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Macbeth - Which Witch is Which? by Juliet Devon
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. All parts written female but, at a pinch, the Head Teacher could be male. Assumed to be performed by a youthful cast (although, of course, the two teachers and the cleaner could be played by adults).
Run TimeAround 18 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort comedy with a minimal set.
SynopsisNikki, the drama teacher, tries to put the witches through their paces for a school production of Macbeth. Round and round the cauldron go - or would go, if the props team had finished making the cauldron.
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Macbeth In Seventeen And A Half Minutes Or Less by Christine Harvey
RolesMinimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. Various minor parts may be doubled.
Run TimeAround 18 minutes. [Estimated!] This is dependent on the cast!
MusicNone.
StyleA short one-act comedy, with no set required.
SynopsisThe three witches attempt to tell their version of Macbeth in seventeen and a half minutes or less. As they condense it, an amusing and fast-paced summary emerges. Will they succeed in meeting their deadline? Don't blink or you'll miss all the fun of finding out!
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A Midsummer Night's Dream In 17 And A Half Minutes Or Less by Christine Harvey
RolesMinimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 19 minutes. [Estimated!] (But see also the title - which assumes a fast pace.)
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act Shakespearean comedy with various simple settings.
SynopsisA fast-paced version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Perfect for schools, this is a compact, humorous adaptation of the classic tale of love and mishap in seventeen and a half minutes or less.
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A Midsummer Nightmare by Karen Ince
RolesMinimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 13 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short one act play for schools - with a single, village tavern, setting.
SynopsisWilliam Shakespeare is suffering with writers' block. Struggling to find inspiration he visits a local inn, and whilst listening to a group of local workmen - who are planning to put on a play for a special wedding day, comes up with the plot he is looking for.
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Much Ado About William by Nicholas Richards
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Could be played by kids or by a mixed group of adults and children.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleTen-minute comedy play.
SynopsisA harassed Shakespeare tries to complete a play while his Stratford family bring noise, combat and teenage strife into the room where he works, until the silent Bard can take no more.
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Romeo and Juliet - Sped Up! by Hannah Thomas
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RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Most of the speaking is done by the two narrators. There are six other speaking parts (some of whom have as much as a word) and other named roles played by people stepping out of the chorus (usually to be brushed-off or stabbed).
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleTen-minute reduction of Romeo and Juliet. No set requirements, just a few props, love and death.
SynopsisShakespeare's tale of young love and tragedy given short shrift in this heavily condensed version.
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Romeo and Juliet in Sixteen and a Half Minutes or Less by Christine Harvey
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RolesMinimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 18 minutes. [Estimated!] This would be a calm production but it is intended to be played faster!
MusicNone.
StyleModern language version of Romeo and Juliet. No set requirements.
SynopsisDoes what it says on the label - although to get down below sixteen and a half minutes, the play needs to be done (as intended) at manic pace. [Our estimate is that a steadty pace would run to 18 minutes.] Follows the plot and structure of the original work (so structurally in five acts).
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Romeo and Juliet's Final Half Hour by Juliet Devon
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Performers either youth theatre or a mixture of adults and youth.
Our reviewer noted that the role of Romeo is a 'low-stress part' on account of him already being dead.
Run TimeAround 8 minutes. [Estimated!] The run time depends on the time Juliet takes to remember her lines.
MusicNone.
StyleA short comedy sketch, set in a school hall (which need only be represented by a few items of furniture).
SynopsisNikki, the drama teacher, is determined to get through this last rehearsal with her principals from Romeo and Juliet, but Juliet can't remember the right lines - even the right play - and there are constant interruptions.
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The Scottish Play by Bill Siviter
Performance by Greenock Players Youth Section winner at the Inverclyde One Act Play Festival, 2008
RolesMinimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus.
Run TimeAround 15 minutes. [Estimated!] Up to 90 minutes with banquets, ballads and battles!
MusicNone.
StyleIrreverent verse play, told by the protagonists and by narrators with the action mimed. A good introduction to Shakespeare's story! (The specified run-time is the minimum - banquets, battles and bopping will add to the run time!)
SynopsisThe Scottish Play - or 'Kids in Kilts' The complete story of Shakespeare's Macbeth (witches, murder, walking trees, revenge - that sort of thing) told as a verse play for kids. [Note that there is also a musical version of this play, called (with great enterprise) The Musical Scottish Play. It is identical except that six original songs have been added.]
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Toil and Trouble by Karina Fernandez
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 12 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one act comedy, set backstage at a school production of 'The Scottish Play'.
SynopsisTensions mount as the young actors ready themselves for the impending curtain up, and things are made worse when the director announces that a West End producer is in the audience.
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