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| As You Like It [75-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing allows for the three Shakespearian songs embedded in the script. |
| Music | Three of Shakespeare's songs (without music) are included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A 75-minute abridgement of Shakespeare's pastoral comedy.
(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 | Boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall in love. Girl exiled into forest by powerful uncle and disguises self as boy. Boy kicked out of home by grumpy brother. Boy meets girl again. Girl, as boy, tricks boy into seducing her. Another girl meets girl, and thinking she's a boy, falls in love. Subplot about a jester. Classic love story all round. |
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| Australian Assembly by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. Whilst some of the roles are gender-specific, they don't really need to be played to type. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 8 songs to accompany the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Light-hearted educational piece for kids. |
| Synopsis | A short play giving a lot of information about the land down under: some history, some wildlife, some music and some facts and figures to round it all out. |
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| Baboushka by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Whilst there is no formal requirement for a chorus, there are options for attendants for the Wise Men, and a choir. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are places for a couple of carols during the performance. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short, charming dramatisation of the Russian Christmastide folk tale. |
| Synopsis | Baboushka welcomes the Three Wise Men into her spotless home as they pause overnight on their journey to Bethlehem. She is too busy cleaning her house to accompany them as they follow the star and subsequently spends the rest of her life searching for the Christ child. |
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| Bakers by Tim Cole |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Optional chorus of bakery workers. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 8 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play - a family show - with strong characters, running jokes and a fair amount of bakery horseplay! Single main set (a bakery) with front-of-tab scenes. |
| Synopsis | Thanks to Mary's business partner, her bakery is about to close. Luckily the Town Hall Bread suppliers have failed and she could pick up the contract and save the bakery - unless her partner can throw another spanner in the works. |
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| Benny Manhattan And The Caponi Diamond by Carol Hill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. Variable chorus size as desired by the Producer. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Music suggestions for nine optional pieces are included with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A gangster farce in two acts, suitable for youth performers, with various settings. |
| Synopsis | The bumbling Manhattan gang, led by Benny Manhattan, get themselves embroiled in double crossings with the Caponi family. A bank robbery runs into difficulties when the Caponi diamond is inadvertently, or perhaps deliberately, included in the Manhattan's haul. |
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| The Best in the Book by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Chorus includes unspecified numbers of (talking) sheep and camels |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes sheet music for three original songs. A number of traditional carols are also suggested in the script. |
| Style | Irreverend, humorous nativity play. Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | A humorous nativity story, with pantomime camels, talkative sheep, Queens as well as kings and lots of angels. The shepherds really don't like their job and spend the cold winter's night in drinking too much! They are very alarmed when angels appear. Meanwhile, one of the kings' camels develops a puncture... |
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| A Breath Of Fresh Air by Kate Goddard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. One character is an offstage voice |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] This allows for 16 songs or music pieces included |
| Music | Optional assorted music with suggested tunes and some popular songs with re-written words. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act play with optional music and dance. |
| Synopsis | Carbin Dioxide the second is determined to find more oil and gas to make himself even richer. His assistants discover they can reach the deposits under the North Pole if they increase global warming to melt the ice. Who can stop them? |
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Brian the Christmas Tree by Sarah Cowan
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. The number of characters is very flexible. It would be easy, for example, to add a number of dancing Christmas trees! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Musical suggestions made in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Non-religious Christmas play for young(ish) children. Simple sets, simple props. |
| Synopsis | It's Christmas and the trees are waiting to be sold. All except grumpy Brian, who doesn't want to be a Christmas Tree - he wants to grow up to be a telegraph pole. |
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| The Bully in the Graveyard by Sarah Cowan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. Cast of school children plus a ghost - who might be an adult or a large child (assuming that you don't have a real ghost to hand). |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for seven pieces of backing music are included in the Producer's Copy of the scripts. (The cast is not required to sing, but might do so! One dance is suggested.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | School play about bullying. A serious theme, but lots of comedy, and strong characters. |
| Synopsis | Billy and his friends are picked-on by Preson's gang. Their response is to demonstrate to the bullies what it is like to be frightened. |
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| Cadbury Angels by Alison Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] The estimated run time allows time for 15 songs. |
| Music | 15 songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length play with songs. Set some time in the 2000s and in the 1940s.
First published in 2022, revised 2023. |
| Synopsis | Clearing the house after her mother has died, a daughter finds some strange treasures packed away: letters, some nylons, a ball of chewing gum? She's uncovered a secret of her mother's past - she was a Cadbury Angel. |
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