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V For Valentine by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Five songs with new lyrics to traditional tunes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A musical sketch perfect for teaching children about Valentine's Day. |
Synopsis | It's Valentine's Day party time and Miss Daisy and her class are preparing for the event. Unusual guests arrive and help the teacher to introduce the festivity's traditions, nursery rhymes and songs. |
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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A Victorian Street Scene by Roger Hurn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Cast flexibility comes by way of choruses of Passers-by, Urchins, and Salvaitonists, plus the option of the narrators doubling other roles. Four roles are nominally gendered, but this is really not important. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Vignette for a class or school assembly |
Synopsis | A scene intended to convey the feel of a bustling Victorian street and give voice to the different types of tradespeople and characters who might be found there. |
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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Was Blind But Now I See by Howard Lipson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short skit, telling and examining a well-known fable from a Christian perspective. No set requirements. |
Synopsis | Five blind people encounter a curious object and work together to find out what it is, while a sighted pair react differently. |
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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What a Tangled Web We Weave by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short rhyming comedy play (with a moral) for children. Single (Town Square) setting. |
Synopsis | Once upon a nursery crime - the cautionary tale of Incey Wincey Spider who enjoyed scaring people, until the day the tables were turned... (The nursery rhyme character Incey Wincey Spider is, in the USA, called Itsy Bitsy Spider. The logic of this defeats the best minds.) |
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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Where Babies Come From by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are played by people older than the stated age. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch |
Synopsis | Two children, seven and seven and three quarters, discuss the big mystery of where babies come from. |
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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Where Have You Been? by Steve Menary |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are a mother and son, but it is intended as a youth theatre piece. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch for youth theatre. A few simple props to indicate location. Also available as part of the Fright Size collection. |
Synopsis | On the surface, this is a routine conversation between a mother and her teenage son after a night out... But appearances can be deceptive. |
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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Where Is The Moon by Charles Eades |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | School play based on a folk tale. |
Synopsis | The people who live near the marsh have no problems when the moon lights their way through the bog at night, but when the bad things - witches, boggles, boggarts and Qicks - take the moon prisoner and hold her in a pond, the villagers must turn to the Tiddy Mun for help. |
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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The Worst Day of My Life by Margaret Histed |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst there are only four named characters, the setting is a classroom, so there is an option for extras as 'other members of the class' |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short play. Single set, simple props. Part of the Emotions collection of shorts. |
Synopsis | Zoe isn't having a good day, what with her brother, her diet and then her ruined German homework, but it turns out her day isn't half as bad as her classmate Holly's. |
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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You're A Robot, Miss Jones? by Jim Hollingsworth |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch for four actors on a minimal set, with sci-fi themes. |
Synopsis | In an obscure department of the British Civil Service, the office manager interviews Miss Jones to find out whether her job could be done by a robot. |
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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You're Not Wearing That by Steve Menary |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. A mother and two teenage children. (Could all, of course, be played by teenagers.) |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play for and about teenagers. No set requirements. |
Synopsis | A Sister and Brother try to explain the concept of cool to their mother. |
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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