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Sandra Clause and the Bottomless Sack by Raymond Blakesley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Aimed at a full class production - the members of Miss Knott's class are not named, and only a few have individual speaking roles, but there is a lot of class chanting! |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Not a musical, but the text contains provision for adding songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act school play with bags of verbal humour. Minimal set (Santa's bottomless sack can be as imaginative as you please!) |
Synopsis | Miss Knott has disappeared on the day of the school Christmas Fayre. The governor, the Head and the PTA Chairwoman and her secretary all deny responsibility, so it's down to Teaching Assistant Mrs Dimmock, Miss Knott's class (with their supply teacher, who they have named 'Not Miss Knott') to show exactly what happened. |
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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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Scary Miss Muffet by Raymond Blakesley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters include a spider, a fly, a bookworm, a sunbeam, various flowers and a loquacious weed. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for kids. Single (minimal) set. A weaving of the tales of Jack and Jill and Miss Muffet. |
Synopsis | Jill Muffet wants to sit on her tuffet, have her brother Jack at her beck and call and be appreciated by all around her, but the flowers in her garden don't find her so appealing. |
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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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Sherlock Penguin by S. J. Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Whilst many of the characters are nominally gendered, they are, when all's said and done, animals. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for kids, full of silly and irreverent fun. |
Synopsis | Sherlock's a detective penguin but he's lacking in brainpower and clients. He's about to be evicted from his office when Moriarty, the celebrity wolverine, arrives to become his friend and he believes his problems are solved. Watson is not so sure, however... |
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Shop! by Geoff Bamber Performance by Wilmslow Guild Players won The Syd Mence Cup for a Piece of Theatre Magic at the Wilmslow one-act play festival, 2017. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for a youth theatre company. Could be performed in front of a backdrop, but a bare stage will do! |
Synopsis | A short stop for supplies at Mrs Popkissās shop turns into a frustrating afternoon for a group of would-be campers. |
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A Slice Of Elizabethan Life by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Variable chorus size and doubling of parts, at the Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One song suggestion and one rap are included with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short-ish one act play for schools, with song, dance, rap, and with a simple set. |
Synopsis | This play portrays a slice of Elizabethan life and follows on from 'A Slice of Tudor Life' by the same author. They can be used separately or together to give an overview of the Tudor Dynasty. Narrators and various characters from Elizabeth's life, including the ghost of her father King Henry VIII, comment on her personality and events in her life until her death. |
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Small Miracles by Maureen Speller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 54. Chorus. Three short plays, one cast can perform all three or they can have separate casts. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Choral music to be played at various points in play, at discretion of director. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Collection of three short plays with Biblical themes. Suitable for performance by children. |
Synopsis | A trio of short plays following the story of Mary, Joseph and Jesus from the end of most Nativity stories to the early days of Christianity in Rome. |
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Smugglers by Geoff Bamber Production by Plockton ADS Youth won the EML Quaich at the SCDA Highland Youth Festival, 2016 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. The number of smugglers, soldiers and inn customers can be varied according to demand, recruitment and thirst. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy adventure for kids. |
Synopsis | John Fisher is an ambitious reporter, despatched to the darkest depths of the west country to investigate smuggling. Where better to start than the atmospheric 'Smuggler's Rest' inn, despite the landlady's assurances that there are no smugglers? The constant attentions of Captain Elwood of His Majesty's Revenue Service persuade John that there are indeed rum goings-on to look into. John and Lucy, the landlady's daughter, find themselves caught between the determined excise men and the ruthless smugglers with only the questionable assistance of the ghost of Old Granny Steggles to aid them. |
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