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The Scary Tale of The Werewolf by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, rhyming Gothic horror comedy play for kids! Multiple locations, but not intended to be staged naturalistically! |
Synopsis | There's a Werewolf on the loose! But when the culprit finds out what happens to him by the light of the full moon, he seeks medical help (and hairdressing). |
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The Scottish Play by Bill Siviter Performance by Greenock Players Youth Section winner at the Inverclyde One Act Play Festival, 2008 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] Up to 90 minutes with banquets, ballads and battles! |
Music | None. |
Style | Irreverent verse play, told by the protagonists and by narrators with the action mimed. A good introduction to Shakespeare's story! (The specified run-time is the minimum - banquets, battles and bopping will add to the run time!) |
Synopsis | The Scottish Play - or 'Kids in Kilts' The complete story of Shakespeare's Macbeth (witches, murder, walking trees, revenge - that sort of thing) told as a verse play for kids. [Note that there is also a musical version of this play, called (with great enterprise) The Musical Scottish Play. It is identical except that six original songs have been added.] |
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Shut the Door by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Scores for four songs are supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Musical skit in one act. Single interior set. Simple props. |
Synopsis | A couple take such stubborn positions in an argument that they would rather be robbed than give in! |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Midi files of songs from the show
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Sic Notus Ulixes? by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Whilst all bar Circe are written male, the author would be happy with any liberties taken with gender - and, in any case, what evidence do we have that Homer was male? |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Humorous Homeric epic in a fifteen minute play aimed at beginners' classes in Latin! |
Synopsis | Three scenes from the story of Ulysses' homecoming translated from the original Greek (*) and thoroughly mangled and distorted for dramatic presentation. Narrated by the original poet himself. * Whilst the above summary notes the translation from Greek, it does not note what it is translated into. In this case, it's Latin (which itself is translated - or at least clarified - into English by the narrator). |
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Signs of Grace by Sarah Howard |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. Friends and narrators parts may be doubled, at the Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act play with simple (or no) set. |
Synopsis | In a modern setting and using narration with action, the Old and New Testaments of the Bible are brought together - to provide a parable, showing why Jesus died for our sins. |
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The Story Of Eklavya by Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Optional more musicians and a second narrator |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act rhyming play, with incidental music and on-stage musicians. |
Synopsis | Eklavya has skill with a bow and wants to be the best archer in history, but the best guru only teaches the nobility and Eklavya is a peasant. He makes his own guru and waits for his chance to prove himself. A tale from the Mahabharata. |
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The Story Of Karna by Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Optional wedding guests and musicians numbers at Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act rhyming play, with incidental music and on-stage musicians. |
Synopsis | A tale from the Mahabharata, telling how Karna became such a mighty warrior, and the cruel twists of fate that lead to his death at the hands of his own brothers. |
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Strange New Worlds by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch, minimal set, a few simple props, Science Fiction (TV) parody [Okay, early Star Trek!] |
Synopsis | Three members of the Galaxy Patrol, Security Branch, are on the surface of an alien planet. Bearing in mind they're all wearing red jerseys, how many will get off the planet alive? |
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The Stubborn Little Girl and the Spider's Web by Jon Boustead |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Whilst there is no explicit chorus, there is a lot of flexibility in the numbers of Witches and Shrieks. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama for the junior ranks of a youth theatre, a mix of narration and action with no specific set requirements. |
Synopsis | Isobel, a stubborn and rather rude girl, learns the error of her ways through encounters with a magical woodpecker, a vampire, witches, a spider and the awesome Shrieks. |
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The Super Secret Surprise Casserole by Christine Harvey & Jennifer Waugh Production by Elanor McNamara won 'Best Moment of Theatre' at Arran Drama Festival 2018. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Three of the characters are adults but can be played by children. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Modern version of the story of Hansel and Gretel. Simple sets. |
Synopsis | Hansel and Gretel are thrown out of their house for arguing. Wandering through the forest (and arguing) they encounter a gingerbread house and a witch with an unusual recipe - the Super Secret Surprise Casserole... |
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