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Rhyming Two Sisters by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Characters include a talking cow and, even more unusually, a talking tree! |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short morality tale, told as a verse play. |
Synopsis | Joan and Jill are sisters, one helpful, one unkind To seek their fortunes in the world is what they have in mind But though they set out boldly, alas there is a hitch Whilst out to see what they can do, they meet a wicked witch! |
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Rhyming Wind in the Willows by Richard Coleman Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Most of the characters are nominally male, but since they are clothed animals, who is to tell? |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming plays for a medium to large group of kids. Nominally six locations but no real set requirements. |
Synopsis | An accident on a caravanning expedition leaves the flighty Mr. Toad with an obsession with motor cars and inflated opinions of his own driving. Despite the attentions of his friends, Toad ends in jail and the stoats and weasels of the Wild Wood take over his house. After Toad escapes, Badger, Mole and the Water Rat set about recapturing Toad Hall. Kenneth Grahame's children's classic retold as a verse play. |
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Scary Miss Muffet by Raymond Blakesley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters include a spider, a fly, a bookworm, a sunbeam, various flowers and a loquacious weed. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for kids. Single (minimal) set. A weaving of the tales of Jack and Jill and Miss Muffet. |
Synopsis | Jill Muffet wants to sit on her tuffet, have her brother Jack at her beck and call and be appreciated by all around her, but the flowers in her garden don't find her so appealing. |
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The Snowflake Mistake by Lou Treleaven |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Amongst other roles, members of the cast play the machine that makes snowflakes. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play for young children based on the illustrated children's book The Snowflake Mistake by Lou Treleavan. No set required, just simple props (which could be made by children as part of the preparation for the show). |
Synopsis | When Princess Flurry is left in charge of the snowflake machine, she gets distracted and the machine breaks down. She gets her friends to help her make snowflakes manually, and her mother the Queen is delighted with the results. |
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Snowmansland by Andrew Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | 4 songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script, with original lyrics for 2 of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A light-hearted adventure for children with an environmental message, using various simple settings. |
Synopsis | A tragedy is unfolding as polar bears are cast adrift from the melting icecap. Laura, a young school girl concerned about climate change, is taken to Snowmansland by a snowman she’s built one winter’s day, along with her friends. They embark on a quest to save the bears. |
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Squirrel Plays His Part by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The characters are three narrators and lots of jungle animals. The numbers are intended to be flexible, with options to combine or redistribute lines. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for two original songs is included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Musical play for young children. No set requirements. A few simple props. A moral story about prioritisation and co-operation! |
Synopsis | The jungle animals are supposed to be growing crops, but they keep getting distracted by ants! |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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The Star by Annette Cameron |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 39. Chorus. (It might well be possible to perform this with a smaller cast by reassigning some of the lines. Likewise, an even bigger cast!) Characters include reindeer, robins, Santas and snowmen. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Nine songs and a dance are suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A Christmas play for a large cast of young children. Mainly modern secular characters with the star adding the link to the first Christmas story. |
Synopsis | It's Christmas time again, and the workers at Mr Kindthought's Christmas Card Factory are excited - who's going to be on the cards this year? The Snowmen, Santas and Robins are all in, but the Star is too old-fashioned this year. Or is it? |
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Sticky Snail and the Fire Dragons by Richard Morris |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. All characters are animals. Numbers could be increased by multiplying the numbers of each sort of animal! |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming script aimed at an audience of young children (UK years 1-3, US K-2). |
Synopsis | The animals are cold, damp and miserable - they need fire to warm them up, but for that, they must persuade the fire dragons to help. Unfortunately, the fire dragons only want to fight! |
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The Three Goats Gruff by Ann Taylor |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play for young children with a single (meadow) setting. |
Synopsis | The 3 sibling goats have overgrazed the land on their side of the river and must travel over the bridge to get to the green grass on the other side. Under the bridge lives a troll who charges a toll. There is an opportunity to use the Tinikling style of dance to represent the bridge as two poles held by actors on each end, tapped together in rhythmic cadence while actors dance between the poles to represent crossing. |
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Toys in Pieces - The T I P by Philip Bird (music Isabelle Michalakis) Best Seller Performance by Potteries Theatre Co. won the 'Originality and Imagination Award' at the Stoke-on-Trent Festival, 2010. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. Whilst there are twenty-five speaking roles, it would be possible to add additional toys and, particularly, rats. (Oh, and while we're at it, the characters include a seagull.) |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for three original songs (by Isabelle Michalakis) are supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Music play for performance by youngish children. |
Synopsis | A daring group of toys set off on a mission to rescue a damaged toy from the Tip. They must race against the sunrise and a pack of hungry rats to succeed. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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