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| Perseus and the Gorgon's Head by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. Twenty-three speaking roles plus non-speaking builders. Very flexible casting, with lots of opportunities for doubling (Perseus, for example, could bear an uncanny resemblance to his father!) |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. (One-act in length, four acts in structure.) A retelling of Greek myth. No set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Danae and her son Perseus are thrown out of Argos. (The play doesn't say where they do their shopping after that.) They are washed-up on the island of Seriphos, where King Polydectes has designs on Danae. To get rid of Perseus, Polydectes sends him on a quest to bring back the head of the Gorgon Medusa. With help from unlikely quarters (gods, the Delphic Oracle, that sort of thing), Perseus succeeds. Pausing only to rescue the beautiful Andromeda, he returns to Seriphos and fulfils his destiny with a javelin. |
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| The Phantom And The Phoenix by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. The characters are largely written male, but none of them need to be! |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Single set (a museum, which could be endearingly minimalist). |
| Synopsis | The Phoenix, a priceless statue, is brought from an ancient temple deep in the Amazon jungle and exhibited at a failing museum. The presence of The Phoenix can save the museum from closure. Unfortunately the statue is a sure target for ace thief - The Phantom. Can museum security, assisted by Inspector Fletcher (of The Yard) thwart the master criminal? Don't put money on it. |
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| The Pied Piper of Hamelin - A Question of Rats by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Very flexible numbers. Whilst the mayor is addressed as 'Mr Mayor', there is no other reason for that role or any other to be of specific gender. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. |
| Synopsis | The Mayor of Hamelin needs a plan to rid the town of a gang of disagreeable rats. He decides to offer a reward for their removal and the challenge is successfully taken up by a mysterious pipe-playing stranger. However the Mayor's popularity among the celebrating townsfolk takes a downturn when he refuses to pay the stranger and the town's children go the way of the rats. Is there another plan? Apparently not. |
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Pipkin and the Angel by Geoff Bamber
Production by Chelford Junior Players won the Best Junior Play at Chelford Drama Festival 2014 & Best Junior individual Performance (for Cappuccino Angel) at Wilmslow Guild One-Act Play Festival. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Some of the characters are written with specific gender but can be changed very easily. More flexibility in numbers is possible by expanding or contracting the number of villagers, mechanics and police. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. No specific set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Pipkin is down on his luck. He really should turn over a new leaf and give up a deeply unsuccessful life of crime. Can he change his ways when he accidentally meets the similarly luckless Cappuccino Angel? The answer would seem to be no, even with the Angel's boss on the case. |
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| Prof's Big Idea by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy drama for kids. |
| Synopsis | 'The Prof' - a member of a gang of kids - designs a time machine. The gang is almost ready to test it for an inventors competition, when the rival gang - 'The Skrimshaw Krew' - steals Prof's big idea... |
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| Puss in Boots [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Includes a cat and an ogre, so nothing out of the ordinary. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy (not really a pantomime treatment, though this is frequently a panto subject). Several different locations, but no real set requirements, so can be staged very simply. |
| Synopsis | Jack, the Miller's youngest son, finds himself cast out when his father retires and hands over the business to his other two sons. With only a burning ambition to be a magician, a dream of marrying a princess and his cat for company, he sets out to make his fortune. After an inauspicious start to his great adventure, a misfiring trick results in the cat being far more useful than Jack could ever have imagined. |
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| The Quality of Mersey by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 41. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very flexible one-act play for kids. No specific set requirements. A series of historical episodes, linked mainly by character and place (so some episodes might be skipped). Opportunities for music and dance to be added. |
| Synopsis | A comic dramatisation of the history of Liverpool (European Capital of Culture 2008) - from Mammoth-skin Moccasins to Shopping in Pyjamas. |
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The Queen's Orchid by Geoff Bamber
Performance by Chelford Junior Players won the Adjudicator’s Special Award at Chelford Drama Festival 2015 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Some roles - Prime Minister, Doctor, Gardener, Guard Captain... - are written male but could be played female.
Can non-speaking roles be a chorus? If so, the Guards are a chorus. If not, there's just a number of unspeakable guards. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Thirty-minute play for kids. (I think this is a one-act play, but it's structured in four acts.) There are, in theory, two locations, but, as it says in the script, all castles are identical! |
| Synopsis | Things aren't looking good for King Rufus of Celestopia. His kingdom is perpetually on the brink of war with the neighbouring Zeldania, his daughter wants to marry a Zeldanian prince, and his wife's birthday is coming up. He know's it's coming up because she keeps dropping hints about it. She wants a present. A very specific present. She want's a particular orchid. And guess who grows this orchid? None other that the rival Queen Zelda - a woman so powerfull that she has a whole kingdom named after her... |
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| Redd by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. Some of the characters are written with specific genders which can easily be changed! No formal chorus but the cast includes an unspecified number of dancers and members of a rock group. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. No set requirements. (A modern and very different take on the story of Red Riding Hood.) |
| Synopsis | Redd. No Little, No Riding, No Hood. Just Redd.
Brenda Hudd longs to be a 'celebrity' and appear in 'Wow!' magazine. Despite having no discernible talent in any direction, she determines that she will succeed in fulfilling her ambition. She takes advice from a range of questionable role models and finds herself being represented by theatrical agent, Flavius Wolf, who is keen to point out that talent is hardly a qualification in Celebland. Will Brenda, now re-branded as 'Redd' (with two Ds) master any of the skills she attempts or will she have to depend on Reality TV to be her salvation? |
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| Richard III - Has Anybody Seen My Horse by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Historical comedy for kids. Structurally in four acts, but of one-act length. No specific set requirements. Simple props. |
| Synopsis | With the Wars of the Roses in full swing, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, finds himself on the right side when the House of York take the throne. Richard harbours an ambition to become King. Unfortunately his older brothers and his own nephews stand in his way. For a resourceful fellow with no principles this does not present a problem. Dark deeds inevitably ensue. Temporary success is achieved but a happy ending for the story of one of history's favourite villains (*) seems increasingly unlikely.
* This is only because this bit of history was written by the Tudors. (To the victor, the spoilers.) |
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