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A Spy With A View by Robert Scott
Best Seller The Maidenhead Drama Guild (UK) won Best Comedy and came 2nd in the Open Class at the Maidenhead Drama Festival. (2019) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Paulo is written male but could be reassigned. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy thriller with a single hotel room set.. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | David and Vicky are on holiday, but the weather has trapped them in their hotel room. The monotony is broken by the delivery of a mysterious briefcase, with a recording that self-destructs! Where's the real spy? |
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| Squeezy and the Wicked Queen by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act rhyming pantomine with a variety of settings. Includes roles suitable for young children. |
| Synopsis | This story picks ups where 'Snow White' ends. The Seven Dwarves, who work for the Queen down the mine, decide to go and help Santa instead by working in his workshop. Snow White is now on a reality TV series, so the Dwarves need some money of their own. However, all does not go to plan, and the Queen tries to ruin Christmas by poisoning Santa's reindeer. Who will save the day? |
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| Squirrel Caper by Jamie Hope |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (park bench) setting. |
| Synopsis | A gang of squirrels mastermind a plan to mug an old lady who visits the park every day. Their meticulous plan hits a snag when the old lady unexpectedly brings her dog with her and a pesky chipmunk tries to muscle in on the action. |
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Squirrel Plays His Part by Stuart Ardern
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The characters are three narrators and lots of jungle animals. The numbers are intended to be flexible, with options to combine or redistribute lines. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for two original songs is included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical play for young children. No set requirements. A few simple props. A moral story about prioritisation and co-operation! |
| Synopsis | The jungle animals are supposed to be growing crops, but they keep getting distracted by ants! |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Stairway to Heaven by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three middle-aged blokes, one of whom is the Archangel Gabriel. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single set (or lack of set, since it takes place at the the ultimate ephemeral location - just outside the pearly gates). Australian in tone, but universal in humour. |
| Synopsis | Robbie, a biker, meets Alfred, a civil servant, outside the gates to heaven. Unpredictably, they get on quite well, but there's been a bit of a mix-up, and the angel Gabe isn't sure if either of them should be going in... |
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| Stand and Deliver [Kids Play] by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. The numbers are made flexible by the presence of the Earl of Scarborough's Guards (who stand around, look nervous and shout a bit. This is called acting.) |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids. |
| Synopsis | Emily Jenks, a poor farmer's daughter, accidentally robs the King, finds herself mistaken for a notorious highwayman and consequently on trial for her life. |
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| The Star by Annette Cameron |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 39. Chorus. (It might well be possible to perform this with a smaller cast by reassigning some of the lines. Likewise, an even bigger cast!) Characters include reindeer, robins, Santas and snowmen. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Nine songs and a dance are suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A Christmas play for a large cast of young children. Mainly modern secular characters with the star adding the link to the first Christmas story. |
| Synopsis | It's Christmas time again, and the workers at Mr Kindthought's Christmas Card Factory are excited - who's going to be on the cards this year? The Snowmen, Santas and Robins are all in, but the Star is too old-fashioned this year. Or is it? |
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| Sticky Snail and the Fire Dragons by Richard Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. All characters are animals. Numbers could be increased by multiplying the numbers of each sort of animal! |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming script aimed at an audience of young children (UK years 1-3, US K-2). |
| Synopsis | The animals are cold, damp and miserable - they need fire to warm them up, but for that, they must persuade the fire dragons to help. Unfortunately, the fire dragons only want to fight! |
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| A Stitch In Time by Mark Green |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play with a split (lounge and garden) set. |
| Synopsis | Young Alastair's dad has died, and his mum and granddad are bringing him up, and sister Holly too. Much to the family's disdain, Alastair, inspired by his late father, is convinced that he has invented a time machine. |
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| Straight to the Top by Martin Sims |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The female role is voice only, |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy/drama in a single set which could be minimal. (The author makes staging suggestions in the Producer's Copy of the script.) |
| Synopsis | Joseph is on his way to the top of the building to end his unlucky life. Fortunately, Michael takes the same elevator, slowing the journey in time for Joseph to achieve a different perspective on life. |
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