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Detective Mimms and The Snaffler by Geoff Bamber
Production by Hyde Little Theate awarded the Certificate of Merit (for performers up to 14 years of age), Greater Manchester Drama Federation one-act play festival 2012. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are nominally gendered, only the King and Queen should be regarded as prescriptive. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Multiple sets, but these are minimal - indicative only, and in any case most of them are stolen during the course of the play. |
| Synopsis | Ace sleuth Detective Mimms is called in to oversee the hunt for the daring thief known only as The Snaffler. The Snaffler will, quite literally, snaffle anything and the whole country is in a state of high anxiety. Can Mimms, assisted by PC Flint, halt this alarming crime wave before it is too late? |
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| Did The Butler Do It? by Debbie Chalmers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 32. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. Extra chorus members can be added. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 13 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A comedy (with songs) for children, in simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Lady Jemima Fitzwilliam's valuable pearls have been stolen! This looks like a job for aged amateur sleuth Mrs Clues, but does Jeeves the butler know something important which can shed light on the subject? |
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| A Different League by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy on three simple sets. This is the sequel to Three Nil Down At Half Time, also published by Lazy Bee Scripts. The two can be performed individually or together. |
| Synopsis | A football team are looking forward to the new season when disaster strikes and the girls' league they are due to play in is disbanded. Fortunately (although much to the consternation of several parents), the team receive an unexpected invitation to play in a boy's league. |
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Dirk Smirk - Secret Agent by Geoff Bamber
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. Several of the characters are written male but could easily be switched (a pronoun here, a pronoun there). The chorus are non-speaking policemen. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids, spoofing the Bond spy genre. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | When Madame Veronique de Vascalles, Head of the World Council of Governments, arrives in London for a conference she falls prey to a fiendish plot hatched by STINK, a criminal organisation intent upon world domination. Only one man can thwart STINK, and that man is Dirk Smirk - Secret Agent, assisted by the enigmatic and impossibly beautiful Captain Tremaine.
With STINK taking control of Madame de Vascalles' brain and Smirk and Tremaine on the run from the hyper-efficient Commander Molstrop of the Metropolitan Police, the fate of the free world hangs by a thread. |
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| Divali Assembly by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. A narrator, nine principal characters and (nominally) 30 children for the presentational part of the script. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Piece for a full school class, with a good balance between straight information delivery and drama. |
| Synopsis | An informative and educational assembly about the festival of lights which includes a play of the story of Rama, Sita, Ravana and the origins of Divali. |
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| Doggonit by Tim O'Brien |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Since most of the characters are dogs, the gender of the actors doesn't really matter. (Most of their owners are female.) There is an optional, flexible chorus with various groups of dogs, owners and security guards. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for seven original songs are supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | One-act musical for kids. |
| Synopsis | Dogs, of course, can talk - but only to each other. The exception is Dakota - a dog trained to speak in secret by his owner, Caitlin. But this leads to trouble for them both after a disturbance at Ms Nancy's School of Dog Obedience, leading to an encounter with the sinister Dr. Live - a wicked scientist with a mission to create the perfect dog...
Every dog has his day. (Dogs with no tails have weak ends.) |
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Don Q And His Squire Sancho by Dick Caram |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. Whilst most of the characters are written male (with three written female), the author believes that indicating the gender of the character by costume is sufficient! |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano/vocal scores for two songs (based on Spanish folk tunes) are included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Comedy for kids in two short acts. No specific staging requirements, with some aspects of set and sound effects being provided by the on-stage chorus. |
| Synopsis | Miguel de Cervantes's famed tale of the eccentric knight and his inept but trusting squire.
Alonso Quixano is obsessed with tales of chivalry. So much so that he believes himself to be a knight - Don Quixote - and he sets out to seek adventure, with a peasant farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire. |
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** Midi files of songs from the show
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| Drama Club Must Die! by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children, but all could be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Complete set of original lyrics and musical arrangements based on traditional tunes supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical play set in an American High School (but could be played by younger children). Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | The High School budget needs to be cut. The drama club is under threat from the unsympathetic principal. Can the Drama Club save themselves by creating a production of The Wizard of Oz from scratch? |
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| The Easter Egg Hunt by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Characters include nine fowl and an Easter bunny (offering plenty of opportunity for mask- or costume-making!) Beyond that, the cast is very flexible (basically written for a class-sized group). |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] (Assuming the suggested songs are used) |
| Music | Suggestions for critter-themed songs are made in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Comedy play for young children, with corny jokes and opportunities for songs and dances. |
| Synopsis | The Easter Bunny (or Funny Bunny) tries to help out poor Clumsy Chicken who has smashed all her eggs in a nasty fall and is facing the chop... well, the roasting dish. Other feathered friends flock around to help or hinder the effort with a few jokes and songs. |
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| The Editing Room by Christine Harvey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. The gender of most of the characters is flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script contains places where songs could be sung, but the songs are left to the discretion of the production. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play for a school or youth theatre. Single set divided into three acting areas. |
| Synopsis | We're in the editing room of a TV studio where a group of production staff are editing and manipulating the participants in a reality TV show, whilst the staff themselves are being manipulated by the studio boss... |
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