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| Romantic Novelist by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play for three ladies. Single set (written as a domestic interior, but could be hinted-at, rather than fully realised). Simple props. |
| Synopsis | Louella Packenham is struggling to finish her latest bodice-ripper with the help of her faithful assistant Miss Trent. But Louella's errant husband is clearly on her mind too, then her housekeeper Miss Fortune asks for help with her equally wayward brother. Can the straitlaced Miss Trent bring him back to the fold? |
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| Romeo and Juliet by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as a modern language play (with modern irony and humour) for kids. One act and a single set, with simple props. |
| Synopsis | Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene... Well, dignity if dignity includes Lady Montague and Lady Capulet scrapping in the streets. Basically a story of family fights family, boy meets girl and most of the principals meet an untimely death. (But there are a few laughs on the way.) |
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| Romeo and Juliet Date Other People by Jon Jory |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy starting from Shakespeare and straying a good way. Simple to stage. Written in American English. |
| Synopsis | Romeo's wooing of Juliet fails when both run out of poetry, so they agree to take a break and see other people. Romeo's dates with Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra, and the Wicked Witch of the West don't go well, nor do Juliet's with Paris, Iago and Oberon. Maybe the star-cross'd lovers are the only ones right for each other. |
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| Rumpelstiltskin [Version 2] by James O'Sullivan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Eight major roles and ten minor ones. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act play for a school or youth theatre. |
| Synopsis | A boastful father makes a foolish claim to a cruel King and his daughter's life depends on her ability to spin straw into gold...
A novel retelling of the traditional tale with a new twist tote ending and plenty of laughs along the way. |
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| Rustics by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection of four sketches. No set requirements, simple props (and only two of those). The sketches could be presented together, or could be used separately (for example as front-of-curtain interludes in a sketch show). |
| Synopsis | Two local yokels discuss whatever comes to mind! |
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| The Sadist by Brent Holland |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The age of the Sadist is not specified, the rest are teenagers. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act horror story for a teenage cast. Single (remote cabin) setting. |
| Synopsis | A group of young friends are involved in a serious road accident deliberately contrived by the Sadist who imprisons the victims and puts them through a callous game. The strength of their friendship is severely tested. |
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| Same Difference by Louise Roche |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of suggested songs is given in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play (with music) for kids. Multiple settings, but designed to be staged simply. |
| Synopsis | Penny is a new girl, desperate to fit in with her peer-group. The other kids, led by Danni, dare her to enter a mysterious house that has been unoccupied for years. There she meets Amelia..
A tale of exclusion, bullying, ghosts and reconciliation. |
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| Saving Angeline Palmer by Maia Kinney-Petrucha |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama for schools with various simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Recalcitrant history student Justine is transported back to 19th century America where she learns about the horrors of slavery. Along with the citizens of a small town, Justine is able to save Angeline Palmer from being sold as a slave. |
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| Scoop Jackson by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Character genders could be matched to cast available. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy for young actors - nine years and older. |
| Synopsis | The ailing Daily Special is under threat of closure from its owner, Big Boss. Cub reporter Scoop Jackson sets out on a mission to rescue the paper by way of getting a 'big story' from the worlds of show business, politics, or law and order. Success seems to be eluding him as he desperately puts 'Plan D' into action. Will it work? Hold the front page! |
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Scotch Broth by Geoff Bamber with songs by Stuart Ardern
Production by Stranraer Drama Club Juniors won loads of trophies at the Wigton division of the SCDA festival, 2015 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for two songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of ther script. (Two further songs are suggested.) |
| Style | A dramatised partial (probably in both senses) history of Scotland suitable for Primary School aged children and above. Minimal sets (although Hadrian's wall is built - very rapidly - during the show.) |
| Synopsis | Two Inter-Galactic time travellers arrive in Scotland on a fact-finding mission. Guided by a helpful Narrator, they take an eventful journey through the nation's history and culture and encounter some famous faces on the way. |
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