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| Five Days in May by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute play for kids, one of whom is confined to a wheelchair. Structured in five acts. In theory a number of locations, but these can be indicated with the minimum of set. |
| Synopsis | When Sarah's disabled cousin Josh comes to stay with her, she introduces him to Billy, her would-be boyfriend. Josh is appreciative of Sarah's fussing concern for him but welcomes Billy's company and, much to Sarah's despair, the pair of them immediately form an unlikely bond. |
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| The Fourth Princess by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] Plus additional time for songs and dances. |
| Music | Production notes list recommended songs and opportunities for dances. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Humorous fairy tale in one act. Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | The royal family of Tallania try to restore the wealth of a kingdom devastated by dowries. A timeless tale of royalty, wizardry and bankruptcy. |
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| Frankenstein's Last Chance by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy melodrama, for school-age, youth performers. |
| Synopsis | Having given up his medical practice to concentrate on his career as an inventor, Doctor Viktor Frankenstein desperately needs to raise funds to pay for his daughter's forthcoming wedding. Success at the annual Mad Scientists' Convention would be well-rewarded, but Viktor finds himself singularly short of inspiration until... No, that would be absurd - wouldn't it? |
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| Georgina and the Dragon by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Whilst there is no chorus, some flexibility in numbers could be created by changing the numbers of courtiers, soldiers, peasants and gremlins. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Whilst there are two locations, it is intended to be played with minimal scenery (dragging the thrones off will be sufficient to indicate that we have left the palace!) |
| Synopsis | With the kingdom terrorised by a fire-breathing dragon, the King desperately issues a call for help. With none forthcoming save the less than impressive Prince Jodrel, it falls to Georgina to take on the challenge. Unfortunately Georgina is the newly-appointed royal cook and isn't much better than the hapless prince. However, with a reward of a thousand gold pieces on offer, the unlikely pair must at least make an effort. |
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| Hamlet - What Was The Question? by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. The cast is top-heavy with male roles. In this version a number of parts (Clowns, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Castle Guards and Narrators) can be played by either male or female performers without any need to amend the text. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for kids, adding some comic touches to Shakespeare's Hamlet. No specific set requirements. (Castle locations - make your own mind up about complexity!) |
| Synopsis | When the King of Denmark dies, Prince Hamlet, his son, assumes that he will succeed to the throne. Unfortunately his Uncle Claudius has other ideas and, by marrying the newly widowed Queen Gertrude, takes the crown for himself. When Hamlet learns through his father's ghost that Claudius and Gertrude engineered the King's death so that they could be together, the Prince seeks vengeance. His task is not aided by pressure being placed on him to marry the vapid Ophelia and Claudius' plan to have him killed by the sinister Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. The body count rises as Hamlet closes in on the evil Claudius. Will justice be done? Will our hero triumph? Will he ever answer that question? |
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| Hansel and Gretel [Short Play] by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. This may be an unual cast for Hansel and Gretel. Tthere could well be a huntsman, a professor, a troll and a small police unit in some version, somewhere. And if there wasn't, there is now. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Divided into 13 scenes, but can be played continuously without the need for elaborate stage sets. |
| Synopsis | Hansel and Gretel's widowed and lonely father, a woodcutter, needs a new wife. When his children find him the perfect candidate an early 'happy ever after' resolution appears likely. It can't be that simple, can it? No, it can't. Enter a witch with an evil plan and family life takes a turn for the worse. |
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| Hood - The Sequel by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. No formatl chorus, but the number of guards and jailers has some flexibility. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. In theory, four locations, but no real set requirements. |
| Synopsis | 'Good' King Richard is dead and 'Bad' Prince (now 'King') John has succeeded to the throne. However the King has been forced to sign the Magna Carta which means that he needs to behave himself. This results in Robin Hood being able to give up his outlaw life in Sherwood Forest and return to Loxley Manor as Sir Robin of Loxley. Now married to his beloved Lady Marian, all seems well with the world. Not quite so, for Robin's old nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham, now unemployed as a result of council cutbacks, is hatching a fiendish plot to frame Robin for a heinous crime against the state. |
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| Hornet Girl by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. The chorus is not essential, but the numbers of soldiers and peasants is flexible, particularly if music is to be incorporated in the production. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy for kids. Nominally two sets, but no specific requirements for either. Whilst it isn't a musical, it would be possible for songs or dances to be incorporated (in one place, for example, it would give more time for a costume change.) |
| Synopsis | A poor family of tenant farmers is in danger of eviction by the cruel baron until a comic book super-hero turns up in the form of Hornet Girl. The Baron realises that wherever there are super-heroes, there are super-villains, and he sets out to get one on his side. Enter Kaptain Kruelty to do whatever is the opposite of saving the day... |
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| Humbug by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol presented as a short comedic play for kids. |
| Synopsis | When Jacob Marley dies he keeps his promise to come back and haunt his mean-spirited business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge has a particularly parsimonious attitude to Christmas and this reflects itself his treatment of his long-suffering employees, Bob and Molly Cratchit. In case Jacob's efforts to get Ebenezer to change his ways don't meet with success, he enlists the help of three ghostly friends. Will Christmas still be humbug or will Ebenezer see the light? |
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| I, Tiberius by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. The numbers of soldiers and secret service agents can be treated flexibly. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids, set in Roman Britain. Single set (to the point of almost no set at all) and simple props, give or take the solid gold Egyptian statuette. |
| Synopsis | When Tiberius Pompus arrives from Rome to take up a governorship in the wilderness that is Eastern Britain he is looking for peace and a quiet life. He has every faith in his long-suffering personal assistant, Flavia, and his military commander, Ludicrous. Unfortunately restless locals in the form of the Iceni tribe and in particular the ambitiously troublesome Boudicca prove a thorn in his side. What Tiberius needs least is a visit from newly-appointed Emperor and old school friend, Marcus Antonius, accompanied by the Emperor's girlfriend, the ultra-glamorous and even more ultra-temperamental Queen Cleopatra of Egypt. It is imperative that the Emperor's stay goes perfectly. It doesn't. |
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