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Master Shakeshafte by Peter Parkinson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length play, with a variety of settings, generally indicated by furniture and atmosphere. |
Synopsis | There is much speculation over the 'missing years' of Shakespeare's life, and this play offers a glimpse into what may have happened if the bard of Avon really did spend time as a tutor in Hoghton Hall, before becoming a playwright in earnest. There are numerous nods to familiar plays and characters, and also lines or titles which may delight an alert audience. |
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A May Dream by Sally Kinnell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 32. No chorus. In addition to the 32 human roles (playable by a cast of 14) there is Crumble the Dog who can double as Starveling's Dog. There are two brief (silent) appreances of children ('School Boy' and 'Child' who could probably be doubled). |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length drama. Multiple locations but simple settings. Contains mild (Shakespearean) swearing. |
Synopsis | A collection of Shakespeare's Rustics pursue their own plotlines outside their plays, converging on Hecate's shop and Doll Tearsheet's bar. Philosophy, love, conspiracy and the unmasking of a villain, in genuine Shakespearian language. A May Dream was specially written in response to the Royal Shakespeare Company's Open Stages Project in 2012. |
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The Merchant of Venice [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 = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Every word is Shakespeare's, but the cast list has been reduced, with four minor characters and all servants/court officials removed. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | Bassanio needs money so that he can court the noble lady Portia. He goes to his friend Antonio, who helps negotiate a loan from the moneylender Shylock. If the money is not repaid, Shylock will demand a pound of Antonio's flesh. This leads to a court case with an unexpected judge. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream In 17 And A Half Minutes Or Less by Christine Harvey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] (But see also the title - which assumes a fast pace.) |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act Shakespearean comedy with various simple settings. |
Synopsis | A fast-paced version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Perfect for schools, this is a compact, humorous adaptation of the classic tale of love and mishap in seventeen and a half minutes or less. |
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Nay, Remember Me! by Amelia Marriette |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's script includes suggestions for pieces of music to be played at particular points in the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length comedy drama with various settings. |
Synopsis | After Shakespeare’s death, two of his principal actors, John Heminges and Henry Condell, undertake the task of publishing all of his scripts, and the First Folio is born. Four centuries later in 2001, the First Folio is auctioned at Christies. |
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Exclusions | Due to professional performances, this script is not available for performance in the following places at the following times:- 15 mile radius of Malvern, UK from the first day of November, 2023 to the last day of November, 2023 |
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Othello In Hell by Richard Gordon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play based on the Shakespeare classic. |
Synopsis | Trapped in an invisible prison, the spirit of Othello is tormented by his own memories and visions of those he has known in life. He seems doomed to repeat a cycle of regret and blame and rage, even when granted Desdemona’s forgiveness. |
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Rhyming Macbeth by Jeremy Tyburn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. There are 22 Non-speaking roles, but Narrators 1 and 2 could be further divided at the Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A rhyming, modern language version, one act length - written originally as a Readers' Theatre piece. |
Synopsis | A shortened adaptation of Macbeth in rhyming form, which could be performed with a very simple set, or no set. |
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Romeo and Juliet [75-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 75-minute abridgement of Shakespeare's tragedy. (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 | Two households in Verona are sworn foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life. Whose misadventured piteous overthrows, do with their death bury their parents' strife. |
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Romeo and Juliet in Sixteen and a Half Minutes or Less by Christine Harvey Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] This would be a calm production but it is intended to be played faster! |
Music | None. |
Style | Modern language version of Romeo and Juliet. No set requirements. |
Synopsis | Does what it says on the label - although to get down below sixteen and a half minutes, the play needs to be done (as intended) at manic pace. [Our estimate is that a steadty pace would run to 18 minutes.] Follows the plot and structure of the original work (so structurally in five acts). |
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Romeo and Juliet's Final Half Hour by Juliet Devon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Performers either youth theatre or a mixture of adults and youth. Our reviewer noted that the role of Romeo is a 'low-stress part' on account of him already being dead. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] The run time depends on the time Juliet takes to remember her lines. |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch, set in a school hall (which need only be represented by a few items of furniture). |
Synopsis | Nikki, the drama teacher, is determined to get through this last rehearsal with her principals from Romeo and Juliet, but Juliet can't remember the right lines - even the right play - and there are constant interruptions. |
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