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| Not Easy by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two adults and two children (could be played by four kids.) |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short play. Single set, simple props. Part of the Emotions collection of shorts. |
| Synopsis | Does Dad have a favourite child? Is Mum too overprotective of her son? This short play shows how family politics can change in the course of a phone call. |
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| Not Yet a Yeti by Lou Treleaven |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. There are three narrators, a number that could be expanded or contracted as the production requires, plus a group of hikers which could easily be expanded into a major expedition. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics that fit to traditional songs are embedded in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short, easy-to-stage play based on the picture book Not Yet a Yeti by Lou Treleaven, illustrated by Tony Neal. |
| Synopsis | All of George's family are yetis, and they love chasing hikers off the mountains with their big feet. George doesn't love doing that and he has small feet. Is he a yeti? Does he even want to be a yeti? |
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| The Not-So Ordinaries… by Jon Boustead |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Built around actors playing multiple roles (and ocasionally across gender), so plenty of flexibility in who does what! |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama for kids. Multiple locations but intended to be played with minimal sets. |
| Synopsis | Jack is suffering from bullying at school until he and fellow victim Erin are asked to join The Top Secret Society of Not So Ordinary Agents Fighting Against Bullies and Bad People. After a shaky start, the agents manage to turn things around and arrange a happy ending. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** PDF file featuring games and exercises aimed at helping a cast develop their roles in 'The Not So Ordinaries' by Jon Boustead. (The material might also be used or adapted for other youth theatre scripts.)
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| Nun Fun in the Arizona Sun by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Characters include a singing cow! Whilst there isn't a formal chorus, the number of nuns and orphans could probably be increased. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for six songs (plus opening instrumental) are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | One-act musical comedy for kids. Single set. |
| Synopsis | A shady businessman and his dim-witted accomplice arrive at an orphanage to attempt to swindle the resident nuns out of the gold mine they're situated over. But they've reckoned without the enthusiasm of the young orphans, and their magical singing cow... |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Nursery Crime Scene Investigation by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Another 'film noir' parody - a ten minute play with minimal set requirements and few props. |
| Synopsis | Tommy is a Nursery Land CSI officer, charged with investigating the death of Solomon Grundy - who seems to have lived his life in something of a hurry... Could this be a case of identity theft, and can Tommy unmask his killer? |
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| Nursery Crimes by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short dramatic pastiche of hard-boiled private eye genre, aimed at young teenagers (but frequently used by older groups). |
| Synopsis | Did he fall or was he pushed? That is the question on everyone's lips! Rumours are rife. The theories are wild and fanciful and no-one is above suspicion! However Bill, the Private Eye is on the case. Can he and Goldie solve the puzzle? |
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| Nursery Crimes - The Egg's Files by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Another 'film noir' parody as a 15-minute play, with minimal set requirements and few props. |
| Synopsis | Business is slow for Fairytale PI, Puss in Boots. All that changes when he is handed a set of files belonging to the late Humpty Dumpty Puss is drawn into a complex web of intrigue and conspiracy involving the FBI (Fairyland Bureau of Investigation), the 3 Pigs Construction Empire and the Big Bad Wolf. |
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| Nursery Crimes: Four and Twenty by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Film noir meets nursery story meets TV parody (in this case '24') in a one-act play. (This is the longest of the Nursery Crimes series of corny pastiches!) |
| Synopsis | It is Special Agent Jack Horner's first week on the CTU (Counter Trolls Unit) and he is just about to face the toughest four and twenty hours of his career! |
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| Odysseus and the Cyclops by Tony North |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Cast numbers are very flexible. The chorus is nominally the 12 great gods of Ancient Greece. The 'characters' include soldiers (nominally 3) and sheep (nominally 4) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play for kids in the style of Ancient Greek drama. (Appropriate for the English National Curriculum KS2 History topic Ancient Greece.) Includes the violence inherent in the story! |
| Synopsis | The tale of Odysseus and the Cyclops (from Homer's Odyssey) told as a short play for children, in the style of an Ancient Greek play. |
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| Oedipus - Swollen Foot by Graham Milton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for schools - ideal as a classroom or assembly piece. |
| Synopsis | A light-hearted, accessible take on the Greek myth. Oedipus gradually discovers he has killed his father and married his mother. He learns how one cannot avoid fate, however hard one tries, and that great fortune is often followed by great misfortune. |
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