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| The Easter Story by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script suggests the use of a couple of familiar hymns/songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Simple version of the Easter story as a play for children. Multiple locations (following the story!) but no specific set requirments. |
| Synopsis | A classroom/church group rendition of the Easter Story from the arrival in Jerusalem to Mary's encounter with Jesus outside the tomb. |
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| The Editing Room by Christine Harvey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. The gender of most of the characters is flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script contains places where songs could be sung, but the songs are left to the discretion of the production. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play for a school or youth theatre. Single set divided into three acting areas. |
| Synopsis | We're in the editing room of a TV studio where a group of production staff are editing and manipulating the participants in a reality TV show, whilst the staff themselves are being manipulated by the studio boss... |
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| The Elf and the Shoemaker by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute play for kids. |
| Synopsis | A shoemaker and his wife are amazed to find that their work is being completed for them whilst they are asleep at night. An investigation follows!
One of Peter Nuttall's Grimm Tales (for Little Horrors) |
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| The Elves and the Shoemaker [Verse Play] by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters include two elves. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming play. Single set (mainly a workbench). |
| Synopsis | A Grimm Fairytale brought to the stage.
An honest cobbler is helped to make ends meet by a pair of hard-working elves. |
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| Emotions by 10 x 10 Writers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 42. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of adults and children of various ages, intended to be played either by that mixture or by youth theatre groups. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of eleven short plays. Basic sets, a few simple props. |
| Synopsis | The collection was commissioned for a Youth Theatre workshop.
Each play is for four actors or fewer, playing a mixture of adults and children, and intended - as you might deduce from the title - to demonstrate emotions.
The plays are not designed to be performed in any particular order. |
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| Emotions 2 by 10 x 10 Writers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of adults and teenagers, intended to be played either by that mixture or by youth theatre groups. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of eight short plays. Basic sets, a few simple props. (Some of the scripts include swearing, as do some teenagers.) |
| Synopsis | Scripts designed for Youth Theatre groups.
Each play is for six actors or fewer, playing teenagers or a mixture of adults and teenagers, and intended - as you might deduce from the title - to demonstrate emotions.
There is no particular order to the presentation of the scripts |
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The End of the Rainbow by Geoff Bamber
Production by Transylvania College, Romania, won 8 awards (including Best Show - Primary Section) in National School English Drama Festival 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. |
| Synopsis | It is a well-known fact that at the end of every rainbow there is a pot of gold placed there by a leprechaun. Thus the appearance of a rainbow presents a pair of inept robbers with a chance of easy pickings. They simply have to find the pot of gold before anyone else turns up to collect it. Unfortunately their efforts are frustrated by a succession of inconvenient visitors getting in the way. Ultimately, however, the arrival of a real live leprechaun confirms that they are, for once, in the right place at the right time. If only it were that simple |
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| The Epic of Gilgamesh by Adrian Jarvis |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Four thousand-year-old Sumerian epic brought to life. This play skilfully combines dance, mime and music with challenging acting and technical opportunities together with a gripping story, ideal for Secondary Schools, Drama Acadamies, and Youth Groups. |
| Synopsis | King Gilgamesh is convinced that he can find the secret of eternal life and his dramatic odyssey is brought to life as he wanders the mythological world in his quest for immortality. We travel with him as his travails become ever more arduous and he becmes embroiled in ever more dramatic conflicts. |
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| Everybody wants to be a Cat by Louise Arnold |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. The characters are all cats and dogs! There is an optional 'chorus' of cats - members of Daphne's coterie. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for kids about friendship. |
| Synopsis | A young cat makes an unusual friend, and then has to learn to deal with peer pressure and prejudice. |
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| Everything All Right, Sir? by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. The characters are largely adults (with a few children), but intended to be played by a school group. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy (of a broad-brush, knock-about kind), set in a restaurant. |
| Synopsis | It's opening night at Jolyon's, a new restaurant. Jolyon and Leo are hoping for some customers, but they get a lot more than they bargained for, with a grumpy couple, the family from Hell, a paranoid man who hides under a table... In the end they're relieved to see a Policeman. |
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