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A Children's Christmas Carol by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute play. No set requirements. |
Synopsis | Charles Dickens' festive classic much abbreviated as a play for an audience of young children, to be performed by a cast of adults (or possibly by a company of older children.) |
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The Chimes by Christopher Brechypt |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 107 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length adaptation of Charles Dickens' festive novella (no, the other one). An engaging story, full of the social critique you'd expect from Dickens. |
Synopsis | The elderly porter Toby Veck is struggling to make ends meet. One New Year's Eve, he shows kindness to an accused vagrant and his young daughter, inviting them into his household. But he then meets with a fatal accident. Goblins show him what becomes of his impoverished family seven years later - as well as an alternative, happier New Year. |
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Chip Off The Old Block by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A play structured in three acts (but in length on the boundary between one-act and full-length plays) with one (kitchen/diner) set. |
Synopsis | When Katie decides to enlist the makers of a television programme to trace her birth Father, it has implications beyond her own family, which no one could have foreseen. |
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Chips Then! by Dian Donovan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. A good chance for two teenage boys to flex their acting muscles, with plenty of opportunity for subtle humour. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short play. Single set, simple props. Part of the Emotions collection of shorts. |
Synopsis | Two lads wait outside a girl's house, one trying to get up the courage to deliver a love letter. A short reminder of teenage frailty. |
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Choir Boy by Dian Donovan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for teenagers. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | It's the first day at college, and Ben is asserting himself by mocking someone he used to know a long time ago. But people can change, and it's Ben who ends up embarrassed. |
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Christ's Passion by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 21. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 76. Chorus. Casting very flexible (the Producer's Copy of the script includes a doubling table to demonstrate how the minimum casting can be achieved). |
Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Exactly what it says - a large cast passion play. |
Synopsis | The story of Jesus, from birth to death and resurrection. |
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Christmas At Petersburg by George Douglas Lee |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. One of the characters has the same surname as the author. This is not entirely coincidental. |
Run Time | Around 72 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with two original scores. Additional excerpts from Christmas carols could be used at the discretion of the production. |
Style | Historical drama, exporing some of the depths of the American Civil War. |
Synopsis | The Confederates have been besieged at the railhead of Petersberg for months, reducing food, clothing and ammunition to the barest minimum. Into this desperate situation, on Christmas Eve, come two young girls from opposite sides of the war, each looking for a lost and injured father. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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The Christmas Carol [Version 4] by Anthony Paul Lashley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The number of carol singers is unspecified. The author suggests (but does not insist) that when Scrooge is reformed, he might be played by a different actor to emphesise the change! Something for productions to play with. |
Run Time | Around 57 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Lyrics to a number of (out-of-copyright) carols are embedded in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act play with songs. Multiple locations, but indicated by lighting and furniture rather than full-stage sets. |
Synopsis | Dickens' Christmas tale of redemption is given a little comic twist and run at a smarter pace, but still delivers the required moral lesson along with the laughs. |
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Christmas Present by Jim and Jane Jeffries |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 16. Minimum total with doubling = 41. Minimum total without doubling = 51. No chorus. Aimed at a mixed company of adults and children. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Nativity play, but not one for young kids! A large cast piece, probably for a church group. Elements of comedy, but a serious core. |
Synopsis | A modern retelling of the Nativity - a faithfull following of the biblical accounts, give or take a couple of thousand years, featuring business tycoons, mobsters, fast food workers and homeless people, plus assorted Trekkies! |
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Christopher Columbus Was A Brat by Richard Gordon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters comprise of a crusty old hobo and a teenage girl |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act fantasy with a hilltop setting. |
Synopsis | CT is on her way to the other side of the mountain. Not to, really, but 'away from'. In her special quiet place she meets a strange man, dressed as a hobo who has some important things to tell her. |
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