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Role Play by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters are 6 teenagers and a teacher. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch. Minimal set requirements. Simple props. Modern, realism. Includes mild innuendo, mild swearing and mild religious/ethnic intolerance. |
Synopsis | A teacher struggles to keep control of a role-playing exercise, confronting the issue of teenage pregnancy. |
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Romeo and Juliet's Final Half Hour by Juliet Devon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Performers either youth theatre or a mixture of adults and youth. Our reviewer noted that the role of Romeo is a 'low-stress part' on account of him already being dead. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] The run time depends on the time Juliet takes to remember her lines. |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch, set in a school hall (which need only be represented by a few items of furniture). |
Synopsis | Nikki, the drama teacher, is determined to get through this last rehearsal with her principals from Romeo and Juliet, but Juliet can't remember the right lines - even the right play - and there are constant interruptions. |
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Samuel Stickleby's Saucy Secret by Louise Bramley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Two-act comedy drama on a single set. Some adult themes. |
Synopsis | It’s a new day at Logan Bay Primary School, and it’s starting badly for Sam. Stuck in his shocking outfit from the night before, he has to change in secret in the staff room. But a new teacher brings a wave of bigger problems for everyone. |
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The School for Scandal (abridged) by Sheridan abridged by George Freek |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Eighteenth century comedy of manners, abridged to one-act play length. |
Synopsis | Plots and intrigues abound to blacken names and ruin reputations, but when true love is expressed it awakens the good characters of some of the school's members. |
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School Survivor by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. As written, the characters are two TV show presenters and two (non-speaking) secondary school students. We don't think this should be a constraint on the ages of the actors. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Dark comedy sketch in which the stresses of reality TV meet the stresses of the education system. |
Synopsis | The latest TV reality show. Can the competing students survive the challenges? |
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A Sobering Fete by Rosemary Grace |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. No formal chrous, but there is the option for additional actors to play other customers at the fete. |
Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun comedy for female-leaning groups. Three strong characters with good comic interplay. Easily staged on a single set of three tables. |
Synopsis | Three mums run stalls at a PTA fair. Julie is determined to make money for the school, whatever it takes, Cam is devoutly health-conscious and Lily is flogging a pyramid scheme. |
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Soccer School by David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Additional extra cast members may be added in. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch, set in a classroom. |
Synopsis | A privileged 'fly-on-the-wall' view of a classroom at Premiership Soccer School... |
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Toil and Trouble by Karina Fernandez |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy, set backstage at a school production of 'The Scottish Play'. |
Synopsis | Tensions mount as the young actors ready themselves for the impending curtain up, and things are made worse when the director announces that a West End producer is in the audience. |
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The Wolf Who Cried Boy by George Douglas Lee Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. A mixture of real and fairy tale characters. Aimed at a family audience. Could be played by children, by adults or by a mixture of adults and children. (There, who does that leave out?) |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for 8 original songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. (Part of the 'Master Scripts for Copying' and 'Performance Set of Scripts' packages.) |
Style | Musical play in one act. |
Synopsis | The Big Bad Wolf is past his prime and has no respect from anyone. He wishes he could be a little boy, a human boy, but when the wish is granted he finds life as a boy isn't the idyll he'd been hoping for. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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