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| The Pilgrim's Progress [Version 2] by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 56. No chorus. Oodles of allegorical characters, plenty of scope for doubling. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length adaptation - in very modern English - of John Bunyan's Christian allegory. |
| Synopsis | A pilgrim sets out in search of the City of Gold. On his journey he has to negotiate traps and deal with other pilgrims, many of whom may be misguided. |
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The Pilgrim's Progress by Christopher Morgan
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 54. No chorus. Whilst there are fifty-four named roles, with a minimum of around ten, the author believes the optimal cast to be around twenty-two. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Allegorical play, with minimal set requirements and reasonably simple props. |
| Synopsis | A stage adaptation of John Bunyan's allegorical story ('The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come', written in 1678) - the journey of Christian, a pilgrim, through the trials of Earth to the destination of Heaven. |
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| Potted Austen: Pride And Prejudice by Lou Treleaven |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play ideal for schools or classrooms. |
| Synopsis | A short, humorous adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, covering all of the salient events and characters. |
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| Princess Bigfoot by Bob Heather |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act family play, based on real characters circa 750 AD (though incorporating folk tales). |
| Synopsis | In 8th Century France an identity theft scheme to usurp the Princess Bertha from her position as the wife of King Pepin is thwarted by that famous pair of investigators: Messrs Hercule and Poirot - as well as by the Princess’s shoe size. |
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| Problem In Judaea by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Easter play. Structurally in two acts, but of one act length. Three sets, but designed for minimal staging. |
| Synopsis | A minimalist retelling of the events surrounding the Crucifixion, told from the point of view of Pilate, the Sanhedrin and Herod. |
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| The Pursuit Of Perfection by Anna Tyrie |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act fantasy play |
| Synopsis | Told through the eyes of twins and their mother, the play examines prejudice - set in an Orwellian world in which the 'natural crop' becomes dominated by those of 'perfect' genetically modified breeding. |
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| Relationships in Progress by Carl Zeitler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of six short plays linked by a theme, intended to be performed together, with various simple settings. US English. |
| Synopsis | Relationships in Progress is made up of six short plays portraying various people in relationships we all can relate to: first dates, co-workers, spouses, siblings, and friendship. Whether fun and light, serious and deep, or some combination of those, the characters deal with their relationships with one another as well as the world around them. |
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| Rhyming Macbeth by Jeremy Tyburn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. There are 22 Non-speaking roles, but Narrators 1 and 2 could be further divided at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A rhyming, modern language version, one act length - written originally as a Readers' Theatre piece. |
| Synopsis | A shortened adaptation of Macbeth in rhyming form, which could be performed with a very simple set, or no set. |
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Rings Around The World by Keith Badham
Premiere production won Best Youth Production and Best Youth Male awards at the Bedfordshire One Act Play Festival 2013.
(50% of author's royalties are donated to 'Ambitious about Autism'.) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. Sign Language is also used in this play. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggested music is by The Super Furry Animals and Gruff Rhys. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act drama with music, dance and multiple simple settings suggested by the cast. |
| Synopsis | Young Mark is autistic and we are swept into his world in this moving and satirical picture of his short life. |
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| Romeo and Juliet [75-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 75-minute abridgement of Shakespeare's tragedy.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Two households in Verona are sworn foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows,
do with their death bury their parents' strife. |
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