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| A 21st Century Nativity by Peter van der Sluijs |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] Carols can be sung between scenes that would extend the length of this play. |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script suggests six carols to be interspersed between the scenes. (These would increase the run time to up to 30 minutes.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short nativity play (though considerably longer if the suggested carols are sung), with optional traditional nativity tableau. Six scenes, but minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | What would the story of the birth of Jesus be like if it were to happen now? |
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An Almost Correct Christmas Story by James O'Sullivan
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Most of the characters are written male, but since their activities are gender-neutral, reassignment would not change the piece. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light hearted take on the Nativity. |
| Synopsis | Following the gospels relatively closely with a few whimsical modifications, the play makes for a humorous end of year festival production with the added benefit of being suitable for performance as a satirical piece by adults or as a tongue in cheek comedy by children and youth groups. |
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| The Best in the Book by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Chorus includes unspecified numbers of (talking) sheep and camels |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes sheet music for three original songs. A number of traditional carols are also suggested in the script. |
| Style | Irreverend, humorous nativity play. Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | A humorous nativity story, with pantomime camels, talkative sheep, Queens as well as kings and lots of angels. The shepherds really don't like their job and spend the cold winter's night in drinking too much! They are very alarmed when angels appear. Meanwhile, one of the kings' camels develops a puncture... |
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| A Christmas Mouse by Susan Vesey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Variable chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Words for 8 of the 9 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A simple traditional nativity play, with chorus singing. |
| Synopsis | A Christmas nativity variation, with carols, songs, and a mouse... Suitable for young children. |
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| The Christmas Play by Peter Lancaster Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. The chorus is an optional mixture of choir and extras! Could be played by children or a mixture of adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suitable Christmas carols are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Fifteen minute play. Simple hospital set, used to frame the nativity play within the play. |
| Synopsis | Missing the school Nativity play, thanks to a broken toe, Sarah is sulking, but the nurse has an idea. Soon a cast is assembling for the hospital ward Nativity and Sarah gets to sing along after all. |
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| A First Christmas In Rhyme by Aberuthven Primary School ed. Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for nine traditional carols or hymns. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A rhyming nativity play for primary schools. |
| Synopsis | A rhyming version of the traditional story of the first Christmas. |
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| Frank Sent This... by Aaron Warren |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 28. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Chorus size may vary |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] This allows for 17 songs or music pieces included |
| Music | Mostly song suggestions with one original song and score provided with the Producer's copy. |
| Style | A one act nativity comedy, with fun centering on events in Bethlehem. |
| Synopsis | A school nativity rehearsal is causing three students to question whether the events they're portraying ever took place at all. Their teacher makes a Christmas wish, and the three find themselves back in Bethlehem, dressed as the three kings... |
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| God's Messenger Department by Bill Siviter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. Option for more animals to be added to the stable tableau.
One of the characters is a star. Well, they're all stars, but you know what I mean. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Irreverent approach to the nativity (the story is all there, but the perspective is unorthodox!). Likely to appeal to older children rather than the youngest element normally associated with such plays. |
| Synopsis | The Archangels are all relaxing in their common room when they get a call from the Boss... There are messages to be delivered, to Joseph, Mary and the three kings. Not to mention the shepherds in the fields too - Gabriel has to put down his Nintendo and get busy! |
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| It's Christmas Time! by Sharon Stace-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Flexible cast plus the option of a separate choir (otherwise choir pieces are sung by the acting ensemble.) |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] (Run time of the first production was 35 minutes!) |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for the 9 songs plus optional overture and 8 pieces of incidental music. |
| Style | A musical nativity play for schools, with minimal staging requirements. |
| Synopsis | A lop eared donkey who wants to be a horse, sets the scene for this nativity play with a difference. |
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| The Journey of the Magi [Verse] by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. There are options to double some parts, to split the narrator's role amongst multiple players and to add a non-speaking chorus.
The characters include a camel. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming nativity play (from the perspective of the Magi). Lightly humorous take. No set requirements, simple props (give or take the camel). |
| Synopsis | The story of the Three Kings told as a rhyming Chrismas story. |
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