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| A Thirty-Minute Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', with the original text of two hours and more cut down to 30 minutes.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
So the Montagues and Capulets are at each other's throats, but the Montague's son and Capulet's daughter, meet, fall in love and pledge to be married in secret. Things begin to fall apart when Tybalt, a hot-headed Capulet, picks a fight. Romeo intervenes to calm things down, but this only results in Tybalt killing Romeo's kinsman and Romeo killing Tybalt. Further sorrow follows not far behind.
A tragic love story, with an awful lot of fighting. |
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| A Thirty-Minute Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew', with the original text of two hours and more cut down to 30 minutes.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | A lord wishes his daughters to be married. Bianca is young and beautiful and already has many suitors, but Katherina is strong-willed, hot-tempered and uncontrollable. Their father decrees that Bianca may only take a husband once Katherina is married. Lucentio and his friend Petruchio arrive, and Petruchio is convinced to marry Katherina for her money to allow Lucentio to wed Bianca. However, Lucentio finds his marriage to Bianca is not as idyllic as he would like, whilst Petruchio bends the shrew-like Katherina to his will. |
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| A Thirty-Minute Tempest by Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Like much of Shakespeare, the cast is male-heavy. Don't let that put you off! |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', with the original text of two hours and more cut down to 30 minutes.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Prospero, the exiled duke of Milan, has raised his daughter Miranda alone on an island with nobody else around but Caliban, a deformed creature Prospero treats as a slave. Using his magic to wreck a ship carrying the usurping Duke of Milan and his entourage, Prospero aims to awe the noblemen, reassert his right to the throne of Milan, and find a match for his daughter. |
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| This Is A Lockdown by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act drama |
| Synopsis | A group of students and their teacher are sorting costumes in a remote school building when a lockdown is announced over the tannoy. Is it a drill, or the real thing? And what will happen to the student who left the building? |
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This is the Quiet Carriage by Joyce Mulvey
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and one schoolgirl (who, if doubled, would also play one of the adults), but could be played by a youth theatre company. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama. No set, with location indicated by physical acting. Multiple stories implied through snatches of dialogue. |
| Synopsis | The Quiet Carriage of the train is overcrowded, thanks to delays and cancellations, and the various travellers try get by as best they can in the face of loud phone calls, interrupted conversations, and even fights. |
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| Thor And The Stone Of Destiny by Owen Lightburn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Doubling possible for two characters. |
| Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Six song or music suggestions are provided with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | An original story, full length pantomime, with various settings. |
| Synopsis | This new panto comes with an Irish folk setting overlaying the Scande-wegian mythology. Odin's two sons Thor and Loki vie for the power to rule the cosmos - through possession of the Stone of Destiny, craftily hidden by the leprechauns. Thor comes down to earth and lands in Dame Gloria's tavern where love blossoms between him and Gloria's daughter Rika - and all's well in the end! |
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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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| Thor's Hammer by Roger Hurn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short assembly piece for schools, with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | Based on a traditional Scandinavian folk tale this drama gives a useful background to the Viking era along with an amusing acting piece. We hear of the theft of Thor’s hammer by the Frost Giants and Loki’s cunning and amusing cross dressing plan to retrieve it. |
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Thorn by Kent Mick
'... an antidote to the absurdity of our times.' - William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education, Senior University Scholar University of Illinois at Chicago. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 28. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and High School students. Many of the parts are written as specific genders, but the writer believes that most can be reassigned without changing the nature of the play. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for incidental music are included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Contemporary drama for performance by older teenagers or a mixture of teenagers and adults. Set in various locations in an American school. Contains some swearing. |
| Synopsis | A High school teacher of 'American Government' is forced to re-evaluate his teaching and his beliefs by a streetwise student and by the fact that another teacher and friend is leaving for Iraq to serve his term with the National Guard. A thought-provoking and challenging play. |
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| Those Darn Vampires by Rollin Jewett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The characters are a mixture of adults and youth, but could well suit a youth theatre company. There's a party scene, which means that the numbers are very flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy in a single set and US English. A fun mishmash of high school comedy with vampire myth. |
| Synopsis | When teenager Frankie is left home alone for a week, he inadvertently allows a trio of vampires to stay with him. When they show no signs of leaving, his friends start to 'change', and local pets begin to disappear, Frankie must call on a very unorthodox vampire slayer to help him out. |
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| A Thousand Words Speak A Picture by Lynda Bray |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A monologue with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Grandmother Rita is reminiscing about her life as she looks through her old photographs. Her memories flood back but she cannot see the implications that we can. |
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