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| Extra Time by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters could be female. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play, with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | A student is into the last couple of minutes of his exam time when the new invigilator takes over. Despite exam conditions, the student seems determined to talk, and even test the invigilator on his mathematical skills. |
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| The Eye of the Pharaoh by Roger Hurn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. Most of the characters are not gender-specific. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light and fun Egyptian romp for a school or youth theatre company. |
| Synopsis | The Eye of the Pharaoh is a jewel of immense power that ensures the continued reign of Ramenha. His Uncle Ahketnan doesn't want that reign to continue - he wants to be pharaoh, and recruits Salen to help him steal the jewel. But Salen uses it to raise a demon... |
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| Eye Phone 64 by John Harper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act futuristic drama with a single (studio apartment) set. |
| Synopsis | In the not too distant future, Nokia lives with his android butler. A mobile phone salesman arrives to update Nokia's phone - with devastating results. |
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| Face2Face by Helen Spencer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 15. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 60. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 6 optional songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A play for schools (ideal for Key Stage 2 or 3) with music, dance and a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Sam is a delightful child - happy, smiley and kind to others. Well, at least that’s the impression she gives to adults. When her parents aren’t looking, or the teachers’ backs are turned, Sam reveals her true personality. |
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| Faces on the Cutting Room Floor by Gene Washington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play which might, because it treats the same subject in a variety of ways, be viewed as a series of sketches. Minimal setting (a pair of chairs, representing a car). |
| Synopsis | A group of alternative endings to the story of Bonnie and Clyde, to be used in no particular order. A comic treatment of a serious event, for three actors. |
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| The Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden by Kieron Toner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Ravenscar (one of two fictional characters) is written male but could be played female. |
| Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dramatisation of the true story of the Cottingley fairies. |
| Synopsis | Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, now elderly ladies, recount to two investigators the events that took place in Cottingley in 1917, when as young girls they took photographs of fairies. |
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A Fairy Tale Adventure by Sophia Holder
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| 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. [Estimated!] |
| 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. |
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| The Fairy Tale Debate by Richard L. Sanders |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act satire in the style of a political debate. |
| Synopsis | Three candidates are running to be President of Fairy Tale Land, and though their names are different, you’ll recognise their stories. Host Andersen Grimm moderates a tense and sometimes rowdy debate. |
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A Fairy Trial by Robert Scott
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comic courtroom sketch. |
| Synopsis | We are all entitled to a fair trial. Nursery rhyme characters get a fairy trial. In this case, Wee Willy Winkie is in the dock for indecency and causing a public nuisance. (Something like that.) His future looks bleak, but things look up when a prosecution witness goes to pieces. Without Humpty, is there a case against Wee Willie? Can the prosecution or defence sway the jury - played by the audience? |
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| Faith, Hope and Bertha by Daniel Krueger |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. One character is deliberately doubled - playing twin brothers. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A temperance melodrama, complete with perfect heroines, mustachioed villain, exaggerated gestures and asides. A lot of comedy to be had from playing this straight! Two interior sets, plus front-of-cloth scenes. |
| Synopsis | In the wilds of the Yukon, dastardly villain, Ivan Mean has designs on the estate of Ben Upright - and he intends to get them by hook or by crook. That includes marrying Ben's daughter, Faith - but first he has to be rid of her intended, Ernest Noble... |
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