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Weir of Hermiston by David McVey from Robert Louis Stevenson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. Characters are adults, plus one boy with a playing age of around 10, as the young Archie Weir. The chorus (non-speaking townspeople, servants, etc.) is optional. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama, focusing on the relationship between Archie Weir and his tyrannical father. Adapted from an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Uses broad Scots (though omitting the less fathomable language from Stevenson's draft.) |
Synopsis | Archie Weir is the son of the Lord Justice Clerk and in training to be a lawyer himself, though he is fearful of his hard father. Following advice from a family friend, Archie watches a trial held by his father and is horrified at the old man's apparent glee at hanging the poor wretch. He speaks out in public against the death penalty and is exiled to the family's country estate. |
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Well Well Well by Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. The chorus - additional peasants - is optional. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for six original songs (Lyrics by Bill Tordoff, Music by Adrian Watts & Jonny Ardern) is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | One act musical play for kids. A pantomime setting, with panto characters, though not strictly a pantomime in terms of its original plot! |
Synopsis | The down-trodden Pantoville peasants earn meagre wages singing happy choruses and smiling for tourists. When Councillor Purslove makes them redundant they're desperate for work and are grateful to Dick Whittington for using them in his TV commercials. But when he plans to privatise their well and employ them at starvation wages they take matters into their own hands. |
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Westerfield at War by Marcus Grollman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, intended to be played by children. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Song suggestions are made within the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A serious school play - but with a good deal of humour - set in World War 2. Mixture of full-stage sets and front-of-curtain scenes (allowing for set changes). |
Synopsis | A series of modern-day reminiscences of the Second World War, played out through scenes of school, village and military life in war-time. |
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What The Dickens! by Andrew Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 45. Chorus. Roles can be doubled at will with some swift costume changes. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for eight original songs is provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. |
Style | A full length musical play for secondary schools / youth theatre. |
Synopsis | Charles Dickens hosts a musical journey through some of his most popular books. He links the works together and interacts personally with the various characters along the way. This includes some very feisty encounters with his less desirable creations. |
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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
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When Darkness Falls by Sam Simkin On the evidence of this script, the author won the award for Most Promising Young Playwright, Trinity College London's International Playwriting Competition, 2013-14 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. Intended for performance by a Youth Theatre company or by a mix of adults and teenagers. |
Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama, very much from the perspective of the central character. |
Synopsis | Teenager Alex lives with his dysfunctional family in a state of teenage confusion and angst. His witnessing of a murder has a profound effect on his already troubled mind leading to his leaving home. His encounter with homeless people is inspirational and leads him down the right path. |
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Who Framed the Easter Bunny? by Warren McWilliams Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. A long list of characters, but with plenty of cameos and chorus roles, so plenty of opportunities for doubling or for participation of a large company. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing allows for 10 songs. |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full-length family play (with songs) with interactive quiz elements. |
Synopsis | There's trouble brewing in Happy Kingdom. The Easter Bunny stands accused of stealing all the chocolate in the land by the wicked Halloween Queen, who wants to make Halloween last forever. The Easter Bunny needs your help before it's too late. Follow along, help find the clues, and prove the Easter Bunny's innocence. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Graphic image which might be used to form the nucleus of a flyer or poster for a production of 'Who Framed The Easter Bunny' by Warren McWilliams
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Who The Devil Did It? by Carol Hill and Anna Heppner |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. A large cast piece. Most of the characters are written male, but some could easily be switched without changing the nature of the piece. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with sheet music for 7 original songs plus instrumental interludes. Snatches of other songs are suggested. |
Style | Full-length musical comedy for juniors/teenagers. |
Synopsis | Two brothers, who are a little down on their luck, stumble onto a big art theft and end up deeply involved in the search for the stolen painting, the thief and the fabulous missing Mona Lisa to boot! |
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Extras | 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
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The Wicked Witch & The Magic Shop by William Arnold Ashbrook Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. The cast includes cats and gremlins. Gladys could be played as a pantomime dame. |
Run Time | Around 97 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with the scores for 11 original songs (plus five reprises). |
Style | A musical family show with opportunities for audience participation (therefore occupying a theatrical space close to British Pantomime). |
Synopsis | Graveling, the evil witch, has turned a number of good people into life size dolls and cats. The young heroes, enlist the help of the owners of the Magic Shop and Marlin the decrepit magician, and together they manage to defeat the witch and her gremlin helpers. |
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Will at the Tower by Pete Hartley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. Five principals plus a chorus of singers. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The dialogue is interwoven with multiple instances of five original songs. |
Style | Period drama. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | A story (based on a local tradition) of Catholicism in the reign of Elizabeth 1st. The Jesuit priest, Edmund Campion pays a clandestine visit to Hoghton Tower in Lancashire with a young Will Shakespeare in tow. They observe the life of the house as the new lady of the manor tries to marry off the daughter of the previous lord. |
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The Willow Tree by Geoff Bamber Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Zhongwen's soldiers, are the chorus (in the sense of having indefinite numbers) but are non-speaking. [As far as I can remember, this is the only story in which the hero is an accountant.] |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Humorous one-act play for kids, based on the legend of The Willow Pattern Plate. Multiple settings but minimal sets. |
Synopsis | When Renshu the merchant finds himself seriously in debt to the fierce Island Traders, he decides to marry off his daughter Mingmei to the entirely disagreeable but extremely rich landowner Zhongwen. But Mingmei is in love with Chang, her father’s humble accountant. Mingmei and Chang flee to a remote island but soon Zhongwen, Renshu and the Island Traders are heading for the same island. Can Renshu's inventive servant, Ping, and the sorceress Li Hua give the course of true love a fighting chance? |
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