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Potted Austen: The Complete Set by Lou Treleaven |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Six bitesize adaptations of Jane Austen's novels. |
Synopsis | A collection of six bitesize dramatic adaptations of Jane Austen's published novels. Each is fast-paced, witty, and amenable to small groups (cast size can be reduced to six with some crafty doubling). |
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Pride and Prejudice [Full-Length] by Charlie Cook |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. In addition to the 18 characters, there are a further four optional non-speaking parts. |
Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length adaptation of Jane Austen's classic. Single composite set with three locations. |
Synopsis | Bingley, Darcy, Lizzy, Wickham and Collins sneer, smarm and spurn their way through this well-loved tale of manners and assumptions. |
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The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain adapted by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. The vast majority of the characters are written male, but need not be played that way. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the scripts includes suggestions for up to 19 songs (with original lyrics to well-known tunes). However, the songs are optional - the piece functions equally well as a play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length play/musical. A family show, written for performance by a youth theatre company, but could be a mix of adults and children. |
Synopsis | A faithful adaptation and well crafted dramatisation of the classic novel by Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper is a musical play suitable for secondary schools or Academies specialising in the performing arts. As well as historical interest it provides a challenging project for producing, directing, acting and technical disciplines in school or community settings |
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Princess Bigfoot by Bob Heather |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act family play, based on real characters circa 750 AD (though incorporating folk tales). |
Synopsis | In 8th Century France an identity theft scheme to usurp the Princess Bertha from her position as the wife of King Pepin is thwarted by that famous pair of investigators: Messrs Hercule and Poirot - as well as by the Princess’s shoe size. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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A Princess For Christmas by Jeff Bray |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. 7 actors, with a choir of 3-4 singers. |
Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy with a single retirement home setting. |
Synopsis | Grumpy old widower Reg gets the shock of his life when his ex-mistress Diane, who he abandoned many years ago, is admitted to the Retirement Home After a stormy beginning and with the tender help of the staff and other residents, they are able to rekindle their relationship. |
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The Prisoners' Dilemma by Matthew Lynch |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Six main characters and four cameo roles. |
Run Time | Around 71 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A drama in two scenes, which could be played as two acts - making it a full length piece, with a single (prison cell) set. |
Synopsis | A disparate group of strangers are locked in a prison cell, not knowing the reason for their incarceration. They are all put to the test through a series of challenges, some of which could be lethal, and finally seem able to benefit - from finding their inner selves. |
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Problem In Judaea by Stewart Boston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Easter play. Structurally in two acts, but of one act length. Three sets, but designed for minimal staging. |
Synopsis | A minimalist retelling of the events surrounding the Crucifixion, told from the point of view of Pilate, the Sanhedrin and Herod. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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The Pursuit Of Perfection by Anna Tyrie |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act fantasy play |
Synopsis | Told through the eyes of twins and their mother, the play examines prejudice - set in an Orwellian world in which the 'natural crop' becomes dominated by those of 'perfect' genetically modified breeding. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Puss in Boots [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Includes a cat and an ogre, so nothing out of the ordinary. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy (not really a pantomime treatment, though this is frequently a panto subject). Several different locations, but no real set requirements, so can be staged very simply. |
Synopsis | Jack, the Miller's youngest son, finds himself cast out when his father retires and hands over the business to his other two sons. With only a burning ambition to be a magician, a dream of marrying a princess and his cat for company, he sets out to make his fortune. After an inauspicious start to his great adventure, a misfiring trick results in the cat being far more useful than Jack could ever have imagined. |
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Queen of the Pond by Tim O'Brien |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Whilst the pond creatures are written male and female, only serious biologists can tell the difference. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano/vocal scores for nine original songs (plus reprise) are included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Musical for schools and youth theatres. An original take on the time-tested tale of amphibian ambition. Alternates between two sets. Originally published 2011, revised 2014 |
Synopsis | Sarah wants to learn to be a princess so she has a chance of marrying Prince Chesterfield, however she's up against some serious - and scheming - competition from The Princess Club. A mistaken spell from a mathematically-challenged wizard turns Sarah into a frog instead of a princess. Can she still win the heart of the prince and save her friends in the pond at the same time? |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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