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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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Big Bad and Little Red by Raymond Blakesley Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Nine principal characters plus jury. The jury can be the audience (plus two or more actors planted amongst them to make and encourage responses) or could be set on stage. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy for kids in which fairy tales meet courtroom drama. |
Synopsis | It's the trial of the decade, with the Big Bad Wolf accused of swallowing Granny against her will and making a mess on her carpet! Can the judge keep order in the court long enough to reach a verdict? You are the jury! |
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Brainstorm by Raymond Blakesley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. The chorus is an optional ensemble of brain cells |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for kids. Minimal set requirements. Opportunities for melodramatic over-acting! |
Synopsis | The action takes place inside the brain of playwright Ivor Pippin, who is trying to write another melodramatic play. His characters and his brain cells conspire to turn things around, allowing the heroine and villain to escape, and a new play to emerge. |
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Caterpillar Crawl by Raymond Blakesley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Lots of flexibility. The cast are a mix of children and adults (assumed to be played by children) with options for dances and a chorus (the class) who chant rhymes. The caterpillar role can be played by actors or could be a puppet. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for a flexible cast of children in a mixture of prose and rhyme. Options for dances. Includes information about the butterfly lifecycle. |
Synopsis | When Tom finds a talking, dancing caterpillar he thinks life is going to be easy, but Salome is almost as much trouble as his classmates. But he organises a concert for her anyway. |
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Dog in the Manger by Raymond Blakesley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Characters include a dog, a camel, a donkey, three stars and a flock of sheep! |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Lyrics to simple songs (to well-known children's tunes) are included in the script. Additional (optional) carols are suggested. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Simple Nativity play for young children, told from the point of view of the animals! (No set or prop requirements.) |
Synopsis | A dog, a camel a donkey and a star are all complaining about their lot in life, but they have important roles to play in Bethlehem. |
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First Steps by Raymond Blakesley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. The characters are all amoebic blobs, therefore whilst they have male and female names, this is not intended to signify anything beyond that the character has a name! Very flexible numbers. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play for kids. No props or complex scenery. |
Synopsis | Primordial blobs live an uneventful life in the waters of the bay, but Arthur is a blob with ambition. He wants to grow legs and leave the water. Where will his ambition lead? |
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A Fishy School by Raymond Blakesley Performance by Dean Hole Primary School won the 10th annual Wolfit drama and verse speaking competition. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 41. Chorus. The characters are mainly fish (with kingfishers and an angler's worm). Speaking chorus, divided up into several groups, commenting on the action. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A large-cast fantasy, set in an underwater school. Minimal set and props. Opportunities for dance routines (music is not provided with the script). |
Synopsis | The tiddlers in the school are threatened by the pike family, King & Queenie Fisher, and the dangling worm. Only wimpy Wilfred Minnow can save them, but will he do it? Will Old Trout help him and who really is she? Can the stickleback teachers teach the tiddlers? Will the staff room run out of coffee? |
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Green For Ever and Longer by Raymond Blakesley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Whilst some of the characters have specific genders (queen bee, for example), since they are insects and microbes, the gender of the actors is no crucial! Flexible chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for children. Single, minimal set, few props. |
Synopsis | As Queen Bee Honey and her Minibeast subjects celebrate in memory of Sir Turnham Green, who saved their wood from developers, two strangers arrive. They have a strange request, but unknown to everyone they've also brought danger into the woods. |
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Once... by Raymond Blakesley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. Opportunity for large 'Greek chorus' delivering commentary on the action. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fable, partly narrated by newspaper reporters (in the style of The Times and The Sun), commentary by the chorus. Simple sets, simple costumes, emphasis on participation. |
Synopsis | Upset at receiving a late invitation to Princess Rainbow's party, Beldesire curses the postman's son: his first kiss will turn him into a toad. That same postman's son later rescues the Princess from a Dragon, but how will they live happily ever after? |
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Princess and Postman by Raymond Blakesley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Characters include a dragon and choruses of villagers and courtiers |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for kids, based on an original fairy tale. (See 'Once...' by the same author for a longer, more complex treatment for a larger cast.) |
Synopsis | A not-very-beautiful Princess cannot find a suitable prince to marry. Her parents are in despair, waiting for the right match to be found. A dragon comes to the rescue by pairing her up with the postman - and an unlikely partner he turns out to be! |
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