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What a Tangled Web We Weave by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short rhyming comedy play (with a moral) for children. Single (Town Square) setting. |
Synopsis | Once upon a nursery crime - the cautionary tale of Incey Wincey Spider who enjoyed scaring people, until the day the tables were turned... (The nursery rhyme character Incey Wincey Spider is, in the USA, called Itsy Bitsy Spider. The logic of this defeats the best minds.) |
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What Did You Do In The War? by Richard Morris |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Children play a mixture of adults and children. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Production notes list recommended period songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Acted reminiscences of World War 2 (covering areas of the English National Curriculum Key Stage 2 topic on WW2). |
Synopsis | An old lady reminisces with a group of kids about England during World War two. The children become characters from that era and act out some of the scenes. Covers air raids, evacuation, military life, the evacuation of Dunkirque and Battle of Britain. |
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What The Dickens! by Andrew Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 45. Chorus. Roles can be doubled at will with some swift costume changes. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for eight original songs is provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. |
Style | A full length musical play for secondary schools / youth theatre. |
Synopsis | Charles Dickens hosts a musical journey through some of his most popular books. He links the works together and interacts personally with the various characters along the way. This includes some very feisty encounters with his less desirable creations. |
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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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Who The Devil Did It? by Carol Hill and Anna Heppner |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. A large cast piece. Most of the characters are written male, but some could easily be switched without changing the nature of the piece. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with sheet music for 7 original songs plus instrumental interludes. Snatches of other songs are suggested. |
Style | Full-length musical comedy for juniors/teenagers. |
Synopsis | Two brothers, who are a little down on their luck, stumble onto a big art theft and end up deeply involved in the search for the stolen painting, the thief and the fabulous missing Mona Lisa to boot! |
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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 Willow Tree by Geoff Bamber Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Zhongwen's soldiers, are the chorus (in the sense of having indefinite numbers) but are non-speaking. [As far as I can remember, this is the only story in which the hero is an accountant.] |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Humorous one-act play for kids, based on the legend of The Willow Pattern Plate. Multiple settings but minimal sets. |
Synopsis | When Renshu the merchant finds himself seriously in debt to the fierce Island Traders, he decides to marry off his daughter Mingmei to the entirely disagreeable but extremely rich landowner Zhongwen. But Mingmei is in love with Chang, her father’s humble accountant. Mingmei and Chang flee to a remote island but soon Zhongwen, Renshu and the Island Traders are heading for the same island. Can Renshu's inventive servant, Ping, and the sorceress Li Hua give the course of true love a fighting chance? |
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Wilma Tell - The Swiss Miss by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Eleven speaking parts and an unspeaking chorus of unspeakable townsfolk. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comic twisting for kids of the Swiss sixteenth century legend. A one-act play in length, though structurally in three acts. |
Synopsis | Wilma Tell and her brother Johann travel to the prosperous Swiss town of Altdorf to make their fortunes. Unfortunately their arrival coincides with that of the forces of an expanding Austrian Empire, represented by the cruel Governor Gessler. Wilma, more by accident than design, soon finds the whole town depending on her to resist Gessler's attentions. |
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A Wiser Miser by Giles Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Two songs are suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act verse play. The staging, as presented, may be slightly complex, but the Producer's Copy of the script includes a couple of alternatives for simplification. |
Synopsis | The miser in question, is, of course, Ebenezer Scrooge, as this is a rhyming version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. |
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Witch Hunt by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. All the characters are adults, but the play is intended for teenagers. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for one original song supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | One act play with very basic props and no requirement for scenery. Lots of work for the chorus. |
Synopsis | When an old woman moves into a cottage, she is initially greeted with hostility, however her knowledge of basic medicine gains her the respect of the local community. Trouble starts when there is famine and sickness, and the old woman is accused of witchcraft. |
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The Wizard that Was by Anne Bourke |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing includes an estimate for 5 songs. |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains some suggestions for five songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one-act pantomime for schools. Uses parodies of L. Frank Baum characters in an original story. |
Synopsis | Thanks to the Wicked Witch's curse, Christmas in Happyville has been cancelled. It's down to Jack and Jenny to traverse the mountains and forest to reach the Wizard That Was and see if his magic can overcome the witch. |
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The Wolf Who Cried Boy by George Douglas Lee Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. A mixture of real and fairy tale characters. Aimed at a family audience. Could be played by children, by adults or by a mixture of adults and children. (There, who does that leave out?) |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for 8 original songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. (Part of the 'Master Scripts for Copying' and 'Performance Set of Scripts' packages.) |
Style | Musical play in one act. |
Synopsis | The Big Bad Wolf is past his prime and has no respect from anyone. He wishes he could be a little boy, a human boy, but when the wish is granted he finds life as a boy isn't the idyll he'd been hoping for. |
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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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