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| Shadowdancer by Wesley A. Knoch |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for 9 songs and three instrumentals are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical for teenagers. (Structured in two acts, but of one-act length.) Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Rocky, the bullying leader of his gang, is led into a scary world of shadows, where he learns that he needs to pay his dues... |
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** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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| Shadows In The Middle by Patti Veconi |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. Contains scenes altered for either predominantly male or female casts. |
| Run Time | Around 51 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A Shakespearean themed play for youth theatre (American English). |
| Synopsis | Puck's final monologue from A Midsummer Night's Dream is dramatically examined in the context of modern school life and everyday teenage angsts and relationships. |
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| The Shakespeare Convention by Christine Harvey (with YAK Drama Camp) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. There are male and female characters, but in Shakespeare's day, they were all played by men, and there is no reason why the reverse convention should not be applied (or anywhere between the two ectremes). |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play (which might be regarded as a coherent collection of skits) for kids. There's a lot going on, but it doesn't need a complex set. A fun introduction to Shakespeare! |
| Synopsis | Bumbling producer Burbage and his irate associate Iggy have put together a Shakespeare convention, at which the actors perform four plays and a sonnet in a rather unconventional manner. Iggy is out to ruin Burbage, but loses the plot a little towards the end! |
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| Shakespeare Lite by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short historical play. |
| Synopsis | An Elizabethan narrator introduces three Saxon 'mechanicals' who discuss their lives and the state of their country in the aftermath of the Norman invasion. |
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| Shame On You by Bruce Hunt |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two adults and two children (could be played by four kids.) The children play the younger-selves of the adults. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short play. Single set, simple props. Part of the Emotions collection of shorts. |
| Synopsis | Every Christmas for the last fifteen years, Becky has given her brother Sam a chocolate rabbit. Why? When he finds out, it's time for the truth to be told about a fifteen-year-old mystery. |
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| Sherlock Holmes - The Panto by Jenny Gilbert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 43. Chorus. Mrs. Hudson as Pantomime Dame, Charlie (the hero) assumed to be played by a female as a 'principal boy'. Lots of 'cameo roles' and a pantomime dog! |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains a list of 12 suggested songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Unconventional pantomime, parodying Conan Doyle. A variety of characters, a Holmsian plot, plenty of spectacle, songs, dances and a magic trick. |
| Synopsis | In the foggy streets of London, somebody is murdering umpires, Princess Freda is in jeopardy and Queen Victoria is not amused. Could this be a dastardly plot from arch villain Moriarty? And why is there a sudden outbreak of false moustaches? Inspector Semaphore and Sergeant Dull are baffled. Sherlock Holmes and the trusty Watson are on the case, but one step ahead of them is Charlie, the leader of the Baker Street Irregulars, and a canine catastrophe called Baskerville. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Sherlock Holmes and The Book of Secret Secrets by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy drama for schools. |
| Synopsis | When mild-mannered civil servant Arthur Mulligan is attacked in the mean streets of London, Sherlock Holmes is called in by Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard to track down the culprit. As Mulligan has been robbed of a series of top secret codes, Holmes needs to apprehend a fiendishly clever adversary - who could make fools not only of Holmes, but the whole of the Metropolitan Police too. |
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| Sherlock Holmes and The Emerald of Alcazar by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children, assumed to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comic melodrama. Simple sets, varied characters, strong story line. |
| Synopsis | The theft of a famous jewel draws Sherlock Holmes into the foggy streets of London and a battle of wits with a deadly enemy. |
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| Sherlock Penguin by S. J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Whilst many of the characters are nominally gendered, they are, when all's said and done, animals. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids, full of silly and irreverent fun. |
| Synopsis | Sherlock's a detective penguin but he's lacking in brainpower and clients. He's about to be evicted from his office when Moriarty, the celebrity wolverine, arrives to become his friend and he believes his problems are solved. Watson is not so sure, however... |
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Shop! by Geoff Bamber
Performance by Wilmslow Guild Players won The Syd Mence Cup for a Piece of Theatre Magic at the Wilmslow one-act play festival, 2017. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for a youth theatre company. Could be performed in front of a backdrop, but a bare stage will do! |
| Synopsis | A short stop for supplies at Mrs Popkiss’s shop turns into a frustrating afternoon for a group of would-be campers. |
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