|
| The Victorians by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. Very flexible numbers! The roles are a mixture of adults and children, but intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for six original songs (plus a late-Victorian popular song) are included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Short educational and entertaining musical for kids. |
| Synopsis | A brief history of Victorian England brought together through a series of songs and Vignettes. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| 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
|
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| Waterspout Hero by Raymond Blakesley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. In the USA, 'Incey Wincey Spider' is known as 'Itsy Bitsy Spider'. Somebody may know the reason for this linguistic divergence, but we certainly don't. The choruses (flowers and raindrops) are optional. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy play for kids. Single set. (And aside from the set, only one prop, and that's a piece of paper.) |
| Synopsis | The Incey Wincey Spider is about to attempt climbing the waterspout, and his scheming wife Minki Minki has tricked a fly into helping him - if only by being a snack! Only Big Drip and the Raindrops stand in Incey's way. Meanwhile, the weeds and flowers argue and the sun has a few questions for a knowledgeable bookworm. It's amazing what you learn living on a compost heap. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| We Are Not Amused by Richard Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. The characters are a mix of adults and children, intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics to three songs (to traditional melodies) are embedded in the script Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Exploration of Victorian society in a mixture of verse and prose. |
| Synopsis | Museum exhibits come to life to explore aspects of Victorian society. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| Weir of Hermiston by David McVey from Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. Characters are adults, plus one boy with a playing age of around 10, as the young Archie Weir. The chorus (non-speaking townspeople, servants, etc.) is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama, focusing on the relationship between Archie Weir and his tyrannical father. Adapted from an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Uses broad Scots (though omitting the less fathomable language from Stevenson's draft.) |
| Synopsis | Archie Weir is the son of the Lord Justice Clerk and in training to be a lawyer himself, though he is fearful of his hard father. Following advice from a family friend, Archie watches a trial held by his father and is horrified at the old man's apparent glee at hanging the poor wretch. He speaks out in public against the death penalty and is exiled to the family's country estate. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| Well Well Well by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. The chorus - additional peasants - is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for six original songs (Lyrics by Bill Tordoff, Music by Adrian Watts & Jonny Ardern) is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | One act musical play for kids. A pantomime setting, with panto characters, though not strictly a pantomime in terms of its original plot! |
| Synopsis | The down-trodden Pantoville peasants earn meagre wages singing happy choruses and smiling for tourists. When Councillor Purslove makes them redundant they're desperate for work and are grateful to Dick Whittington for using them in his TV commercials. But when he plans to privatise their well and employ them at starvation wages they take matters into their own hands. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| Westerfield at War by Marcus Grollman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions are made within the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A serious school play - but with a good deal of humour - set in World War 2. Mixture of full-stage sets and front-of-curtain scenes (allowing for set changes). |
| Synopsis | A series of modern-day reminiscences of the Second World War, played out through scenes of school, village and military life in war-time. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| 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.) |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| 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. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Who Framed the Easter Bunny? by Warren McWilliams
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. A long list of characters, but with plenty of cameos and chorus roles, so plenty of opportunities for doubling or for participation of a large company. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing allows for 10 songs. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length family play (with songs) with interactive quiz elements. |
| Synopsis | There's trouble brewing in Happy Kingdom. The Easter Bunny stands accused of stealing all the chocolate in the land by the wicked Halloween Queen, who wants to make Halloween last forever. The Easter Bunny needs your help before it's too late.
Follow along, help find the clues, and prove the Easter Bunny's innocence. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Graphic image which might be used to form the nucleus of a flyer or poster for a production of 'Who Framed The Easter Bunny' by Warren McWilliams
|
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| 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! |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| 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
|
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|