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Death of an Angel by Young Theatre, edited by Helen Sharman Published: 24 April 2009 Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An emotionally charged one-act play for a youth theatre group set in a war zone. |
Synopsis | A group of children are on the run in a war zone when a man saves one of the girls and joins the group. Can he be trusted, or is he leading them all into a trap? |
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The Delphi Dilemma by Jonathan Caldicot Published: 1 May 2013 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play for teenage cast, set at an archaeological dig in Greece. |
Synopsis | A school party have been set a discovery quiz on their educational trip to Greece. All goes smoothly, if a little competitively, until a schoolboy prank goes badly wrong. |
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Detective Mimms and The Snaffler by Geoff Bamber Published: 27 March 2012 Production by Hyde Little Theate awarded the Certificate of Merit (for performers up to 14 years of age), Greater Manchester Drama Federation one-act play festival 2012. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are nominally gendered, only the King and Queen should be regarded as prescriptive. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Multiple sets, but these are minimal - indicative only, and in any case most of them are stolen during the course of the play. |
Synopsis | Ace sleuth Detective Mimms is called in to oversee the hunt for the daring thief known only as The Snaffler. The Snaffler will, quite literally, snaffle anything and the whole country is in a state of high anxiety. Can Mimms, assisted by PC Flint, halt this alarming crime wave before it is too late? |
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Detention by Donna Brightwell Published: 26 August 2014 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. One character should be older than the rest of the cast. |
Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play for teenage actors, with a divided stage set. |
Synopsis | There's been a minor fire in the school Science Lab, and now a group of students find themselves in Detention Hall - until the Principal has spoken to them all and discovered who is behind it. They learn more about each other than the fire. |
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The Devil and Tom Walker by Gerald P. Murphy Published: 28 March 2022 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short fantasy melodrama, adapted from the Washington Irving short story. Compèred by rhyming narrators. |
Synopsis | Tom Walker meets the Devil, who offers him buried treasure in exchange for his soul. Eventually Tom agrees to the bargain and becomes a merciless moneylender, hoarding his great fortune. Later, Tom begins to fear damnation and makes a great show of being religious. Despite Tom's newfound piety, the Devil comes for him on a black horse, and Tom is never seen again. |
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Did The Butler Do It? by Debbie Chalmers Published: 25 March 2014 Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 32. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. Extra chorus members can be added. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Song suggestions for 13 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A comedy (with songs) for children, in simple settings. |
Synopsis | Lady Jemima Fitzwilliam's valuable pearls have been stolen! This looks like a job for aged amateur sleuth Mrs Clues, but does Jeeves the butler know something important which can shed light on the subject? |
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A Different League by Jonathan Edgington Published: 10 January 2019 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy on three simple sets. This is the sequel to Three Nil Down At Half Time, also published by Lazy Bee Scripts. The two can be performed individually or together. |
Synopsis | A football team are looking forward to the new season when disaster strikes and the girls' league they are due to play in is disbanded. Fortunately (although much to the consternation of several parents), the team receive an unexpected invitation to play in a boy's league. |
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Dirk Smirk - Secret Agent by Geoff Bamber Published: 20 July 2008 Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. Several of the characters are written male but could easily be switched (a pronoun here, a pronoun there). The chorus are non-speaking policemen. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy play for kids, spoofing the Bond spy genre. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | When Madame Veronique de Vascalles, Head of the World Council of Governments, arrives in London for a conference she falls prey to a fiendish plot hatched by STINK, a criminal organisation intent upon world domination. Only one man can thwart STINK, and that man is Dirk Smirk - Secret Agent, assisted by the enigmatic and impossibly beautiful Captain Tremaine. With STINK taking control of Madame de Vascalles' brain and Smirk and Tremaine on the run from the hyper-efficient Commander Molstrop of the Metropolitan Police, the fate of the free world hangs by a thread. |
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Divali Assembly by Sue Russell Published: 28 April 2011 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. A narrator, nine principal characters and (nominally) 30 children for the presentational part of the script. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Piece for a full school class, with a good balance between straight information delivery and drama. |
Synopsis | An informative and educational assembly about the festival of lights which includes a play of the story of Rama, Sita, Ravana and the origins of Divali. |
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Doctor Hoof by Diana Kimpton Published: 6 November 2023 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. All characters are animals behaving as humans (with options for any mix of gender). Flexible singing chorus (from none to lots). |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Choruses set to traditional tunes are included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Short play for children. (It might be described as a light comedy or a light morality play.) Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Doctor Hoof only treats other horses. When he moves to a new town, he finds he's the only horse around, so there's no one for him to treat. Helped by the other animals, he gradually learns they are not as different from him as he thought. |
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