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| Jamie Freel's Halloween by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. 'Fairies' may be played by m or f, or a combination. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short adaptation of an Irish folk tale, with two simple settings. |
| Synopsis | In this adaptation the wicked fairies kidnap Gracie, to imprison her in the castle. Jamie intervenes, and as a ransom Gracie is struck deaf and dumb. With a little magic and many travails, Jamie is at last able to re-unite Gracie with her parents. |
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| The Jewel Of Lamjung by Richard Ward |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The cast includes an on-stage sound effects operator. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] (The original production, including dances, ran to 22 minutes.) |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short Melodrama with a comedic edge (suitable for inclusion in a Music Hall evening, for example). Set in a regimental ballroom in Nepal in the days of British rule. |
| Synopsis | The Music Hall Chairman takes us through the action as smooth blackguard Major Ponsonby adds the theft of the jewel of Lamjung to his many dastardly misdemeanours. He is finally undone as, following his daughter's lead, the Colonel sees that Ponsonby really is a cad, a bounder and a disgrace to the regiment. |
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| Just Fifteen Minutes by Tony Frier |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act historical drama with several simple scenes. |
| Synopsis | Just fifteen minutes is how long it takes someone to die from strychnine poisoning. It's this method by which Doctor Thomas Cream disposed of his victims. Cream goes from fresh McGill graduate to a cornered criminal in this recounting of the life of the notorious 'Lambeth Poisoner', whose crimes stretched from Montreal to Chicago and London. |
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| Kalifa's Amazing Adventures by Nikki Harmon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. The lead character is a young elephant and various others are animals. These are supposed to be indicated by costumes props or masks, rather than being entirely realistic! (There's a photographic example on the script page.) |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full length play - a fable along the lines of the Just So stories or Brer Rabbit. Aimed at a young audience, but to be played by adults or teenagers. |
| Synopsis | The growing pains of an inquisitive young elephant, as she learns about the dangers of her environment and the value of friendship. |
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| Kids in Lurve by Bill Siviter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Lots of flexibility for either doubling characters or splitting the narrator's role amongst several actors. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming play, delivering a rapid, modern and informal version of Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew'. Multiple scenes, but little required by way of set or props.
Set in the north-west midlands, but could easily be moved to your home town! |
| Synopsis | Bianca is sweet and pretty. All the lads fancy her. But standing in the way, there's Bianca's acid-tongued sister, Kate, and who can tame Kate?
Well, since there aren't many lads called Petruchio these days, the modern-day volunteer is Shane.
The course of true love never did run smooth (but that's another story). |
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| Kids in Tights - The Musical by Bill Siviter with Music by Jonny Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Whilst there isn't a formal requirement for a chorus, there is plenty of opportunity for adding Montagues, Capulets and ball guests. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and Vocal scores for nine songs are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Romeo and Juliet told, as an irreverent verse play, by the protagonists and by narrators. A good introduction to Shakespeare's story! (The specified run-time is the minimum - extending the ball and the fight will add time!) |
| Synopsis | Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet condensed into a short verse play for kids, then lengthened because everyone gets so excited that they need to sing about it.
Boy meets girl, love overcomes the family feud - but only for the lovers. Swordplay turns rivals into kebabs. Mistakes are made and the heroes die. (You see, it's a soppy love story.) |
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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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| A Knight to Remember by Johnny Jarman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length farce on a single (hotel suite) set. |
| Synopsis | Sir Ronald is going to accept a Lifetime Acting Achievement award, if he can learn his speech in time. But sadly for him, his night is going to be full of interruptions from all kinds of people - and even his own murky past! |
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| The Lambton Worm by Timothy Hallett and Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Very flexible casting. There is one narrator role, but this could be shared out. Equally, the chorus could be 'all the actors'. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A 40-page musical score is included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Short musical retelling of an English folk tale. (The music plays throughout, even though some of the narration is spoken rather than sung.) No real set requirements, but the ideal performance would put some effort into creating a fearsome worm! |
| Synopsis | The tale of the wild worm of Wearside and its grisly end.
It should be emphasised that 'worm' is used in its old sense of 'serpent' - so this is a story of knights fighting dragons. |
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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
** CD with backing track for the whole musical The Lambton Worm by Timothy Hallett and Nicholas Richards. Plus simple rehearsal tracks for each individual section (accompaniment on piano with vocal line played on another instrument.)
** Complete recording of The Lambton Worm by Timothy Hallett and Nicholas Richards including all songs and the spoken narration.
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| Language Lessons by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. There are two consistent characters throughout (plus an offstage voice). The rest are brought on for each 'lesson' so the 'Englishman' could be played by a different character in each scene (and need not be male). |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Prologue and eleven short comedy skits with no requirements for set. Could be done as written (one continuous performance) or could be split across a sketch show as a running gag. (Contains caricatures, silly accents and foreign words!) |
| Synopsis | Polly and Glott present an informative (and amusing) look into the necessity for having some skill with a foreign tongue. |
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| Language Lessons (II) Asking the Time by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice - could easily be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] May be separated into short scenes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A series of scenes put together in one act, or may be divided for short pieces. Minimal or no set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A second set of crazy scenes to help hopeless English persons gain a better degree of fluency, in a foreign tongue. This time Polly and Glott prepare the audience for asking the time in various countries and even outer space! |
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