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A Fairy Tale Adventure by Sophia Holder
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RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 36. No chorus. Written to be performed by a mixture of (7 to 14) adults and (9 to 22) children. Could be done by a competent kids' group!
Run TimeAround 65 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleFamily show, an alternative to British Pantomime, including some similar elements such as audience interaction. (Either a long one-act play, or a short two-act!)
SynopsisThe Wicked Witch has changed the endings to all the Fairy Tales so that evil will triumph, and she's kidnapped the Fairy Queen to stop her reversing the spell. Only Hansel, Gretel and Paddy the Gingerbread man can save the tales.
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Family Matters by Juliet Devon
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Cast includes 5 children (of secondary school age) and two offstage adult voices.
Run TimeAround 61 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA fun script for a lively show that accommodates a number of younger actors. Structurally in two acts, but run-time on the boundary between full-length and one-act. Single domestic set.
SynopsisSusan tries to steer her five children through a regular school day, while also dealing with her mother, her father, and her sister, as well as the helpful advice of her husband, who's out of the country for work.
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Family Spirit by Pat Wollaston
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 70 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StylePlay in two acts (in length, somewhere on the boundary between a one-act play and a full-length - that is to say, another shorter piece could be fitted in the same program if desired). Single domestic set. Contains swearing.
SynopsisWhen Arthur dies, he's a little surprised to find that he's still in his old house. His guide angel, Simon, explains that he's being assessed to determine which way he goes next, but there are a few complications between Arthur's funeral and his final destination.
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Fiends And Neighbours by Anne Graham
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 51 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act drama. Several simple settings and some mild expletives.
SynopsisHoping to leave an unhappy past behind, Alice and disabled daughter Molly meet Brenda, who lives more in the past than the present. Brad, a thief and a bully, ensures that Brenda’s stability and Alice’s new-found optimism are destroyed at a stroke.
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The Fiery Bride by E. C. Chapman
RolesMinimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus.
Run TimeAround 67 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicTraditional carols, to be sung or played from a recording between scenes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleA ghost story for Christmas, interspersed with traditional carols. (Structurally in two acts, but with a duration on the boundary between one-act and full-length.)
SynopsisThis dramatisation of a classic Dorset ghost story evokes life in rural Dorset and the clash between aristocrats and servants at the turn of the 18th Century.
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Fleas Can Bite by George Freek
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 65 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleDry comedy, on the boundary between a long one-act play, and a short full-length one. (It's in two acts.)
SynopsisA saga of unrequited love, insanity and blackmail, populated by a strange collection of patients, professionals and friends.
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Flights of Fancy by Ryan Curtis
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Strong female lead.
Run TimeAround 60 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act play set in two pubs, with the light comedy of the opening scenes leading into some serious drama. Good opportunities for character acting.
SynopsisNot much goes on in the sleepy village of Bollington by the Maze - outside of the passion for playing darts shared by the two local pub teams. Saying that the residents are stuck in their ways would be an understatement! So, when a female player applies to join the men's darts team at the White Horse and a player decides to defect from the Red Lion, chaos ensues.
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Get to Dance by Frank Gibbons
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The characters are 7 female youth actor-dancers (playing ages 14-16) and one 1 adult female actor (playing age aroung 50)
Run TimeAround 60 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act play for a youth-theatre company.
SynopsisA window in to the lives of the members of a dance academy and their 'welcome' for new member Georgina, an overweight teenager who has decided to try dancing as a last resort in her determination to overcome her weight problem. This one act play deals with bullying in all of its forms with humour, music, dance and pathos as Georgina's journey progresses to its uplifting conclusion. Along the way her stoic strength of character enables her to peel away repressed emotions in others and helps them to come to terms with their own difficulties.
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The Ghost Of Sandy O'Grady by Richard Hills
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 53 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA ghostly one act drama with a single setting.
SynopsisTen years on from the disappearance of Sandy O'Grady, Toby is convinced that his ghost will return to his cottage each year on the anniversary of his death. Toby locks all windows and doors and remains indoors every 19 January, although this year the arrival of a stranded young married couple throw Toby’s routine into disarray.
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The Ghosts of Marvin Grange by Richard Coleman
RolesMinimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Principal characters nominally adults but could be played by teenagers or a mixed group of teenagers and adults.
Run TimeAround 65 minutes. [Estimated!] (Dependent on how much the actors ham up the death scene!)
MusicNone.
StyleMelodrama - with the playwright's tongue firmly in his cheek. (Two acts - but relatively short.)
SynopsisChristopher Sinclair receives a strange summons and returns to Marvin Grange, a remote estate on a lonely moor to unravel the mystery of a haunting that is driving his cousin's wife mad...
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