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| Cloud 9 by Andy Johnson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for a (cast the size of a) whole school class. |
| Synopsis | Cloud 9 studio has a secret – they don't just predict the weather, thanks to their Climosphere 5000 they actually MAKE the weather. But the C5000 gets stolen, so the hunt is on for the thief before the weather goes to pot! |
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| Consulting an Ancient Doctor by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A series of short educational scenes. The narration is in English and the dialogue in Latin. Suitable for Latin classes and assemblies. |
| Synopsis | A series of comic scenes set in Roman times in which an ancient doctor deals with various patients - in Latin. Narrators bind the scenes together, explain the Latin for those who need it, and provide some elementary background information on ancient medicine. The piece is designed as an educationally useful but recreational activity for Latin classes, and could make an entertaining Assembly or be interspersed with other pieces in an end-of-term show. |
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| Copperfield by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy treatment of Dickens' David Copperfield. Multiple locations, but can be done with very simple sets. |
| Synopsis | David Copperfield's life takes a turn for the worse when his widowed mother takes up with the unscrupulous Mr Edward Murdstone. David is packed off to a nasty school and subsequently finds employment in Murdstone's factory. Employment is short-lived as David's friend and co-worker Mr Micawber is unjustly jailed for embezzlement and David seeks a new life with his eccentric Aunt. This lasts until her maid elopes with an old school friend of David's, and he sets off back to London on a rescue mission, during which he rediscovers Micawber and they find the true identity of the embezzler, and, indeed, a happy ending. |
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| Courting Aurora by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comical fantasy for kids, in one act. |
| Synopsis | Much to the despair of the King and Queen, the temperamental Princess Aurora has almost run out of marriage suitors. The latest in a long line is Prince Gallegan... who despatches an emissary, Lord Benedict... who hatches a plan to woo the Princess for himself... Enlisting the aid of a motley band of travellers, Benedict's plan unfolds - but not entirely smoothly. |
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| Crime Wave by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children, assumed to be all played by children. Only a few of the characters are fixed, so lines could be reassigned amongst a different-sized cast. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for kids. A modern rewriting of the story of Noah. Simple sets and props. |
| Synopsis | The story so far... Originally a small farmer, Noah has built up his business over the years into a large Food Products company. As the only employer in the area he used to give work to most of the people on the local council estate, then a few years ago he automated his factory and sacked his workers. Since then he and his family have run the business on their own and grown rich while the locals have been out of work... Then God intervenes... |
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Dance Story by Frank Gibbons
Shortlisted in the SCDA Play on Words competition 2011.
Performance by Cardigan Theatre won the 'best actress' award at the Pembrokeshire one-act festival, 2012. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The announcer is written male (and sounds male, but need not be). PJs group of dancers are assumed female, but need not be. There are four of them but there could be more or fewer. Two parts written adult, the rest are of high school age. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. Not a musical (in the sense that it does not include songs), but the backdrop is rival dance troupes, so dance could be a major element. |
| Synopsis | The Dragon Belles dance team are through to the finals of the competition, but one of the members is too ill to dance. In fact, she has a heart condition that can only be cured at a hospital in Canada. Now they need the prize money to send her there, but will her replacement be good enough? |
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| Dangerous Dolls - The Battle for Santy's Toyshop by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for 5 songs Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act play suitable for all ages, with various settings and music. |
| Synopsis | When the elves take over the toy shop and attempt to replace all the old-fashioned toys with clones of themselves, it is down to a group of rejected dolls to outwit them, and show Santy that they are worthy of a place in the front window. |
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| The Day The Woods Came To Dunsinane by Steve Eddison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. Characters include talking trees (allowing me to make the usual joke about wooden actors) and (unnumbered) dancers. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Full of the sort of verbal humour that graces British pantomime, though with a different structure (and more trees). |
| Synopsis | Four children on a hiking trip stumble into the plot of Macbeth (portentious witches, poor hospitality, portable forests - that sort of thing). Can they escape unscathed? |
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| Dear Stacy by Juliana Marie |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Over 15 years old. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short powerful play for older children, set in a US school with various (simple) settings. |
| Synopsis | High school senior Stacy, an accomplished dancer, seems to have it all. She lives in a very nice house, complete with her own dance studio. But everything is not as it seems as she is badly bullied to the extent that eventually the entire school, and even her parents, seem to turn against her, pushing her to drastic measures. |
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Death of an Angel by Young Theatre, edited by Helen Sharman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An emotionally charged one-act play for a youth theatre group set in a war zone. |
| Synopsis | A group of children are on the run in a war zone when a man saves one of the girls and joins the group. Can he be trusted, or is he leading them all into a trap? |
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