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The Willow Tree by Geoff Bamber
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Zhongwen's soldiers, are the chorus (in the sense of having indefinite numbers) but are non-speaking.
[As far as I can remember, this is the only story in which the hero is an accountant.] |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Humorous one-act play for kids, based on the legend of The Willow Pattern Plate. Multiple settings but minimal sets. |
| Synopsis | When Renshu the merchant finds himself seriously in debt to the fierce Island Traders, he decides to marry off his daughter Mingmei to the entirely disagreeable but extremely rich landowner Zhongwen. But Mingmei is in love with Chang, her father’s humble accountant. Mingmei and Chang flee to a remote island but soon Zhongwen, Renshu and the Island Traders are heading for the same island. Can Renshu's inventive servant, Ping, and the sorceress Li Hua give the course of true love a fighting chance? |
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| Wilma Tell - The Swiss Miss by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Eleven speaking parts and an unspeaking chorus of unspeakable townsfolk. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comic twisting for kids of the Swiss sixteenth century legend. A one-act play in length, though structurally in three acts. |
| Synopsis | Wilma Tell and her brother Johann travel to the prosperous Swiss town of Altdorf to make their fortunes. Unfortunately their arrival coincides with that of the forces of an expanding Austrian Empire, represented by the cruel Governor Gessler. Wilma, more by accident than design, soon finds the whole town depending on her to resist Gessler's attentions. |
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| The Wizard that Was by Anne Bourke |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing includes an estimate for 5 songs. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains some suggestions for five songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act pantomime for schools. Uses parodies of L. Frank Baum characters in an original story. |
| Synopsis | Thanks to the Wicked Witch's curse, Christmas in Happyville has been cancelled. It's down to Jack and Jenny to traverse the mountains and forest to reach the Wizard That Was and see if his magic can overcome the witch. |
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| Wolf 'n the Hood by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The wolf and three pigs are nominally male, but since they are a wolf and three pigs, it doesn't really matter that much! |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act court-room comedy for kids. Whilst this is a richly comic fantasy drama, it is also meant as an introduction to courtroom procedure! |
| Synopsis | The Big Bad Wolf is in the dock, accused of sheepnapping, and Bo Peep is determined to get a conviction. Can Red Riding Hood save her client despite their shared history? |
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The Wolf Who Cried Boy by George Douglas Lee
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. A mixture of real and fairy tale characters. Aimed at a family audience. Could be played by children, by adults or by a mixture of adults and children. (There, who does that leave out?) |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for 8 original songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. (Part of the 'Master Scripts for Copying' and 'Performance Set of Scripts' packages.) |
| Style | Musical play in one act. |
| Synopsis | The Big Bad Wolf is past his prime and has no respect from anyone. He wishes he could be a little boy, a human boy, but when the wish is granted he finds life as a boy isn't the idyll he'd been hoping for. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| The World Turned Upside Down by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Optional chorus of would-be citizens storming the Bastille! |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for the two songs (one traditional, the other the Marseillaise) suggested in the script is provided with the Producer's Copy. |
| Style | One-act historical drama for kids. |
| Synopsis | A short dramatisation of the French Revolution from the point of view of the peasants (who join in the overthrow of King Louis but rapidly become disillusioned). |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Midi files of songs from the show
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| The Writer by Garry R. Keane |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. Flexible cast, with a non-speaking chorus of dancers, children and horrid creatures. (Far be it from me to say that there is any overlap between these categories.) |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for schools (about writing for the stage). Single set. |
| Synopsis | A young writer settles down to write a play, racing against the twin deadlines of school in the morning and dinnertime. He tries several genres, and the plays collide, forcing the characters themselves to lend a hand. |
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| Wuthering Heights by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with minimal settings, adapted from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. |
| Synopsis | A duo of comic narrators guide us through the familiar story including all of the important characters with the exception of Heathcliff who unfortunately could not attend. His last minute replacement - Tarzan! - admirably fills his shoes. |
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Yo Ho Ho! (A Pirate Christmas) by Sue Gordon
Best Seller Performance by The Shaun Winterflood Academy of Theatrical Studies won the GADOC Jubilee Trophy in the Guernsey One-Act Play Festival, 2009. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. None of the characters are gender-specific! |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for five original songs is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | One Act musical (secular) Christmas play for kids. |
| Synopsis | The captain has banned his pirates from celebrating Christmas. Can they win the captain over? |
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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
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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| You Can't Be Serious! by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Very flexible cast numbers (the upper limit is the entire population of Syracuse). Two presenters appear throughout, the rest of the characters appear in individual episodes and are therefore open to doubling if needed. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play - though arguably a sketch show with a linking theme and two linking characters (the presenters). Ideal for a school class mixing science, history, linguistics and drama. What more could you want? |
| Synopsis | An affectionate spoof of children's science programmes sneaks in some education amongst the fun as the two presenters take a stroll through time to examine the origins of some well-known (and some less well-known) scientific words. |
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