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Potted Austen: Northanger Abbey by Lou Treleaven |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short, humorous adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. |
Synopsis | A short take on Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, covering all of the relevant events and characters with minimal staging requirements. Cast size can be reduced to six with some meticulous doubling! |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Potted Austen: Persuasion by Lou Treleaven |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion. |
Synopsis | A short, humorous adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion, covering all of the salient events and characters with minimal staging requirements. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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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. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Potted Austen: Sense and Sensibility by Lou Treleaven |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility |
Synopsis | A short, humorous adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, covering all of the important events and characters with minimal staging requirements. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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A Price to Pay by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters are a male teenager and an adult lawyer of either gender. (The adult could be played by another member of a youth theatre company.) |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short and snappy drama that would be very easy to stage. |
Synopsis | Teenager James is being interviewed by his solicitor whilst on remand for the murder of his father. It is clear the father was violent and abusive, but why has James' mother made him promise the world won't know? |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Pride and Proton Lasers by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play, wittily mashing-up two familiar genres. |
Synopsis | A scheduling error at a theatre means that a production of a Regency period drama and a science fiction suspense play have to share the stage. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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The Princess and the Frog by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Two song suggestions are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short rhyming play. |
Synopsis | Spoilt Princess Gwendolen is not satisfied with her suitors, and the frog who turns into a handsome and eligible prince is no exception. He lives happily ever after - but what of the Princess? |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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The Princess and the Mirror by Charles Alverson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Monsters 1-3 are offstage voices. Peasants form chorus - number at Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy play for children. |
Synopsis | With knights in shining armour, dragons to slay not to mention a few monsters here and there, vain Princess Alice learns that mirrors can have more uses than for just admiring yourself. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Pyramus and Thisbe by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Characters include a wall, a lioness, a statue and a mulberry tree. Aside from that, they are all normal. (Whilst there are three female characters - four if you count the lioness - they could, in Shakespearian fashion, be played by lads.) |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama (played for comedy) in which the protagonists speak Latin and the narrators, where necessary, translate. |
Synopsis | The story of Pyramus and Thisbe is most familiar to modern audiences through Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' - rehearsed during the play and performed by the Mechanicals at the end. The Latin tale - from which Shakespeare drew his story - is from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The story is of two lovers separated by their parents and a wall. Arranging to meet, but dying in the process. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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The Quintessential Quintet by Frances Bartram |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are five adventurous children, probably to be played by adults. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Parody in the style of Enid Blyton. |
Synopsis | Four children (two boys, one girl, one tomboy) and their dog are out in the countryside for a picnic. They encounter some odd flashes of light that could be smugglers signalling, and an odd sort of boy who may be a new chum or someone more sinister. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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