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Much Ado About William by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum 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 Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute comedy play. |
Synopsis | A 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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Noah's Ark by Bill Siviter Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. Chorus. Non-speaking parts include 'all the creatures of the earth'! |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Verse play, mainly told by narrators (with plenty of scope for a large cast to mime the actions) |
Synopsis | See the book of Genesis, chapters 6 to 9! |
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North Wind by David Dunn |
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.) |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short play. Single set, simple props. Part of the Emotions collection of shorts. |
Synopsis | A few minutes in a household where the eldest son may be autistic, or just challenging. His mother trusts that his younger sister can bring him out of himself, but his father is doubtful and scared. |
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Not Easy by Jonathan Edgington |
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.) |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short play. Single set, simple props. Part of the Emotions collection of shorts. |
Synopsis | Does Dad have a favourite child? Is Mum too overprotective of her son? This short play shows how family politics can change in the course of a phone call. |
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Nursery Crime Scene Investigation by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Another 'film noir' parody - a ten minute play with minimal set requirements and few props. |
Synopsis | Tommy is a Nursery Land CSI officer, charged with investigating the death of Solomon Grundy - who seems to have lived his life in something of a hurry... Could this be a case of identity theft, and can Tommy unmask his killer? |
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Nursery Crimes 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 | Short dramatic pastiche of hard-boiled private eye genre, aimed at young teenagers (but frequently used by older groups). |
Synopsis | Did he fall or was he pushed? That is the question on everyone's lips! Rumours are rife. The theories are wild and fanciful and no-one is above suspicion! However Bill, the Private Eye is on the case. Can he and Goldie solve the puzzle? |
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Odysseus and the Cyclops by Tony North |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Cast numbers are very flexible. The chorus is nominally the 12 great gods of Ancient Greece. The 'characters' include soldiers (nominally 3) and sheep (nominally 4) |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play for kids in the style of Ancient Greek drama. (Appropriate for the English National Curriculum KS2 History topic Ancient Greece.) Includes the violence inherent in the story! |
Synopsis | The tale of Odysseus and the Cyclops (from Homer's Odyssey) told as a short play for children, in the style of an Ancient Greek play. |
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Oedipus - Swollen Foot by Graham Milton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play for schools - ideal as a classroom or assembly piece. |
Synopsis | A light-hearted, accessible take on the Greek myth. Oedipus gradually discovers he has killed his father and married his mother. He learns how one cannot avoid fate, however hard one tries, and that great fortune is often followed by great misfortune. |
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The Olympian Myths by Tony North |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute, large cast play for schools in the style of Ancient Greek drama. (Appropriate for the English National Curriculum KS2 History topic Ancient Greece.) |
Synopsis | A brief introduction to some of the gods of Greek legend |
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Olympic Ode - Faster, Higher, Stronger by Sue Russell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Designed with flexibility in mind, with the possibility of up to 24 idividuals (representing athletes of various sorts) taking a verse each, plus one or more speakers taking the chorus parts. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Performance poem for a class of children. No props or staging requirmeents |
Synopsis | The motto of the Olympic Games, Citius, Altius, Fortius - Faster, Higher, Stronger - explored in verse, with the performers representing different groups of athletes. |
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