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| The Scary Tale of The Werewolf by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, rhyming Gothic horror comedy play for kids! Multiple locations, but not intended to be staged naturalistically! |
| Synopsis | There's a Werewolf on the loose! But when the culprit finds out what happens to him by the light of the full moon, he seeks medical help (and hairdressing). |
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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 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] Up to 90 minutes with banquets, ballads and battles! |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Irreverent 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!) |
| Synopsis | The 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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Smokin' Cinders by Leo Finn
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Characters change role within the action. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short rhyming modern pantomime, with a basic set. |
| Synopsis | A potted-panto version of the Cinderella story in three short scenes, with a feisty Cinders and with minimal effects. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Snow White and The Three Bears by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A rhyming comedy, one act drama, of a combined - Snow White runs away and meets the Three Bears story. |
| Synopsis | Disgruntled at not being the fairest in the land, and the prospect of marrying Prince Ken, Snow White flees the castle and happens upon a cottage in the woods... The rest is... just as unexpected! |
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| The Snowflake Mistake by Lou Treleaven |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Amongst other roles, members of the cast play the machine that makes snowflakes. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for young children based on the illustrated children's book The Snowflake Mistake by Lou Treleavan. No set required, just simple props (which could be made by children as part of the preparation for the show). |
| Synopsis | When Princess Flurry is left in charge of the snowflake machine, she gets distracted and the machine breaks down. She gets her friends to help her make snowflakes manually, and her mother the Queen is delighted with the results. |
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| Sparkles by Michal Y Noah |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Additional non-speaking dancers could be added in. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short rhyming script for young children, with a minimal leafy scene set. |
| Synopsis | The stages of Sparkles' transformation - leaving her egg, spinning a cocoon, and emerging from the cocoon as a butterfly, are described in this simple rhyming script. There could be opportunities for non-speaking cast members to perform a dance or mime to make the transformation appear more spectacular. |
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| Sticky Snail and the Fire Dragons by Richard Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. All characters are animals. Numbers could be increased by multiplying the numbers of each sort of animal! |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming script aimed at an audience of young children (UK years 1-3, US K-2). |
| Synopsis | The animals are cold, damp and miserable - they need fire to warm them up, but for that, they must persuade the fire dragons to help. Unfortunately, the fire dragons only want to fight! |
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| The Story Of Eklavya by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Optional more musicians and a second narrator |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act rhyming play, with incidental music and on-stage musicians. |
| Synopsis | Eklavya has skill with a bow and wants to be the best archer in history, but the best guru only teaches the nobility and Eklavya is a peasant. He makes his own guru and waits for his chance to prove himself.
A tale from the Mahabharata. |
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| The Story Of Karna by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Optional wedding guests and musicians numbers at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act rhyming play, with incidental music and on-stage musicians. |
| Synopsis | A tale from the Mahabharata, telling how Karna became such a mighty warrior, and the cruel twists of fate that lead to his death at the hands of his own brothers. |
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| Three Canterbury Tales by Richard James |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act verse play. No set requirements, few (deliberately rough-and-ready) props. |
| Synopsis | Three of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, told in verse but adapted for the stage. The Miller, The Pardoner and the Wife of Bath are brought to life with the narration of Chaucer and the help of three other pilgrims (the Friar, the Summoner and the Nun). |
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