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The Three Goats Gruff by Ann Taylor |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play for young children with a single (meadow) setting. |
Synopsis | The 3 sibling goats have overgrazed the land on their side of the river and must travel over the bridge to get to the green grass on the other side. Under the bridge lives a troll who charges a toll. There is an opportunity to use the Tinikling style of dance to represent the bridge as two poles held by actors on each end, tapped together in rhythmic cadence while actors dance between the poles to represent crossing. |
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Tribes United by Richard Morris |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. Very flexible cast - the two tribes largely behave as ensembles. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play written to be used to develop children's movement, group work and dialogue skills. |
Synopsis | The Sculptor Tribe are bored with each other because they all look the same. They go to the Clay Mountains and make a new tribe out of clay. All goes well between them until the Evil Beaky Bird intervenes. |
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Twelve Odd Passengers by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. The characters are nominally nine men and five women, but in the context the genders do not really matter! |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for children. A single setting (nominally a guardroom, but only requires furniture, and not much of that). |
Synopsis | Adapted from Hans Christian Andersen's The Mail Coach Passengers the months of the year introduce themselves with descriptions of their attributes. |
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The Very Busy Stable by Juliet Devon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Narrator role could be split amongst several narrators. There are optional choruses of stars, angels and animals. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] The timing assumes the use of four songs. |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for four songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Short rhyming nativity play (with options for including songs). Principally told by the narrator, with lines for the other participants. |
Synopsis | The nativity story told very simply as just the stable scene with visitors. |
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Willy Wonga by Connie Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. 20 roles, though most are gender non-specific and can be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short modernised adaptation of A Christmas Carol, in rhyming form. |
Synopsis | The tale of A Christmas Carol brought up to date and presented in a rhyming form, starring Willy Wonga, the unrepentant Payday Lender who's keen to get every last penny out of everybody he meets. Until, that is, this Christmas night... |
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The Wonderful World of the Weather by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. Lots of characters, but with just a few lines each, so lots of doubling possible. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 7 songs and three musical interludes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Rhyming play for young children. No set or props needed. The text displayed on-line is in British English, but there is also an edition in US English (US spellings and 'Fall' instead of 'Autumn'). |
Synopsis | A whirlwind tour of the weather and seasons. |
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