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Not Yet a Yeti by Lou Treleaven |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. There are three narrators, a number that could be expanded or contracted as the production requires, plus a group of hikers which could easily be expanded into a major expedition. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Lyrics that fit to traditional songs are embedded in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Short, easy-to-stage play based on the picture book Not Yet a Yeti by Lou Treleaven, illustrated by Tony Neal. |
Synopsis | All of George's family are yetis, and they love chasing hikers off the mountains with their big feet. George doesn't love doing that and he has small feet. Is he a yeti? Does he even want to be a yeti? |
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Nursery Crime Scene Investigation by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Another 'film noir' parody - a ten minute play with minimal set requirements and few props. |
Synopsis | Tommy is a Nursery Land CSI officer, charged with investigating the death of Solomon Grundy - who seems to have lived his life in something of a hurry... Could this be a case of identity theft, and can Tommy unmask his killer? |
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Nursery Crimes by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short dramatic pastiche of hard-boiled private eye genre, aimed at young teenagers (but frequently used by older groups). |
Synopsis | Did he fall or was he pushed? That is the question on everyone's lips! Rumours are rife. The theories are wild and fanciful and no-one is above suspicion! However Bill, the Private Eye is on the case. Can he and Goldie solve the puzzle? |
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Nursery Crimes - The Egg's Files by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Another 'film noir' parody as a 15-minute play, with minimal set requirements and few props. |
Synopsis | Business is slow for Fairytale PI, Puss in Boots. All that changes when he is handed a set of files belonging to the late Humpty Dumpty Puss is drawn into a complex web of intrigue and conspiracy involving the FBI (Fairyland Bureau of Investigation), the 3 Pigs Construction Empire and the Big Bad Wolf. |
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Odysseus and the Cyclops by Tony North |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Cast numbers are very flexible. The chorus is nominally the 12 great gods of Ancient Greece. The 'characters' include soldiers (nominally 3) and sheep (nominally 4) |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play for kids in the style of Ancient Greek drama. (Appropriate for the English National Curriculum KS2 History topic Ancient Greece.) Includes the violence inherent in the story! |
Synopsis | The tale of Odysseus and the Cyclops (from Homer's Odyssey) told as a short play for children, in the style of an Ancient Greek play. |
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Oedipus - Swollen Foot by Graham Milton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play for schools - ideal as a classroom or assembly piece. |
Synopsis | A light-hearted, accessible take on the Greek myth. Oedipus gradually discovers he has killed his father and married his mother. He learns how one cannot avoid fate, however hard one tries, and that great fortune is often followed by great misfortune. |
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The Olympian Myths by Tony North |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute, large cast play for schools in the style of Ancient Greek drama. (Appropriate for the English National Curriculum KS2 History topic Ancient Greece.) |
Synopsis | A brief introduction to some of the gods of Greek legend |
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Olympic Ode - Faster, Higher, Stronger by Sue Russell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Designed with flexibility in mind, with the possibility of up to 24 idividuals (representing athletes of various sorts) taking a verse each, plus one or more speakers taking the chorus parts. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Performance poem for a class of children. No props or staging requirmeents |
Synopsis | The motto of the Olympic Games, Citius, Altius, Fortius - Faster, Higher, Stronger - explored in verse, with the performers representing different groups of athletes. |
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Open Evening by David Dunn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three speaking parts and one unconscious cameo! Gender entirely flexible. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch for teenagers. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
Synopsis | Three teens are getting ready for their vampire school open evening. Though they only have to get the drinks area ready, they've had a good look around and are ready to discuss all the other departments. Something tells me this is a night school... |
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Opening Doors by Keith Badham |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Youth theatre drama played on an empty stage with one prop (a free standing door). An ensemble piece, with cast members taking multiple roles. |
Synopsis | As the doorkeepers open the door we experience cradle to grave aspects of the characters' lives. |
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