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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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Shop! by Geoff Bamber Performance by Wilmslow Guild Players won The Syd Mence Cup for a Piece of Theatre Magic at the Wilmslow one-act play festival, 2017. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for a youth theatre company. Could be performed in front of a backdrop, but a bare stage will do! |
Synopsis | A short stop for supplies at Mrs Popkissās shop turns into a frustrating afternoon for a group of would-be campers. |
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Shut the Door by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Scores for four songs are supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Musical skit in one act. Single interior set. Simple props. |
Synopsis | A couple take such stubborn positions in an argument that they would rather be robbed than give in! |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Midi files of songs from the show
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Sic Notus Ulixes? by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Whilst all bar Circe are written male, the author would be happy with any liberties taken with gender - and, in any case, what evidence do we have that Homer was male? |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Humorous Homeric epic in a fifteen minute play aimed at beginners' classes in Latin! |
Synopsis | Three scenes from the story of Ulysses' homecoming translated from the original Greek (*) and thoroughly mangled and distorted for dramatic presentation. Narrated by the original poet himself. * Whilst the above summary notes the translation from Greek, it does not note what it is translated into. In this case, it's Latin (which itself is translated - or at least clarified - into English by the narrator). |
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The Silent Princess by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Whilst the script specifies two soldiers and two gremlins, these numbers could easily be expanded to accommodate a larger cast. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy fantasy play for children. (Whilst it is structured in three acts, it is of one-act length. |
Synopsis | There is a crisis at the Royal Court. The Princess is unable to speak, courtesy of an evil fairy's spell. As her hopeful suitor, Prince Arkalan, is on his way, the Princess's voice must be found. The onerous task falls to the Prime Minister who ultimately finds himself leading an expedition to the lair of Morgana the Sorceress. Morgana will have a miracle cure - surely. Well, she might but she needs a lot of persuading. Even then, success is far from assured, even with Prince Arkalan himself joining the mission. |
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Sing by Tim O'Brien |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 50. Chorus. Very flexible cast numbers, with just a couple of central characters, and the rest of the ensemble appearing (amongst other things) as various musical groups and an on-stage choir. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy includes piano and vocal scores for 9 original songs (one of which is reprised). |
Style | One-act musical. Single set (intended to be performed with a backdrop and simple props). |
Synopsis | How could a musical take place inside a car? Well, it could if the passenger was on her way to a talent show audition - especially if the driver, her father, was attempting to give her advice. Sparks start flying, mostly between the father and daughter to the accompaniment of songs in a wide variety of styles - blues, rock, opera and country all fuse into one sizzling audition that... well, you be the judge. |
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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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A Slice Of Elizabethan Life by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Variable chorus size and doubling of parts, at the Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One song suggestion and one rap are included with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short-ish one act play for schools, with song, dance, rap, and with a simple set. |
Synopsis | This play portrays a slice of Elizabethan life and follows on from 'A Slice of Tudor Life' by the same author. They can be used separately or together to give an overview of the Tudor Dynasty. Narrators and various characters from Elizabeth's life, including the ghost of her father King Henry VIII, comment on her personality and events in her life until her death. |
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Smugglers by Geoff Bamber Production by Plockton ADS Youth won the EML Quaich at the SCDA Highland Youth Festival, 2016 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. The number of smugglers, soldiers and inn customers can be varied according to demand, recruitment and thirst. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy adventure for kids. |
Synopsis | John Fisher is an ambitious reporter, despatched to the darkest depths of the west country to investigate smuggling. Where better to start than the atmospheric 'Smuggler's Rest' inn, despite the landlady's assurances that there are no smugglers? The constant attentions of Captain Elwood of His Majesty's Revenue Service persuade John that there are indeed rum goings-on to look into. John and Lucy, the landlady's daughter, find themselves caught between the determined excise men and the ruthless smugglers with only the questionable assistance of the ghost of Old Granny Steggles to aid them. |
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Snow White [Version 2] by James O'Sullivan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act, comedic version, of the traditional tale of Snow White, with simple sets. |
Synopsis | A traditional re-telling of the tale of Snow White, reduced to one act, and given a healthy dose of comedy, without music. |
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Snow White and Reality Royalty by Raymond Blakesley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Whilst the small brothers are written male, they are really neutral roles, as are most of the others. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy play for kids, mixing the story of Snow White with 'reality TV' formats. |
Synopsis | The Queen is worried about the increasing beauty of her step-daughter, Snow White. She holds a reality TV competition and gets Snow White voted into the forest, but Snow White builds a theme park with seven friends and proves the Queen is running a fraudulent unicorn charity. |
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