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| Meet the Anglo-Saxons by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Five plays with six characters in each. (Whilst the characters are nominally male or female, for the purpose of Readers' Theatre, the gender of the actors doesn't matter.) |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A set of five mini-plays (run times 4 to 6 minutes) for a class studying The Anglo-Saxons (English National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Unit 6B - invasions and settlements of Britain). No set requirements, no props. Producer's Copy includes a quiz. |
| Synopsis | Five plays covering Anglo-Saxon history, archaeology and myth. Includes King Alfred, the venerable Bede, Beowulf, Arthurian myth, and the Sutton Hoo discoveries.
Intended for guided reading or reader's theatre uses, but could also be staged. |
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| Meet the Vikings by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Five plays with six characters in each. (Whilst the characters are nominally male or female, for the purpose of Readers' Theatre, the gender of the actors doesn't matter.) |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A set of five mini-plays (run times 4 to 6 minutes) for a class studying The Vikings (English National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Unit 6C - invasions and settlements of Britain). No set requirements, no props. Producer's Copy includes a quiz. |
| Synopsis | The history of Viking invasion and settlement of Britain told in a series of guided reading plays covering Viking life and mythology. |
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| Megan and the Golden Key by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. One character is the unseen 'voice of doom' |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single set comic fantasy, parodying (amongst other things) science fiction and James Bond. |
| Synopsis | It is a little-known fact that the earth rotates because someone turns the mechanism with a Golden Key, housed in The Mystic Chamber deep in The Underland. This is what happens when the key goes missing... |
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| Melissa's Big Birthday Bash by Eric Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. The on-stage characters are teenage girls plus a younger brother and his friend. There are a couple of offstage adult voices. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act thriller for teenagers with a single (living room) set. |
| Synopsis | It is Melissa's fifteenth birthday. Most of her friends are away or busy, so it looks as though her slumber party will not be a huge success. On top of that her mother has invited the dreaded Nikki Nolan, the girl everyone hates, to her party. But what looks like a boring and uncomfortable night for Melissa turns into something else entirely in this mystery thriller, which comes complete with ghost stories, an intruder, cut telephone lines and a neat twist at the end. |
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| Menée Trois Zéro à la Mi-Temps by J. Edgington traduit par Lesley Chauvier |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of adults and children (could be played by that mix, or all played by kids). There is opportunity for up to 11 additional characters (non-speaking), all female - the other members of the girls' football team. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | French Translation of Jonathan Edgington's Three-nil Down at Half Time. Simple set. |
| Synopsis | The girls' soccer team is on a losing streak - until a half-time bet leads to a change of management! |
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| Merry Christmas Mr Toad by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act rhyming comedy for performance by children, with a range of simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Mr Toad wants to mend his ways and provide the River Bankers with a good Christmas. But the Chief Weasel has other ideas, and when Mr Toad buys a rocket-powered sleigh off him, mayhem ensues |
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| Messengers by Clay Space |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for youth age performers, with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | A demanding and emotional piece of drama. Years of blame and abuse have brought Brian to the point of taking his own life. As the garage fills with car exhaust, he is visited by figures from his life who force him to consider his choices. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream [Modern English] by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. It would be possible, by adding attendants and fairies, to increase the cast to around 30. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for four pieces of music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Shakespeare abridged and (mainly) in modern English. No formal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A shortened version of the Shakespeare original, containing nuggets of the original text with modern insertions. Shakespeare's son Hamnet holds the whole thing together as if managing a production of the play. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Sebastian and Puck are written m but can be played f, with a name change for Sebastian and minor amendments to the text. |
| Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy for young actors, bringing a modern English version of the Shakespearean play to the stage. |
| Synopsis | Preparations are under way for the high-profile wedding of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and his bride the Warrior Queen Hippolyta, but the wedding planner Sebastian finds that he has more problems with the guests than the happy couple... including a rift in the Underworld, in-fighting among the entertainers, and a mischievous sprite to contend with. |
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| Minny Pinny Makes a Difference by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two songs. Words and sheet music supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Simple moral story, designed as a class assembly piece (with a target age group of around 8 years old). A small number of central characters and a 'Greek Chorus' commenting on the action with words and songs. |
| Synopsis | The farmer can't get to market, the driver can't drive him because his truck tyre is flat and there's nobody to take it to the garage. Minny Pinny is only a little girl, how can she help the farmer? How can she make a difference? |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
** CD with backing tracks for the songs from 'Minny Pinny Makes a Difference' by Stuart Ardern (One song is used at the beginning and end of the show. A second is used at the start of each scene with a different musical arrangement for each occasion.)
** CD with vocal demo tracks for the songs from 'Minny Pinny Makes a Difference' by Stuart Ardern (One song is used at the beginning and end of the show. A second is used at the start of each scene with a different musical arrangement for each occasion.)
** Zip file with backing tracks for the songs from 'Minny Pinny Makes a Difference' by Stuart Ardern (One song is used at the beginning and end of the show. A second is used at the start of each scene with a different musical arrangement each time.)
** Zip file with vocal demo tracks for the songs from 'Minny Pinny Makes a Difference' by Stuart Ardern (One song is used at the beginning and end of the show. A second is used at the start of each scene with a different musical arrangement each time.)
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