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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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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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Ali Baba and the Four Thieves by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. The cast could be extended with additional policemen. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy play for kids, with an economic rendering of the Arabian classic. |
Synopsis | When Makram the miller is robbed of some bags of gold dust he decides to retire and turn over the mill to his elder son, Cassim. However it is his other son, Ali Baba, who locates the thieves' secret cave and retrieves his father's gold. When Cassim learns of the cave his greed gets the better of him. Unfortunately the brutal thieves then get the better of Cassim. To make matters worse they vow to track down whoever found their cave in the first place. |
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Alice in Wonderland [Version 3] by Paul Cockcroft |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Many characters can be played by M or F. |
Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act treatment of the story which sticks closely to the original Alice by Lewis Carroll, introducing some Pantomime elements, but no music. |
Synopsis | This comedy play successfully merges the rich core of Lewis Carroll's wit with some fun - in pantomime. |
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Aliens At School by Raymond Blakesley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Thirteen named roles plus a chorus of the rest of 'the class' (whose lines can be separated out for individuals). |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for a school class. |
Synopsis | Teacher, Miss Brightwell has to deal with a class expecting an alien invasion of the playground. The problem is that Jack, the class boffin, has probably attracted them with his amateur dabbling. Clarence the class goldfish comes to the rescue as the aliens arrive. |
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All's Not Well That Ends Well by Juliet Devon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Written as a mix of children and adults, but could all be played by youth. The Head Teacher and Mrs Bloss are written as female, but could be changed to male. |
Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play set on a school hall stage. |
Synopsis | Despite a number of cast members being missing, Drama Teacher Nikki is pressing on with her rehearsal of 'All’s Well...' Unfortunately, she also has to contend with pupils sent to her for detention, the cleaner, and the Head. |
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Always...? by Alexander Browne |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy set in a North American High School Library. |
Synopsis | Students Hank and Cindy use the library every day at the same time as a romantic rendezvous, much to the frustration of librarian Mrs Troutman. Her efforts to keep them apart go to extreme lengths as nerdy student Berv intervenes. His motives are gradually revealed |
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Anniversary at Camelot by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Light-hearted one-act Arthurian romp for kids. |
Synopsis | King Arthur and Guinevere plan to give each other a novel present to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. They delegate the task to various knights who must encounter magical forces to complete the task. |
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Anyone for Bison? by Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. All characters are adults, intended to be played by children. Whilst there isn't a formal requirement for a chorus, other characters could easily be added. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Costumed comedy for kids. Single set (with teepee). |
Synopsis | This is what might of happened when a bunch of English settlers first encountered native Americans - a clash of cultures resolved in a uniquely American way. |
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