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| The Olympian Myths by Tony North |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute, large cast play for schools in the style of Ancient Greek drama. (Appropriate for the English National Curriculum KS2 History topic Ancient Greece.) |
| Synopsis | A brief introduction to some of the gods of Greek legend |
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| The Other Side by Iris Winston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for youth theatre, a story, but with a strong moral core. |
| Synopsis | Ruth is visiting an Art Gallery as part of the school field trip, when she sees a picture of a cabin that looks familiar. She falls into the painting and meets Narg, who takes her back to something she doesn't want to remember. |
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| Party Games by Alan J. Laing |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Characters are children plus two teachers (assumed to be played by children) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute classroom comedy play for kids, with a moral. |
| Synopsis | The day before the Christmas Holidays, and the class are filling their spare time with various activities. Penny has a surprise for the school, but it's spoilt kids Amber and Jade who are the most surprised. |
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| Pea Pandemonium by Jessica Sandys-Clarke |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are nominally female, they are, when all is said and done, vegetables! |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute farce for kids. Minimal set, simple props. |
| Synopsis | It's a regular day in Chill Pepper's Salon, with massages, manicures and bizarre temper tantrums. Today also sees two pea twins reunited. |
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| The Perfect Princess and the Wonky Wizard by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One of the characters is a unicorn. For the purpose of counting roles, we have assumed this requires one actor, but of course it might be played as a full skin costume, like a pantomime horse. (The narrator might double as the unicorn.) |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | An optional song is suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short fairytale for children's theatre, with an original story. |
| Synopsis | Wilhelmina the Wicked Witch is holding Spoony the Uni, a unicorn, prisoner in an enchanted forest - which is no longer enchanted due to Walter the Wonky Wizard casting the wrong spell! Two owls, Joey and Snowy, and a young crow, Pickles, team up with Princess Arabella on her quest to rescue Spoony. |
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| Pirates Ahoy! by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute presentation piece for schools |
| Synopsis | A group of famous pirates are interviewed about the realities of Pirate Life in the Golden Age of Piracy. Long John Silver, as a fictional Pirate, is there on sufferance. A useful classroom introduction to the subject. |
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| Pompeii Up! by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Further parts could be added at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] Variable timing with your choice of music. |
| Music | Two musical suggestions are included with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short one act play, suitable for a school assembly. |
| Synopsis | In this piece we have information and entertainment, with facts and figures from the eruption of Vesuvius - which buried Herculaneum and Pompeii. |
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| Poppies Never Forget by Christine Harvey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains a suggestion for one song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short play for schools |
| Synopsis | The poppies for the Remembrance Day wreath must explain the history and importance of Remembrance Day to the new poppy joining their ranks. |
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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? |
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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. |
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