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ABC December by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. Chorus. There are no specific characters. The lines are intended to be recited by one or more children. The lines could be spoken by individuals or an ensemble. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for ten songs to accompany the piece. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Performance piece for a nursery school / kindergarten class. |
Synopsis | A rhyming review of December festivals (with a North American bias - it covers Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and other American celebrations, with a nod to their antecedents in other countries). |
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Aesop's Fables III by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Characters include farm animals, crows and various rodents. (Whilst they have gender-specific names, they're animals, and the gender of the actors is irrelevant!) |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for children - a dramatisation of four of Aesop's fables. Very flexible format - no specific set needed and the stories could be presented individually or as a set. |
Synopsis | Tales of resourceful crows, splitting hares, bovine buffoonery and meals for mice. (If Aesop lived today, he would be inspired by the video of Tool-Making Crows on YouTube.) |
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Aesop's Famous Fables and Twisted Tales by Peter Nuttall Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are nominally gendered, it's only a mater of pronouns! Contains anthropomorphism. |
Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with the score for the concluding song. |
Style | One-act play, ending in a song. Could be performed by children or by adults to an audience of children. |
Synopsis | Four stories for Aesop's extensive collection, about a Tortoise and Hare, a lion and a mouse, the belly and its team, and the battle between the Sun and the North Wind. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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Aladdin [Version 10] by Rachel Harries |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | An Aladdin pantomime written for a girl's school, though easily adaptable for a mix gender cast. |
Synopsis | A new look at the old favourite, intended for an all female cast. Aladdin must defeat the wicked villainess Abanazia with the aid of a magic lamp from the cave of treasures. |
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The Ant Chant by Michal Y Noah Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Two original songs are included in this script. |
Style | A short rhyming musical play for children. |
Synopsis | A day in the life of an ant and their worker companions is told in musical rhyme. Adapted from the childrens' book of the same name. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Zip file containing recordings by Jonny Casto-Ardern of the two songs from 'The Ant Chant' by Michal Y Noah. The recordings come in two forms - simple backing tracks and vocal demos. Additionally, Song 2 has a demo recording of just the chant.
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Apparently Not by Hayley Gordon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. Principal characters are four girls (plus the school principal and a teacher). The chorus is the bullies gang - number unspecified. The chorus lines could be spoken by one person or shared amongst several. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act play, set in and around a school. |
Synopsis | A new girl in school, is forced to choose between supporting her new friend and fitting in with a gang of bullies, and makes the easier choice. |
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Bad Reception by Paul Vincent Performance by Little Eyases Theatre Co. won best play at The Golden Beaks Comedy Festival at Theatre-on-the-Steps, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, September 2007 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and teenagers, intended to be played by teenagers. For the purpose of showcasing, it could be performed by a cast of three (all female, but playing female and male roles) or a cast of three girls and one boy. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Single set (easy to do in a minimalist way), contemporary setting, simple props. Comedy. (Limited use of mildly offensive language.) |
Synopsis | Kayleigh and Lucy are put in charge of their school's reception desk for the morning. To get herself out of a fix, Kayleigh pretends to be the Headmistress when answering the phone, setting up a chain of events that spins out of control... |
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The Bird, the Mouse and the Sausage by Peter Nuttall |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute play for kids. |
Synopsis | A tale of domestic bliss upset - with a moral message about the dangers of fire. One of Peter Nuttall's Grimm Tales (for Little Horrors) |
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Botany Bother by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. Gerald, Geoffrey and Aloysius are written male, but need not be - well, give or take the beard. There are six speaking parts amongst the natives, but there could be many more chanting parts, if you happen to have a spare chorus of natives to hand. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play. The majority of characters speak a hitherto undiscovered language. (Fortunately, the script contains a glossary.) |
Synopsis | A pair of intrepid botanical collectors have an unfortunate encounter with the local inhabitants. |
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A Brief Guide To Greek Tragedy by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. Chorus. 2 narrators and 3 'actors' who each switch between multiple characters. Chorus can be any number of people, even just 1. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short educational sketch. |
Synopsis | Learn about ancient Greek tragedy in ten minutes, using the story of Cassandra (the prophetess whom no one believed) as demonstration. |
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