Plays Suitable for Performance by Junior Schools

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1001 Arabian Nights and a matineeAuthortlc Creative
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Characters include a pantomime camel. Dame assumed to be played by male, principal boy by female.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Scores for 7 original songs supplied with the producer's copy of the script. (Other songs at the discretion of the producer.)
Style British Pantomime. Slapstick, visual jokes, puns, mayhem and a camel.
Synopsis There's trouble brewing in old Baghdad! Unless the Princess Jasmina marries before her 21st Birthday, the evil Vizier will take control of the city! Things look grim... but hang on! A posse of would-be heroes are here to save the day! The love sick Ali Barber (who pines for the Princess), his dim witted brother Singbad the sailor and his fearsome mother, Dame Barber are ready to intervene and foil the villain's fiendish plot. They are helped along the way by their pal 'Bob' (a lad with a secret), a pantomime camel named Humpy and a lady Genie who's been stuck in a magic ruby for far too long!
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Plus 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
** Rehearsal CD with music for the 7 songs which are supplied with the '1001 Nights' master scripts. [Note that the script also suggests two points at which additional songs might be added at the discretion of the producer. These are NOT on the CD!]
Feedback Click here to find out what other customers said about this script.
A Children's Christmas CarolAuthorRichard James
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run time Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Fifteen-minute play. No set requirements.
Synopsis Charles Dickens' festive classic much abbreviated as a play for an audience of young children, to be performed by a cast of adults (or possibly by a company of older children.)
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
A Christmas BoxAuthorSharon Jenman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for 10 songs and 2 instrumentals is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script.
Style Short one-act musical play for (young) children.
Synopsis A school child gets his wish to see the Romanian child open the present he is sending. A Christmas play for infant schools.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Plus The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
A Fairy Tale AdventureAuthorSophia Holder
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 36. No chorus. Written to be performed by a mixture of (7 to 14) adults and (9 to 22) children. Could be done by a competent kids' group!
Run time Around 65 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Family show, an alternative to British Pantomime, including some similar elements such as audience interaction. (Either a long one-act play, or a short two-act!)
Synopsis The Wicked Witch has changed the endings to all the Fairy Tales so that evil will triumph, and she's kidnapped the Fairy Queen to stop her reversing the spell. Only Hansel, Gretel and Paddy the Gingerbread man can save the tales.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
A Fishy School

Performance by Dean Hole Primary School won the 10th annual Wolfit drama and verse speaking competition.

AuthorRaymond Blakesley
Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 41. Chorus. The characters are mainly fish (with kingfishers and an angler's worm). Speaking chorus, divided up into several groups, commenting on the action.
Run time Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A large-cast fantasy, set in an underwater school. Minimal set and props. Opportunities for dance routines (music is not provided with the script).
Synopsis The tiddlers in the school are threatened by the pike family, King & Queenie Fisher, and the dangling worm. Only wimpy Wilfred Minnow can save them, but will he do it? Will Old Trout help him and who really is she? Can the stickleback teachers teach the tiddlers? Will the staff room run out of coffee?
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
A Forty-Minute OthelloAuthorShakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff
Roles Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus.
Run time Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'Othello', with the original text of around three hours cut down to 40 minutes.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.)
Synopsis Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army, secretly marries Desdemona, daughter of a nobleman. Roderigo, a suitor of Desdemona, and Iago, a jealous soldier, conspire against Othello, turning him against Desdemona, with disastrous consequences.
An introduction to Shakespeare for schools.
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A Grimm Night for Hans Christian Andersen (Musical)AuthorSue Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. Lots of speaking parts, but few characters per scene so easy to structure small rehearsals. Whilst it does not require a chorus, there is scope for extra characters in a few of the scenes. Some of the characters sing!
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for 7 original songs and 3 pieces of incidental music is provided with the producer's copy of the script.
Style Comic retelling of fairytales as a musical play. Many scenes, but using the same few pieces of 'set furniture'. Simple props.
Synopsis Hans Christian Andersen gets an unexpected visit from the Brothers Grimm - who seem to be upset over the matter of stealing story lines. A competition ensues, with characters from Andersen and Grimm stories taking the stage - often in unexpected ways.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Plus 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
Feedback Click here to find out what other customers said about this script.
A Grimm Night for Hans Christian Andersen (Play)AuthorSue Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. Lots of speaking parts, but few characters per scene so easy to structure small rehearsals. Whilst it does not require a chorus, there is scope for extra characters in a few of the scenes.
Run time Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Comic retelling of fairytales - many scenes, but using the same few pieces of 'set furniture'. Simple props.
Synopsis Hans Christian Andersen gets an unexpected visit from the Brothers Grimm - who seem to be upset over the matter of stealing story lines. A competition ensues, with characters from Andersen and Grimm stories taking the stage - often in unexpected ways.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
A History Of The Olympic Games - A Class PlayAuthorSue Russell
Roles Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 37. No chorus. Characters include a Greek god and a horse!
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A short play for a full school class.
Synopsis The history of the Olympic Games, beginning at the ancient games with a personal appearance by Zeus, followed by a whirlwind tour of the modern games, complete with a selection of famous medal winners.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
A History of the Olympics - Readers' TheatreAuthorSue Russell
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 36. No chorus. Six plays with six characters in each.
Run time Around 60 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A set of six mini-plays (with run times around 10 minutes) designed for 'readers theatre' (i.e. use for small group reading), though they could also be performed as plays. No set requirements. Producer's Copy includes a quiz for each play.
Synopsis Olympic history, comparing the ancient games to the modern olympics and studying the development of the modern Olympic games through references to events, sportsmen and controversies.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
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