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| Ronnie Tumbler Gets Her Goat by Rajapillai Pillai |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There is a set of lyrics built in which can either be put to the tune of 'Oh Susanna' or recited as a poem, with optional guitar accompaniment. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act comedy show performed by adults for children with various suggested settings. |
| Synopsis | The tale of a wild west feud between Bullets McGraw and Otis Mills, with some educational gems thrown in. As the reasons for the feud start to become clear, Ronnie Tumbler and Rocky the talking goat do their best to bring the two sides together. |
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| Royals in Love by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Whilst the characters are nominally older, this is could easily be performed by a junior group. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Light romantic comedy. Two scenes, but requiring furniture only (assuming that the definition of stage furniture runs to a fallen tree). |
| Synopsis | It's not easy for Prince Gerald and Princess Wendy to accept the court's rigid protocol and whenever they can, they sneak away. When they meet, both conceal their true identity, but things get complicated when Gerald resolves to propose. |
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| Rubbish by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming comic monologue. No set or props required.
Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
| Synopsis | A review (part of a revue) of the changing attitudes to waste and recycling. |
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| Rumpelstiltskin - What's in a Name by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Thirteen speaking parts and one non-speaking. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for kids - a comic retelling the German folk-tale, Rumpelstiltskin. |
| Synopsis | Mirko the Miller faces a prison sentence for failing to pay his taxes. He tries to impress the King and Queen by claiming his sister, Anezhka, can spin gold from straw. She is brought to the palace to attempt the impossible feat, whereupon she meets a little man with magic powers who can help her out - but only if she offers him her first-born child... |
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| Rumpelstiltskin [Version 2] by James O'Sullivan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Eight major roles and ten minor ones. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act play for a school or youth theatre. |
| Synopsis | A boastful father makes a foolish claim to a cruel King and his daughter's life depends on her ability to spin straw into gold...
A novel retelling of the traditional tale with a new twist tote ending and plenty of laughs along the way. |
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| Russell at the Doctor by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch with no requirements for props or set (although could easily use a desk and a couple of chairs). |
| Synopsis | Russell goes for a medical check up and discovers that he has been allocated a new Doctor
A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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| Rustics by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection of four sketches. No set requirements, simple props (and only two of those). The sketches could be presented together, or could be used separately (for example as front-of-curtain interludes in a sketch show). |
| Synopsis | Two local yokels discuss whatever comes to mind! |
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| The Saga of Freydis and the Raiders by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!]
Optional interlude for song and dance. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for kids. Simple sets. Not specifically musical, but there is an optional interlude for song and dance. |
| Synopsis | It is 980 A.D. and Freydis nurtures an ambition to become famous by getting herself into a Norse Saga. To do this she must impress The Wise One (Recorder of Sagas) with some deed of daring, a great adventure or victory in some ferocious battle. Unfortunately she has been told time and time again that the Saga is a male-only preserve. Undeterred she seeks to break the mould by sailing across the oceans to discover the New World, the safer alternative to going head-to-head with local bully-boy, Thorbrand the Destroyer. A tale of ambition, daring and Skandiwegian furniture. |
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Samson - The Musical by Sue Gordon
Performance by Cheshire Academy of Performing Arts won the award for Best Junior Production at the Wilmslow Guild One Act Play Festival, 2008 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Whilst the script doesn't specify a chorus, there are groups of 'Israelites' and 'Philistines' and 'Delilah's friends' whose numbers could be expanded. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Scores for 8 original songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script |
| Style | Humorous musical version of the story of Samson and Delilah. Simple sets, basic props (give or take the lion!). There is also a version of this script as a play. (The same script, without the songs.) |
| Synopsis | See the book of Judges, chapters 13 to 16 (give or take the bit where Delilah catches Samson with a jam jar, and with a cha-cha-cha for hairdressers). |
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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
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
** High quality backing tracks for the 8 songs (plus finale music) for Samson - the Musical. (Recording by Dave Watt of the Musical by Sue Gordon.)
** Vocal tracks for the 8 songs (plus finale music) for Samson - the Musical by Sue Gordon. (Musical arrangements by Dave Watt, vocals by Jonny Ardern, Stuart Ardern and Leanne Cooper. Recording by Dave Watt and Jonny Ardern.)
** Zip file containing MP3 high quality backing tracks for the 8 songs (plus finale music) for Samson - the Musical. (Recording by Dave Watt of the Musical by Sue Gordon.)
** Zip file of MP3 vocal tracks for the 8 songs (plus finale music) for Samson - the Musical by Sue Gordon. (Musical arrangements by Dave Watt, vocals by Jonny Ardern, Stuart Ardern and Leanne Cooper. Recording by Dave Watt and Jonny Ardern.)
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| Samson - The Play by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 33. No chorus. Whilst the script doesn't specify a chorus, there are groups of 'Israelites' and 'Philistines' and 'Delilah's friends' whose numbers could be expanded. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Humorous version of the story of Samson and Delilah. Simple sets, basic props (give or take the lion!). This version is purely a play - there is also a musical version of the same script, with 8 original songs. |
| Synopsis | See the book of Judges, chapters 13 to 16 (give or take the bit where Delilah catches Samson with a jam jar). |
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