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If You Go Down To The Woods Today by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. Several of the characters are written male but could be played either. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Single (lack of) set. |
Synopsis | When the royal teddy bear goes missing during a bout of palace spring cleaning, the Princess is distraught, particularly as this disaster befalls her on the eve of her birthday party. The task of finding the bear falls to the King and the Prime Minister whose progress sees them one step behind the Princess's favourite toy even when it fortuitously finds its way back to the palace. |
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Imagination by Garry R. Keane |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. The characters are mainly children, but there are two adults, so it could be played either by a youth group or by a mixture of adults and children. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for a school group. Simple sets. |
Synopsis | Sally's life has been in turmoil, with a change of house, and school, but it's the events at the end of sixth grade that really affected her. Now she's happier with her imaginary friends and parties, but that has to change too. |
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The Importance Of Being Earnest [45 minute abridgement] by Oscar Wilde abridged by Gerald P Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The two narrators are written female but could be played male (especially if their names were changed to something more masculine than Agnes and Doris). |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy, abridged (and slightly adapted) from the play by Oscar Wilde. A couple of narrators are used to set scenes so that the piece can be played with minimal (furniture only) sets. |
Synopsis | Bachelors, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, use convenient fictions when they wish to escape the more tedious aspects of society life. They both fall in love and become engaged, but their deceptions lead to much confusion. And Lady Bracknell has a lot to say about it all. |
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In Out by Bruce Hunt |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters are written male, but could conceivably be female or a mixture. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for and about teenagers. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Ako is a new kid in school, and he has a great game on his phone. Sadly Chock decides he's not cool, and leads Ako's new friends to bully him. |
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In the Lap of the Gods by Philip Bird (music Isabelle Michalakis) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. The characters are a class of schoolchildren, divided into four groups. Each group acts out Greek myths. Whilst some of the characters in the myths have a specific gender, this need not be the gender of the actor. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with scores for three original songs. Further dances can be added at the discretion of the production. |
Style | One-act musical play for a full class of children, providing roles for all and an introduction to several Greek myths. |
Synopsis | A group of children are shipwrecked on an island, and all they can find is a strange chest with a very odd collection of contents. The items inside help the children tell some old stories and keep up their spirits through the night until they are rescued the next day. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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In Through The Exit by Karen Fitzsimmons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch for a youth theatre group. No set. A few props. |
Synopsis | A clever, circular ghost story! |
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Incident at Mulberry Road by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two of the cast are definitely children. The rest could be played by children or by adults. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch. Minimal set requirements. Simple props. |
Synopsis | The Council attempts to replace Mrs. Dugdale, the Lollipop Lady with a Traffic Regulation Operative. A duel ensues. |
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The Innkeeper's Cat by Liz Ansell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. Very flexible casting. The script specifies the numbers of various character types, but they do not have individual lines, so numbers can be varied in either direction. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Lyrics to familiar out-of-copyright tunes are embedded in the script (with additional lyrics that fit to a copyrighted song supplied in the Producer's copy of the script). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Nativity play for young children (with enough roles for a primary school class). |
Synopsis | The Innkeeper's cat, Moses, is constantly disturbed and gets a little annoyed by all the fuss and visitors going on in the stables but his mood soon changes when he sees the new born baby. |
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Intelligent Life? by Peter Keel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A light comedy sketch, for youth ages. |
Synopsis | A great day has dawned... and the members of the press are meeting a representative of a species from outer space! Sadly for them, the results are a little underwhelming. |
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Invasion from Planet Zorgon by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] Plus additional time for songs and dances. |
Music | Production notes list recommended music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act play for kids. Single, simple set. Lots of strong characters, lots of comedy. |
Synopsis | Aliens land in a sleepy American town - the usual sort of sleepy American town, populated by cowboys, sheriffs, super-heroes and the occasional pizza delivery man. |
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