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| Bullies by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children. (Could all be played by children.) |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Scores for eight songs are included with the Producer's Copy of the script |
| Style | One-act musical play for performance by children or a mixture of adults and children. Very simple set and no specific requirements for props. |
| Synopsis | A review and also a revue! A series of linked musical sketches presenting an investigation of issues surrounding bullying at school, covering reasons for bullying and approaches to dealing with it. |
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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 Bully in the Graveyard by Sarah Cowan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. Cast of school children plus a ghost - who might be an adult or a large child (assuming that you don't have a real ghost to hand). |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for seven pieces of backing music are included in the Producer's Copy of the scripts. (The cast is not required to sing, but might do so! One dance is suggested.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | School play about bullying. A serious theme, but lots of comedy, and strong characters. |
| Synopsis | Billy and his friends are picked-on by Preson's gang. Their response is to demonstrate to the bullies what it is like to be frightened. |
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| The Butterfly Lovers by Stefan Allan and Gill Baxter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Flexible chorus numbers possible. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A re-telling of an old Chinese folk tale, in many scenes, but with simple set requirements. |
| Synopsis | As the only daughter of a family in need of Imperial favour, Ying has no choice about marrying Prince Wencai. But the unexpected death of her father puts her brother in charge of the family, and she can travel to school instead, meeting a new love. This is an adaptation of an old Chinese folk tale, dating back to at least the Tang Dynasty. It balances the traditional tale with an engaging style of dramatization. |
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| Buttons by Susan Vesey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] Structured as two acts, but could be played as a long one-act. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | British pantomime - a Cinderella sequel. Two acts in structure, but on the boundary between a one-act and full-length show in run-time. |
| Synopsis | A year has passed since Cinderella became Queen. Buttons has the catering contract for Prince Charming's Ball and he employs Ciabatta and Cappuccino, the ugly sisters who have returned in disguise, as cooks. Cinderella's stepmother, Elvira, has taken a correspondence course and is now a powerful fairy, able to defeat the Fairy Godmother. Cinderella ends up as a scullery maid, unable to speak, and with the name Linda, and Buttons falls in love all over again. Who can restore the balance of magic and save the day? |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Caesar and the Pirates [Full Version] by Nicholas Richards and Timothy Hallett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Flexible - the pirates roles could easily be shared by a smaller number and other doubling is possible. On the other hand, there is scope for pirate and soldier chourses. Only one specfied female role - Venus! - but others could be cast female. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for six songs. |
| Style | Musical comedy play for kids - though the songs are optional.
A shorter version of the same play is available.
First published in 2011, revised in 2012. |
| Synopsis | An older Caesar is recounting his campaigns in Gaul to a bored scribe, who suggests that it might benefit Caesar's public image to tell a tale of his younger days... Something dashing, perhaps, involving pirates? As it happens, Caesar does know such a story...
Great fun (and secretly educational) with a genuine event in Caesar's life. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Vocal recording for five tracks and six rehearsal tracks (accompaniment with an instrument playing the vocal line) for the songs from Caesar and the Pirates [Full Version].
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| Caesar and the Pirates [Short Version] by Nicholas Richards and Timothy Hallett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Flexible - the pirates roles could easily be shared by a smaller number and other doubling is possible. On the other hand, there is scope for pirate and soldier chourses. Only one specfied female roles but some could be cast female. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for six songs. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids - with optional songs.
(A longer version of the same play is available.) |
| Synopsis | An older Caesar is recounting his campaigns in Gaul to a bored scribe, who suggests that it might benefit Caesar's public image to tell a tale of his younger days... Something dashing, perhaps, involving pirates? As it happens, Caesar does know such a story...
Great fun (and secretly educational) with a genuine event in Caesar's life. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Vocal recording for five tracks and six rehearsal tracks (accompaniment with an instrument playing the vocal line) for the songs from Caesar and the Pirates [Short Version].
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| Captain Bluebeard's Monkey by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Chorus size very flexible, at the Producer's discretion |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act piratical fantasy comedy. |
| Synopsis | The eponymous monkey uses his guile to thwart the late Captain Bluebeard's swashbuckling crew in their attempts to discover Bluebeard's treasure - which is not what it first appears to be. |
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| Captain Hook's Revenge by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy (Peter Pan) by Female. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A few song suggestions are made in the production notes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime. Slapstick and silliness, lots of jokes and a crocodile. |
| Synopsis | Captain Hook plots his revenge on Peter Pan, with the help of a crocodile and a poisoned cake. Peter Pan, Tonkerbell (the punk fairy) and the crocodile have other ideas. (Follows much of the plot of Peter Pan, but has more collisions with trees.)
Note that as with all adaptations of Peter Pan, we pay half the author's royalties to Great Ormond Street Hospital |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Caradog And The Celts by Penny Burns |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 17. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 45. Chorus. Very flexible numbers, with groups of Celts and Romans of various occupations, and opportunites for singers and dancers. The roles are a mixture of adults and children, but inteded to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Keyboard and Vocal scores (with added percussion) for seven songs and one instrumental are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | One-act Musical Drama for schools (fitting with the Key Stage 2 History topic on Roman Britain). |
| Synopsis | Following the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD, the Celtic resistance was led by Caradog (called Caratacus by the Romans). The play dramatises the life of the Celts on what is now the Welsh border and the battle for the hill fort of Caer Caradog. (We are also taken to Rome for a meeting with the Emperor Clau-Clau-Claudius.) |
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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 Cautionary Tale of Mary Contrary by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for four songs are included in the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short rhyming comedy play with a moral, for children, with two simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Once upon a nursery crime - Mary Contrary demonstrates selfish actions, contrary ways and uncaring attitude to the environment, which lead to her eventual demise. |
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