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| A Tale Of A Nail - A Musical Play by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 37. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for four original songs (and two original pieces of music) is provided with the producer's copy of this script. |
| Style | A play (with music) for children featuring the human immune system - as an injured man imagines what is happening inside his body. |
| Synopsis | When Mr Gauche accidentally hammers a nail through his thumb, he only wants medical help from the Doctor, but he gets a thorough lesson in the body's defence mechanisms anyway. A version without any music is available here. |
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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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| Theseus - The Journey To Athens by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 17. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Additional chorus members could be included. |
| Run Time | Around 72 minutes. [Estimated!] This allows for including the song |
| Music | One song with score provided with the Producer's copy of the script |
| Style | A one act play for a class-sized cast, with an optional finishing song. |
| Synopsis | A fun presentation of an early episode in the life of a hero, Theseus.
It could be used as the first part of a double bill with 'Theseus - The Maze and the Minotaur'. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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| Theseus - The Maze and the Minotaur by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 19. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 33. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The scores for one optional song and one musical piece are included with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | A full length play for schools or youth theatre. |
| Synopsis | After only a couple of months in Athens, Theseus discovers that children are being sent in tribute to King Minos of Crete, and fed to his monstrous Minotaur. Joining the children, Theseus is determined to destroy the beast and end the tribute.
This is the second half of the Theseus legend, and so might form a double bill with 'Theseus - The Journey To Athens' |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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| To Kill a Blackmailer by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. 3 male and 3 female roles, plus the voice of a newsreader, which can be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 109 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length murder mystery play on a single drawing room set. |
| Synopsis | A ruthless blackmailer has instructed four potential victims to be at his home at a certain time, to 'discuss a business matter'. A short time after they have all arrived, the blackmailer's dead body is found in the study. The police are informed, and a murder investigation ensues. But all is not what it seems. |
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| Tom and Huck by Steven Bergman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. The characters are a mix of children and adults. The adult roles could be played by children or adults. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with a piano & vocal score for all the songs plus two (instrumental) chases. |
| Style | Musical for kids based on the classic story 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain, set around the Mississippi river in the late 19th century. |
| Synopsis | Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn get themselves and their friends into various scrapes, but ultimately emerge as heroes. |
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| Trouble in Troy! by Mark Ash |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 15. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very funny comedy play for kids, set amidst the Trojan war. Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | Spectakles (pronounced in the Greek way!) the slave has a hard life in Troy, but the siege has made it harder. The King won't listen to any of his war machine inventions, and now Helen herself is causing him trouble too. Sent to the Greeks as an envoy, he gets them mad at him too. Can he survive the war? |
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| Until Death Do Us Part by Catherine Hurd |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 89 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length drama with various sets. |
| Synopsis | George and Jean have been happily married for many years and, as dementia starts its grip on George, Jean is determined that she will care for him despite their daughters' insistence that he should be placed in residential care. Jean’s determination is severely tested when an old flame, Harry Holmes, former detective and now successful novelist, comes to town for a book tour and tries to rekindle his romance with her. Matters get further complicated when an ex-con bent on revenge stalks Harry, and becomes convinced that Harry and Jean are trying to murder George. |
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| The Wakefields at War by Tom Mather |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. Characters are mainly adults, but include three children (who age two years from 9, 10 and 12 during the course of the play). |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Drama in three acts with multiple settings depicting the horrors of World War One through its effect on one family. |
| Synopsis | The true story of the Wakefields, an ordinary Lancashire working class family whose three eldest sons were all killed in action fighting in the First World War. |
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| While You Were Gone by Catherine Gourdie |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 18. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 61 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script can be performed with or without music. There are eight points in script where songs to be performed are suggested. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Two-act historical drama set in a 1940s factory, with a large cast. |
| Synopsis | Edie reminisces on her experiences working in a factory during World War II. |
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Who Framed the Easter Bunny? by Warren McWilliams
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. A long list of characters, but with plenty of cameos and chorus roles, so plenty of opportunities for doubling or for participation of a large company. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing allows for 10 songs. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length family play (with songs) with interactive quiz elements. |
| Synopsis | There's trouble brewing in Happy Kingdom. The Easter Bunny stands accused of stealing all the chocolate in the land by the wicked Halloween Queen, who wants to make Halloween last forever. The Easter Bunny needs your help before it's too late.
Follow along, help find the clues, and prove the Easter Bunny's innocence. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Graphic image which might be used to form the nucleus of a flyer or poster for a production of 'Who Framed The Easter Bunny' by Warren McWilliams
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