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Rings Around The World by Keith Badham
Premiere production won Best Youth Production and Best Youth Male awards at the Bedfordshire One Act Play Festival 2013.
(50% of author's royalties are donated to 'Ambitious about Autism'.) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. Sign Language is also used in this play. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggested music is by The Super Furry Animals and Gruff Rhys. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act drama with music, dance and multiple simple settings suggested by the cast. |
| Synopsis | Young Mark is autistic and we are swept into his world in this moving and satirical picture of his short life. |
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| Robin Hood and the King's Bling by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. There is no formal chorus, but it would be possible to add villagers and sheriff's guards. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids. Structurally in two acts, but of one-act length. Simple (minimal) sets (give or take the tree), and simple props (give or take the tree stumps). |
| Synopsis | Robin Hood's mission statement - Steal from the Rich, Give to the Poor - is wearing thin with the local villagers who haven't seen much of him doing either. The arrival in the area of King John, complete with a box of royal jewels and an underhand plan for them, presents Robin and his outlaw band with a chance to redeem themselves. Unfortunately for Robin, his arch-enemy, the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham, stands in his way. |
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| Ronnie Tumbler Gets Her Goat by Rajapillai Pillai |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There is a set of lyrics built in which can either be put to the tune of 'Oh Susanna' or recited as a poem, with optional guitar accompaniment. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act comedy show performed by adults for children with various suggested settings. |
| Synopsis | The tale of a wild west feud between Bullets McGraw and Otis Mills, with some educational gems thrown in. As the reasons for the feud start to become clear, Ronnie Tumbler and Rocky the talking goat do their best to bring the two sides together. |
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| Rossetti's Women by Joan Greening |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three roles. Written to be played by one actress, but could be performed by three. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | The three women describe their relationships and contrasting lives, shared with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Their emotions are gradually revealed - through which he captured their hearts and minds. In such a different era to the present day, the Pre-Raphaelites were a force to be reckoned with. |
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| Samaritans, Can I Help You? by Brendan Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, dealing with a disturbing subject. Single simple set, simple props. Contains swearing and sexual themes. |
| Synopsis | A man in torment over a love affair calls the one organisation he feels might listen without prejudice. |
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| Sarah by Mark Seaman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Pat and Sarah are 21 but the actors also play them as children. Pat's parents change age in step with her. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A touching, well-crafted one act play that uses monologues and flash-backs to achieve a fine balance between sensitivity and sentimentality as the story of Pat's relationship with her father and her friend Sarah unfolds. Single set. Mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Pat is about to mark her twenty first birthday in a very different way. Her best friend Sarah will be there, but this year their relationship will change and things will never be the same again, for either of them, as the true nature of their friendship is revealed. |
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| Saving Grace by Len Cuthbert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. If using minimum cast numbers, re-assigning lines is recommended. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script makes suggestions for three songs. One of them is, of course, 'Amazing Grace'. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act drama with optional music. |
| Synopsis | Set in a Canadian High School, this play was inspired by the life of John Newton, the writer of 'Amazing Grace'. It tells of the arrival of a new student and the life-changing effect she has on her fellow students. |
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| Saving The Planet, Maybe by Eric Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. All characters are high school students aged thirteen plus. |
| Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play suitable for youth theatre, with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Allison has written a play she's planning to direct, but her cast are a mixed bunch - either too professional or not nearly professional enough. Her would-be boyfriend David is on hand to help, but real environmental issues get in the way of this play about environmental issues. |
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| Scabs by Naomi Elster |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama with a flexible set. |
| Synopsis | The 1913 transport strike in Dublin, its harrowing consequences and the rise of women’s political participation is vividly brought to life through the eyes of one activist working class family. |
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| The School for Scandal (abridged) by Sheridan abridged by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Eighteenth century comedy of manners, abridged to one-act play length. |
| Synopsis | Plots and intrigues abound to blacken names and ruin reputations, but when true love is expressed it awakens the good characters of some of the school's members. |
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