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| Chekhov's Shorts by Anton Chekhov, adapted Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of five short plays based on short stories by Anton Chekhov. |
| Synopsis | A Lottery Ticket adapted from the story of the same title
A Meeting on a Train Loosely adapted from 'An Enigmatic Nature'
Difficult People adapted from the story of the same title
Natalie’s Vacation adapted from 'A Tripping Tongue'
I’m Famous based on 'Joy' |
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| Chemistry Lessons by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act farcical comedy. Single domestic set (preferably with a practical door or at least the sound of a hefty slam!) |
| Synopsis | A Chemistry teacher is having trouble coming to terms with his impending matrimony, when he's suddenly swept into the middle of another couple's marriage problems. Once he's proved he's not having an affair with the wife or the daughter, he still has his own fiancée to sort out... |
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| Chess as Felony by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
| Synopsis | Game Ten in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Convicts Claude Bloodgood and Ram Varadachary take a train with their guard to a chess tournament, but on the train they play a game for high stakes. |
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| Chip Off The Old Block by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A play structured in three acts (but in length on the boundary between one-act and full-length plays) with one (kitchen/diner) set. |
| Synopsis | When Katie decides to enlist the makers of a television programme to trace her birth Father, it has implications beyond her own family, which no one could have foreseen. |
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| Christmas at Thompson Hall by Anthony Trollope adapted by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The hotel staff are written male, but could be played female. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 25-minute comedy, based on the story by Anthony Trollope. Two simple sets. |
| Synopsis | On the 23rd of December, 1872, Mr and Mrs Brown arrive in a hotel in Paris, as does Mr Jones. They all need to travel to England early the following morning. Due to a mix-up during the night, Mr Jones believes Mrs Brown has tried to murder him, which makes everyone's journey - and the following revelations - all the more uncomfortable. |
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| A Christmas Carol [Play for Schools] by Damian Woods |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 44. Chorus. Whilst some of the characters have specific ages, this is an indication for the purpose of costume and make-up rather than for casting! |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for the use of 7 carols. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act play for children, faithfully adapting the classic Dickens story. Simple sets (furniture) reconfigured between or during scenes. |
| Synopsis | On Christmas Eve 1843, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts, who help him see the error of his ways. |
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| The Christmas Carol [Version 4] by Anthony Paul Lashley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The number of carol singers is unspecified. The author suggests (but does not insist) that when Scrooge is reformed, he might be played by a different actor to emphesise the change! Something for productions to play with. |
| Run Time | Around 57 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics to a number of (out-of-copyright) carols are embedded in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play with songs. Multiple locations, but indicated by lighting and furniture rather than full-stage sets. |
| Synopsis | Dickens' Christmas tale of redemption is given a little comic twist and run at a smarter pace, but still delivers the required moral lesson along with the laughs. |
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| A Christmas Carol In 60 Minutes Or Less! by Martin Prest |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. Various doubling alternatives suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Run Time | Around 51 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play in various settings. |
| Synopsis | Staying as true to the original Dickens story as time allows, it unfolds neatly through narration and action. Originally published in 2014, revised edition published September 2017. |
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| Christopher Columbus Was A Brat by Richard Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters comprise of a crusty old hobo and a teenage girl |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act fantasy with a hilltop setting. |
| Synopsis | CT is on her way to the other side of the mountain. Not to, really, but 'away from'. In her special quiet place she meets a strange man, dressed as a hobo who has some important things to tell her. |
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| Cinderella's Beanstalk by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming pantomime mixing folk tales. |
| Synopsis | A wonderful rhyming collision of Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella, with an unexpected but happy ending for everyone except the no-so Charming Prince. |
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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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