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Great Moments in History, Number 2 by Jack Burgess |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Historical skit in one short scene. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) Contains mild swearing and a telescope. |
Synopsis | The Spanish Armadillo. A Lady finds a fully paid-up Fool on look-out duty. |
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Great Moments in History, Number 5 by Jack Burgess |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Five-minute sketch. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) |
Synopsis | The Sinking of the Titanic. Observed, with stiff-upper-lip, by two elderly gentlemen and by a steward. |
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Henry VIII by Archie Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute historical romp! (The history is rough-and-ready rather that scrupulously accurate!) |
Synopsis | Henry The Eighth walks amongst his people and is struck by the lewd advances of Anne Boleyn, leading him to split from the Catholic church to obtain his divorce from Katherine of Aragon. |
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I, Tiberius by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. The numbers of soldiers and secret service agents can be treated flexibly. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for kids, set in Roman Britain. Single set (to the point of almost no set at all) and simple props, give or take the solid gold Egyptian statuette. |
Synopsis | When Tiberius Pompus arrives from Rome to take up a governorship in the wilderness that is Eastern Britain he is looking for peace and a quiet life. He has every faith in his long-suffering personal assistant, Flavia, and his military commander, Ludicrous. Unfortunately restless locals in the form of the Iceni tribe and in particular the ambitiously troublesome Boudicca prove a thorn in his side. What Tiberius needs least is a visit from newly-appointed Emperor and old school friend, Marcus Antonius, accompanied by the Emperor's girlfriend, the ultra-glamorous and even more ultra-temperamental Queen Cleopatra of Egypt. It is imperative that the Emperor's stay goes perfectly. It doesn't. |
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In The White Time by Tony Frier |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 62 minutes. [Estimated!] Structurally in one act, but could be performed as a full evening's entertainment. |
Music | None. |
Style | A Victorian historical drama, based on a true murder case |
Synopsis | As a young teenager Mary Wheeler had witnessed her father being convicted and hanged for murder. The trauma resulted in her having intermittent blackouts which she termed her ‘White Time’. Mary invites her lover's mistress Phoebe around one afternoon, leading to her disappearance. Mary is trialled for murder, and only a mysterious letter may reveal the truth of the case. |
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In Whose Eyes? by George Kappaz |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Justice Peter and Abaddon are written male and Gabriella female, but casting that way is not essential. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy for the script suggests a couple of pices to be played over the opening of two of the scenes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act drama in a single, simple courtroom set. Historical images are intended to be projected during the show. The script has two endings, determined by the audience. |
Synopsis | In a court where everything is at stake, the life and actions in the colourful career of Major Charles Derudio are challenged and defended. Are his reasons for the lives he has taken sufficient to earn forgiveness? His final destination hangs in the balance. |
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Jesters, Jousters & Donuts by Patti Veconi |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Eight pieces of Renaissance-themed music, scored for junior school musicians, are provided with the Producer's copy of this script. |
Style | A one act Renaissance-themed school play with music. |
Synopsis | A troupe of re-enactors assemble in a small town to stage their annual Renaissance Fair - just as contractors with the Dept. of Buildings arrive to announce plans for the sale of the land they are on. The narrator arranges a stay of execution and the show, featuring an archery contest, juggling jesters, a jousting match and not one, but three rival queens, can go on. When the contractors return, (with donuts to share), the actors make their sad goodbyes and exit. The clever Narrator, however, makes a discovery that saves the Renaissance Fair and brings the charming village of Notting-Sher-Wessex-Wood back. |
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Julius Caesar [75-Minute Abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 32. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 75-minute abridgement of Shakespeare's Roman history. (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 | 'Beware the Ides of March!' 'Caesar shall go forth.' 'Et tu, Brute?' 'Brutus is an honourable man.' 'Revenge!' 'This was the noblest Roman of them all.' |
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Just Fifteen Minutes by Tony Frier |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act historical drama with several simple scenes. |
Synopsis | Just fifteen minutes is how long it takes someone to die from strychnine poisoning. It's this method by which Doctor Thomas Cream disposed of his victims. Cream goes from fresh McGill graduate to a cornered criminal in this recounting of the life of the notorious 'Lambeth Poisoner', whose crimes stretched from Montreal to Chicago and London. |
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Keep Smiling Through by Suzan Holder |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 15. Minimum total with doubling = 33. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Chorus size at Producer's discretion |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] Variable timing possible with songs used |
Music | Well known songs from the wartime era. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A play for schools, with songs, set in a theatre in Britain in World War 2. |
Synopsis | A Theatre Company preparing and presenting a variety show evokes life in wartime Britain through drama, song, dance and some pathos. |
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