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A Forty-Minute Winter's Tale by Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. The characters are adults plus one child and, famously, a bear, whose only role is to exit in pursuit of Antigonus (for an offstage lunch appointment - although only one of the parties is hungry.) |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'The Winter's Tale', with the original text cut down to 40 minutes. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | Leontes, King of Sicilia, suspects his wife Hermione of having an affair with Polixenes, the King of Bohemia. (Herminone and Polixenes are innocent.) Polixenes escapes Leontes' wrath, but Hermione does not and is imprisoned. Hermione gives birth to a daughter, but Leontes does not believe the child, Perdita, to be his and sends her abroad. She is abandoned on the coast of Bohemia (a feat which would be frowned upon these days, owing to Geography) and Perdita is brought-up by a Shepherd. Time (making a guest appearance) moves the play on sixteen years, and Florizel, son of Polixenes, meets and falls in love with Perdita, the shepherdess, thus setting-up the inevitable reconcilliation and happy ending. |
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Fright Size - Twelve Ghost Plays by 10 x 10 Writers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 43. No chorus. Several of the characters are dead (though this is not a requirement for casting.) One of the 12 plays has chorus roles (which could be filled by cast members from the other plays). |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Collecton of 12 short plays for youth theatre. Generally simple to stage. |
Synopsis | Various encounters with the supernatural, with varying results for all concerned!:- 'A Likely Story' by Heather Bryant 'Could Have Been Worse' by Gary Nicholson 'In Through The Exit' by Karen Fitzsimmons 'Just A Ghost Story' by Sarah Reilly 'Mizmaze' by Jonathan Edgington 'No Exit' by Dian Donovan 'Spooked!' by Margaret Histed 'Term Time Only' by Sarah Reilly 'That’s The Spirit' by Caroline Spencer 'The Boy Who Loved To Dance' by David Dunn 'The Ghost Letter' by Mike Plumbley 'Where Have You Been?' by Steve Menary |
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Galileo & Co. by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play for school age children, which might kick-start projects about the stars, about science, about history, or about religion. |
Synopsis | Galileo has been summoned before the Holy Office to renounce his heretical findings that the Earth rotates around the sun. In the few minutes before his hearing, some unusual characters try to convince him to stick to the truth. |
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The Ghost Letter by Mike Plumbley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch for youth theatre. A few simple props to indicate location (a room). Also available as part of the Fright Size collection. |
Synopsis | Ellie has brought Tom to her late grandmother's house. In search of... what? |
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Gregory For Mayor by Keith Passmore |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fantasy one act play for children, with various simple settings. |
Synopsis | Everyone is eager to see kind and thoughtful Gregory elected as mayor - everyone that is except the evil Wizard Crumb and his Italian sidekick Fettuccine, who turn Gregory into a stone statue. Fortunately the good Wizard Kindly is able to concoct an antidote and everyone lives happily ever after. |
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Handstands For You by Adam Exton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are children, but could be played by children or adults. There are three characters, but two of them appear in some scenes as younger versions of themselves. (Either played by the same actors or by younger ones.) |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A touching and deftly-handled approach to the subject of childhood illness. Multiple settings, but does not need explicit sets. Contains mild swearing (which could be moderated if deemed in appropriate for a specific production). |
Synopsis | When Billy was five, his best friend was Gemma, but she moved away. Now Billy's thirteen, he's got a new best friend in Ronald, but he also has leukaemia. Gemma moves back to the neighbourhood and the three have to find space for each other. |
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Hansel and Gretel... and Sadie by Steven Stack |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play, with an imaginative twist to the classic tale. A companion (same style, different tale) to Ted (Of Edible Houses, Risky Bargains, and Other Grimm Happenings) |
Synopsis | A quirky take on a classic tale. Hansel and Gretel have another child living with them - Sadie, who loves to read. This comes in handy when the children are taken deep into the forest and abandoned by the parents... |
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A History Of The Olympic Games - A Class Play by Sue Russell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 37. No chorus. Characters include a Greek god and a horse! |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play for a full school class. |
Synopsis | The history of the Olympic Games, beginning at the ancient games with a personal appearance by Zeus, followed by a whirlwind tour of the modern games, complete with a selection of famous medal winners. |
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A History of the Olympics - Readers' Theatre by Sue Russell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 36. No chorus. Six plays with six characters in each. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A set of six mini-plays (with run times around 10 minutes) designed for 'readers theatre' (i.e. use for small group reading), though they could also be performed as plays. No set requirements. Producer's Copy includes a quiz for each play. |
Synopsis | Olympic history, comparing the ancient games to the modern olympics and studying the development of the modern Olympic games through references to events, sportsmen and controversies. |
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The Holiday Show by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 44. No chorus. Lots of characters, but lots of flexibility for doubling. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A series of weather-themed sketches linked by the format of a fictional TV news/current affairs show. |
Synopsis | A TV show about the British Weather and global warming, designed for a class presentation. |
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