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| The Beast by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The lead characters are 12 years old, the other roles are older. (The adults might be played by teenagers.) |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act drama. Multiple setings, but intended for simple presentation. |
| Synopsis | Jane's parents and brother think her sighting of a beast in their garden one evening owes more to her teen vampire books than her eyesight. Luckily, her friend Mark takes a more scientific approach to gathering evidence. |
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| Bite-Size - Six Vampire Plays by 10 x 10 Writers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Three or four characters per piece. |
| Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collecton of six sketches, generally comedic, but with the occasional sharp edge. |
| Synopsis | A collection of six short plays/sketches for teenagers with the theme of vampires. (All the plays are available individually, but are provided here as a collection at a discount.) |
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| Boy Band by Margaret Histed |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters are all vampires and all members of a 'boy band'. (So, whilst there are only four of them, offstage there are hordes of screaming fans!) |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for a teenage cast. Single (minimal) 'back-stage dressing room' set. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
| Synopsis | The four members ofO Positive are talking after their latest gig - should they be higher in the charts than number forty nine after two hundred years together? Should they wear something other than black? Should they have let their fifth member leave? Pop is hard on vampires too... |
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| Dracula - A Pain in the Neck by Daniel Krueger & Elwood Johnson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for 18 original songs plus incidental music is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical Gothic horror Melodrama! |
| Synopsis | A faithful translation of Bram Stoker's vampire classic to the musical stage, rendered in a melodramatic style! |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Conductor's score and band parts (Perc., Bass, Cello, Violin, Reeds 1 & 2, Trumpet, Trombone, Piano & Synth) for Dracula - A Pain in the Neck. Music by Elwood Jay Johnson, orchestrated by Wade Clark.
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| Drunkula by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single (gothic dining room) set. |
| Synopsis | Drunkula and his weird manservant, Schnapps, meet their match when two young English ladies show their drinking mettle - with disastrous results for the drunken vampire. |
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| A Job for Un-life by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch. No set requirements, no props. |
| Synopsis | An interview with a vampire! One of the bloodsucking undead attempts to recruit a new member.
A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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| Open Evening by David Dunn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three speaking parts and one unconscious cameo! Gender entirely flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch for teenagers. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
| Synopsis | Three teens are getting ready for their vampire school open evening. Though they only have to get the drinks area ready, they've had a good look around and are ready to discuss all the other departments. Something tells me this is a night school... |
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| Secret Of A Vampire by Sarah Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for teenagers. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
| Synopsis | Angeline and Tom seem to be getting on fine, but discovering what seems to be a dead body in the woods shakes them both up. Luckily Victor is not dead, but he seems to know Angeline - know her too well, in fact, and she's not happy to see him, dead or alive... or undead. |
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| Seeking Sleeping Beauty by Mark Billen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play, subverting Sleeping Beauty and various other fairytales. |
| Synopsis | Prince Florimund and Nomdeplume are lost in the forest when they meet Lilac the Fairy and learn of the Princess sleeping an enchanted sleep. On their way to rescue her they meet Red Riding Hood, a wicked witch, a vampire and Rapunzel, and some other folks too. |
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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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| The Stubborn Little Girl and the Spider's Web by Jon Boustead |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Whilst there is no explicit chorus, there is a lot of flexibility in the numbers of Witches and Shrieks. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Drama for the junior ranks of a youth theatre, a mix of narration and action with no specific set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Isobel, a stubborn and rather rude girl, learns the error of her ways through encounters with a magical woodpecker, a vampire, witches, a spider and the awesome Shrieks. |
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