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Scotch Broth by Geoff Bamber with songs by Stuart Ardern Production by Stranraer Drama Club Juniors won loads of trophies at the Wigton division of the SCDA festival, 2015 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for two songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of ther script. (Two further songs are suggested.) |
Style | A dramatised partial (probably in both senses) history of Scotland suitable for Primary School aged children and above. Minimal sets (although Hadrian's wall is built - very rapidly - during the show.) |
Synopsis | Two Inter-Galactic time travellers arrive in Scotland on a fact-finding mission. Guided by a helpful Narrator, they take an eventful journey through the nation's history and culture and encounter some famous faces on the way. |
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Screw Your Courage by Keith Badham |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A five-act play for youth theatre in one-act! |
Synopsis | An enthralling new look at Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in the modern world of teenage gang culture, which loses none of the power and excitement of the original. The Bard's plot and characters are given new life in this masterful interpretation as contemporary themes merge with age old human emotions. The audience are welcomed in to the action with imaginative use of asides and stage directions. An ideal piece for Youth Theatre with exciting and challenging opportunities for all involved, 'Screw Your Courage' provides a theatrical experience which will be long remembered. |
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The Seven Wonders by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 17. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 72 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An accessible educational play for schools with a single (play room) setting. |
Synopsis | A boy is given a book which tells him about the Seven Wonders of the ancient world in surprising 3D. As well as a lightly educational fantasy tour of the Seven Wonders of the World and associated historical matters this play is also a paean to the power of books in educating and inspiring children. |
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Shadowdancer by Wesley A. Knoch |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for 9 songs and three instrumentals are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Musical for teenagers. (Structured in two acts, but of one-act length.) Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Rocky, the bullying leader of his gang, is led into a scary world of shadows, where he learns that he needs to pay his dues... |
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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
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Shadows In The Middle by Patti Veconi |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. Contains scenes altered for either predominantly male or female casts. |
Run Time | Around 51 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A Shakespearean themed play for youth theatre (American English). |
Synopsis | Puck's final monologue from A Midsummer Night's Dream is dramatically examined in the context of modern school life and everyday teenage angsts and relationships. |
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Shakespeare - It's All Greek To Me! by Sarah Brown |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Various doubling options possible, depending on cast number available. |
Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play for older children, with various simple settings. |
Synopsis | Rosie and her classmates are struggling with understanding the works of William Shakespeare. Rosie gets help with her project - not only from her teacher and her family but also from the Bard himself, along with Hermia and Lysander - who appear to her in an animated dream and the magic of Shakespeare's work is revealed to her... |
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The Shakespeare Convention by Christine Harvey (with YAK Drama Camp) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. There are male and female characters, but in Shakespeare's day, they were all played by men, and there is no reason why the reverse convention should not be applied (or anywhere between the two ectremes). |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play (which might be regarded as a coherent collection of skits) for kids. There's a lot going on, but it doesn't need a complex set. A fun introduction to Shakespeare! |
Synopsis | Bumbling producer Burbage and his irate associate Iggy have put together a Shakespeare convention, at which the actors perform four plays and a sonnet in a rather unconventional manner. Iggy is out to ruin Burbage, but loses the plot a little towards the end! |
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Sherlock Holmes and The Book of Secret Secrets by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy drama for schools. |
Synopsis | When mild-mannered civil servant Arthur Mulligan is attacked in the mean streets of London, Sherlock Holmes is called in by Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard to track down the culprit. As Mulligan has been robbed of a series of top secret codes, Holmes needs to apprehend a fiendishly clever adversary - who could make fools not only of Holmes, but the whole of the Metropolitan Police too. |
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Sherlock Holmes and The Emerald of Alcazar by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children, assumed to be played by children. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comic melodrama. Simple sets, varied characters, strong story line. |
Synopsis | The theft of a famous jewel draws Sherlock Holmes into the foggy streets of London and a battle of wits with a deadly enemy. |
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Sherlock Penguin by S. J. Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Whilst many of the characters are nominally gendered, they are, when all's said and done, animals. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for kids, full of silly and irreverent fun. |
Synopsis | Sherlock's a detective penguin but he's lacking in brainpower and clients. He's about to be evicted from his office when Moriarty, the celebrity wolverine, arrives to become his friend and he believes his problems are solved. Watson is not so sure, however... |
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