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| Keep Smiling Through by Suzan Holder |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 15. Minimum total with doubling = 33. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Chorus size at Producer's discretion |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] Variable timing possible with songs used |
| Music | Well known songs from the wartime era. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A play for schools, with songs, set in a theatre in Britain in World War 2. |
| Synopsis | A Theatre Company preparing and presenting a variety show evokes life in wartime Britain through drama, song, dance and some pathos. |
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| Ketchup by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch |
| Synopsis | Mom and Dad are preparing to have the talk with their children. But first , there's the small matter of convincing them to eat their vegetables. |
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| Kids in Lurve by Bill Siviter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Lots of flexibility for either doubling characters or splitting the narrator's role amongst several actors. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming play, delivering a rapid, modern and informal version of Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew'. Multiple scenes, but little required by way of set or props.
Set in the north-west midlands, but could easily be moved to your home town! |
| Synopsis | Bianca is sweet and pretty. All the lads fancy her. But standing in the way, there's Bianca's acid-tongued sister, Kate, and who can tame Kate?
Well, since there aren't many lads called Petruchio these days, the modern-day volunteer is Shane.
The course of true love never did run smooth (but that's another story). |
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| Kids in Tights - The Musical by Bill Siviter with Music by Jonny Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Whilst there isn't a formal requirement for a chorus, there is plenty of opportunity for adding Montagues, Capulets and ball guests. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and Vocal scores for nine songs are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Romeo and Juliet told, as an irreverent verse play, by the protagonists and by narrators. A good introduction to Shakespeare's story! (The specified run-time is the minimum - extending the ball and the fight will add time!) |
| Synopsis | Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet condensed into a short verse play for kids, then lengthened because everyone gets so excited that they need to sing about it.
Boy meets girl, love overcomes the family feud - but only for the lovers. Swordplay turns rivals into kebabs. Mistakes are made and the heroes die. (You see, it's a soppy love story.) |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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Kids in Tights - The Play by Bill Siviter
Performance by Ormlie Community Group won the SCDA, Caithness district, 2010 (also picking up the trophy for best ensemble). |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. A chorus could be added as an optional extra for the ball scene and for the gangs of Montagues and Capulets. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] The ball and fight scenes can be extended. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Romeo and Juliet told as an irreverent verse play, told by the protagonists and by narrators. A good introduction to Shakespeare's story! (The specified run-time is the minimum - extending the ball and the fight will add time!) |
| Synopsis | Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet condensed into a twenty-minute verse play for kids. Boy meets girl, love overcomes the family feud - but only for the lovers. Swordplay turns rivals into kebabs. Mistakes are made and the heroes die. (You see, it's a soppy love story.) |
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| The King And The Goose Girl by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for children. |
| Synopsis | The magical talking horse, Falada, helps reveal Princess Selena's true identity and enable her to find her true love, despite the efforts of her evil maid. This is an adaptation of the Grimm brothers' tale - 'The Goose Girl'. |
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| King Arthur - Crisis at Camelot by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids (with scope for improvisation - or not, at the discretion of the production!) |
| Synopsis | When King Arthur sets out for yet another distant battle, he does not realise that his brilliant idea of entrusting temporary care of Camelot to his cousin, Sir Mordred, is going to backfire. In Arthur's absence Mordred decides that he wants the job on a permanent basis and that includes taking Queen Guinevere as well. Now, as we all know, damsels in distress inevitably attract heroic rescuers. Cue would-be knight Sir Lancelot. What Lancelot lacks in knightly skills he makes up for in enthusiasm. Unfortunately he cannot overcome Mordred and even the returning Arthur needs to turn to the mystic legends of Avalon in order to reclaim Camelot and his Guinevere. |
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| King Boleslav the Bumbler by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids. Nominally in 5 acts, but of one-act length and can be played continously. |
| Synopsis | King Boleslav has a very relaxed attitude to ruling his country. So relaxed that he is in danger of losing it when the Kingdom Inspection Team, led by the dreaded Countess Zaria, pay him a call. If the Countess is hoping to find a vital and dynamic monarch, a loving royal family and a powerful army, Boleslav knows that she is going to be sorely disappointed. It’s just as well that an enterprising and ambitious traveller hatches a plan to rescue the situation. |
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| King Charles and the Cheese by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. The chorus - patrons of the Royal Oak and members of the Roundhead army - is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Historical (in the acurate as a Hollywood epic sense of the word) comedy drama for kids, set during the English Civil War. |
| Synopsis | King Charles And The Cheese is the entirely (give or take most of it) true story of how a simple piece of cheese altered the course of English history. The English Civil War rages on but, after a heavy defeat at the Battle of Worcester, the would-be King Charles II attempts to make his way to, hopefully temporary, exile in France. In hot pursuit are Charles' enemy Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of All England and his Roundhead army Charles takes cover at the Royal Oak Inn but Cromwell and his men are upon him in short order. Is Charles doomed or can salvation be found in the Royal Oak's larder? |
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King Henry VIII by Geoff Bamber
Performance by Mini Roundabout Theatre Company - Overall winners of the Leverhulme Youth Drama Festival, 2006 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Humorous history, peppered with anachronisms. Single simple set, simple props. (Technically 3 Acts, but short enough for a one-act play!) Fits with the English National Curriculum Key Stage 2 History syllabus (at a stretch!) |
| Synopsis | Henry VIII accidentally succeeds his father to the throne, after the premature death of his elder brother. His divorce from his first wife brings him a run-in with the pope, which doesn't stop him repeating his mistakes, including the disastrous acquisition of a wife via e-Bay (Ann of Cleeves, apparently), in his quest to furnish an heir to the throne. |
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