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| The Nutcracker by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 131 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 15 songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script, 7 with original lyrics provided. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length pantomime adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffman's story, with various settings. |
| Synopsis | When the evil King Mousemat tries to invade Sweet Land and imprison the Sugar Plum Fairy, he is thwarted by Nicholas, nephew of Professor Drosselmeyer. In revenge, he has Nicholas turned into a nutcracker.To break the spell, Nicholas must defeat Mousemat and also find true love. |
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| Odysseus and the Cyclops by Tony North |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Cast numbers are very flexible. The chorus is nominally the 12 great gods of Ancient Greece. The 'characters' include soldiers (nominally 3) and sheep (nominally 4) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play for kids in the style of Ancient Greek drama. (Appropriate for the English National Curriculum KS2 History topic Ancient Greece.) Includes the violence inherent in the story! |
| Synopsis | The tale of Odysseus and the Cyclops (from Homer's Odyssey) told as a short play for children, in the style of an Ancient Greek play. |
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| Oedipus - Swollen Foot by Graham Milton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for schools - ideal as a classroom or assembly piece. |
| Synopsis | A light-hearted, accessible take on the Greek myth. Oedipus gradually discovers he has killed his father and married his mother. He learns how one cannot avoid fate, however hard one tries, and that great fortune is often followed by great misfortune. |
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| Of Myths And Mortals by Matt Harper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Alex, Toni, Ash, Pip, Curator 1, Curator 2, Guard and Florist can be played by male or female actors, with pronouns changed accordingly. Guard and Florist can be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy drama for schools with a flexible museum setting. |
| Synopsis | A rather badly behaved family's visit to the museum is marked with a re-telling of Greek Myths which strangely resonate with modern behaviours. |
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Oh, Mr Shakespeare! by Geoff Bamber
Performance by ACTS won the Best Junior Individual Performance at the Wilmslow one-act play festival, 2017. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids. (In four acts, but of one-act length!) Whilst there are nominally three locations, these can be indicated by a minimum of furniture (a writing desk, a throne... that sort of thing). |
| Synopsis | The little-known story of how William Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway, not only saved the nation from invasion but also her husband's head from the axeman. This play is notionally set in the year 1594. Any degree of historical accuracy is purely accidental. |
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| Old King Cole [Part-Rhyming Panto] by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Many of the characters are nominally male (the title King is a clue), but it's a panto so you can cast it however you like! |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 8 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act British pantomime told partly in verse. |
| Synopsis | Old King Cole is a merry old soul, but the nine other kings of the land are less friendly, as they plot to steal Cole's crown and usurp his throne. However, they soon realise there is someone more villainous than them, who will use every trick in the panto villain book to thwart their plans. |
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| The Olympian Myths by Tony North |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute, large cast play for schools in the style of Ancient Greek drama. (Appropriate for the English National Curriculum KS2 History topic Ancient Greece.) |
| Synopsis | A brief introduction to some of the gods of Greek legend |
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| Olympic Games 2012 [Large Cast Version] by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 45. Minimum total without doubling = 94. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for fourteen songs. (Others could be substituted at the discretion of the production team.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Educational and entertaining piece for kids. Intended for a large cast - a whole school year group, for example. |
| Synopsis | An intruduction to all the sports that will be on display at the 2012 Olympics. |
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| Olympic Games 2012 [Single Class Version] by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for fourteen songs. (Others could be substituted at the discretion of the production team.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Educational and entertaining piece for kids. Intended for performance by a school class. |
| Synopsis | An intruduction to all the sports that will be on display at the 2012 Olympics. |
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| Olympic Ode - Faster, Higher, Stronger by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Designed with flexibility in mind, with the possibility of up to 24 idividuals (representing athletes of various sorts) taking a verse each, plus one or more speakers taking the chorus parts. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Performance poem for a class of children. No props or staging requirmeents |
| Synopsis | The motto of the Olympic Games, Citius, Altius, Fortius - Faster, Higher, Stronger - explored in verse, with the performers representing different groups of athletes. |
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