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Underground by Jon Boustead Production by Tykes won Best Youth Production (Teignmouth Drama Festival, 2017) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. All cast should be of same or similar age. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act thriller for youth theatre, with a single - crashed Tube train carriage - setting. |
Synopsis | A group of youth-age children on a school outing are left to fend for themselves, as they find themselves trapped in a crashed tube train and their teachers are nowhere to be found. They all have to deal with the horror in their own way and they take the plot along through intermittent narration and action. |
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The Vikings by Andrew Yates Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Two origninal musical scores supplied with the producer's copy of the script, plus new lyrics to 4 familiar melodies. |
Style | A one act musical play for schools. |
Synopsis | An educational and musical play that dispels a few myths about Vikings, while providing some real insight into their history and daily lives, as well as their effect on Britain. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show ** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files ** Backing tracks plus backing tracks with lead melody line for 5 of the 6 suggested songs from The Vikings by Andrew Yates. (The 6th song is a pop song for which a Karaoke track would suit better than Andrew's arrangements!) ** Vocal Demo tracks for the 5 songs from The Vikings by Andrew Yates ** Vocal Demo tracks for the 5 songs from The Vikings by Andrew Yates ** Zip file of backing tracks plus backing tracks with lead melody line for 5 of the 6 suggested songs from The Vikings by Andrew Yates. (The 6th song is a pop song for which a Karaoke track would suit better than Andrew's arrangements!)
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The War Time by Seán Lang |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children intended to be played by a youth theatre company. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ensemble piece for secondary schools, exploring the First World War. Multiple locations, mainly indicated by lighting and furniture. |
Synopsis | A group of schoolchildren visit war graves in Belgium, but some have trouble connecting with the idea that the soldiers were real people, because it happened so long ago. Beth and Danny meet the Recollector, who takes them back in time and places them in the war, helping them understand. |
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Warm Crayons by Ashley Harris |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act drama on a simple set. |
Synopsis | Mr Hughes doesn't have the greatest patience as a schoolteacher but he does love his job. A routine student prank seems to be the trigger for a vile and immoral act. Is Hughes innocent or has he been hiding his evil ways all along? Warm Crayons questions the way the world looks upon physical and sexual abuse. |
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Westerfield at War by Marcus Grollman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, intended to be played by children. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Song suggestions are made within the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A serious school play - but with a good deal of humour - set in World War 2. Mixture of full-stage sets and front-of-curtain scenes (allowing for set changes). |
Synopsis | A series of modern-day reminiscences of the Second World War, played out through scenes of school, village and military life in war-time. |
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With Friends Like These... by Pat Baker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The setting is a school re-union, so whilst there is no formal chorus, there could be other actors milling-about, doing whatever it is people do at school re-unions. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act murder mystery play. Single set (school hall with no specific features). Contains mild swearing. (Also contains murder.) |
Synopsis | A bunch of old classmates meet at a school reunion. Classmates, but not necessarily friends. Everyone seems to hold a grudge against Carol, but whose thoughts have turned to murder? |
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The Wolf Who Cried Boy by George Douglas Lee Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. A mixture of real and fairy tale characters. Aimed at a family audience. Could be played by children, by adults or by a mixture of adults and children. (There, who does that leave out?) |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for 8 original songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. (Part of the 'Master Scripts for Copying' and 'Performance Set of Scripts' packages.) |
Style | Musical play in one act. |
Synopsis | The Big Bad Wolf is past his prime and has no respect from anyone. He wishes he could be a little boy, a human boy, but when the wish is granted he finds life as a boy isn't the idyll he'd been hoping for. |
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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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