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Press Up by Nick Rowan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of teenagers and adults (assumed to be played by teenagers, but could be played by the mix as written). |
Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama for a high-school-aged company. Multiple settings but minimal scenery. Requires video projection. |
Synopsis | A school newspaper gets more of a scoop than the teenage editors had bargained for, but it's going to take determination and some serious investigative reporting to prove their story is real and avoid detention. |
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The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain adapted by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. The vast majority of the characters are written male, but need not be played that way. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the scripts includes suggestions for up to 19 songs (with original lyrics to well-known tunes). However, the songs are optional - the piece functions equally well as a play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length play/musical. A family show, written for performance by a youth theatre company, but could be a mix of adults and children. |
Synopsis | A faithful adaptation and well crafted dramatisation of the classic novel by Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper is a musical play suitable for secondary schools or Academies specialising in the performing arts. As well as historical interest it provides a challenging project for producing, directing, acting and technical disciplines in school or community settings |
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Princess and Postman by Raymond Blakesley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Characters include a dragon and choruses of villagers and courtiers |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for kids, based on an original fairy tale. (See 'Once...' by the same author for a longer, more complex treatment for a larger cast.) |
Synopsis | A not-very-beautiful Princess cannot find a suitable prince to marry. Her parents are in despair, waiting for the right match to be found. A dragon comes to the rescue by pairing her up with the postman - and an unlikely partner he turns out to be! |
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The Princess and the Frog by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Two song suggestions are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short rhyming play. |
Synopsis | Spoilt Princess Gwendolen is not satisfied with her suitors, and the frog who turns into a handsome and eligible prince is no exception. He lives happily ever after - but what of the Princess? |
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The Princess and the Mirror by Charles Alverson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Monsters 1-3 are offstage voices. Peasants form chorus - number at Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy play for children. |
Synopsis | With knights in shining armour, dragons to slay not to mention a few monsters here and there, vain Princess Alice learns that mirrors can have more uses than for just admiring yourself. |
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The Princess and the Pea [Version 2] by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 89 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for ten songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length pantomime adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale. |
Synopsis | Princess Zabaglioni went missing as a baby, but Fairy Fettucine is sure she still lives as a peasant and will one day become a Princess again. Just as Prince Tiramisu of Trattoria is looking for a bride, as it happens! Meanwhile, the evil wizard Vermicelli persuades the Queen to outlaw chocolate. We also meet three soldiers called Here, There and Everywhere, an abominable snowman, and a rabbit called Frog. |
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Princess Bigfoot by Bob Heather |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act family play, based on real characters circa 750 AD (though incorporating folk tales). |
Synopsis | In 8th Century France an identity theft scheme to usurp the Princess Bertha from her position as the wife of King Pepin is thwarted by that famous pair of investigators: Messrs Hercule and Poirot - as well as by the Princess’s shoe size. |
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The Princess of Bleecker Street by Don Lowry |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play for a high school cast. Single New York apartment setting. |
Synopsis | Van is the daughter of a very rich man, but she's determined to spend the summer like an ordinary person, so she's moved into a regular little apartment, and has only $30,000 dollars to last three months. Can she conceal her true identity? Or will her mother track her down? |
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Princess on the Rocks by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Scores for 5 songs (plus reprises), using old familiar tunes, are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script |
Style | Simple musical for children. Very simple sets, few props. |
Synopsis | Princess Vivian doesn't want to marry the prince from the neighbouring kingdom and is packed off in a box by her wicked stepmother. Meanwhile, the prince is forced to choose a bride by the unusual method of a sleeping contest! |
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Princess Quest by Christine Harvey and Keavy & Signy Lynch |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Most of the characters are written so they can be played male or female. The characters include a couple of trolls. (This is not uncommon.) |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Querky, fun, one-act play for kids. Three scenes requiring two sets - a classroom and 'inside a board game with a medieval theme'. (This need not be complex!). |
Synopsis | Dakota has made a board game, Princess Quest, for her school project - whilst the rest of her project-mates have been skiving. But when a random act of magic transports them into the game, they soon find themselves battling their way out past some fiendish questions. |
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