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Rhyming Robin Hood by Richard Coleman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Most of the roles are nominally male, but don't let that put you off casting female Merry Men, for example! |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | English pantomime (more or less) as a short verse play. |
| Synopsis | Robin Hood and his Merry Men hatch a plan to rob the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and give back to the poor. The Sheriff finds out about Robin's plan and invents a scheme of his own to catch the outlaws. A few rhymes, imprisonments and swordfights later, good triumphs once again. |
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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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| Rhyming Treasure Island by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. More major female roles than the original tale. (It should be noted that female pirates were not unknown!) There is a chorus of three pirates which could be expanded to as many pirates are aboard your ship. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming comedy (with some of the characteristics of a British panto). |
| Synopsis | Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of buried treasure adapted for the stage as a verse play. |
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| The Rise and Fall Of The Chocolate Rapperz by L. M. Harrison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Lots of flexibility (in number and in gender - many of the characters with gender-specific names may be changed easily.) |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for kids with a message about nutrition. It's about a musical group, so whilst no music is suggested, it is expected that the produciton will add songs and dances. |
| Synopsis | A pop duo at the height of their fame make the mistake of taking too many treats and become addicted to the sugar high, losing their crowns to the next music sensation. Can their manager and their biggest fan bring them back to healthy eating, exercise and success? |
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| Robby Nudd by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. All the characters are adults, assumed to be played by children or a mixture of adults and children (with particularly the role of Sheriff and Friar open to adults). |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music (Lyrics and music by Chris Donovan, additional music by Adrian Watts) for 7 songs plus two reprises is included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | A sideways look at the Robin Hood legend! |
| Synopsis | Robby Nudd has become an outlaw because he's too small to join the police! Robby and his band of outlaws haven't robbed anyone in a long time and the women they have brought to the forest are sick of being cooks. The girls rebel and leave the forest. The men go to Nottingham Fair to try and win the archery contest, win the bag of gold and buy the girls some proper ingredients to cook with. The resulting clash with the Sheriff has an unexpected resolution. |
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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 Robin Hood Files by Phil Tuffin |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 50. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A couple of song suggestions are made in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Comedy drama for kids (a school play for a full class or possibly more), exploring aspects of the Robin Hood legend. |
| Synopsis | Inspector Green and Constable Wood are trying to identify the real Robin Hood from four suspects who may have robbed the Bishop of Hereford. Through cunning use of reconstructions, the various suspects present their cases. |
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| The Roman Invasion of Britain by Richard Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. The characters are very flexible, with multiple 'chorus' roles which can be expanded or doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play in irregular verse, fitting with the English National Curriculum Key Stage 2 History topic - The Romans. |
| Synopsis | A dramatised (and abbreviated) history of Romans in Britain (from Caesar to Honorious) |
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The Romans by Andrew Yates
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics to seven songs are embedded in the script. accompaniments (and demos of the songs) are available on the optional extra CD. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | School play with songs, sketches and chorus work, providing lots of opportunities for all abilities. The show is both accessible and educational and will deliver a memorable experience for audience and participants alike. |
| Synopsis | A humorous journey through the events and personalities of the Roman Empire. All Roman life is here, from emperors to slaves. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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Romeo and Juliet by Geoff Bamber
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as a modern language play (with modern irony and humour) for kids. One act and a single set, with simple props. |
| Synopsis | Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene... Well, dignity if dignity includes Lady Montague and Lady Capulet scrapping in the streets. Basically a story of family fights family, boy meets girl and most of the principals meet an untimely death. (But there are a few laughs on the way.) |
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Romeo and Juliet - Sped Up! by Hannah Thomas
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Most of the speaking is done by the two narrators. There are six other speaking parts (some of whom have as much as a word) and other named roles played by people stepping out of the chorus (usually to be brushed-off or stabbed). |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute reduction of Romeo and Juliet. No set requirements, just a few props, love and death. |
| Synopsis | Shakespeare's tale of young love and tragedy given short shrift in this heavily condensed version. |
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| Romeo Loves Juliet by Gerald P. Murphy, arr. Bob Marshall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Complete piano and vocal score for 25 original songs (including reprises and instrumentals) supplied with the Producer's Copy of the Script. |
| Style | Gerry Murphy has fun with Shakespeare, retelling Romeo and Juliet in modern America, and mixing bits of Shakespeare's text with modern idiom. Aimed at high-school students. |
| Synopsis | The time is now and in Pub Verona the Montagues and Capulets are still feuding, only now it's an argument over who wrote the Complete Works of Shakespeare. There's trouble when Romeo and Juliet fall in love, and trouble of a different kind involving explosives and a pick-up truck. |
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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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