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Romeo and Juliet in Sixteen and a Half Minutes or Less by Christine Harvey Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] This would be a calm production but it is intended to be played faster! |
Music | None. |
Style | Modern language version of Romeo and Juliet. No set requirements. |
Synopsis | Does what it says on the label - although to get down below sixteen and a half minutes, the play needs to be done (as intended) at manic pace. [Our estimate is that a steadty pace would run to 18 minutes.] Follows the plot and structure of the original work (so structurally in five acts). |
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Saving Grace by Len Cuthbert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. If using minimum cast numbers, re-assigning lines is recommended. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script makes suggestions for three songs. One of them is, of course, 'Amazing Grace'. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act drama with optional music. |
Synopsis | Set in a Canadian High School, this play was inspired by the life of John Newton, the writer of 'Amazing Grace'. It tells of the arrival of a new student and the life-changing effect she has on her fellow students. |
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Screw Your Courage by Keith Badham |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A five-act play for youth theatre in one-act! |
Synopsis | An enthralling new look at Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in the modern world of teenage gang culture, which loses none of the power and excitement of the original. The Bard's plot and characters are given new life in this masterful interpretation as contemporary themes merge with age old human emotions. The audience are welcomed in to the action with imaginative use of asides and stage directions. An ideal piece for Youth Theatre with exciting and challenging opportunities for all involved, 'Screw Your Courage' provides a theatrical experience which will be long remembered. |
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Shah Jahan by Subrata Das |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 16. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 31. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 160 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | At the discretion of the Producer Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length translation and adaptation of D.L.Roy's epic saga of the Mughal Empire. |
Synopsis | The retelling of last turbulent years of Shah Jahan's reign are brought to life in this powerful and gripping play, written in the spirit of a Shakespearean tragedy. |
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Shakespeare - It's All Greek To Me! by Sarah Brown |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Various doubling options possible, depending on cast number available. |
Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play for older children, with various simple settings. |
Synopsis | Rosie and her classmates are struggling with understanding the works of William Shakespeare. Rosie gets help with her project - not only from her teacher and her family but also from the Bard himself, along with Hermia and Lysander - who appear to her in an animated dream and the magic of Shakespeare's work is revealed to her... |
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Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet by Bart Lovins |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. Designed to be played by a cast of 10 (doubling notes provided in the producer's script). |
Run Time | Around 131 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length adaptation of Conan Doyle's detective novel, with continuous action through various settings, performed with ten actors and four chairs (props are mimed). |
Synopsis | The game is afoot and mystery and murder abound! The year is 1881. The city is London. A man lies dead in an empty house, not a mark upon him and no clues - save for the word RACHE scrawled in blood on the wall above. Elsewhere, two young men - a former army doctor and a brilliant eccentric - meet for the first time. |
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Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles [Version 3] by Bart Lovins |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. There are 18 roles (including a puppet hound), but they are playable by a cast of 6. (The author gives options for casting 6, 7 or 8 actors.) |
Run Time | Around 114 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length adaptation of Conan Doyle's detective novel. Continuous action with multiple settings indicated by lighting, action and a few chairs. Minimal props. Actors produce the sound effects. (US English spelling.) |
Synopsis | As Watson investigates the curse of a supernatural beast out on the moors, Holmes confronts demons of his own back in London. |
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Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four by Bart Lovins |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. Twenty-eight roles plus offstage voices, but designed to be played by a cast of 10 (one of whom plays several roles incluing a 12-year-old girl.) |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length adaptation of Conan Doyle's detective novel. Continuous action with the multitude of settings indicated by lighting, action and a few chairs. Minimal props. Actors produce the sound effects. |
Synopsis | Two British officers of the Andaman Islands Penal Colony encounter the group of three Sikh natives and a British prisoner forming 'The Four' who have access to stolen treasure. Years later Holmes and Watson are set the seemingly impossible task of unravelling the final destination of the treasure. |
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Shreds - The Unravelling of Charles Dickens by Phil Porter (music Mary Harrison Hewett) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. Two principals (Dickens and George Dolby), plus many other characters, real and from Dickens' writing, who might be played by a number of on-stage 'voices'. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] (The original production ran for one hour.) |
Music | Keyboard scores for 10 pieces of background music are provided with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Drama in a single simple set, designed to be accompanied by projected images (with the option for an on-stage pianist providing mood music). |
Synopsis | A dramatization of the circumstances that led Charles Dickens to wild success reading extracts from his novels on stage, and the terrible toll it took on him. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** CD with 40 images, 18 sound effects, 3 video clips and 10 pieces of musical accompaniment for 'Shreds - The Unravelling of Charles Dickens' by Phil Porter (Music by Mary Harrison Hewett)
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The Siege of Manchester by Ben Alexander |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. 38 speaking roles plus an offstage voice, 2 non-speaking soldiers and various opportunities for crowds. Can be performed with a minimum of 12 actors, though 18 or more would be optimum. |
Run Time | Around 125 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A historical thriller with various settings. |
Synopsis | King Charles I, at loggerheads with his Parliament, is faced with rebellion. Lord Strange, Lord Lieutenant for Lancashire and a Royalist, attempts to take military command in Lancashire. Manchester, Protestant by persuasion and for Parliament, resists under the leadership of some of the deputy-lieutenants. The play recounts their resistance, culminating in Derby's siege of the town in September 1642. |
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