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| Princess Quest by Christine Harvey and Keavy & Signy Lynch |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Most of the characters are written so they can be played male or female. The characters include a couple of trolls. (This is not uncommon.) |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Querky, fun, one-act play for kids. Three scenes requiring two sets - a classroom and 'inside a board game with a medieval theme'. (This need not be complex!). |
| Synopsis | Dakota has made a board game, Princess Quest, for her school project - whilst the rest of her project-mates have been skiving. But when a random act of magic transports them into the game, they soon find themselves battling their way out past some fiendish questions. |
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| The Prodigal Sun by Ashley Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Whilst there is no requirement for a chorus, there are opportunities for songs and dances to involve a larger cast. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for three songs/musical interludes are included in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act fantasy for kids, with possibly a little educational value - reinforcing ideas about the solar system and weather. No set requirements, no specific props. |
| Synopsis | Ma and Pa Universe are off on a cruise, leaving their son, Sunny, and daughter Moon in charge of the Earth. Moon is conscientious and does her work, but Sunny invites his friends round for a party. Then some nasty gatecrashers arrive. Who will help Sunny now? |
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| Prof's Big Idea by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy drama for kids. |
| Synopsis | 'The Prof' - a member of a gang of kids - designs a time machine. The gang is almost ready to test it for an inventors competition, when the rival gang - 'The Skrimshaw Krew' - steals Prof's big idea... |
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| Professor Thyme and the History Mystery - The Musical by Richard James with music by David Fisher |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for seven songs and an overture are supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical Comedy Caper for Kids. Structurally in two acts. |
| Synopsis | When the dastardly Count Downe uses Professor Thyme's Time Machine to travel into the past and change history, it's up to the Professor and his gang to follow him and put things right before the damage is done...
and to sing in the process! |
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** CD with piano accompaniment for all the songs from 'Professor Thyme and the History Mystery - the Musical' by Richard James with music by David Fisher
** CD with sung tracks for each of the eight songs from 'Professor Thyme and the History Mystery - the Musical' by Richard James with music by David Fisher
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Professor Thyme and the History Mystery - The Play by Richard James
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy Caper for Kids. Structurally in two acts. (A slick production could be run in the time of a one-act play.) |
| Synopsis | When the dastardly Count Downe uses Professor Thyme's Time Machine to travel into the past and change history, it's up to the Professor and his gang to follow him and put things right before the damage is done... |
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| Puss in Boots [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Includes a cat and an ogre, so nothing out of the ordinary. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy (not really a pantomime treatment, though this is frequently a panto subject). Several different locations, but no real set requirements, so can be staged very simply. |
| Synopsis | Jack, the Miller's youngest son, finds himself cast out when his father retires and hands over the business to his other two sons. With only a burning ambition to be a magician, a dream of marrying a princess and his cat for company, he sets out to make his fortune. After an inauspicious start to his great adventure, a misfiring trick results in the cat being far more useful than Jack could ever have imagined. |
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| The Quality of Mersey by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 41. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very flexible one-act play for kids. No specific set requirements. A series of historical episodes, linked mainly by character and place (so some episodes might be skipped). Opportunities for music and dance to be added. |
| Synopsis | A comic dramatisation of the history of Liverpool (European Capital of Culture 2008) - from Mammoth-skin Moccasins to Shopping in Pyjamas. |
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The Queen's Orchid by Geoff Bamber
Performance by Chelford Junior Players won the Adjudicator’s Special Award at Chelford Drama Festival 2015 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Some roles - Prime Minister, Doctor, Gardener, Guard Captain... - are written male but could be played female.
Can non-speaking roles be a chorus? If so, the Guards are a chorus. If not, there's just a number of unspeakable guards. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Thirty-minute play for kids. (I think this is a one-act play, but it's structured in four acts.) There are, in theory, two locations, but, as it says in the script, all castles are identical! |
| Synopsis | Things aren't looking good for King Rufus of Celestopia. His kingdom is perpetually on the brink of war with the neighbouring Zeldania, his daughter wants to marry a Zeldanian prince, and his wife's birthday is coming up. He know's it's coming up because she keeps dropping hints about it. She wants a present. A very specific present. She want's a particular orchid. And guess who grows this orchid? None other that the rival Queen Zelda - a woman so powerfull that she has a whole kingdom named after her... |
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| Questions of French History by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 58. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A series of comic, educational sketches with no set necessary. Adaptable for presentation as a whole or as a pick and mix, for use as an assembly piece or a classroom aid. A large number of roles but performable by just a handful of actors. |
| Synopsis | A series of sketches touching light-heartedly on several episodes of French history, from the Stone Age to the Common Market, providing elementary oral French and a bit of fun with history. |
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| Rapunzel [Short Version] by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Scores for eight original songs (with keyboard accompaniment, set in easy keys!) provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | One act musical comedy play with a Grimm spirit! Simple sets (a window frame stands in for Rapunzel's tower), simple props. |
| Synopsis | Rapunzel, abandoned by her careless and greedy parents and raised by an enchantress, is locked in a tower until she is saved by a prince's true love. |
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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