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| Hollingsborough Children's School Nativity Play by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. It is intended that adults play all the roles (despite there being only one or two roles in which the adults play adults). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Parody of a children's nativity play in which adults take the roles of the children |
| Synopsis | It's Nativity time again, and the kids are having the usual trouble - they can't keep the lines straight, can't pronounce the long words and want to wave at their parents as soon as they're onstage. This play will feel very familiar to a lot of people!
It should be emphasised that this is a parody and is not intended as a children's nativity play! |
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Hook and Peter Pan - How it all began by Giles Scott, Helen Dooley and Bob Walsh
Cape Times Awards for Amateur Theatre, "Best Musical" 2003 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. This is not a panto, but it would be possible for Peter Pan and some or all of the lost boys to be played by girls. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for Overture and 15 songs by Helen Dooley and Bob Walsh are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Full-length musical which could be played by a youth company, by adults or by a mixture.
The production notes include extensive explanations of how to fly! |
| Synopsis | Everyone knows the story of Peter Pan. But how did the Boy Who Never Grew Up learn to fly? How did Hook lose his hand? How did the croc swallow the clock? This enchanting musical provides the answers! |
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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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| The Horrible Hot Air Homicide by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Melodrama stereotypes - the wicked squire, the poor-but-hones heroine, etc. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One song (to a G&S tune). Sheet music for the song is supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Melodrama set in Victorian times, but written in the 21st century - so something of a send-up of the format. |
| Synopsis | 'The Horrible Hot Air Homicide' - or 'Fanny's Free For All' sees the wicked squire in pursuit of the poor heroine, Fanny. However, in fear that his past misdeeds will be exposed, the squire frames his rival for murder, then furnishes a fiendish fate for Fanny. |
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| Horror-scopes by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The male role is a phone-in voice. This might be better done live but it could conceivably be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two minute comedy sketch with no specific requirements for set or props. (A couple of comfortable seats would help.) |
| Synopsis | Tony calls the astrology section of a chat show and gets to learn a bit more than he expected about his future... |
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| Hot Air by Mary Portalska |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny and fast sketch. Easy to stage with something resembling the front of a hot air balloon basket as a set - this could be as simple as a table with a bit of cloth, or a cardboard cut-out. |
| Synopsis | When their hot air balloon takes off without a pilot, two bickering sisters find themselves adrift. And then they find the pilot, dangling on a rope below the basket. |
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| Hotel Casablanca by S. J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One song Is suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act comedy on 4 minimal sets, suitable for youth theatre. |
| Synopsis | The Hotel Casablanca is unfortunately short on staff, just as Lady Chalfont arrives, trying to protect her necklace from a jewel thief. But will the thief be spotted in amongst the James Bond conventioneers and detective Sam Shovel? |
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| The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. The hound might be live or a special effect. (One other essential role takes no part in the action, but definitely needs to be there!) |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act rhyming humorous play, freely interpreting the original story. |
| Synopsis | A 'Pantocrime' in rhyming couplets, re-telling the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with comedy. |
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| An Hour You Won't Get Back by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 41. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection of comedy sketches. |
| Synopsis | Nineteen sketches, each running between 1 and 5 minutes. No particular theme other than a desire to make the audience laugh! |
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House Rules by Jos Biggs
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Dave and Shirley are tired after shopping, and craving a tea, but there’s a problem: the head waiter won’t allow Dave into the tearoom. House Rules on attire are the issue, but Dave has a cunning plan to circumvent them. |
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| Howard Does His Best by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The 10 'soldiers' are gender non-specific. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy suitable for performance by teens and chldren. |
| Synopsis | At the school dance, Howard, egged on by Wayne and Dave, sets out to cross the dance floor to ask Chardonnay (the most beautiful girl in the school) for a dance, but on the way various bits of his body begin to let him down. |
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