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| Good King Wenceslas by Christine Harvey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. Extra Singers, Snow, Frost characters may be added at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Singing lines are embedded within the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short Christmas play with some singing, for young children and with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | If you love the carol 'Good King Wenceslas', then you may love this short play for a young cast. It includes some facts about the real life character upon which Good King Wenceslas was based and incorporates a little humour and some unexpected characters. |
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| The Gossip by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The characters are adults, intended to be played by children. (Two of the female characters could be switched to male by changing two words.) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple play in rhyming couplets. No specific set requirements. One prop (a wedding cake!) |
| Synopsis | Mrs. Grey tries to stop a rumour spreading by telling everyone that it isn't true. The result is that the rumour spreads rapidly, and her daughter's wedding is ruined. |
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| In God's Office by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short two-handed play with a Christian perspective. Single office set. |
| Synopsis | A delivery man enters the wrong office by mistake and finds himself discussing free will with God. |
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| It's Christmas Time! by Sharon Stace-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Flexible cast plus the option of a separate choir (otherwise choir pieces are sung by the acting ensemble.) |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] (Run time of the first production was 35 minutes!) |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for the 9 songs plus optional overture and 8 pieces of incidental music. |
| Style | A musical nativity play for schools, with minimal staging requirements. |
| Synopsis | A lop eared donkey who wants to be a horse, sets the scene for this nativity play with a difference. |
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| Jonah And The Giant Fish by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short biblical story play, in three scenes, for children. |
| Synopsis | A re-telling of Jonah and his reluctance to preach to the people of Ninevah. Or - The one that didn't get away! |
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| The Journey of the Magi [Prose] by Martin Kirkland |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Play morphing smoothly from a comedy introduction to the three wise men into a more reverend Biblical account. Includes the use of shadow theatre. (Structurally in two acts, one-act in length!) |
| Synopsis | Caspar, Balthazar and Melchior are held in high regard by everyone except their wives, who would love a holiday. The appearance of a new star and the sudden interest of the Romans inspires an astrological journey, ending at a certain stable in Bethlehem. |
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| A Lesson Learnt by Jackie Fitton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. All roles are intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes a list of suggested songs and one set of modified lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play for kids. No set requirements. A set of four short scenes (with separate casts) tied together by a final vignette which delivers the message of the piece. |
| Synopsis | Four short sketches written for children leaving Primary school, dealing with fears about starting Secondary school and the long holiday to come. |
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A Letter to Santa by Sue Gordon
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Two of the characters are nominally adults. It is written so that the cast can be divided into two - a school class and Santa's elves. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for 5 original songs is provided with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | A light musical for young children. Basic sets. |
| Synopsis | A school class write Christmas letters to Santa, and we discover that they are dealt with by Mrs. Santa and a bunch of fractious elves. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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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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| Little Donkey by Dominique Vaughan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. Characters include a donkey (obviously) and lots of other animals. Flexibility for more non-speaking (but singing) chorus members. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 9 songs to accompany the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Children's nativity play. |
| Synopsis | A charming and refreshing retelling of the nativity story. The old donkey uses flashbacks to tell the children about his younger days and his part in the events of the very first Christmas. The nativity happenings unfold before us as all of the customary human and animal characters come to life with lots of opportunity for children of all abilities to take part. There is even the prospect of a comedy double act as the chickens get into their stride. |
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