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| Henry VIII Assembly by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for music for six songs/dances are included in the Producer's Copy of the scripts. (Note that the run time for the script does not include the music!) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One act play for a school class studying The Tudors (English National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Unit 7 'Why did Henry Marry Six Times'). No set requirements, simple props. |
| Synopsis | A snappy short play that runs through all six wives even faster than the portly monarch managed it. |
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| Henry VIII Meets His Match by Roger Hurn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An assembly piece for schools with simple settings, based on an old folk tale. |
| Synopsis | Henry VIII decides to make an example of an Abbot living the high life so sets him the task of solving three riddles within a year and a day. The Abbot hasn't a clue, so sends a clever shepherd, who is his double, to answer for him. |
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| High School Hindsight by Scott Haan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. The central character appears at three different ages - adult and two younger selves. Others appear at two ages. Lots of flexibility in the way this could be presented, but the basic assumption is school-aged performers! Extras could be added. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play. Three locations, but simple to stage. |
| Synopsis | Bobby is having a hard time at High School, particularly with the bullying antics of Dirk, but an adult called Robert is here to help him out. He explains Bobby is dreaming his day, but Robert is Bobby from the future, to give him some words of wisdom that will help and surprise him. |
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| Hijacked Fairytales by Kevin Jannetts |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 34. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. The main characters were written for kids aged 9 to 15. Some of the chorus roles might easily be played by younger children. Jack talks in Scots, somewhat reminiscent of 'Oor Wullie'. [In our opinion, learning this dialect is well worth the effort!] |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 16 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act comedy musical play for kids. |
| Synopsis | Jack's a bit of a lad, and he's eager to seize a chance to get his own social worker, just like his friends have. The trouble is, Geraldine is actually a secret Fairy Godmother, and Jack finds himself in Fairytale land helping folks there to earn his way back home again. |
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| A History Lesson for Turkey Boy by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for young children - a simple history of the Thanksgiving festival. No set or props required. |
| Synopsis | Mr Corn, Mrs Sweet Potato, Mrs Pumpkin and Mrs Squash make sure the young Misses Apples and especially Turkey Boy know their History before Thanksgiving is celebrated. |
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| A History Of The Olympic Games - A Class Play by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 37. No chorus. Characters include a Greek god and a horse! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for a full school class. |
| Synopsis | The history of the Olympic Games, beginning at the ancient games with a personal appearance by Zeus, followed by a whirlwind tour of the modern games, complete with a selection of famous medal winners. |
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| A History of the Olympics - Readers' Theatre by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 36. No chorus. Six plays with six characters in each. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A set of six mini-plays (with run times around 10 minutes) designed for 'readers theatre' (i.e. use for small group reading), though they could also be performed as plays. No set requirements. Producer's Copy includes a quiz for each play. |
| Synopsis | Olympic history, comparing the ancient games to the modern olympics and studying the development of the modern Olympic games through references to events, sportsmen and controversies. |
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| The Holiday Show by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 44. No chorus. Lots of characters, but lots of flexibility for doubling. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A series of weather-themed sketches linked by the format of a fictional TV news/current affairs show. |
| Synopsis | A TV show about the British Weather and global warming, designed for a class presentation. |
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Hood by Geoff Bamber
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] Plus additional time for songs and dances. |
| Music | Production notes list recommended songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Not a true British Pantomime (lacks, for example, the ritual audience participation and pantomime dame), but contains many of the ingredients - plenty of jokes and extravagant characters. |
| Synopsis | The Sheriff of Nottingham has taken over Loxley Manor and plans to marry Marian. Prince John is coming to the wedding, together with his personal assistant and a passing bishop. Robin Hood assembles his Merry Men but with unexpected plans. |
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| Hood - The Sequel by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. No formatl chorus, but the number of guards and jailers has some flexibility. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. In theory, four locations, but no real set requirements. |
| Synopsis | 'Good' King Richard is dead and 'Bad' Prince (now 'King') John has succeeded to the throne. However the King has been forced to sign the Magna Carta which means that he needs to behave himself. This results in Robin Hood being able to give up his outlaw life in Sherwood Forest and return to Loxley Manor as Sir Robin of Loxley. Now married to his beloved Lady Marian, all seems well with the world. Not quite so, for Robin's old nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham, now unemployed as a result of council cutbacks, is hatching a fiendish plot to frame Robin for a heinous crime against the state. |
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