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The Bourbons and Other Crackers by Sue Gordon
RolesMinimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. Characters are mainly adults, intended to be played by children.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA rolling series of humorous sketches - no specific set requirements, simple props (give or take Bonny Prince Charlie's boat).
SynopsisA complete history of monarchy, in entirely the wrong order and with all the boring bits left out. King Alfred does a turn as a TV chef, Mary Queen of Scots does porridge, Elizabeth goes shopping, Henry V takes a holiday, Tutenkhamen gets a visit from the architects and Ethelred never quite makes it.
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A Brief Guide To Greek Tragedy by Nicholas Richards
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. Chorus. 2 narrators and 3 'actors' who each switch between multiple characters. Chorus can be any number of people, even just 1.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short educational sketch.
SynopsisLearn about ancient Greek tragedy in ten minutes, using the story of Cassandra (the prophetess whom no one believed) as demonstration.
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A Brief History Of The United States by Andrew Yates
RolesMinimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 45. Chorus. Slick changes would be required if only minimum cast available.
Run TimeAround 54 minutes. [Estimated!] Dependent on using all music suggested
MusicSong suggestions are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleAn assembly presentation play with eight songs.
SynopsisA fast moving dramatisation of the rise of the USA, from the early days of discovery and colonisation through industrialisation and two World Wars up to the present day.
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ExtrasThe following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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The Bully in the Graveyard by Sarah Cowan
RolesMinimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. Cast of school children plus a ghost - who might be an adult or a large child (assuming that you don't have a real ghost to hand).
Run TimeAround 25 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicSuggestions for seven pieces of backing music are included in the Producer's Copy of the scripts. (The cast is not required to sing, but might do so! One dance is suggested.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleSchool play about bullying. A serious theme, but lots of comedy, and strong characters.
SynopsisBilly and his friends are picked-on by Preson's gang. Their response is to demonstrate to the bullies what it is like to be frightened.
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Bye Baby Bunting by Mark Green
Winner of best original play at the Greater Manchester Drama Federation one-act play festival 2015.
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characers' ages range from 7 - 13.
Run TimeAround 42 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA historical drama for children set in a collapsed mineshaft.
SynopsisIn January 1839, seven children are working underground in the Lovers Bridge Colliery number four mine when they are trapped by a tunnel collapse. They stoically comfort each other in their fear as they wait for rescue which becomes less and less likely as time passes.
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Caesar and the Pirates [Full Version] by Nicholas Richards and Timothy Hallett
RolesMinimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Flexible - the pirates roles could easily be shared by a smaller number and other doubling is possible. On the other hand, there is scope for pirate and soldier chourses. Only one specfied female role - Venus! - but others could be cast female.
Run TimeAround 85 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThe Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for six songs.
StyleMusical comedy play for kids - though the songs are optional.
A shorter version of the same play is available.
First published in 2011, revised in 2012.
SynopsisAn older Caesar is recounting his campaigns in Gaul to a bored scribe, who suggests that it might benefit Caesar's public image to tell a tale of his younger days... Something dashing, perhaps, involving pirates? As it happens, Caesar does know such a story...
Great fun (and secretly educational) with a genuine event in Caesar's life.
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ExtrasThe following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Vocal recording for five tracks and six rehearsal tracks (accompaniment with an instrument playing the vocal line) for the songs from Caesar and the Pirates [Full Version].
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Caesar and the Pirates [Short Version] by Nicholas Richards and Timothy Hallett
RolesMinimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Flexible - the pirates roles could easily be shared by a smaller number and other doubling is possible. On the other hand, there is scope for pirate and soldier chourses. Only one specfied female roles but some could be cast female.
Run TimeAround 65 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThe Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for six songs.
StyleComedy play for kids - with optional songs.
(A longer version of the same play is available.)
SynopsisAn older Caesar is recounting his campaigns in Gaul to a bored scribe, who suggests that it might benefit Caesar's public image to tell a tale of his younger days... Something dashing, perhaps, involving pirates? As it happens, Caesar does know such a story...
Great fun (and secretly educational) with a genuine event in Caesar's life.
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ExtrasThe following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Vocal recording for five tracks and six rehearsal tracks (accompaniment with an instrument playing the vocal line) for the songs from Caesar and the Pirates [Short Version].
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Caradog And The Celts by Penny Burns
RolesMinimum Male roles = 17. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 45. Chorus. Very flexible numbers, with groups of Celts and Romans of various occupations, and opportunites for singers and dancers. The roles are a mixture of adults and children, but inteded to be played by children.
Run TimeAround 45 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicKeyboard and Vocal scores (with added percussion) for seven songs and one instrumental are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script.
StyleOne-act Musical Drama for schools (fitting with the Key Stage 2 History topic on Roman Britain).
SynopsisFollowing the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD, the Celtic resistance was led by Caradog (called Caratacus by the Romans). The play dramatises the life of the Celts on what is now the Welsh border and the battle for the hill fort of Caer Caradog. (We are also taken to Rome for a meeting with the Emperor Clau-Clau-Claudius.)
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ExtrasThe following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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Consulting an Ancient Doctor by Nicholas Richards
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 21 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA series of short educational scenes. The narration is in English and the dialogue in Latin. Suitable for Latin classes and assemblies.
SynopsisA series of comic scenes set in Roman times in which an ancient doctor deals with various patients - in Latin. Narrators bind the scenes together, explain the Latin for those who need it, and provide some elementary background information on ancient medicine. The piece is designed as an educationally useful but recreational activity for Latin classes, and could make an entertaining Assembly or be interspersed with other pieces in an end-of-term show.
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Echo and Narcissus by Gerald P. Murphy
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus.
Run TimeAround 15 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicSimple piano/vocal scores for four original songs are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script.
StyleA fifteen-minute musical based on Ancient Greek myth.
SynopsisHera, the queen of the gods, is furious when she discovers that her husband Zeus has been unfaithful, and she takes it out on the object of his affections, the articulate Echo. Echo falls for the handsome Narcissus, but she cannot make him understand because of Hera's curse, which confines Echo to repeating the words of others, and meanwhile Narcissus is in love with his own reflection. (Not a happy lot, the Ancient Greeks!)
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