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Rhyming Nativity by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. The character numbers are flexible - many have only a single line, so doubling is easy. Equally, the narration could be split and additional non-speaking parts can be added. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Simple nativity play told in rhyme. No specific requirements for set or props. |
Synopsis | See the Gospels according to St. Luke and St. Matthew (chapter 2 in each case). Taxation, Bethlehem overcrowded, no room at the inn, baby laid in a manger, shepherds in the fields, wise men bringing gifts. All of that - and a stable of talking animals. |
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Rhyming Pied Piper by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. (Chorus plays rats and children) |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin told as a simple verse play. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Rats are taking over the rich town of Hamelin, so when an eccentrically dressed stranger offers to drive them away, the Mayor offers to heap him with gold. However, when the rats have disappeared, so has the Mayor's promise, till the stranger reminds the town of his musical prowess. |
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Rhyming Storyteller by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Simple story, told in verse. Minimal set and props. |
Synopsis | A group of children are bored with stories with moral endings. The Storyteller introduces the tale of the perfect girl who comes to an imperfect end. (Based on 'The Story Teller' by Saki.) |
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Rhyming Three Little Pigs by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Characters are, as you might expect, all wolves and pigs! |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Simple verse play. No set requirements, a few simple props. |
Synopsis | It's the age-old battle of wolf against pig, only nowadays all that huffing and puffing has stopped and the wolves have become confidence tricksters. Meanwhile, some of the pigs have become fat and lazy - easy pickings - but finally the wolves are confronted with a choice of fresh bacon or vegetarianism... |
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Rhyming Three Sillies by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | The story of The Three Sillies told as a simple verse play. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | A prince discovers that his fiancée comes from a family totally lacking in common sense. He resolves to marry her only if he can find three sets of sillier people. |
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Rhyming Treasure Island by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. More major female roles than the original tale. (It should be noted that female pirates were not unknown!) There is a chorus of three pirates which could be expanded to as many pirates are aboard your ship. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming comedy (with some of the characteristics of a British panto). |
Synopsis | Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of buried treasure adapted for the stage as a verse play. |
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Rhyming Wind in the Willows by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Most of the characters are nominally male, but since they are clothed animals, who is to tell? |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming plays for a medium to large group of kids. Nominally six locations but no real set requirements. |
Synopsis | An accident on a caravanning expedition leaves the flighty Mr. Toad with an obsession with motor cars and inflated opinions of his own driving. Despite the attentions of his friends, Toad ends in jail and the stoats and weasels of the Wild Wood take over his house. After Toad escapes, Badger, Mole and the Water Rat set about recapturing Toad Hall. Kenneth Grahame's children's classic retold as a verse play. |
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Samson & Delilah (Verse) by Bill Siviter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The number of characters is very vague! |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A narration in verse of the story of Samson. It is assumed the verses will be read or recited by one or more narrators, whilst the action is mimed. |
Synopsis | See the book of Judges, chapters 13 to 16. |
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The Scary Tale of Count Dracula of Transylvania by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, rhyming Gothic horror comedy play for kids! |
Synopsis | Count Dracula has got dental problems - his once proud fangs are wearing down. Could dentures be the answer? |
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The Scary Tale of Frankenstein by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, rhyming Gothic horror comedy play for kids! Single laboratory set! |
Synopsis | Professor Frankenstein creates a new life from recycled body parts. Unfortunately, his assistant, Egor, drops the brain, so a substitute has to be used. Whilst the brain seems to work, the locals see Frankenstein's creation as a monster and they really aren't happy! |
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