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| Trouble in Troy! by Mark Ash |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 15. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very funny comedy play for kids, set amidst the Trojan war. Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | Spectakles (pronounced in the Greek way!) the slave has a hard life in Troy, but the siege has made it harder. The King won't listen to any of his war machine inventions, and now Helen herself is causing him trouble too. Sent to the Greeks as an envoy, he gets them mad at him too. Can he survive the war? |
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| Troy Story by Graham Milton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for schools - ideal as a classroom or assembly piece. |
| Synopsis | A comic take on the story of the Trojan War, with a rapping and bloodthirsty Greek chorus keeping the audience up to date. This short play covers argument between Achilles and Agamemnon over two captive women, through Achilles' sulk and Patroclus' sacrifice, through Hector's and Achilles' death, to the destruction of Troy via Odysseus' stratagem of the Wooden Horse. |
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| The True Story of Richard Whittington Esq. by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple one-act pantomime (generally intended for performance by kids, but don't let that limit you!) |
| Synopsis | Dick Whittington, an orphan, heads for London to seek his fame and fortune. Accompanied by his faithful cat, known as Cat, he gains employment in the home of Lord and Lady Fitzwarren, where he, predictably, falls in love with the daughter of the house, Miss Honoria. Lord Fitzwarren is beset by debts and the predatory threat of the villain of the story, King Rat, who has designs on claiming the family's home. A fanciful scheme to pay off the debts fails and the Fitzwarrens fall into the clutches of the Rats. As Dick desperately tries to think of a solution, the situation is rescued by Cat, returning from an interesting excursion to foreign parts and now armed with special powers, those of the mystic phenomenon known as the Tsobaki! |
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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 Tudors by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Five songs with new lyrics set to well-known tunes are suggested (with the lyrics embedded in the script). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Educational and entertaining one-act musical for kids. |
| Synopsis | A humorous journey through the life and times of the Tudors, from Henry VII to Queen Elizabeth I, with lots of facts to complement the national school curriculum. |
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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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| Tumultus by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Most of the named characters are written male (for reasons of historical verisimilitude), but some could be played female. The two groups of supporters could accommodate a large number of extras, up to the capacity of your amphitheatre. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama (played for comedy) in which the protagonists speak Latin and the narrators, where necessary, translate. This is based on a real event, reported by the military historian Tacitus. |
| Synopsis | In 59 AD, a disgraced Roman Senator, Livineius Regulus, put on a spectacular gladiatorial contest in Pompeii. An incident at the contest sparked a riot (the Tumultus of the title) between Pompeians and rival supporters from Nuceria. This play takes us through the events.
(The run time may be extended, depending on the time spent in gladiatorial contests and riot.) |
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| The Twelve Labours Exchange by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Hera is represented by an offstage laugh which might be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short Ancient Greek comedy - a riff on myth. |
| Synopsis | Hercules (Heracles to the Greeks) is out of work and looking for a job at the Labour Exchange. Preferably one where Hera won't find it easy to continue trying to kill him. |
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| The Twelve Months by Tony Best, adapted from Antonia Barber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for junior/secondary school children, based on an Eastern European folk tale (translated by Antonia Barber). The author suggests a single set divided into three areas. |
| Synopsis | Marushka, the young stepdaughter of a widow, is always being ordered around and berated when she questions her stepmother's unreasonable requests. As punishment, her stepmother asks her to leave the house in January and only return when she has found a bunch of Violets - flowers which only grow in April. She dutifully acccepts, only to stumble upon the meeting-place of the twelve months of the year. They agree to help her, but when she returns with violets, her stepmother has more tasks for her... |
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| Twist by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Whirlwind adaptation of Dickens' Oliver Twist as a one-act comedy for kids. |
| Synopsis | Wide-eyed innocent Oliver progresses from orphanage to workhouse to den of thieves to prison cell and then back onto the mean streets as a fugitive, and not only from the law. No matter, things can only get better, can't they? Even the ever-optimistic Oliver is beginning to have doubts about that. |
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| Two Farmers by Damian Trasler & David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters are farmers, hence the title. (Could be male or female.) |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch with no set and no props (give or take an implicit farm gate!) |
| Synopsis | Two farmers converse! A thinly disguised string of dreadful farmyard-related jokes! |
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| Two Gentlemen of Verona by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Flexible numbers of soldiers and outlaws |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A humorous retelling of Shakespeare's story as a modern-language one-act play. |
| Synopsis | When Proteus follows his best friend Valentine to fashionable Milan, he finds himself attracted to the Duke of Milan's daughter, Silvia, upon whom Valentine has already set his sights. Hatching a plot to remove Valentine from the scene and move in on Silvia, he does not realise that he is being followed by Julia, the girl he left behind in Verona and to whom he has sworn everlasting devotion. Will the faithless scoundrel succeed with Silvia or will his efforts founder? A no-brainer, really. |
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