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Macbeth by Geoff Bamber Best Seller Production by Blairgowrie Players won two rounds of the SCDA festival 2023, then won the Colin Peter Award for showing the greatest creativity in the Scottish Youth Final. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Shakespeare's Macbeth as a modern language play (with modern humour) for kids. A one act play in five acts. Simple sets and props. Options for songs and dances. |
Synopsis | There should be three witches, but one of them is having problems with her satellite navigation system. Eventually they give a fateful prediction to Macbeth, who likes the idea of being the new king enough to dispatch the old one. Much murder and wringing of hands ensues. All this and a mad Scottish doctor. The bard will be spinning in his grave! |
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Madame Skoodle's Noodles And The Poodle Doodle by Erica Glenn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Twelve human characters plus a show dog! |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A surreal comedy that requires almost no set with a witty and fast paced dialogue. |
Synopsis | There's a news report that Noodles the Poodle has been found dead, just before he was supposed to win the big Poodle Doodle competition. Who killed him? There's a regular parade of suspects, but is Noodles really dead? |
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Market Forces by Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The script includes lyrics to two songs (and one reprise) set to popular melodies. The producer's copy of the script comes with sheet music for the two songs. |
Style | One-act play (with music) for kids. Good against evil. That sort of thing. |
Synopsis | With no Lord of the Manor to repair the Market Hall, it's under threat of redevelopment by the wicked Swilco Supermarket, who's got the townspeople bedazzled through the use of O-Bey-Me gas. Can Marshy and Daisy save the day? |
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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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Marlowe's Revenge by Jonathan Caldicot |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for a secondary school or youth theatre group. The group are preparing to stage a play, so it's essentially a bare-stage production (with an offstage special effect). |
Synopsis | A group of actors from a Boys' School are taking their production of Dr Faustus to a nearby Girls' School. With the lead actor off due to a broken leg, his understudy is unsure of the part, and some of the girls are more interested in the boys than the play. |
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Micky Marvello by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single setting. |
Synopsis | Micky Marvello is Circus Fantastique’s accident prone magician and now he has disappeared. The police are investigating how and why he has gone missing, whilst people in the circus aren’t sure if it is a case of foul play or magic gone wrong. |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream [45-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | This one-act abridgement retains Shakespeare's original language and focuses on the nobles, the fairies, and the mechanicals. The lovers' plot is unapologetically omitted, but the narrative remains tight. |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Sebastian and Puck are written m but can be played f, with a name change for Sebastian and minor amendments to the text. |
Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy for young actors, bringing a modern English version of the Shakespearean play to the stage. |
Synopsis | Preparations are under way for the high-profile wedding of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and his bride the Warrior Queen Hippolyta, but the wedding planner Sebastian finds that he has more problems with the guests than the happy couple... including a rift in the Underworld, in-fighting among the entertainers, and a mischievous sprite to contend with. |
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Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall by Nicholas Conti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, a haunting - on the edge of Melodrama. Single interior set - a house in Salem in the 1940s. Characters are all adults but could be within the grasp of teenagers. |
Synopsis | A couple move into a new home in Salem, only to find that they are not alone... |
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Missing by Sue Bevan Finalist in the Sky Blue Theatre International play-writing competition, 2013 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Voices of 7 parents may be off stage or recorded. |
Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A gritty one act play for youth theatre. |
Synopsis | Tom's run away from home but finds he's spent his first night on Lizzie's 'turf'. Is she going to help him, or take his stuff? Perhaps Lizzie's idea of helping Tom isn't the same as his... |
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Monkey Business by Sue Murray |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The characters are seven humans (5M, 2F) and 2 chips (1M, 1F) |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Structurally in three acts, but of one-act length. Split stage set. Contains a limited amount of very mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Research into training chimps to use sign language gets an unexpected boost when a student devotes some of his work experience time to listening to what the chimps have to say. But the Doctor in charge of the research isn't so keen on really intelligent subjects... |
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