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2B Or Not 2B by Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 29. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. Characters are (mainly) school children playing the parts of adults. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Single set, simple props, comedy designed to be played by a whole school class. |
Synopsis | It's the Friday afternoon drama lesson - only the usual teacher has bunked off. The girls want to do a romantic costume drama, the boys want to fight. The time is ripe for an Arthurian romance... |
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The ABC Of Christmas by Andrew Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Roles interchangable for girls and boys. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy contains suggestions for seven songs, including sheet music and lyrics for one original piece. |
Style | A Christmas play for primary schools |
Synopsis | The letters of the word Christmas are spelled out and depicted, in words and music, by various characters from both modern and holy yuletides. The light-hearted seasonal sketches, songs and poems can accommodate all year groups. |
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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 ** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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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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Adolf's Girls by Frank Gibbons Young Portonians TC production won the East Stirlingshire Trophy at the SCDA Falkirk District Festival, 2016 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Has good scope to be performed by youth theatre groups, with some parts that could be played by either youth or adults. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play set in Germany during World War 2. Multiple locations, but intended to be indicated by lighting changes, so does not require major sets. Originally published in 2010, revised edition published 2014 |
Synopsis | In the midst of the German war effort, the young girls of a BDM group (the female equivalent of the Hitler Youth) are oblivious to the horrors of the European fronts. That is, until circumstances - and a Gestapo officer - threaten to change their lives for the worse. |
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The Adventures of the Jammy Dodger by Melanie Roberts, music by Rod Parvess Best Seller |
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 Best Seller |
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 Best Seller |
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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Aesop's Fables III by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Characters include farm animals, crows and various rodents. (Whilst they have gender-specific names, they're animals, and the gender of the actors is irrelevant!) |
Run Time | Around 25 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 | Tales of resourceful crows, splitting hares, bovine buffoonery and meals for mice. (If Aesop lived today, he would be inspired by the video of Tool-Making Crows on YouTube.) |
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