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Androcles and the Lion by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. The chorus - of soldiers, slaves, Christians and lions - is optional. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming fable for kids. |
Synopsis | Androcles is a man who loves all living things - he's even reluctant to kill a lamb to feed himself. So when a lion appears, he's less worried about it eating his sheep and more concerned that there's a thorn in it's paw. Helping this lion turns out to be a good move in the long term... |
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Are We There Yet? by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two adults and one child. The child is written as a boy, but could easily be chaged into a girl. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An allegorical sketch about Advent! (Minimal staging requirements) |
Synopsis | A family explore a different way to start their holiday. A play with an Advent theme. |
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Baboushka by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Whilst there is no formal requirement for a chorus, there are options for attendants for the Wise Men, and a choir. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | There are places for a couple of carols during the performance. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Short, charming dramatisation of the Russian Christmastide folk tale. |
Synopsis | Baboushka welcomes the Three Wise Men into her spotless home as they pause overnight on their journey to Bethlehem. She is too busy cleaning her house to accompany them as they follow the star and subsequently spends the rest of her life searching for the Christ child. |
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In God's Office by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short two-handed play with a Christian perspective. Single office set. |
Synopsis | A delivery man enters the wrong office by mistake and finds himself discussing free will with God. |
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A Letter to Santa by Sue Gordon Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Two of the characters are nominally adults. It is written so that the cast can be divided into two - a school class and Santa's elves. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for 5 original songs is provided with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | A light musical for young children. Basic sets. |
Synopsis | A school class write Christmas letters to Santa, and we discover that they are dealt with by Mrs. Santa and a bunch of fractious elves. |
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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
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Merry Christmas Everyone by Mark Seaman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Simple, thoughtful short play for Christmas. Single set (just enough to indicate a family home). Originally published 2013, revised 2019. |
Synopsis | The family are just trying to have a day together to enjoy the important things of Christmas - the food, the presents and not having to watch the Eastenders special with Grandma - when a homeless man at the door really spoils the mood. But he must be mad... He says he's Jesus. |
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Signs of Grace by Sarah Howard |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. Friends and narrators parts may be doubled, at the Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act play with simple (or no) set. |
Synopsis | In a modern setting and using narration with action, the Old and New Testaments of the Bible are brought together - to provide a parable, showing why Jesus died for our sins. |
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Small Miracles by Maureen Speller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 54. Chorus. Three short plays, one cast can perform all three or they can have separate casts. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Choral music to be played at various points in play, at discretion of director. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Collection of three short plays with Biblical themes. Suitable for performance by children. |
Synopsis | A trio of short plays following the story of Mary, Joseph and Jesus from the end of most Nativity stories to the early days of Christianity in Rome. |
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The Third Miracle by Howard Lipson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The characters are four adults and two children. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play with a Christian theme. Minimal staging requirements (though the stage is split into two acting areas for two locations/times). |
Synopsis | A short play that tells of the successful campaign to have Father Damien canonised, as well as showing some of the work he did in the leper colony where he died. |
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Was Blind But Now I See by Howard Lipson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short skit, telling and examining a well-known fable from a Christian perspective. No set requirements. |
Synopsis | Five blind people encounter a curious object and work together to find out what it is, while a sighted pair react differently. |
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