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Santa Claus is Calling by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Cast of two teenage girls, their father and Santa Claus! (The last two might - just - be doubled.) |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Seven-minute skit. Single (minimal) set. |
Synopsis | Polly and Alice may not believe in Santa Claus any more, but Santa believes in them... |
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The Scary Tale of Frankenstein by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, rhyming Gothic horror comedy play for kids! Single laboratory set! |
Synopsis | Professor Frankenstein creates a new life from recycled body parts. Unfortunately, his assistant, Egor, drops the brain, so a substitute has to be used. Whilst the brain seems to work, the locals see Frankenstein's creation as a monster and they really aren't happy! |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Shakespeare Lite by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short historical play. |
Synopsis | An Elizabethan narrator introduces three Saxon 'mechanicals' who discuss their lives and the state of their country in the aftermath of the Norman invasion. |
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Shame On You by Bruce Hunt |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two adults and two children (could be played by four kids.) The children play the younger-selves of the adults. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short play. Single set, simple props. Part of the Emotions collection of shorts. |
Synopsis | Every Christmas for the last fifteen years, Becky has given her brother Sam a chocolate rabbit. Why? When he finds out, it's time for the truth to be told about a fifteen-year-old mystery. |
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The Sisters Grimm by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A sketch for young teenagers, with a minimal set. |
Synopsis | The four witches Hubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble try to agree on the best way of dealing with Twitter trolls who are giving witches a bad name. Unfortunately there is little agreement... |
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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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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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Strange New Worlds by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch, minimal set, a few simple props, Science Fiction (TV) parody [Okay, early Star Trek!] |
Synopsis | Three members of the Galaxy Patrol, Security Branch, are on the surface of an alien planet. Bearing in mind they're all wearing red jerseys, how many will get off the planet alive? |
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Take Me To Your Leader by Caroline Spencer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch, set in a school headteacher's office. Part of the Aliens collection of short plays for youth people. |
Synopsis | Mr Golightly has a strict rule for his school - there is no such thing as an Alien Being. Is his insistence on enforcing this rule a device to hide his own identity? |
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Tales from the Seventh Galaxy by Mike Plumbley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act play with a simple (or none if preferred) set. Part of the Aliens collection of short plays for youth people. |
Synopsis | An Earthman finds himself attempting to rescue a girl held hostage by Aliens, only to have a rude awakening... |
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