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| Simpleton and the Queen Bee by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short fantasy play for children. |
| Synopsis | Grimm's fairy tale is brought to life as the animals help Simpleton complete the tasks which will bring him his true love. |
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Squirrel Plays His Part by Stuart Ardern
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The characters are three narrators and lots of jungle animals. The numbers are intended to be flexible, with options to combine or redistribute lines. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for two original songs is included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical play for young children. No set requirements. A few simple props. A moral story about prioritisation and co-operation! |
| Synopsis | The jungle animals are supposed to be growing crops, but they keep getting distracted by ants! |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| The Star's Nativity by Martin Kirkland |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the scripts suggest the use of four Christmas songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Nativity play. |
| Synopsis | A school nativity play with a difference, with the story charmingly told from the star's point of view. With appealing humour and characters the story shines through and the cleverly placed amusing colloquial asides will give opportunities for some cheeky young chappies to shine. |
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| The Storm Clouds Gather and The Evacuees by Roger Hurn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An educational piece ideal for school assemblies, with no set required. |
| Synopsis | This assembly, designed to support work on Britain since 1930, concentrates on some of the events that occurred on the home front at the time of the Second World War. It has been divided into two parts. The first, The Storm Clouds Gather can be used to set the scene for the following section, The Evacuees. Both scenes are prefaced and linked with narration. There are 35 speaking parts including narration. |
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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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| The Tailor's Little Christmas by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Some of the characters have specific genders, but then some of them are mice, so casting by gender doesn't matter all that much! |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for children based on 'The Tailor of Gloucester' by Beatrix Potter. |
| Synopsis | A tailor struggles to finish a coat in time for the mayor's Christmas wedding, especially when his mischievous cat hides the thread. A family of kind mice take it upon themselves to finish the work. |
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