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A Forty-Minute Two Gentlemen of Verona by Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. There are two groups which give numerical flexibility - 'outlaws' and 'musicians'. This is the Shakespeare play with the dog. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona', with the original text cut down to 40 minutes. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | The two gentlemen in question are Valentine and Proteus. Valentine wants Proteus to be his travelling companion on a tour, but Proteus wishes to stay behind and court Julia, a coy young lady who likes Proteus, but is too shy to admit it - at least until Proteus's father sends him away to join Valentine in Milan. However, in Milan, Proteus falls for Sylvia, whom Valentine is courting. There follows rivalry, betrayal, banishment, outlaws, cross-dressing and the occasional swoon before all ends happily! |
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A Forty-Minute Winter's Tale by Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. The characters are adults plus one child and, famously, a bear, whose only role is to exit in pursuit of Antigonus (for an offstage lunch appointment - although only one of the parties is hungry.) |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'The Winter's Tale', with the original text cut down to 40 minutes. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | Leontes, King of Sicilia, suspects his wife Hermione of having an affair with Polixenes, the King of Bohemia. (Herminone and Polixenes are innocent.) Polixenes escapes Leontes' wrath, but Hermione does not and is imprisoned. Hermione gives birth to a daughter, but Leontes does not believe the child, Perdita, to be his and sends her abroad. She is abandoned on the coast of Bohemia (a feat which would be frowned upon these days, owing to Geography) and Perdita is brought-up by a Shepherd. Time (making a guest appearance) moves the play on sixteen years, and Florizel, son of Polixenes, meets and falls in love with Perdita, the shepherdess, thus setting-up the inevitable reconcilliation and happy ending. |
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Frankenstein's Last Chance by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy melodrama, for school-age, youth performers. |
Synopsis | Having given up his medical practice to concentrate on his career as an inventor, Doctor Viktor Frankenstein desperately needs to raise funds to pay for his daughter's forthcoming wedding. Success at the annual Mad Scientists' Convention would be well-rewarded, but Viktor finds himself singularly short of inspiration until... No, that would be absurd - wouldn't it? |
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Free For Hall by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for 2 songs, to be played during the comedy dance routines. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single setting. |
Synopsis | The local amateur dramatic group are rehearsing their pantomime in the local village hall but the venue has been triple booked and no-one is prepared to budge. With Celeste getting her yoga knickers in a twist and conflict running high amongst the drama group members the chaos is eventually resolved. |
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Frying Nemo by Amelia Armande |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 33. No chorus. Enormous flexibility! The author presents a doubling table showing how the thirty-three characters can be played by 10 actors (with a lot of swift - and necessarily simple - costume changes). |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy contains suggestions for (the style of) accompanying music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one-act nautical comedy play (with opportunities for dance music). Written for minimal set - because it was originally performed in a sea-life centre! |
Synopsis | An old man in a care home is telling the story of his younger days - as the seafaring adventurer Captain Nemo! We see things that Jules Verne never got to write about in this stirring tale of derring do and mermaids, with a surprisingly affecting ending. |
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Get to Dance by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The characters are 7 female youth actor-dancers (playing ages 14-16) and one 1 adult female actor (playing age aroung 50) |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for a youth-theatre company. |
Synopsis | A window in to the lives of the members of a dance academy and their 'welcome' for new member Georgina, an overweight teenager who has decided to try dancing as a last resort in her determination to overcome her weight problem. This one act play deals with bullying in all of its forms with humour, music, dance and pathos as Georgina's journey progresses to its uplifting conclusion. Along the way her stoic strength of character enables her to peel away repressed emotions in others and helps them to come to terms with their own difficulties. |
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Ghost Walk by Gary Diamond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy drama, with various settings. |
Synopsis | On a ghost walk in York various locations are visited - associated with ghostly happenings. Our guide is finally revealed... to be not the sort of person we thought he was. |
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The Ghosts of Marvin Grange by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Principal characters nominally adults but could be played by teenagers or a mixed group of teenagers and adults. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] (Dependent on how much the actors ham up the death scene!) |
Music | None. |
Style | Melodrama - with the playwright's tongue firmly in his cheek. (Two acts - but relatively short.) |
Synopsis | Christopher Sinclair receives a strange summons and returns to Marvin Grange, a remote estate on a lonely moor to unravel the mystery of a haunting that is driving his cousin's wife mad... |
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The Girls Are Back in Town by Jonathan Edgington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 53 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One public domain song is suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one-act drama set in both the present day and WW1. Seven different settings, though all can be portrayed with minimal furniture. |
Synopsis | Four iconic suffragettes are mysteriously transported to modern-day London to finish what they started. 100 years earlier, as Alan learns the horrors of life on the Western Front, his girlfriend Beatrice carries out important work for the suffragettes. |
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God's Minstrel by Joseph P. Ritz |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Four of the characters are intended to be doubled by one actor (though they need not be). The roles of Clare's Cousin and the Soldier are optional. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | You can think of this either as a short two-act play, or a long one-act play. Single set. |
Synopsis | Mixed in with a little tale from modern times, this is the story of how Francis of Assisi became a saint. A moving and honest telling. |
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