sworn everlasting devotion. Will the faithless scoundrel succeed with Silvia or will his efforts founder? A no-brainer, really. |
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Who's Hamlet by George Freek |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act farce in two acts. (I mean it's in two acts but is relatively short.) A farce, with misunderstandings galore and all the theatrical temperament you could wish for. All this comes with a simple set and small cast. |
Synopsis | A young actor takes the role of Hamlet from his ageing father. |
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The Winter's Tale [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. The 24 roles could be played by 6M, 4F or 5M, 5F. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 60-minute abridgement of the Shakespeare comedy-drama. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | King Leontes of Sicilia, suspecting his wife Hermione of cheating on him with the King of Bohemia, has her imprisoned and her newborn baby sent far away. When Hermione dies in custody, Leontes is left without an heir. But fifteen years later in Bohemia, the abandoned princess Perdita has a royal suitor. (Includes Shakespeare's most famous stage direction.) |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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