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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 Play by Bill Siviter Performance by Ormlie Community Group won the SCDA, Caithness district, 2010 (also picking up the trophy for best ensemble). |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. A chorus could be added as an optional extra for the ball scene and for the gangs of Montagues and Capulets. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] The ball and fight scenes can be extended. |
Music | None. |
Style | Romeo and Juliet told as an irreverent verse play, told 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 twenty-minute verse play for kids. 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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The King's Twelve Huntsmen by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short adaptation of Grimm's fairytale - 'The Twelve Huntsmen'. |
Synopsis | Princess Constance disguises herself as a huntsman, to gain the attention of Prince Donald who is betrothed to another. All works out well in the end. |
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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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A Likely Story by Heather Bryant |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch for youth theatre. A few simple props to indicate location (a classroom). Also available as part of the Fright Size collection. |
Synopsis | New girl Beth arrives in the theatre studies room and wonders why it feels strangely cold... |
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The Little Cottage by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute Irish folk tale. |
Synopsis | The Doyle family have a perfect life, but then Margaret's parents move into their little cottage. They now feel crowded. Father Kelly's advice is to make the cottage even more crowded and has Dennis Doyle bring in goats and chickens, which make matters even worse. |
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The Little Hut in the Woods by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play, in two scenes, suitable for young school-aged performers. |
Synopsis | Three sisters find a hut in the woods as they travel, one at a time, in search of their father. The first two are rude and unhelpful, and find themselves trapped in the cellar by the old man and his animal friends. But the third daughter is polite and generous, and then finds the old man is not what he seems. |
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Live by Robin Fusco |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A ten-minute play set in an underground bunker. |
Synopsis | A makeshift family must decide whether to die in the bunker they have called home or to embrace change and brave the outside world. |
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Macbeth In Seventeen And A Half Minutes Or Less by Christine Harvey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. Various minor parts may be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] This is dependent on the cast! |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one-act comedy, with no set required. |
Synopsis | The three witches attempt to tell their version of Macbeth in seventeen and a half minutes or less. As they condense it, an amusing and fast-paced summary emerges. Will they succeed in meeting their deadline? Don't blink or you'll miss all the fun of finding out! |
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