|
| The Pied Piper of Spamtin by S. J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 31 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Anarchic one-act play for children, based on the folk tale. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | The town of Spamtin is being overrun by rats, but the treasury is empty. Can the mayor find a solution to the problem that doesn’t require payment up front? Or will Honest Joe use the vermin problem to become the new mayor? |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
A Pig Tale by Kevin Jannetts
Production by Loch Duich Primary School won Adjudicator's special award. South West Ross District Youth SCDA Festival 2016. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. The chorus is the sort that rushes on to perform songs and dances in various guises! Most of the roles are gender-neutral, although one of the pigs is called Maureen and the wolf is called Alan, both of which tend to be specific. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] (This allows 20 minutes for 11 songs/dances.) |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 11 songs/dances Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act family comedy show with music. A fairytale send-up. Contains Scottish accents! |
| Synopsis | The story of the Three Pigs gets a revamp in this Scots story, allowing a couple of Narrators to bring the story to life with anthropomorphic pigs struggling to find a story they can take part in to keep their deal with a Fairy Solicitor. Add in a Big Bad Wolf called Alan, and it all works out fine in the end. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Pipkin and the Angel by Geoff Bamber
Production by Chelford Junior Players won the Best Junior Play at Chelford Drama Festival 2014 & Best Junior individual Performance (for Cappuccino Angel) at Wilmslow Guild One-Act Play Festival. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Some of the characters are written with specific gender but can be changed very easily. More flexibility in numbers is possible by expanding or contracting the number of villagers, mechanics and police. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. No specific set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Pipkin is down on his luck. He really should turn over a new leaf and give up a deeply unsuccessful life of crime. Can he change his ways when he accidentally meets the similarly luckless Cappuccino Angel? The answer would seem to be no, even with the Angel's boss on the case. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| Pirates Ahoy! by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute presentation piece for schools |
| Synopsis | A group of famous pirates are interviewed about the realities of Pirate Life in the Golden Age of Piracy. Long John Silver, as a fictional Pirate, is there on sufferance. A useful classroom introduction to the subject. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| The Pirates of Penrith by Andy Johnson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Whilst the gender of some of the characters is implied by their names, there is lots of scope for variation! |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for a school class-sized cast. Packed with piratical puns. |
| Synopsis | A group of veteran retired pirates lead a motley chase across the oceans as they escape from their retirement home and go in search of the treasure of the Stinkas. A large cast comedy with some truly terrible jokes along the way. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| The Plan by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Monologue for a teenage girl. Single set (her bedroom) can be represented minimally. Simple props. |
| Synopsis | The plan was hatched between Donna and her friend Kaylee, and at the end of it, one of them was going to be going out with Danny, the swimming pool lifeguard. But which one? And would things actually go to plan? |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| Pocket Panto by Mark Niel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and teenage children. Could either be played by teenagers, or by a mixture of adults and kids. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of suggested songs is provided in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Two act play for teenagers (or a mix of adults and teens). Intended to be performed with minimal sets and simple props. The play itself is not a pantomime, but there is a panto inside the play! |
| Synopsis | A school outing is derailed by mechanical trouble, leading to a night in a barn, where the drama group has to create its own entertainment - the pocket panto. (Pantomime as a play within a play!) Meanwhile there is a staffroom romance afoot (the course of which never does run smooth). |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| The Point of the Pyramid - Play by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Thirteen speaking roles with lots of supporting players (with a lot of scope for doubling). |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | School play - a one-act educational comedy thriller! (What more could you want?) A story of intrigue in Ancient Egypt with a lot of period detail (suitable for the Key Stage 2 history syllabus) snuck in! |
| Synopsis | Someone is plotting against the Pharaoh! On a visit to the construction site of his much-delayed pyramid, his life is threatened by a falling stone. Luckily, Baki, one of the slave builders, saves the Pharaoh and is rewarded with his freedom. Then Baki learns that the Pharaoh has had four food-tasters poisoned in the last three weeks. Can he save the Pharaoh's life again? |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| Pompeii Up! by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Further parts could be added at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] Variable timing with your choice of music. |
| Music | Two musical suggestions are included with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short one act play, suitable for a school assembly. |
| Synopsis | In this piece we have information and entertainment, with facts and figures from the eruption of Vesuvius - which buried Herculaneum and Pompeii. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
| Pond Life by Nettie Baskcomb Brown |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two well-known songs are suggested for inclusion, with alternative lyrics provided for one of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Quirky one-act comedy for young actors, with songs and potential to use puppets. |
| Synopsis | Over one summer a newly planted pond becomes inhabited by a variety of amphibians and plants, but this delicately balanced ecosystem is threatened by an influx of new creatures. Will the ‘Newpond’ residents fight to retain their quiet way of life or is there another way to deal with this crisis? |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|