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King Richard the Second [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. All the doubled roles are male (so the numbers without doubling are 22M, 4F), but of course you can cast whoever you like. There are options to increase the cast size with non-speaking court retinue. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 60-minute abridgement of the Shakespeare 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 | King Richard II, badly advised, banishes Henry Bolingbroke. When Richard seizes the property of John of Gaunt, Henry's father, Henry returns to get restitution. He builds a strong following against the unpopular Richard, who surrenders the crown, is imprisoned, and murdered. |
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Little Women [Full Length Play] by Louisa May Alcott ad. Richard Hills |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. 11 onstage characters and 3 offstage voices |
Run Time | Around 156 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length drama, adapted from the novel of Louisa May Alcott, set in the 1860s, in a single composite set. |
Synopsis | A faithful adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, following a mother and her daughters during the American Civil War. With their father away in the war, the four sisters must support the household at the same time as they each deal with the transition to adulthood. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Lord Byron: Mad, Bad, And Dangerous To Know by Jim and Bronwyn Jameson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 91 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length historical drama with multiple sets adult themes. |
Synopsis | Set in the early 19th century, this is the gripping story of Lord Byron’s turbulent life and loves, told largely from the female perspective, and including Byron - in vivid language. |
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Mary Anning: Lost in Time by Peter John Cooper |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Historical drama. Structurally in two acts, but on the boundary between one-act and two-act length. Dorset rocks. |
Synopsis | Nineteenth-century palaeontologist Mary Anning is dying of breast cancer. Under the care of a local woman, she takes laudanum for pain relief, which induces hallucinations that cause her to reflect on her past and her struggle to make a name for herself in a man’s world. |
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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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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. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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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The Necessity Of Atheism by Seán Lang |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act historical play |
Synopsis | Oxford, 1811. Amidst harsh laws restricting the freedom of the press, Percy Bysshe Shelley, a rather unorthodox, flamboyant undergraduate, publishes a short pamphlet called The Necessity of Atheism. The Master of his college is inclined to dismiss it as a bit of undergraduate exuberance but Lord Eldon, Lord Chancellor of England and old member of the college, takes a much more serious view. |
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Potted Austen: The Complete Set by Lou Treleaven |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Six bitesize adaptations of Jane Austen's novels. |
Synopsis | A collection of six bitesize dramatic adaptations of Jane Austen's published novels. Each is fast-paced, witty, and amenable to small groups (cast size can be reduced to six with some crafty doubling). |
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Ragnhild by Charles Eades |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length historical drama. Contains strong language and adult themes. |
Synopsis | The true story of Ragnhild, daughter of a usurped King of Norway. In 956 AD, living in exile on Orkney, Ragnhild must marry Arnfinn, the son of an earl, but she doesn't like her new husband. Through ruthless and murderous schemes, Ragnhild rises in power once more. |
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Shah Jahan by Subrata Das |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 16. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 31. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 160 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | At the discretion of the Producer Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length translation and adaptation of D.L.Roy's epic saga of the Mughal Empire. |
Synopsis | The retelling of last turbulent years of Shah Jahan's reign are brought to life in this powerful and gripping play, written in the spirit of a Shakespearean tragedy. |
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