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Princess on the Rocks by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Scores for 5 songs (plus reprises), using old familiar tunes, are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script |
Style | Simple musical for children. Very simple sets, few props. |
Synopsis | Princess Vivian doesn't want to marry the prince from the neighbouring kingdom and is packed off in a box by her wicked stepmother. Meanwhile, the prince is forced to choose a bride by the unusual method of a sleeping contest! |
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Princess Quest by Christine Harvey and Keavy & Signy Lynch |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Most of the characters are written so they can be played male or female. The characters include a couple of trolls. (This is not uncommon.) |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Querky, fun, one-act play for kids. Three scenes requiring two sets - a classroom and 'inside a board game with a medieval theme'. (This need not be complex!). |
Synopsis | Dakota has made a board game, Princess Quest, for her school project - whilst the rest of her project-mates have been skiving. But when a random act of magic transports them into the game, they soon find themselves battling their way out past some fiendish questions. |
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Prof's Big Idea by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy drama for kids. |
Synopsis | 'The Prof' - a member of a gang of kids - designs a time machine. The gang is almost ready to test it for an inventors competition, when the rival gang - 'The Skrimshaw Krew' - steals Prof's big idea... |
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Professor Thyme and the History Mystery - The Musical by Richard James with music by David Fisher |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for seven songs and an overture are supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Musical Comedy Caper for Kids. Structurally in two acts. |
Synopsis | When the dastardly Count Downe uses Professor Thyme's Time Machine to travel into the past and change history, it's up to the Professor and his gang to follow him and put things right before the damage is done... and to sing in the process! |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show ** CD with piano accompaniment for all the songs from 'Professor Thyme and the History Mystery - the Musical' by Richard James with music by David Fisher ** CD with sung tracks for each of the eight songs from 'Professor Thyme and the History Mystery - the Musical' by Richard James with music by David Fisher
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Professor Thyme and the History Mystery - The Play by Richard James Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy Caper for Kids. Structurally in two acts. (A slick production could be run in the time of a one-act play.) |
Synopsis | When the dastardly Count Downe uses Professor Thyme's Time Machine to travel into the past and change history, it's up to the Professor and his gang to follow him and put things right before the damage is done... |
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Profound Moments by Johnny Grim |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy with a single pub set. Contains swearing (and discussions amongst ladies). |
Synopsis | A quartet of modern single lady friends gather in a pub for a girlie night out. They relate (in intimate detail) their experiences with the opposite sex, and their search for that profound moment which will see them find Mr Right... |
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Psychic Babble by Stephen Scheurer-Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy on a single hotel bar set. Can be performed alongside, and share a set with, its sister play One Mistake. |
Synopsis | Aspiring psychic Jim joins his new girlfriend Sandra and her friends Vera and Marjorie for a pub quiz, and tries to predict the answers. He hopes to impress Sandra enough for her to invest in his business. |
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The Psychotherapist In Spite Of Himself by George Freek |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comical farce in one act and one (simple, domestic) set. |
Synopsis | Ronald wants to marry Janey, but he thinks she's worried about his acting career. He poses as a psychotherapist to see if he can convince her that he's a good actor - and ends up taking on her entire family's emotional problems in one very busy day. |
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The Purse by E. Bert Wallace |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 53 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act commedia dell’arte play on a single (village square) set. US English. |
Synopsis | In a small Italian town in days of old, Arlecchino, a happy but none-too-bright servant, tries to keep the peace between his miserly master, Pantalone, and Dottore, a tipsy scholar. Dottore’s son Fabrizio returns from the University and promptly falls in love with Pantalone’s beautiful young wife, Isabella. Meanwhile, the bragging Capitano and his villainous sergeant Brighella arrive, seeking to con the town. |
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Puss in Boots [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Includes a cat and an ogre, so nothing out of the ordinary. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy (not really a pantomime treatment, though this is frequently a panto subject). Several different locations, but no real set requirements, so can be staged very simply. |
Synopsis | Jack, the Miller's youngest son, finds himself cast out when his father retires and hands over the business to his other two sons. With only a burning ambition to be a magician, a dream of marrying a princess and his cat for company, he sets out to make his fortune. After an inauspicious start to his great adventure, a misfiring trick results in the cat being far more useful than Jack could ever have imagined. |
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