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Look Down And Follow The Star by Pippa Lund |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for introduction and six songs is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | A Nativity Play with music and dance with various simple settings. |
Synopsis | In this refreshingly different look at the Nativity - based on a legend of the journey of the magi - the three wise men lose sight of the star and become lost. Only by looking down can they get themselves back on the right course. |
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Looks Like Rain by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. The animals are puppets of unspecified kind and unspecified number (therefore requiring an unspecified number (chorus) of puppeteers. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A light-hearted re-telling of the Noah's Ark story, in about 20 minutes, freely adapted for young performers. |
Synopsis | Noah's family are shocked when the weather forecaster announces the imminent arrival of something called 'rain'. A visit from the Archangel Michael clears things up for Noah, but leaves him with the task of building an Ark - and convincing the animals to come onboard. |
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Lord of the Mince Pies by Ashley Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. The pupils of St Hippocampus' School are written male, but really could be any combination. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Three Christmas Carols are suggested during the course of the show. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Comedy melodrama for kids - with a gruesome flavour! Alternates between full-stage sets and front-of-curtain scenes. Simple props. |
Synopsis | An outbreak of Tebbit's Disease (which turns teachers insane and mean) coincides with a heavy fall of snow, cutting off St Hippocampus' school (from the village of Chipping King Edwards). The teachers' nerves are at breaking point, supplies are low and now the roads are cut off by snow! What will the teachers do for food? (If you need a clue, it is likely that the teachers are familiar with Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal'...) |
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The Lost Horse by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for one song (which occurs four times with different lyrics) is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script |
Style | Chinese parable from the 'Huainanzi,' written in the 2nd century B.C., told as a short play for children interspersed with the verses of a song. |
Synopsis | One day Sun Wen's horse runs away, leaving the lady and her son, Sun Jun, to plow the field alone. She doesn't accept this as a misfortune, however, and soon enough the horse returns with a mate. But she's not convinced this is a blessing either... |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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Macbeth In Seventeen And A Half Minutes Or Less by Christine Harvey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. Various minor parts may be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] This is dependent on the cast! |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one-act comedy, with no set required. |
Synopsis | The three witches attempt to tell their version of Macbeth in seventeen and a half minutes or less. As they condense it, an amusing and fast-paced summary emerges. Will they succeed in meeting their deadline? Don't blink or you'll miss all the fun of finding out! |
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Maid in China by Philippa Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Characters include the Emperor's pet dragon and the occasional panda. The chorus is optional. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for the proglogue song is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. Other songs may be added at the discretion of the production team. |
Style | Full-length comedy play for children (or a mixed company of adults and kids) based on the Willow Pattern story. |
Synopsis | Henry Hopper is not the least bit interested in China plates and their history. But when a cursed plate in a museum transports him to ancient China, he soon finds himself caught up in the mystery of two missing bluebirds, a pair of secret lovers, and the role they play in the Willow Pattern... |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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Maria's Mask by Andrew Weaver |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 47. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script has suggestions for nine songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Play (with suggested songs) for kids. A haunting, lyrical love story overlaid with knock-about comedy. |
Synopsis | A century ago, the famous dancer Maria was given a golden mask as a love token by a visiting prince, but it vanished and he believed she stole it. Now her ghost haunts the theatre where she used to dance, and the mask has returned in time to save or wreck a new show... |
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Marvellous Marie by Richard Cowling |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 31. Minimum total without doubling = 38. Chorus. Many of the characters appear in only one or two scenes, so a lot of doubling is possible. There are also numerous choruses - Polish Dancers, Parisians, and an American crowd, for example. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for 28 songs, instrumentals and pieces of scene-change music. |
Style | School musical. Lots of scenes but with location indicaters rather than lavish sets. |
Synopsis | Moving, inspirational musical exploration of the life and work of Marie Curie from Polish upbringing to Paris and the Nobel Prize. Original songs for an original scientific life. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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McRumpelstiltskin by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for six simple songs (plus two reprises) is included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | One-act musical play for kids. (A novel retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale.) |
Synopsis | Wicked Queen Mab has run out of money to fight her wars. Her soldiers have captured a leprechaun, but he refuses to use his magic to aid the queen. Along comes the Miller, who boasts that his daughter Nicole is so clever that she can weave straw into gold. Unfortunately this boast is overheard by the queen, who puts Nicole to work, threatening to execute her if she fails! Leprechaun to the rescue! |
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Meet the Ancient Greeks - Mini Plays by Sue Russell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Five plays with six characters in each. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A set of five mini-plays (with run times around 10 minutes) for a school class studying The Ancient Greeks (English National Curriculum Key Stages 1 & 2, Units 14 and 15, 'The Ancient Greeks'). No set requirements. Producer's Copy includes a quiz. |
Synopsis | Five different short plays with an Ancient Greek theme, covering The Gods, War, the Olympics, Theatre and the Arts. |
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