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Frankenstein's Last Chance by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy melodrama, for school-age, youth performers. |
Synopsis | Having given up his medical practice to concentrate on his career as an inventor, Doctor Viktor Frankenstein desperately needs to raise funds to pay for his daughter's forthcoming wedding. Success at the annual Mad Scientists' Convention would be well-rewarded, but Viktor finds himself singularly short of inspiration until... No, that would be absurd - wouldn't it? |
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Friends by David Dunn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters are all teenagers. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for teenagers. No set requirements. |
Synopsis | Bex and Sam discuss the nature of friendship, while Sam's younger brother tries to figure out how to explain away an expensive present. |
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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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Full Circle by Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An intriguing short comedy set in an American high school - an ideal vehicle for school or youth theatre. Stage split between simple representations of the school cafeteria and the principal's office. |
Synopsis | With typical angst, five high school pupils are involved in various relationship difficulties with each other, resulting in assorted fracas in the school cafeteria which the long-suffering principal is left to resolve. |
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Gabriel-Ernest by Tony Best |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Either for a youth theatre company, or for a mix of adults and children. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act stage adaptation of a subversive Saki story - this one is edgy, verging on (gothic) horror. There are nine scenes, intended to be played seamlessley with the stage divided into one area for a house and one for all other scenes. |
Synopsis | 'There's a beast in your woods.' So it seems. Van Cheele's life is interrupted by the arrival of a strange boy, with disturbing behaviour and an unusual disregard for clothes. (The author makes some suggestions about how to deal with this last point whilst remaining within the bounds of decency!) |
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The Gala Programme by Tony Best |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst there isn't a formal requirement for a chorus, one could easily be added, as the protagonists refer to the reactions of crowd. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play, adapting a story by Saki. Single set (as simple as you like). A comedy, if you have Saki's very dark sense of humour. |
Synopsis | A sufragette rebellion is projected back to Roman times. The Romans, needless to say, did not have very modern attitudes to female participation in the political process, and the emperor's solution to the problem is calculated to please the crowd of the circus maximus rather than twenty-first century sensibilities! |
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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 Game by Mary Stone |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch, highlighting relationships and friendships. |
Synopsis | In different social circles at school, Gem and Katy are horrified to discover that their parents are dating. They resolve to break the couple up, but don’t seem to anticipate the results of having to work together on the project. |
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The Generation Game by Alan J. Laing |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Characters are (mainly) a mixture of children and their grandparents, intended to be played by a cast of children. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Three songs are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script with positions for two others in the text. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act play for kids with songs. Single simple set. |
Synopsis | A gang of oldies in a home refuse to grow old gracefully, to the delight of their grandchildren and the despair of the matron. |
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Georgina and the Dragon by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Whilst there is no chorus, some flexibility in numbers could be created by changing the numbers of courtiers, soldiers, peasants and gremlins. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Whilst there are two locations, it is intended to be played with minimal scenery (dragging the thrones off will be sufficient to indicate that we have left the palace!) |
Synopsis | With the kingdom terrorised by a fire-breathing dragon, the King desperately issues a call for help. With none forthcoming save the less than impressive Prince Jodrel, it falls to Georgina to take on the challenge. Unfortunately Georgina is the newly-appointed royal cook and isn't much better than the hapless prince. However, with a reward of a thousand gold pieces on offer, the unlikely pair must at least make an effort. |
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