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| Scoop Jackson by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Character genders could be matched to cast available. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy for young actors - nine years and older. |
| Synopsis | The ailing Daily Special is under threat of closure from its owner, Big Boss. Cub reporter Scoop Jackson sets out on a mission to rescue the paper by way of getting a 'big story' from the worlds of show business, politics, or law and order. Success seems to be eluding him as he desperately puts 'Plan D' into action. Will it work? Hold the front page! |
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Scotch Broth by Geoff Bamber with songs by Stuart Ardern
Production by Stranraer Drama Club Juniors won loads of trophies at the Wigton division of the SCDA festival, 2015 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for two songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of ther script. (Two further songs are suggested.) |
| Style | A dramatised partial (probably in both senses) history of Scotland suitable for Primary School aged children and above. Minimal sets (although Hadrian's wall is built - very rapidly - during the show.) |
| Synopsis | Two Inter-Galactic time travellers arrive in Scotland on a fact-finding mission. Guided by a helpful Narrator, they take an eventful journey through the nation's history and culture and encounter some famous faces on the way. |
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| The Scramblings at Spriggly Torch by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comic play - a Second World War mystery. One set, divided into three locations. |
| Synopsis | It is 1943, and enemy plans for a new fighter aircraft have fallen into the hands of British intelligence, but a traitor is suspected of attempting to retrieve them. |
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| Screw Your Courage by Keith Badham |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A five-act play for youth theatre in one-act! |
| Synopsis | An enthralling new look at Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in the modern world of teenage gang culture, which loses none of the power and excitement of the original. The Bard's plot and characters are given new life in this masterful interpretation as contemporary themes merge with age old human emotions. The audience are welcomed in to the action with imaginative use of asides and stage directions. An ideal piece for Youth Theatre with exciting and challenging opportunities for all involved, 'Screw Your Courage' provides a theatrical experience which will be long remembered. |
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| The Script by Trevor Suthers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute play. No set requirements, simplest of props (four scripts!). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A Producer, Director and Actor have called a meeting to tell the writer of a play that they loved it so much they want to change every aspect of it. |
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| Scriptaholic by Billy Doyle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. Chorus. In the author's draft of the script, the 'New Member' is male and the 'Group Leader' female, but there doesn't seem to be any necessity for this! |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short comedy sketch with no specific requirements for set or props. |
| Synopsis | When a new member joins Scriptaholic, a support group for script writers who have lost sight of the boundaries between fantasy and reality, even the group leader finds him too far gone for help. |
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| Scrooge Lives Next Door by Croft & Barnett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch, with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Jolly Jim was having a merry Christmas, until some unwelcome spirits pay him a visit and spill some unpleasant beans. |
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| The Second Amendment by Damian Trasler & Steve Clark |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The police officer could be male or female. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Five minute comedy sketch. Single set (a police interrogation room - so just a couple of chairs and possibly a table). |
| Synopsis | A police officer explores a hunter's constitutional right to bear arms. |
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| A Second Hand by Lucy Cooper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The character is written as a male in his forties but could be played at a different age and, conceivably, could switch gender. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short telephone monologue, delivering dead-pan comedy. No set. Simple props. |
| Synopsis | A salesman tries to buy a second hand car and ends up considering taking a second look at his chosen career. Originally published in 2009, revised in 2017. |
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| The Secret of Buccaneer Bay by Rajapillai Pillai |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's script suggests an extract from a well-known song to be sung at one point in the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act comedy, to be performed by adults to children, with various simple settings. |
| Synopsis | On the eve of a royal wedding, the groom is taken by pirates. It is up to Princess Odelia and her loyal servants, with help from the audience, to rescue him. But there is more to this kidnapping than first meets the eye, as an ancient legend is about to be fulfilled. |
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