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Inspector Snow and the Sleeping Santa by Skip Chalker Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Without any doubling, the script has 8 speaking roles, 8 non-speaking roles, and 2 optional clucking roles. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act Christmas story for children with various simple settings. US English. |
Synopsis | Inspector Snow and Sergeant Merryman are called to the McGrew house one Christmas Eve, where Santa has been found fast asleep. As well as getting him on his way, they must find out who drugged him, and why they want to delay Christmas. The investigation takes them to interviews with the Easter Bunny, April Fool, and the Tooth Fairy, and ultimately back to the McGrew house. |
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Inspector Snow and The Twelve Murders of Christmas by Skip Chalker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Alternate lyrics to 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' are included, to be performed at the end of the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one-act festive comedy on a variety of simple sets. Suitable for a family audience. |
Synopsis | Inspector Snow and his sidekick, Sergeant Merryman, have to catch the fiend who has embarked on a killing spree in the run up to Christmas. But what, if anything, connects all these murders? |
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Inspector Snow And Toto Too by Skip Chalker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy for a family audience, a deft mixture of police procedural and the wonderful world of Oz. |
Synopsis | Inspector Snow and Sergeant Merryman have been assigned to the Merry Old Land of Oz for a while. Almost at once, a witch arrives to accuse a girl called Dorothy of murder, and assembling a gang for a hostile takeover... |
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The Interview Protocol by Pat Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play with two simple, waiting room and office, settings. |
Synopsis | A young man nervously waits to be called into the interview room. The odd atmosphere between the waiting candidates unnerves him further, and his experience during the interview is something he has never encountered before. |
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It's All Greek by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Collection of short comedy plays featuring Ancient Greek heroes and god. A set of riffs on myths. |
Synopsis | Five funny plays, each with a cast of two or three, Locations include Troy, Mount Olympus, the skies and a couple of unexpected Ancient Greek offices. |
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The Journey of the Magi [Prose] by Martin Kirkland |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Play morphing smoothly from a comedy introduction to the three wise men into a more reverend Biblical account. Includes the use of shadow theatre. (Structurally in two acts, one-act in length!) |
Synopsis | Caspar, Balthazar and Melchior are held in high regard by everyone except their wives, who would love a holiday. The appearance of a new star and the sudden interest of the Romans inspires an astrological journey, ending at a certain stable in Bethlehem. |
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A Journey to Oz by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Lots of scope for choruses of munchkins, wolves, crows and bees! |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming (non-musical) version of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz. Multiple locations, but can be staged as simply as necessary! |
Synopsis | A tornado plucks Dorothy Gale from Kansas and drops her and, more significantly (from the perspective of a tendancy to squish), her house, on top of a despised witch. Two quests follow (as do a scarecrow, a tin man and a lion), before she is able to return home. |
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Judicial Review of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus by Geoff Fulford |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama with a single (courtroom) setting. |
Synopsis | A judicial review debates the death and resurrection of Jesus using attorneys and contemporary witnesses, some present at the crucifixion, along with interested parties. |
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Julius Caesar [75-Minute Abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 32. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 75-minute abridgement of Shakespeare's Roman history. (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 | 'Beware the Ides of March!' 'Caesar shall go forth.' 'Et tu, Brute?' 'Brutus is an honourable man.' 'Revenge!' 'This was the noblest Roman of them all.' |
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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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