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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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Anything You Say, Your Majesty by Geoff Bamber
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Multiple settings, but intended for production with minimal scenery. (The author is fond of 'a few stage blocks'.) |
| Synopsis | Surely a Queen looking for a new high-profile image and appearance in ‘Hi, there!’ celebrity magazine, can do no better than featuring in a coronation and a royal wedding at one and the same time. Of course the absence of both a crown and a suitable groom could be a problem. |
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| The Ballad of Jessica James by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. Additional non-speaking roles may be added at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 56 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy, set in various locations - which could be simply set. |
| Synopsis | Jessica sets out on an adventurous journey to tame the Wild West. She doesn't take much - but she has a rucksack containing fabulous flapjack. (Recipe available with the Producer's copy of this script!) And the residents of Boulder Gulch were mighty glad she stopped off to volunteer as sheriff, when there was a risk to their bank... |
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| The Battle of Hastings by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Whilst their isn't a specific role for a chorus, there is plenty of flexibility to add soldiers and ladies-in-waiting |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Humorous history, peppered with anachronisms. Single simple set, simple props. Fits with the English National Curriculum Key Stage 3 History syllabus (at a stretch!) |
| Synopsis | The events of 1066 captured with the aid of a war artist with an eye for melodrama and an outside broadcast team from an American radio station! |
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| Beauty and The Beast [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. The chorus is optional - playing dockworkers and possibly used to perform musical numbers (not included in the script). |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy for kids. Several settings but intended to be performed with minimal scenery. |
| Synopsis | Joshua Harcourt faces financial ruin. With a wife, three daughters and a house in the country to support, the outlook is bleak. A chance encounter with a rich and handsome prince looking, as handsome princes do, for true love, provides him with a chance of salvation. All that is needed is for Joshua's youngest and sweetest daughter, Belle, to fall for the prince. Unfortunately this prince has fallen foul of a witch who has turned him into a hideous beast. Can Belle's sweet disposition persuade her to ignore the prince's appearance and can the prince be restored to his former handsome self? As it all ends, as tradition demands, happily ever after, then the answer to both questions must be 'yes'. |
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| Bobbin and the Travellers by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Humorous fantasy, minimal sets. |
| Synopsis | The town is terrorised by the evil witch, Phlegma. So great is the fear that the Mayor and town council take the drastic step of sealing off the town, and appoint the hapless Bobbin to the post of Guardian of the Mystic Pathway (the road to town). Enthusiastically assisted by Skank, best friend and village idiot, all goes well for Bobbin until a motley band of travellers turn up, keen to get to the safety of town, not least as they have just had a run-in with Phlegma. Can the evil witch be thwarted? Can Bobbin become a hero? Surely the diverse talents of Captain Scramble, Miss Marcia Thesp, the Pied Piper of Hamelin and the mighty Valgar, Dragon Slayer will be more than a match for Phlegma. Don't count on it. |
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Bonding by Geoff Bamber
Production by Kyleakin Primary School won the juniors' trophy at the SCDA Highland Youth Festival, 2016 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. A dysfunctional family and some fully-functional aliens. The character split assumes that the aliens and the tramp are female and that the police officer is male. These parts could easily be changed to suit a different split of actors. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy for kids. Single set. |
| Synopsis | Pa Hoskins believes that the family would benefit from a 'bonding' weekend in the countryside where wholesome, healthy, old-fashioned activities will be the order of the day. The family have other ideas. Junior has brought a satellite dish and Cheryl is permanently attached to her mobile phone. What none of the family bargained on was the arrival of a couple of angry aliens, brought crashing to earth by Junior's satellite dish and bent on a rather nasty revenge - at least till help comes from an unexpected quarter! |
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| The Bridge by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. Minimum numbers would be achieved by reassigning lines amongst the ministry workers! |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] This could get a lot longer if the bridge-building sequence is elaborated. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy for kids. No set requirements, but carry-on props include the materials for a simple bridge! A Short play, though it could get a lot longer if the bridge building section became elaborate. |
| Synopsis | A farmer and his family find their peaceful lives disturbed by representatives of various government ministries keen on making improvements to what is regarded as a rural backwater. Common sense flies out of the window as official policy documents are followed slavishly to provide the farmer with a fine, new and entirely unnecessary bridge. |
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| Butterfly Shoes by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Humorous one-act fairy tale for kids, simple sets. |
| Synopsis | An unheroic hero has to rescue a kidnapped granny from the clutches of a tribe of mountain Amazons, mainly, it appears, for the sake of the granny's shoes. |
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Can You See It From Here? by Geoff Bamber
Performance by Chelford Junior Players won the Best Junior Play award at Chelford Drama Festival 2013 and the adjudicator's award at the Wilmslow Guild Festival, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Whilst there is no requirement for a chorus, the lines of the variously coloured planetary life-forms could be distributed amongst a greater number of sentient beings. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Sci-Fi comedy play for kids. |
| Synopsis | A space fantasy set in a galaxy of diversely coloured planets, each of which is on the brink of declaring war on the others. When news of impending mayhem reaches the Control Centre of Inter-Galactic Security, it happens to be a weekend and suitable operatives are in short supply. Can Eric, the computer nerd, and Jenny, a secretary on her first day at work, prevent a horrifying conflict? A task, it should be said, hardly made any easier by the influence of unscrupulous dark-side cosmic villain, Lord Velkro. |
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