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| Twelve Odd Passengers by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. The characters are nominally nine men and five women, but in the context the genders do not really matter! |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for children. A single setting (nominally a guardroom, but only requires furniture, and not much of that). |
| Synopsis | Adapted from Hans Christian Andersen's The Mail Coach Passengers the months of the year introduce themselves with descriptions of their attributes. |
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| Twist by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Whirlwind adaptation of Dickens' Oliver Twist as a one-act comedy for kids. |
| Synopsis | Wide-eyed innocent Oliver progresses from orphanage to workhouse to den of thieves to prison cell and then back onto the mean streets as a fugitive, and not only from the law. No matter, things can only get better, can't they? Even the ever-optimistic Oliver is beginning to have doubts about that. |
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| Two Gentlemen of Verona by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Flexible numbers of soldiers and outlaws |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A humorous retelling of Shakespeare's story as a modern-language one-act play. |
| Synopsis | When Proteus follows his best friend Valentine to fashionable Milan, he finds himself attracted to the Duke of Milan's daughter, Silvia, upon whom Valentine has already set his sights. Hatching a plot to remove Valentine from the scene and move in on Silvia, he does not realise that he is being followed by Julia, the girl he left behind in Verona and to whom he has sworn everlasting devotion. Will the faithless scoundrel succeed with Silvia or will his efforts founder? A no-brainer, really. |
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| Ugly Duckling by Ann Taylor |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play for schools with a single (playground) setting. |
| Synopsis | This anti-bullying play tells the story of a child who is bullied because he looks different. A resolution is reached when classmates step in to help. |
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| Unbitten by Caroline Spencer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act drama for teenagers with a simple, or no set. |
| Synopsis | A powerful metaphorical play using vampires to act out some difficult, angst ridden problems facing most young people, particularly girls, encountering puberty. |
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Underground by Jon Boustead
Production by Tykes won Best Youth Production (Teignmouth Drama Festival, 2017) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. All cast should be of same or similar age. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act thriller for youth theatre, with a single - crashed Tube train carriage - setting. |
| Synopsis | A group of youth-age children on a school outing are left to fend for themselves, as they find themselves trapped in a crashed tube train and their teachers are nowhere to be found. They all have to deal with the horror in their own way and they take the plot along through intermittent narration and action. |
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Urban Hymns by Keith Badham
Performance by Up-Stage Theatre Company won Best Youth Actress award in the Bedfordshire One Act Play Festival, 2011 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 65. No chorus. The nine scripts have casts ranging from two to twenty, however the author expects that some groups will reorganise the twenty-character script for a smaller group - his estimated minimum cast is six. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A series of short scripts for teenagers. Simple to set, but with plenty of performance challenges. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Nine short scripts:
Introduction (Nominally twenty roles)
Bittersweet Symphony (Seven roles)
The Drugs Don't Work (Four roles)
Sonnet (Four roles)
Juliet (Two roles)
Romeo (Two roles)
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Five roles)
24 Minutes From Tulse Hill (Six roles)
Lucky (Nominally 15 roles) |
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| V For Valentine by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Five songs with new lyrics to traditional tunes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A musical sketch perfect for teaching children about Valentine's Day. |
| Synopsis | It's Valentine's Day party time and Miss Daisy and her class are preparing for the event. Unusual guests arrive and help the teacher to introduce the festivity's traditions, nursery rhymes and songs. |
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| Vamping It Up by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two vampires and a human. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play, set in a cemetary. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
| Synopsis | Vince and Vernon have just got up - it's sundown, and they're breakfasting on synthetic blood. It's raining and the nightclub has started up early, and, to cap it all Vanessa's party has been cancelled because she turned to ashes that morning. But here comes Veronica to cheer them up! |
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| A Vampire Play by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Characters are four teenagers and one adult. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with a gothic heart. (Muahahahaaa!) |
| Synopsis | Four girls gather in a forgotten garden shed to await a present promised to one of them by a boy who may or may not be a vampire. But beware, nothing is quite what it seems... |
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