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| The Titanic by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute presentational play for a school class. |
| Synopsis | The tragic story of the Titanic retold in Assembly form, with survivors and the less fortunate passengers telling their stories. |
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| A to Z The Universe In Me by Michal Y Noah |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. Variable number of characters may double at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short rhyming piece for young children, with no set requirements. Based on the author's best-selling award-winning children's book of the same name. |
| Synopsis | A piece to encourage children to vocalise positive attributes - using the whole alphabet! |
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| Too Mean To Be Green by Lynda Bray |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Play for kids about 'greening' the working environment. (Complete with a rap.) |
| Synopsis | A group of office workers are under threat of redundancy if they can't make the financial report look better before the next visit by the big boss. Lucky for them, Dizzy Lizzy has some Eco-Friendly money saving ideas. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Troy Story by Graham Milton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for schools - ideal as a classroom or assembly piece. |
| Synopsis | A comic take on the story of the Trojan War, with a rapping and bloodthirsty Greek chorus keeping the audience up to date. This short play covers argument between Achilles and Agamemnon over two captive women, through Achilles' sulk and Patroclus' sacrifice, through Hector's and Achilles' death, to the destruction of Troy via Odysseus' stratagem of the Wooden Horse. |
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| Tumultus by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Most of the named characters are written male (for reasons of historical verisimilitude), but some could be played female. The two groups of supporters could accommodate a large number of extras, up to the capacity of your amphitheatre. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama (played for comedy) in which the protagonists speak Latin and the narrators, where necessary, translate. This is based on a real event, reported by the military historian Tacitus. |
| Synopsis | In 59 AD, a disgraced Roman Senator, Livineius Regulus, put on a spectacular gladiatorial contest in Pompeii. An incident at the contest sparked a riot (the Tumultus of the title) between Pompeians and rival supporters from Nuceria. This play takes us through the events.
(The run time may be extended, depending on the time spent in gladiatorial contests and riot.) |
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| A Victorian Street Scene by Roger Hurn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Cast flexibility comes by way of choruses of Passers-by, Urchins, and Salvaitonists, plus the option of the narrators doubling other roles. Four roles are nominally gendered, but this is really not important. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Vignette for a class or school assembly |
| Synopsis | A scene intended to convey the feel of a bustling Victorian street and give voice to the different types of tradespeople and characters who might be found there. |
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| The Wonderful World of the Weather by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. Lots of characters, but with just a few lines each, so lots of doubling possible. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 7 songs and three musical interludes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Rhyming play for young children. No set or props needed.
The text displayed on-line is in British English, but there is also an edition in US English (US spellings and 'Fall' instead of 'Autumn'). |
| Synopsis | A whirlwind tour of the weather and seasons. |
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