|
Who wants to be a Millipede? by Sue Gordon Published: 29 March 2010 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are given specific gender, they are, when all's said and done, invertebrates, so it doesn't really matter! There's no formal chorus, but there could be many more 'minibeasts'. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Educational (entomological) adventure for kids. Minimal sets, but scope for a lot of fun with the costumes! |
Synopsis | A group of garden-dwelling invertebrates (arthropods, molluscs and an earthworm, since you ask) are under threat from a pesticide attack and need to go on a journey to seek a new habitat. The millipede puts his best foot forward (having spent some time working out which one it is). |
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 Wild Wolves of Wyoming by Gerald P. Murphy Published: 23 September 2005 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The characters are pigs and wolves! Additional wolf pups could be added to fit the available numbers. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for overture and five songs (using traditional tunes) is supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Musical for performance by a small cast of children. A cartoon brought to life! Minimal set requirements. Basic props. |
Synopsis | It's the time-honoured battle between a wolf and three little pigs, only this time the pigs have the upper hand and the wolf is being oppressed - and boy does his family resent it! |
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 Willow Tree by Geoff Bamber Published: 30 July 2012 Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Zhongwen's soldiers, are the chorus (in the sense of having indefinite numbers) but are non-speaking. [As far as I can remember, this is the only story in which the hero is an accountant.] |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Humorous one-act play for kids, based on the legend of The Willow Pattern Plate. Multiple settings but minimal sets. |
Synopsis | When Renshu the merchant finds himself seriously in debt to the fierce Island Traders, he decides to marry off his daughter Mingmei to the entirely disagreeable but extremely rich landowner Zhongwen. But Mingmei is in love with Chang, her father’s humble accountant. Mingmei and Chang flee to a remote island but soon Zhongwen, Renshu and the Island Traders are heading for the same island. Can Renshu's inventive servant, Ping, and the sorceress Li Hua give the course of true love a fighting chance? |
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. |
|
|
Wilma Tell - The Swiss Miss by Geoff Bamber Published: 9 March 2013 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Eleven speaking parts and an unspeaking chorus of unspeakable townsfolk. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comic twisting for kids of the Swiss sixteenth century legend. A one-act play in length, though structurally in three acts. |
Synopsis | Wilma Tell and her brother Johann travel to the prosperous Swiss town of Altdorf to make their fortunes. Unfortunately their arrival coincides with that of the forces of an expanding Austrian Empire, represented by the cruel Governor Gessler. Wilma, more by accident than design, soon finds the whole town depending on her to resist Gessler's attentions. |
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 Wiser Miser by Giles Scott Published: 14 October 2010 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Two songs are suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act verse play. The staging, as presented, may be slightly complex, but the Producer's Copy of the script includes a couple of alternatives for simplification. |
Synopsis | The miser in question, is, of course, Ebenezer Scrooge, as this is a rhyming version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. |
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. |
|
|
Witch Hunt by Stuart Ardern Published: 15 June 2005 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. All the characters are adults, but the play is intended for teenagers. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for one original song supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | One act play with very basic props and no requirement for scenery. Lots of work for the chorus. |
Synopsis | When an old woman moves into a cottage, she is initially greeted with hostility, however her knowledge of basic medicine gains her the respect of the local community. Trouble starts when there is famine and sickness, and the old woman is accused of witchcraft. |
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 |
Feedback | Click here to find out what other customers said about this script. |
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Witchwood by Mark Rudd Published: 2 February 2011 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 15. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with suggestions for seven songs plus a simple piano score for an overture. |
Style | Darkly comic fantasy for a (mixed-age) company of kids. A world of goblins, elves and talking trees. |
Synopsis | Would you go down to the woods today? Hannah is trying to evade some bullies when she runs into the Wood and finds she can't get out. Befriended by a woodcutting Goblin and pursued by witches, Hannah has to cope with some very trying times before she can find her way home. I talk to the trees and in this case, they answer! |
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 Wizard that Was by Anne Bourke Published: 19 August 2021 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing includes an estimate for 5 songs. |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains some suggestions for five songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one-act pantomime for schools. Uses parodies of L. Frank Baum characters in an original story. |
Synopsis | Thanks to the Wicked Witch's curse, Christmas in Happyville has been cancelled. It's down to Jack and Jenny to traverse the mountains and forest to reach the Wizard That Was and see if his magic can overcome the witch. |
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. |
|
|
Wolf 'n the Hood by George Douglas Lee Published: 10 August 2007 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The wolf and three pigs are nominally male, but since they are a wolf and three pigs, it doesn't really matter that much! |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act court-room comedy for kids. Whilst this is a richly comic fantasy drama, it is also meant as an introduction to courtroom procedure! |
Synopsis | The Big Bad Wolf is in the dock, accused of sheepnapping, and Bo Peep is determined to get a conviction. Can Red Riding Hood save her client despite their shared history? |
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 Wolf Who Cried Boy by George Douglas Lee Published: 11 February 2009 Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. A mixture of real and fairy tale characters. Aimed at a family audience. Could be played by children, by adults or by a mixture of adults and children. (There, who does that leave out?) |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for 8 original songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. (Part of the 'Master Scripts for Copying' and 'Performance Set of Scripts' packages.) |
Style | Musical play in one act. |
Synopsis | The Big Bad Wolf is past his prime and has no respect from anyone. He wishes he could be a little boy, a human boy, but when the wish is granted he finds life as a boy isn't the idyll he'd been hoping for. |
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 |
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
|
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|