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| The Snowflake Mistake by Lou Treleaven |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Amongst other roles, members of the cast play the machine that makes snowflakes. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for young children based on the illustrated children's book The Snowflake Mistake by Lou Treleavan. No set required, just simple props (which could be made by children as part of the preparation for the show). |
| Synopsis | When Princess Flurry is left in charge of the snowflake machine, she gets distracted and the machine breaks down. She gets her friends to help her make snowflakes manually, and her mother the Queen is delighted with the results. |
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| Sparkles by Michal Y Noah |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Additional non-speaking dancers could be added in. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short rhyming script for young children, with a minimal leafy scene set. |
| Synopsis | The stages of Sparkles' transformation - leaving her egg, spinning a cocoon, and emerging from the cocoon as a butterfly, are described in this simple rhyming script. There could be opportunities for non-speaking cast members to perform a dance or mime to make the transformation appear more spectacular. |
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| The Story Of Eklavya by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Optional more musicians and a second narrator |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act rhyming play, with incidental music and on-stage musicians. |
| Synopsis | Eklavya has skill with a bow and wants to be the best archer in history, but the best guru only teaches the nobility and Eklavya is a peasant. He makes his own guru and waits for his chance to prove himself.
A tale from the Mahabharata. |
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| The Story Of Karna by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Optional wedding guests and musicians numbers at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act rhyming play, with incidental music and on-stage musicians. |
| Synopsis | A tale from the Mahabharata, telling how Karna became such a mighty warrior, and the cruel twists of fate that lead to his death at the hands of his own brothers. |
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| To Hell With The Housework by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The gender of the speaker is not identified (but he or she definitely has a downer on domesticity). |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming comedy monologue. |
| Synopsis | A rhyming monologue about a big old fight in the cleaning equipment cupboard. |
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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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| The Trumpeter by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming comic monologue. No set or props required.
Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
| Synopsis | With a fanfare, we present the tale of Thomas the Trumpeter and his performance before Her Majesty the Queen. |
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| A Ventriloquist's Tale by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst this is presented as a monologue, it could also be performed by three people, playing narrator, ventriloquist and psychiatrist. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming comedy monologue (no set or props required). |
| Synopsis | A Ventriloquist who fears he's being controlled by his dummy seeks professional help and gets some straight talking. |
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| The Very Busy Stable by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Narrator role could be split amongst several narrators. There are optional choruses of stars, angels and animals. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] The timing assumes the use of four songs. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for four songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short rhyming nativity play (with options for including songs). Principally told by the narrator, with lines for the other participants. |
| Synopsis | The nativity story told very simply as just the stable scene with visitors. |
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Whittington and his Crazy Cat by Richard Coleman
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. (8 speaking parts) |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One song suggested, but not compulsory! Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A simple, humorous rendition of the story of Mr. Whittington and his Cat told in verse. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Coming to London, young Richard Whittington is taken in by Alderman Twicenightly. He finds a talking cat, a treasure map and the Alderman's daughter and together they set out to seek their fortune. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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