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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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Nunquam Non Paratus by Andy McNamara
Production by Whiting Bay Music and Drama group won first place in the 2019 Arran Drama festival, taking the Archie Kerr Wooley Trophy. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (outdoor camp) setting. |
| Synopsis | On a Scottish battlefield prior to combat, Abernethy’s leadership of the clan comes into question as clan members revolt, demanding democracy and political correctness. |
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Nursery Crimes - The Da Wincey Code by tlc Creative
Performance by 'Stage 1' won the 'Outstanding Production' Award at Soothfest 2008 (Sault Ste. Marie's Teen Drama Festival) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. One of the characters is a sheep! |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act play with fairly simple set and prop requirements. Read the script to check that the punchline is acceptable to you before using this as a script for children! |
| Synopsis | Hansel and Gretel attempt to track down the truth behind the famous Incey Da Wincey conspiracy stories. What did the celebrated web artist know about the 'Narrator' and the 'Index'? Could Nursery Land really just be a series of stories in a book? Can they solve the mystery before they are silenced by sinister forces who want the secret protected forever? A parody of the Da Vinci Code (obviously). (What may be less obvious to American readers is that it is based on a nursery rhyme which, in the UK is 'Incey Wincey Spider', the American version being 'Itsy-Bitsy Spider') |
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| Of Myths And Mortals by Matt Harper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Alex, Toni, Ash, Pip, Curator 1, Curator 2, Guard and Florist can be played by male or female actors, with pronouns changed accordingly. Guard and Florist can be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy drama for schools with a flexible museum setting. |
| Synopsis | A rather badly behaved family's visit to the museum is marked with a re-telling of Greek Myths which strangely resonate with modern behaviours. |
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| Oh Dear, King Lear by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The Head Teacher and Mrs Bloss are written as female, but could be changed to male if preferred. |
| Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act youth theatre play set on a school hall stage. |
| Synopsis | Nikki, the drama teacher, is running up to the performance of King Lear, despite the interruptions from the Head and the cleaning lady, but she's in for a nasty surprise - her Cordelia will be abroad on the nights of the play. |
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Oh, Mr Shakespeare! by Geoff Bamber
Performance by ACTS won the Best Junior Individual Performance at the Wilmslow one-act play festival, 2017. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids. (In four acts, but of one-act length!) Whilst there are nominally three locations, these can be indicated by a minimum of furniture (a writing desk, a throne... that sort of thing). |
| Synopsis | The little-known story of how William Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway, not only saved the nation from invasion but also her husband's head from the axeman. This play is notionally set in the year 1594. Any degree of historical accuracy is purely accidental. |
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| On The Street by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Gritty one-act drama set amongst a bunch of homeless people. Single (minimal) set. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Six characters share an area of street, making a small cardboard encampment. They discuss whether they should move on, then band together against the violent member of the group, showing that, even if society has turned its back on them, they are there for each other. |
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| Once Upon A Time In Fairyland by James O'Sullivan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play for kids. |
| Synopsis | When the magic mirror tells the Queen she's not as fair as Snow White, the miffed monarch sets off to the Seven Dwarfs' bar where the mirror says Snow is working, only to find Goldilocks hiding out from the three bears there. Will Snow White be at the Prince's Ball? The hunt is on... |
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