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| Absolutely Aesop by Lou Treleaven |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy play with a simple setting. For a cast of children, youth or adults. |
| Synopsis | As part of the series of Absolutely Ancients, Aesop is brought onto a chat show to discuss his most famous fables and meet some of the characters again. Things don’t quite go as planned. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Free zip file containing three versions of the logo (created by Lucy Treleaven) for Absolutely Aesop by Lou Treleaven.
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| Ace of Clubs by Garry R. Keane |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for a school or youth theatre. Single, simple set. |
| Synopsis | Two rival clubs - boys and girls - have to do some serious negotiating when one side seems to be gaining an advantage. But there's a bigger problem for both clubs on the horizon. |
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| Across The Road by Peter Lancaster Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch. Single set. Several domestic props - at least at the start of the play. |
| Synopsis | Mary and Henry are having a quiet afternoon at home, when Mary spots some strange goings on next door. It's a pity she doesn't keep a better eye on her own house... |
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| Activity Day - Inclusive of Aliens by Dian Donovan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act comedy for children with a single (school playing field) setting.
Part of the Aliens collection of short plays for youth people. |
| Synopsis | With a satirical look at a non-competitive school sports day some time in the future, this play transports us into a world where aliens have become integrated into everyday life. |
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| The Adventures of Captain Blood by Geoff and Vera Rogers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Variable chorus size possible at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 56 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are 7 song suggestions included with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A family show (possibly an alternative to Pantomime) told in verse, structurally in two acts but run time is approximately one hour. |
| Synopsis | In an original comedic rhyming story, a band of treasure-crazy Pirates are caught in a storm... shipping them onto dry land. Unknown to the Pirates, this landfall will result in their meeting three women - determined to make husbands of them, and the disguised love of their press-ganged crewmember. There are opportunities for fun audience interactions and some familiar songs. |
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| Adventures of Oliver Twist by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. 16 speaking parts, plus an unspecified number of Urchins, playable by a company of 10 with a lot of doubling (and probably some rapid costume changes). |
| Run Time | Around 77 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A new, humourous adaptation, in two acts, of Dickens' classic novel. |
| Synopsis | The story of an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and lives with a gang of pickpockets before being rescued by a kind gentleman and an unexpectedly close relation. This is Oliver with a modern Twist. |
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The Adventures of the Jammy Dodger by Melanie Roberts, music by Rod Parvess
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 43. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of ages - children, parents and grandparents - but all intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for six original songs plus two adapted sea shanties is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Large cast play for kids - an adventure story with music. Lots of scenes but simple (minimal) sets. |
| Synopsis | A group of older folks encourage their grandchildren to try an old-style adventure, with fresh air, go-carts and pirates, and the children end up saving some ancient woods from building development.
A grand adventure story for schools. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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Aesop's Fables by Gerald P. Murphy
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Characters include a wolf, a lamb, a lion, a mouse, three ants, a grasshopper, an owl, a dog, a tortoise, and a hare. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] Each story could be played separately. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for children - a narrated dramatisation of four of Aesop's fables. Very flexible format - no specific props or set needed and the stories could be presented individually or as a set. |
| Synopsis | Four tales in which wolf bullies lamb, mouse befriends lion, ants ignore grasshopper and tortoise out-runs hare. |
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| Aesop's Fables - The Musical by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Characters include mice, a cat, a wolf, a lion and four foxes. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music (piano and vocal) for five songs and two instrumentals is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Simple one-act musical for kids - a prologue and four of Aesop's fables.
(A version of this collection of tales is available without the songs as Aesop's Fables II.) |
| Synopsis | A group of mice are delighted by their plan for constraining the local cat - until it comes to executing the plan.
Meanwhile, a lion falls in love, a boy ruins his chance of promotion in the shepherding business, and a fox tries to make the most of a fashion disaster.
(They all make a song and dance of it!) |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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| Aesop's Fables II by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Characters include mice, a cat, a lion, sheep, a wolf and foxes. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for children - a dramatisation of four of Aesop's fables. Very flexible format - no specific set needed and the stories could be presented individually or as a set. |
| Synopsis | A group of mice are delighted by their plan for constraining the local cat - until it comes to executing the plan.
Meanwhile, a lion falls in love, a boy ruins his chance of promotion in the shepherding business, and a fox tries to make the most of a fashion disaster!
(A musical version of this set of stories is available as Aesop's Fables - The Musical) |
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