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| Fighting the Kaiser with Catapults by S. J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama written for performance by older youth theatre students (16-19 year olds). Can be performed on minimal sets. |
| Synopsis | A series of vignettes follows three different men, their relationships with the women in their lives and their involvement in the First World War. The scenes take place at various intervals between 1914 and 1916. |
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| The Fisherman by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A lengthy monologue with no set required. |
| Synopsis | The life of an East Coast fisherman, before and after the Second World War, is related in an evocative monologue. |
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| Fishing for Clues by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. As written, there are six men and five women, but two of the men are identical twins, and since very few acting companies are blessed with such a pairing, the characters are assumed to be played by one chap. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length, wryly comic whodunnit. Single country house set. Contains mild swearing and hanky-panky. |
| Synopsis | When Lady Rosemary Huntley brings a new gentleman friend home on the evening of a talk given by prominent Member of Parliament, Ewart Stewart, little does she imagine that the gentleman friend is not long for this world and that the Foreign Office and some offshoot of the KGB will soon be in attendance, along with the ever-enthusiastic PC Pendlebury and the less than enthusiastic Inspector Trench, unimpressed by having his fishing holiday interrupted. Trench is determined to get back to the river bank as soon as possible despite finding himself having to sort through a diverse cast of characters all of whom had motives for committing the deadly deed. |
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| The Food Rationing Auction by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. Chorus. As written, there is a non-speaking (though possibly giggling and nudging) chorus of ladies (who, in the absence of sufficient ladies, might be played by men in drag). |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by David Lovesy and Brian Two.) |
| Synopsis | War time rationing leads to an unusual auction! |
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| For Your Tomorrow by Peter Ayre |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Whilst there are nine characters, doubling of three is invited (for example, the young Albert Parker is intended to be played by the actor who plays David, the older Albert's son.) |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama. Two domestic sets (in the original production this was one box set, with the location change was achieved by using an upstage curtain to conceal or reveal additional set details). Contains a little swearing. |
| Synopsis | Albert is getting old and forgetful, so he's moving in with son and daughter-in-law. His presence and decline add to the problems they're already having with their son. But the play also shows how Albert lived as a young man and husband, and tells of some of the experiences that made him who he was - in particular a little-known second world war campaign that marked a turning-point in the war with Japan. |
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| The Health and Safety Inspector by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by Steve Clark.) |
| Synopsis | The troops manning a dug-out in the front line receive a visit from the Brigade Health and Safety inspector! |
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| The Hunter And The Hunted by JPS Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Two non-speaking roles. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length, emotive drama, set during the First World War. |
| Synopsis | A hunting party on General Franklin-Davies' Scottish estate in the early years of World War One, poignantly and dramatically presages events that the party are to experience in the trenches. |
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| It's A Panto Jim... But Not As We Know It by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 33. No chorus. It's a panto - make your own mind up as to who plays what. Opportunity for three dame figures - cookie and the ugly sisters - plus seven dwarves four mice and a few other creatures. No formal chorus, but lots of minor roles. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for eight original songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | British pantomime - in which the worlds of fairytale and TV science fiction collide, boldly going where no panto has gone before. |
| Synopsis | The crew of the Spaceship Centipede interrupt their hundred year mission to help the Seven Dwarfs wake Snow White and on the way they help Cinderella get the man of her dreams. Just another day on the final frontier, give or take the evil Queens and mice. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Just Like Us by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. The characters are children plus two teachers (who could be offstage voices) and a voice on the radio |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Large cast play about children in World War 2 (covering areas of the English National Curriculum Key Stage 2 topic on WW2). Simple sets, simple props. Includes robust language which some may find inappropriate. |
| Synopsis | Conflict between a group of London evacuees and the children whose school they join. |
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| Keep Smiling Through by Suzan Holder |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 15. Minimum total with doubling = 33. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Chorus size at Producer's discretion |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] Variable timing possible with songs used |
| Music | Well known songs from the wartime era. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A play for schools, with songs, set in a theatre in Britain in World War 2. |
| Synopsis | A Theatre Company preparing and presenting a variety show evokes life in wartime Britain through drama, song, dance and some pathos. |
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