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| The Battle of Hastings by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Whilst their isn't a specific role for a chorus, there is plenty of flexibility to add soldiers and ladies-in-waiting |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Humorous history, peppered with anachronisms. Single simple set, simple props. Fits with the English National Curriculum Key Stage 3 History syllabus (at a stretch!) |
| Synopsis | The events of 1066 captured with the aid of a war artist with an eye for melodrama and an outside broadcast team from an American radio station! |
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| Battle of the Bedroom by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The characters are written as 3M, 4F, but - with permissible minor tweaks to the text, could be played by any combination. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny and fast-paced one-act comedy combining physical humour with witty dialogue. |
| Synopsis | When Chris and Jo move into their new bedsit apartment, they discover that it's much smaller than they first thought and that living together, with their combined possessions, is going to be an alarmingly cramped and intimate experience. |
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| Battlefield Re-Enactment by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters Army 1 and Army 2 can be one person or several people each. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | An interviewer explores the exciting world of the amateur battlefield re-enactor. |
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| Be Careful What You Wish For by Jon Boustead |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. The author suggests (but does not insist) that the Chorus consists of five or more actors. In addition to their occasional speaking and animated roles, the chorus perform physical theatre, becoming parts of the set and props. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act fantasy play for children with various simple settings. Drama and opportunities for physical theatre. |
| Synopsis | A group of children visit a strange castle and are taken on a salutary journey by the castle keepers on which the children's wishes are fulfilled. The children learn the importance of being careful what they wish for. |
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| Beach Buddies by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Whilst the two characters are women, they might be played as women by men in non-glamorous drag, provided they look good in beachwear. (British people with long memories are invited to contemplate Les Dawson in this context.) |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch set in a pair of deck chairs. |
| Synopsis | Ange and Maxine are enjoying the benefits of a seaside holiday - the bracing air and the opportunity to sit in deck chairs grumbling about the men in their lives. |
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| Bears Don't Cry by Charles Alverson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are a six-year-old girl (who might be played by any age!), a bear, a lion and two off-stage voices. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A charming short play for an audience of children with five woodland scenes and a theme of friendship. (The script might be performed by kids or by adults or by a mix!) |
| Synopsis | Young girl Shanni, separated from her bear hunter Daddy, is lost in the woods. She is befriended and cared for by Bear and a touching and deep friendship develops between the pair.
[Our editor wished to stress that this script is not a reliable guide to the behaviour of ursines.] |
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| Beast and Beauty by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script, suggests a closing song, but this isn't essential. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short verse pantomime in three scenes for a small cast. |
| Synopsis | The Beast is a Prince who had a spell put on him by a witch called Stinkweed. An insensitive Merchant visits his Palace, thinking it is a National Trust property. When the Merchant's daughter comes to stay, she is so obnoxious that the Beast can't wait to be rid of her and ends up marrying Stinkweed. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Beast by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The lead characters are 12 years old, the other roles are older. (The adults might be played by teenagers.) |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act drama. Multiple setings, but intended for simple presentation. |
| Synopsis | Jane's parents and brother think her sighting of a beast in their garden one evening owes more to her teen vampire books than her eyesight. Luckily, her friend Mark takes a more scientific approach to gathering evidence. |
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| Beasts by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of adults and children, intended to be played by a Youth Theatre company or a mixed company. |
| Run Time | Around 175 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection of five one-act plays based on short stories by Saki (H H Munro). Following the originals, the humour is very dark - verging on wicked. |
| Synopsis | The stories are:
Sredni Vashtar in which a boy oppressed by his aunt extracts an unexpected revenge
Gabriel-Ernest about a werewolf
The Storyteller featuring a subversive entertainer
The Open Window in which the hero does not discover a rest cure and
The Gala Programme which revisits Roman attitudes to female emancipation and entertainment |
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| A Beautiful Day for a Duel by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy skit. Single set (with no specific requirements) and a pair as duelling pistols as the main props. |
| Synopsis | Andre arrives for his sixth duel of the year to find that his day is in danger of being spoiled by his inexperienced opponent. |
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