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Opening Doors by Keith Badham |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Youth theatre drama played on an empty stage with one prop (a free standing door). An ensemble piece, with cast members taking multiple roles. |
Synopsis | As the doorkeepers open the door we experience cradle to grave aspects of the characters' lives. |
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Operation: Santa by Damian Woods |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script includes a list of suggested songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A fun comedy for schools with lots of enjoyable silliness. |
Synopsis | Christmas is coming and everyone in the North Pole is as busy as ever, but just when things couldn't be any more stressful, Santa is kidnapped by a mysterious foe. It's up to the Santa Retrieval Squad to get him back! |
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Oscar's Adventure by Patricia Munene |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. All the characters are animals from south-west Africa. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for children set amidst Namibian wildlife! |
Synopsis | Oscar is a Cheetah cub, living in a refuge, but he dreams of leaving and finding his mother. Helped to escape, he meets two other cubs and their mother, but not his own family. They adopt him and teach him to be wild, but Oscar still has some things to teach them. |
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The Other Side by Iris Winston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for youth theatre, a story, but with a strong moral core. |
Synopsis | Ruth is visiting an Art Gallery as part of the school field trip, when she sees a picture of a cabin that looks familiar. She falls into the painting and meets Narg, who takes her back to something she doesn't want to remember. |
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Pandora's Box by Roger Hurn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. One human, five narrators and a bunch of anthropomorphic personifications. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play for children with a simple single setting. |
Synopsis | The story of Pandora's box is told in an accessible and light hearted way with added educational opportunities as a bonus. |
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The Pardner's Tale by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, single (saloon) set. (US English) |
Synopsis | A short stage adaptation of Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale', brought into the dying days of the Wild West. Three outlaws try to make a mint, but they cannot cheat Death! |
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Parents! by Margaret Histed |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The script assumes a cast of four with one male and one female doubling as each set of parents. Of course, these roles could be separated. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for and about teenagers. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Jaz and Izzy compare notes on whose parents are harshest, but end up surprised when their Mothers have a chat in town... |
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Party Games by Alan J. Laing |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Characters are children plus two teachers (assumed to be played by children) |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute classroom comedy play for kids, with a moral. |
Synopsis | The day before the Christmas Holidays, and the class are filling their spare time with various activities. Penny has a surprise for the school, but it's spoilt kids Amber and Jade who are the most surprised. |
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Pea Pandemonium by Jessica Sandys-Clarke |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are nominally female, they are, when all is said and done, vegetables! |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute farce for kids. Minimal set, simple props. |
Synopsis | It's a regular day in Chill Pepper's Salon, with massages, manicures and bizarre temper tantrums. Today also sees two pea twins reunited. |
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The Perfect Princess and the Wonky Wizard by Jonathan Edgington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One of the characters is a unicorn. For the purpose of counting roles, we have assumed this requires one actor, but of course it might be played as a full skin costume, like a pantomime horse. (The narrator might double as the unicorn.) |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | An optional song is suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Short fairytale for children's theatre, with an original story. |
Synopsis | Wilhelmina the Wicked Witch is holding Spoony the Uni, a unicorn, prisoner in an enchanted forest - which is no longer enchanted due to Walter the Wonky Wizard casting the wrong spell! Two owls, Joey and Snowy, and a young crow, Pickles, team up with Princess Arabella on her quest to rescue Spoony. |
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