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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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Aesop's Famous Fables and Twisted Tales by Peter Nuttall Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are nominally gendered, it's only a mater of pronouns! Contains anthropomorphism. |
Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with the score for the concluding song. |
Style | One-act play, ending in a song. Could be performed by children or by adults to an audience of children. |
Synopsis | Four stories for Aesop's extensive collection, about a Tortoise and Hare, a lion and a mouse, the belly and its team, and the battle between the Sun and the North Wind. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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The Bullies at Sam's Café by Stuart Ardern Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. There are three distinct chorus groups with flexible number - the piece was designed to be performed by a whole class. All roles are gender-neutral. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for two original songs is included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Short one-act play for primary school children, with two songs. Nominally two sets, but no specific scenery, and only simple props. |
Synopsis | A bully with a gang disturbs the staff and customers at Sam's café, but when the bullies get into trouble, should Sam and his friends help them? |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show ** ZIP file containing MP3 tracks for the two songs from 'The Bullies at Sam's Cafe'. (The files are backing tracks, without any vocals.) ** ZIP file containing vocal demo MP3 tracks for the two songs from 'The Bullies at Sam's Cafe' by Stuart Ardern. ** Rehearsal tracks - simple accompaniment with an instrument playing the vocal line - plus vocal demo tracks for the two songs from The Bullies at Sam's Café by Stuart Ardern.
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A Christmas Box by Sharon Jenman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for 10 songs and 2 instrumentals is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Short one-act musical play for (young) children. |
Synopsis | A school child gets his wish to see the Romanian child open the present he is sending. A Christmas play for infant 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
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Good King Wenceslas by Christine Harvey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. Extra Singers, Snow, Frost characters may be added at Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Singing lines are embedded within the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short Christmas play with some singing, for young children and with a minimal set. |
Synopsis | If you love the carol 'Good King Wenceslas', then you may love this short play for a young cast. It includes some facts about the real life character upon which Good King Wenceslas was based and incorporates a little humour and some unexpected characters. |
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Let's Be Friends by Iris Winston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. The characters are all animals. The chorus of woodland animals could be performed live or could be puppets or silhouettes. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Simple morality play for young children about making friends despite differences. (To be performed by children, or possibly an older group playing to young children.) |
Synopsis | Sammy Skunk tries to make friends with some squirrels, but is rejected - at least until the squirrels get lost in the forest, and realise just how useful a friend like Sammy can be. |
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Lil Diamond The Snake Woman by Linda Stephenson and Alison Hudson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play-within-a-play for children. A story with a moral - and a puppet! |
Synopsis | Clem and his family have moved to California in 1886, and he’s missing his friends. He meets the strange snake woman when she rescues him from a Diamondback, but local prejudice stops him visiting her until his mother falls sick and he needs help. A puppet snake helps tell the story. |
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A Magic Paint Brush by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Whilst Chen is written as a girl, the character could easily be switched to a boy (likewise Old Sing and the Magician are written male but could be female). Cast includes a cow and a small flock of (talking) chickens. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play for children, based on a Chinese folk tale. Simple set (the set calls for a hut upstage, but that could merely be implied by an upstage exit), simple props. |
Synopsis | In feudal China, Chen and her mother are oppressed by their landlord and his greedy, vindictive family. Then a magician arrives and gives Chen a magic paint brush, painting with it makes dreams come true... |
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Minny Pinny Makes a Difference by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Two songs. Words and sheet music supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Simple moral story, designed as a class assembly piece (with a target age group of around 8 years old). A small number of central characters and a 'Greek Chorus' commenting on the action with words and songs. |
Synopsis | The farmer can't get to market, the driver can't drive him because his truck tyre is flat and there's nobody to take it to the garage. Minny Pinny is only a little girl, how can she help the farmer? How can she make a difference? |
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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 ** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files ** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show ** CD with backing tracks for the songs from 'Minny Pinny Makes a Difference' by Stuart Ardern (One song is used at the beginning and end of the show. A second is used at the start of each scene with a different musical arrangement for each occasion.) ** CD with vocal demo tracks for the songs from 'Minny Pinny Makes a Difference' by Stuart Ardern (One song is used at the beginning and end of the show. A second is used at the start of each scene with a different musical arrangement for each occasion.) ** Zip file with backing tracks for the songs from 'Minny Pinny Makes a Difference' by Stuart Ardern (One song is used at the beginning and end of the show. A second is used at the start of each scene with a different musical arrangement each time.) ** Zip file with vocal demo tracks for the songs from 'Minny Pinny Makes a Difference' by Stuart Ardern (One song is used at the beginning and end of the show. A second is used at the start of each scene with a different musical arrangement each time.)
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