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Lil Diamond The Snake Woman by Linda Stephenson and Alison Hudson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play-within-a-play for children. A story with a moral - and a puppet! |
Synopsis | Clem and his family have moved to California in 1886, and he’s missing his friends. He meets the strange snake woman when she rescues him from a Diamondback, but local prejudice stops him visiting her until his mother falls sick and he needs help. A puppet snake helps tell the story. |
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Looks Like Rain by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. The animals are puppets of unspecified kind and unspecified number (therefore requiring an unspecified number (chorus) of puppeteers. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A light-hearted re-telling of the Noah's Ark story, in about 20 minutes, freely adapted for young performers. |
Synopsis | Noah's family are shocked when the weather forecaster announces the imminent arrival of something called 'rain'. A visit from the Archangel Michael clears things up for Noah, but leaves him with the task of building an Ark - and convincing the animals to come onboard. |
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Merry Christmas Mr Toad by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act rhyming comedy for performance by children, with a range of simple settings. |
Synopsis | Mr Toad wants to mend his ways and provide the River Bankers with a good Christmas. But the Chief Weasel has other ideas, and when Mr Toad buys a rocket-powered sleigh off him, mayhem ensues |
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Mother Holle by Peter Nuttall |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Characters include three disembodied voices (who could, concievably, be recorded). |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Twenty-minute play for kids. |
Synopsis | Mrs. Wade favours her lazy daughter, Ayla, and gives all the domestic work to her step-daughter, Wendy. However, Mother Holle is to impressed with Wendy's work that she showers her with gold. Mrs. Wade is jelous and sends Ayla to work for Mother Holle, hoping for the same reward - but there Ayla gets her come-uppance. One of Peter Nuttall's Grimm Tales (for Little Horrors) |
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The Mother-in-Law by Ginny Davis |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. 3 adult roles and 3 optional non-speaking roles for children. |
Run Time | Around 51 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a three-part composite set (living room, bedroom, kitchen). |
Synopsis | Irene’s scheming elderly mother Grace needs to be cared for, so Irene persuades reluctant husband Peter that the best answer is for Grace to move in with them. What follows is a game of pig in the middle as the trio struggle to cope with the situation. |
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Mrs Santa Claus's Tea Party by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. One of the few stage plays to offer lines to talking pies. Whilst many of the characters have a specific gender, it doesn't really matter for the purposes of casting. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for seven songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act (largely secular) Christmas play for children with no set requirements. |
Synopsis | Mrs Santa Claus invites familiar Christmas characters to her annual tea party. Everyone joins in the spirit of Christmas as they sing and dance their way through the preparations for the big day. |
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Murder at Haynes Manor by Rebecca Preen Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comical murder mystery play for junior school children! (In theory it's set in a manor house, but designed to be performable with minimal scenery.) |
Synopsis | There's a family gathering at Haynes Manor, with more than a few surprises planned, but someone has murder in mind. Is it the greedy housekeeper, or someone with a different grudge? Can the family ghost help to solve the case? |
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The Musicians of Bremen by Tony Best |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. No formal chorus, but there is the option of bringing on additional singers. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The script includes songs set to well-known music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one-act rhyming play for Junior School pupils. |
Synopsis | Four unwanted animals, a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster, meet up and believe they have amazing singing prowess. Though everyone they meet disagrees, the band accidentally put to flight a band of robbers, and live ever afterward in the robber's house with their ill-gotten gains. |
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Nativity - The Christmas Story by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. The numbers of shepherds and Roman soldiers are flexible. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for a class-sized cast, with a good range of speaking parts. No set requirements. A deliberately comic piece but keeping the traditional story in view. |
Synopsis | The traditional nativity story takes an inventive comic turn, with lazy shepherds, an unlikely group of visitors with Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh, and a bit of confusion over what to call the baby... but all the elements of the traditional story come together in the end. After all, this is how it really happened... well, more or less. |
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Nativity News by Sarah Cowan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. Doubling possibilities make cast numbers very adaptable - at the Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] This is dependent on the optional use of music suggestions. |
Music | Eight music - song -suggestions provided to use for scene changes and for sound effects. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act play, with musical interludes, for children to perform. |
Synopsis | The Nativity story re-told in an upbeat new way, using reporters and a 'newsdesk'. See the Shepherds interviewed in the fields! See the animal experts give their opinions on the donkey! All the events revealed in a fun way. |
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