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The Pirate Queen by Tim O'Brien |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 29. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with scores for 6 original songs (one of which is reprised). |
Style | Time-travelling musical for kids with a healthy dose of piracy thrown-in. |
Synopsis | Jack, Darrell and Sean are three students living in the shadow of their more successful peers. But when a freak storm during a fishing expedition causes them to be whisked back to the 18th century and they encounter a crew of pirate women, they may be about to change history! |
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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
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Play Safe by Paul A J Rudelhoff & Jane Hilliard |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 118 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length farce with a single setting. |
Synopsis | All is not what it seems at the Fair Lawns home for retired entertainers. The combination to a safe has been hidden somewhere by one of the former residents, and two young criminals-in-training are in the house undercover to track it down. |
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Pocket Panto by Mark Niel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and teenage children. Could either be played by teenagers, or by a mixture of adults and kids. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | A list of suggested songs is provided in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Two act play for teenagers (or a mix of adults and teens). Intended to be performed with minimal sets and simple props. The play itself is not a pantomime, but there is a panto inside the play! |
Synopsis | A school outing is derailed by mechanical trouble, leading to a night in a barn, where the drama group has to create its own entertainment - the pocket panto. (Pantomime as a play within a play!) Meanwhile there is a staffroom romance afoot (the course of which never does run smooth). |
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Potted Austen: The Complete Set by Lou Treleaven |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Six bitesize adaptations of Jane Austen's novels. |
Synopsis | A collection of six bitesize dramatic adaptations of Jane Austen's published novels. Each is fast-paced, witty, and amenable to small groups (cast size can be reduced to six with some crafty doubling). |
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Press Up by Nick Rowan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of teenagers and adults (assumed to be played by teenagers, but could be played by the mix as written). |
Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama for a high-school-aged company. Multiple settings but minimal scenery. Requires video projection. |
Synopsis | A school newspaper gets more of a scoop than the teenage editors had bargained for, but it's going to take determination and some serious investigative reporting to prove their story is real and avoid detention. |
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The Price of Firewood by Hilary Mackelden The author will be donating 50% of her royalties to go to the Charity 'World In Need', which works with refugees like the ones in the play (and with whom the author worked in Kenya) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length serious drama on the politics and economics of war and trade. Split-stage set. |
Synopsis | A reporter sends a shocking bulletin from a refugee camp in a war torn country, but the government of that country is signing some very important trade agreements, and the help for the victims of violence seems very slow in coming, despite the official 'investigation'. |
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Pride and Prejudice [Full-Length] by Charlie Cook |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. In addition to the 18 characters, there are a further four optional non-speaking parts. |
Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length adaptation of Jane Austen's classic. Single composite set with three locations. |
Synopsis | Bingley, Darcy, Lizzy, Wickham and Collins sneer, smarm and spurn their way through this well-loved tale of manners and assumptions. |
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The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain adapted by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. The vast majority of the characters are written male, but need not be played that way. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the scripts includes suggestions for up to 19 songs (with original lyrics to well-known tunes). However, the songs are optional - the piece functions equally well as a play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length play/musical. A family show, written for performance by a youth theatre company, but could be a mix of adults and children. |
Synopsis | A faithful adaptation and well crafted dramatisation of the classic novel by Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper is a musical play suitable for secondary schools or Academies specialising in the performing arts. As well as historical interest it provides a challenging project for producing, directing, acting and technical disciplines in school or community settings |
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The Princess of Bleecker Street by Don Lowry |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play for a high school cast. Single New York apartment setting. |
Synopsis | Van is the daughter of a very rich man, but she's determined to spend the summer like an ordinary person, so she's moved into a regular little apartment, and has only $30,000 dollars to last three months. Can she conceal her true identity? Or will her mother track her down? |
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell, adapted by Dave Jeanes |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 20. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. The cast is mainly adults, but includes five children. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play adapted from Robert Tressell's classic English Socialist novel of the same name. |
Synopsis | A group of painters redecorate a house, all the while discussing life and how to make a living whilst being trodden on by their superiors. Frank Owen, one of their number, is a firm socialist who believes his ideals can end the poverty from which they all suffer. Railed against by his peers, can he sway them to his way of thinking, or will he turn to theirs? And, ultimately, will it make a difference either way? |
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