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| Messengers by Clay Space |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for youth age performers, with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | A demanding and emotional piece of drama. Years of blame and abuse have brought Brian to the point of taking his own life. As the garage fills with car exhaust, he is visited by figures from his life who force him to consider his choices. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream [Modern English] by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. It would be possible, by adding attendants and fairies, to increase the cast to around 30. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for four pieces of music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Shakespeare abridged and (mainly) in modern English. No formal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A shortened version of the Shakespeare original, containing nuggets of the original text with modern insertions. Shakespeare's son Hamnet holds the whole thing together as if managing a production of the play. |
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| More Sinned Against Than Sinning by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama set in 1936. |
| Synopsis | The condemned murderess Marianne spends her last hours before execution reliving the events leading up to her conviction with her conscience, which takes the form of the three characters Anger, Fear, and Joy. |
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| The Most Beautiful Flower by Tony Best, adapted from Antonia Barber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for junior/secondary school children, based on an Eastern European folk tale (translated by Antonia Barber). No formal scenes, but several location changes which, in the original production, were managed by the soldiers moving furniture! |
| Synopsis | The young prince of a kingdom inherits the throne and decrees that, since his late father was given a lot of bad advice by his elderly advisors, all old people must be banished. In the meantime his daughter must find a husband from the remaining young men of the kingdom. One young farmer enlists the help and wisdom of his grandfather, who hid from the guards rather than face exile, to win the princess's heart - and restore the new king's trust in the wisdom of age. |
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Moving On by Richard James
Performance by Little Acorn Productions won the Adjudicator's Award, Leicestershire One Act Play Festival, 2010. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An excellent three-handed, single-set one-act play on the subject of bereavement. |
| Synopsis | Angela is packing up her things to move out of the house she raised her children in. Though her husband has been dead for a year, she hasn't come to terms with losing him. |
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| Mrs Noah by Robin Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple one act play. |
| Synopsis | The building of the Ark and the days of the Flood, as experienced by Noah and his less-than-understanding wife, Mrs Noah. |
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| The Neville Report - Village of Fear by Gary Diamond, John Fryer & Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. In theory, because it's a radio play, this could be done with a very small cast - Neville, the central character plus one other male and one female playing the rest of the characters. One of the characters - Harry the Leg - is purely a sound effect! |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play - a comic pastiche of a 1950s radio drama intended for presentation as a staged radio play. |
| Synopsis | A comedy radio play that pits intrepid reporter Neville Reville against the supernatural goings-on in Merry Waddle on the Weddle. Aided only by a leg in disguise, Neville braves the Portals of Hell (a pub), Lusty Wanda (a siren) and the evil Mordred to rescue Lady Purity! |
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| The Night Nurse by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A tense one act drama |
| Synopsis | Greg wakes up in a hospital bed, and Ralph the night nurse tells him he's been in a road accident. But Greg notices things are a little odd, and it all comes to a head when he meets the day nurse, Raymond, who looks very familiar. |
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| Noah's Ark [Version 2] by Steven Bergman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. The cast includes a number of animals, with an optional crowd of all the animals available! |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act dramatisation. (The setting is described as a desert! Minimal staging is implied.) |
| Synopsis | The biblical story of Noah brought to life with contributions by a pigeon, a pig, a monkey and a cow. |
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| Nun Fun in the Arizona Sun by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Characters include a singing cow! Whilst there isn't a formal chorus, the number of nuns and orphans could probably be increased. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for six songs (plus opening instrumental) are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | One-act musical comedy for kids. Single set. |
| Synopsis | A shady businessman and his dim-witted accomplice arrive at an orphanage to attempt to swindle the resident nuns out of the gold mine they're situated over. But they've reckoned without the enthusiasm of the young orphans, and their magical singing cow... |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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