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Oedipus - Swollen Foot by Graham Milton
RolesMinimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus.
Run TimeAround 9 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short play for schools - ideal as a classroom or assembly piece.
SynopsisA light-hearted, accessible take on the Greek myth. Oedipus gradually discovers he has killed his father and married his mother. He learns how one cannot avoid fate, however hard one tries, and that great fortune is often followed by great misfortune.
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The Olympian Myths by Tony North
RolesMinimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleTen minute, large cast play for schools in the style of Ancient Greek drama. (Appropriate for the English National Curriculum KS2 History topic Ancient Greece.)
SynopsisA brief introduction to some of the gods of Greek legend
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Olympic Ode - Faster, Higher, Stronger by Sue Russell
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Designed with flexibility in mind, with the possibility of up to 24 idividuals (representing athletes of various sorts) taking a verse each, plus one or more speakers taking the chorus parts.
Run TimeAround 5 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StylePerformance poem for a class of children. No props or staging requirmeents
SynopsisThe motto of the Olympic Games, Citius, Altius, Fortius - Faster, Higher, Stronger - explored in verse, with the performers representing different groups of athletes.
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Pandora's Box by Roger Hurn
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. One human, five narrators and a bunch of anthropomorphic personifications.
Run TimeAround 7 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short play for children with a simple single setting.
SynopsisThe story of Pandora's box is told in an accessible and light hearted way with added educational opportunities as a bonus.
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Perseus and Medusa by Tony North
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. The chorus is nominally 12 people (representing the gods of Ancient Greece). Only one of the three Gorgons speaks, likewise only one of the three Graces.
Run TimeAround 6 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort, large cast school play, in the style of Ancient Greek drama. (Appropriate for the English National Curriculum KS2 History topic Ancient Greece.)
SynopsisA retelling of the classic myth with rhyming chorus and hideous Gorgons.
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Pirates Ahoy! by Sue Russell
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleTen minute presentation piece for schools
SynopsisA group of famous pirates are interviewed about the realities of Pirate Life in the Golden Age of Piracy. Long John Silver, as a fictional Pirate, is there on sufferance. A useful classroom introduction to the subject.
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Pompeii Up! by Sue Russell
RolesMinimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Further parts could be added at the Producer's discretion.
Run TimeAround 20 minutes. [Estimated!] Variable timing with your choice of music.
MusicTwo musical suggestions are included with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleA short one act play, suitable for a school assembly.
SynopsisIn this piece we have information and entertainment, with facts and figures from the eruption of Vesuvius - which buried Herculaneum and Pompeii.
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Poppies Never Forget by Christine Harvey
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThe producer's copy of this script contains a suggestion for one song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleA short play for schools
SynopsisThe poppies for the Remembrance Day wreath must explain the history and importance of Remembrance Day to the new poppy joining their ranks.
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Pyramus and Thisbe by Nicholas Richards
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Characters include a wall, a lioness, a statue and a mulberry tree. Aside from that, they are all normal. (Whilst there are three female characters - four if you count the lioness - they could, in Shakespearian fashion, be played by lads.)
Run TimeAround 12 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort drama (played for comedy) in which the protagonists speak Latin and the narrators, where necessary, translate.
SynopsisThe story of Pyramus and Thisbe is most familiar to modern audiences through Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' - rehearsed during the play and performed by the Mechanicals at the end. The Latin tale - from which Shakespeare drew his story - is from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
The story is of two lovers separated by their parents and a wall. Arranging to meet, but dying in the process.
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Rabbie Burns' Night by Olivia Arieti
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Whilst the characters are nominally gendered, this need not be taken too seriously.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA children's introduction to the celebration of the Scottish bard. No set or props required, but the odd display of tartan wouldn't go amiss.
SynopsisIt's Burns' Night, and some very special characters have gathered to tell us a little more about Scotland's most famous wordsmith. Mrs Haggis, Mr Whisky, Mr Bagpipes and Mrs Mousie, helped out by the Misses Neep and Tattie.
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