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| The Big Courtroom Drama by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. Chorus. The characters are a (male) teacher and his (mixed) class of (older teenage) students. The text assumes a chorus ('the rest of the class'), but it would be possible to play the piece without them. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, set in a modern drama classroom. Props are mainly tables and chairs. |
| Synopsis | A group of drama students improvise a courtroom scene, but when the teacher becomes the accused, can they tell where the make-believe ends? |
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| Billionaire School by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for ten original songs is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Simple musical for kids - an excuse to dip into a few historical topics! |
| Synopsis | Billionaire Gil Bates is a smart man when it comes to computers, but has trouble with remembering basic history and culture. He and his wife hatch a plan: combine a group of teachers and Gil's love of musical theatre, and present some of history's greatest moments in musical form! |
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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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| The Billy Goats Gruff by Sharon Stace-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. Seven principals plus narrator and chorus. The script allows for multiple narrators, a chorus of courtiers and villagers and possibly an additional choir - thus the numbers are very flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for an overture and 14 original songs (including a couple of reprises). |
| Style | One-act musical - rhyming script plus songs - for kids (and children!). Multiple locations, but can be done with minimal scenery and very few props. |
| Synopsis | The time-honoured tale of troll meets goats given an additional twist as we learn of the history of how the troll became what he is (and the goats have more talents than just butting-in). |
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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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Blood by Nettie Baskcomb Brown
Original production won the Best Youth, Best Dramatic Endeavour, Best Youth Actor awards at the Harold Joliffe One Act Play Festival, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Flexible numbers provided by a chorus of clots! |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A highly original one-act play for kids, tackling a serious subject through comedy and delivering a lot of educational material about the body's circulatory system.
[Revised 2021] |
| Synopsis | Follow Porphy and Alpha, two young blood cells, who have to learn to deal with all that the human body throws at them. With the help of their family of red blood cells, a team of platelets known as the Clots and two pugilistic white cells, Luke and O'Cyte, these youngsters experience fry ups, a gym workout, a night on the town resulting in traumatic injury and a holiday in the sun! |
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| Bodyworks by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. There are various human characters plus a bunch of body parts - teeth, a heart, and so on. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes piano and vocal scores for five songs. |
| Style | One-act musical play for kids. A fun and educational piece. No sets required, but some props. |
| Synopsis | For English schools, this fits in the Key Stage 2 Science curriculum for years five and six, addressing the Sc2 module (Life Processes and Living Things). Applicable to humans and animals, it addresses nutrition, circulation, movement and health.
(For people who don't have to bother with KS2 for years 5 & 6, it's still a lot of fun!) |
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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
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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| The Bourbons and Other Crackers by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. Characters are mainly adults, intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A rolling series of humorous sketches - no specific set requirements, simple props (give or take Bonny Prince Charlie's boat). |
| Synopsis | A complete history of monarchy, in entirely the wrong order and with all the boring bits left out. King Alfred does a turn as a TV chef, Mary Queen of Scots does porridge, Elizabeth goes shopping, Henry V takes a holiday, Tutenkhamen gets a visit from the architects and Ethelred never quite makes it. |
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| Bradley No Mates by Linda Stephenson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Written to be performed with four groups of three narrators. The chorus is non-speaking but interacts with the action. The adult roles might be played by adults or children. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for a school company on the theme of bullying. Multiple locations but little or nothing needed in the way of set. |
| Synopsis | Bradley is at a new school and having trouble fitting in. Worse, the school bully, who's reputed to carry a knife, has got it in for him. But Bradley has found he can visit the past, and the village school that was knocked down years ago. Maybe his trips there can help him in the present. |
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| Brainstorm by Raymond Blakesley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. The chorus is an optional ensemble of brain cells |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for kids. Minimal set requirements. Opportunities for melodramatic over-acting! |
| Synopsis | The action takes place inside the brain of playwright Ivor Pippin, who is trying to write another melodramatic play. His characters and his brain cells conspire to turn things around, allowing the heroine and villain to escape, and a new play to emerge. |
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| The Bridge by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. Minimum numbers would be achieved by reassigning lines amongst the ministry workers! |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] This could get a lot longer if the bridge-building sequence is elaborated. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy for kids. No set requirements, but carry-on props include the materials for a simple bridge! A Short play, though it could get a lot longer if the bridge building section became elaborate. |
| Synopsis | A farmer and his family find their peaceful lives disturbed by representatives of various government ministries keen on making improvements to what is regarded as a rural backwater. Common sense flies out of the window as official policy documents are followed slavishly to provide the farmer with a fine, new and entirely unnecessary bridge. |
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| A Brief History Of The Ancient Olympic Games by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Most of the characters are written male (it was a requirement for the athletes!) but don't let that stop you from casting it how you like. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for kids. An educational piece sprinkled with a good deal of light comedy. |
| Synopsis | An inspirational dramatic presentation using the creation of the original Olympic Games as a vehicle for bringing history and mythology to life. |
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