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| The Last Gateway by Sarah Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Roles are a mixture of children and adults, but all played by children. Two principal characters and three narrators, with a (flexible) company playing the rest of the roles. At times chorus members become parts of the set, including trees and a car. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Realism morphing into fantasy. Minimal set and props, with the company creating atmosphere and locations. Scope for improvisation, dance and creative chorus work. |
| Synopsis | Bullied Faith and newcomer Tom form a friendship which leads to adventure uncovering a shared past in a parallel world. |
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| Let's Be Friends by Iris Winston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. The characters are all animals. The chorus of woodland animals could be performed live or could be puppets or silhouettes. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple morality play for young children about making friends despite differences. (To be performed by children, or possibly an older group playing to young children.) |
| Synopsis | Sammy Skunk tries to make friends with some squirrels, but is rejected - at least until the squirrels get lost in the forest, and realise just how useful a friend like Sammy can be. |
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A Letter to Santa by Sue Gordon
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Two of the characters are nominally adults. It is written so that the cast can be divided into two - a school class and Santa's elves. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for 5 original songs is provided with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | A light musical for young children. Basic sets. |
| Synopsis | A school class write Christmas letters to Santa, and we discover that they are dealt with by Mrs. Santa and a bunch of fractious elves. |
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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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| Like You've Never Seen It Before by Christine Harvey & Elisha Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 37. Chorus. 12 speaking parts, the rest mime. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Minimum set. Simple props. Intended as a junior school full-class play. Opportunities for mime, improvisation and dance. |
| Synopsis | Jo and Mel are trying to write a play for their school, but, unknown to them, they are being fought over by a muse and Professor Block, the personification of writer's block. Unfortunately for the professor, he is in entirely the wrong place. |
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| Lil Diamond The Snake Woman by Linda Stephenson and Alison Hudson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play-within-a-play for children. A story with a moral - and a puppet! |
| Synopsis | Clem and his family have moved to California in 1886, and he’s missing his friends. He meets the strange snake woman when she rescues him from a Diamondback, but local prejudice stops him visiting her until his mother falls sick and he needs help. A puppet snake helps tell the story. |
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| Little Donkey by Dominique Vaughan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. Characters include a donkey (obviously) and lots of other animals. Flexibility for more non-speaking (but singing) chorus members. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 9 songs to accompany the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Children's nativity play. |
| Synopsis | A charming and refreshing retelling of the nativity story. The old donkey uses flashbacks to tell the children about his younger days and his part in the events of the very first Christmas. The nativity happenings unfold before us as all of the customary human and animal characters come to life with lots of opportunity for children of all abilities to take part. There is even the prospect of a comedy double act as the chickens get into their stride. |
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| Little King Arthur by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Most of the roles are written male, but most school productions will overcome this where necessary! |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act school play, designed for simple staging. |
| Synopsis | Young Arthur is a ward at the school of Camelot, where Kay shines as the brightest pupil, not least because his father is the Principal. But Arthur's destiny is to rule, and even nepotism cannot stand in destiny's way. |
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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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| 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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