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| Two Gentlemen of Verona by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Flexible numbers of soldiers and outlaws |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A humorous retelling of Shakespeare's story as a modern-language one-act play. |
| Synopsis | When Proteus follows his best friend Valentine to fashionable Milan, he finds himself attracted to the Duke of Milan's daughter, Silvia, upon whom Valentine has already set his sights. Hatching a plot to remove Valentine from the scene and move in on Silvia, he does not realise that he is being followed by Julia, the girl he left behind in Verona and to whom he has sworn everlasting devotion. Will the faithless scoundrel succeed with Silvia or will his efforts founder? A no-brainer, really. |
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| Upgrades by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy skit. Single set. Some props for visual jokes! |
| Synopsis | Flushed with the success of his new invention, Alexander Graham Bell describes his plans for upgrading his phone to his assistant, Watson. |
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| V For Valentine by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Five songs with new lyrics to traditional tunes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A musical sketch perfect for teaching children about Valentine's Day. |
| Synopsis | It's Valentine's Day party time and Miss Daisy and her class are preparing for the event. Unusual guests arrive and help the teacher to introduce the festivity's traditions, nursery rhymes and songs. |
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| Vectors of Power by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Character genders may be changed at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for youth, set in a fantasy role-play computer game. |
| Synopsis | Chalera is a Warrior Chieftain, unable to pass through the portal and progress into the next zone. She seeks help from IT, where the small print seems to hold the clue. Then a range of obstacles appear in the paths of the participants, who must overcome them using the points available to them. Can the gamers reach their goal? |
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| The Victorians by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. Very flexible numbers! The roles are a mixture of adults and children, but intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for six original songs (plus a late-Victorian popular song) are included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Short educational and entertaining musical for kids. |
| Synopsis | A brief history of Victorian England brought together through a series of songs and Vignettes. |
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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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| Waiting for Pandora by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comic fantasy for kids. Minimum set and a few simple props (the most complex of which is a treasure chest). |
| Synopsis | Three deliverymen arrive in a woodland clearing with a box clearly addressed to a Miss Pandora but instead they hand the box over to a couple of homeless wanderers who cause trouble, involving an old lady, the Spirit of Gloom and a girl scout troop. |
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| Waterspout Hero by Raymond Blakesley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. In the USA, 'Incey Wincey Spider' is known as 'Itsy Bitsy Spider'. Somebody may know the reason for this linguistic divergence, but we certainly don't. The choruses (flowers and raindrops) are optional. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy play for kids. Single set. (And aside from the set, only one prop, and that's a piece of paper.) |
| Synopsis | The Incey Wincey Spider is about to attempt climbing the waterspout, and his scheming wife Minki Minki has tricked a fly into helping him - if only by being a snack! Only Big Drip and the Raindrops stand in Incey's way. Meanwhile, the weeds and flowers argue and the sun has a few questions for a knowledgeable bookworm. It's amazing what you learn living on a compost heap. |
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| We Are Not Amused by Richard Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. The characters are a mix of adults and children, intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics to three songs (to traditional melodies) are embedded in the script Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Exploration of Victorian society in a mixture of verse and prose. |
| Synopsis | Museum exhibits come to life to explore aspects of Victorian society. |
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| What a Tangled Web We Weave by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short rhyming comedy play (with a moral) for children. Single (Town Square) setting. |
| Synopsis | Once upon a nursery crime - the cautionary tale of Incey Wincey Spider who enjoyed scaring people, until the day the tables were turned...
(The nursery rhyme character Incey Wincey Spider is, in the USA, called Itsy Bitsy Spider. The logic of this defeats the best minds.) |
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| What's Up, Icarus? by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. Whilst there is no formal chorus, there is the option of adding non-speaking slaves and soldiers. The Minotaur is an off-stage presence. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comic rendition of an Ancient Greek myth as a one-act play for kids. Several locations, but no set requirements. |
| Synopsis | King Minos of Crete is a man ahead of his time, seeing his island as a successful holiday destination. The resident monster, the terrifying half-man, half bull Minotaur and a labyrinth to keep it in are key elements in his plan. [So a major tour to see the Minotaur? No? Suit yourselves...] Brilliant designer Daedalus, assisted by his son Icarus, is enlisted to construct the labyrinth but when Daedalus finds that King Minos is inclined to imprison him too, he realises that his next design must be for a means of escape. Icarus is less than enthusiastic about the method chosen. Perhaps he sees a Greek tragedy on the cards. |
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