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| Storm in a Spell Book by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | No music is included, but points at which songs could be added if desired are suggested. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act comedy based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, with various settings. Suitable for performance by children. |
| Synopsis | Survivors of a shipwreck find themselves on the island inhabited by Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, who's used his magic to bring them here and plans to regain his title. All manner of magic and confusion ensues. |
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| The Story Of Eklavya by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Optional more musicians and a second narrator |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act rhyming play, with incidental music and on-stage musicians. |
| Synopsis | Eklavya has skill with a bow and wants to be the best archer in history, but the best guru only teaches the nobility and Eklavya is a peasant. He makes his own guru and waits for his chance to prove himself.
A tale from the Mahabharata. |
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| The Story Of Karna by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Optional wedding guests and musicians numbers at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act rhyming play, with incidental music and on-stage musicians. |
| Synopsis | A tale from the Mahabharata, telling how Karna became such a mighty warrior, and the cruel twists of fate that lead to his death at the hands of his own brothers. |
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| The Storyteller by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One 'character' is the voice of a station announcer. The other characters take on multiple roles. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Stage adaptation of one of Saki's subversive stories. Single set - largely a few benches. |
| Synopsis | On a railway journey, three children are being disruptive. Their aunt tries to settle them with a moralistic story, but this fails to do the trick, whereas a fellow traveller captivates them with a story in which a good girl is by virtue of being good, caught and devoured by a wolf.
(In this adaptation, the writer takes an even more subversive interpretation of 'devoured', though a milder ending is also offered!) |
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| StreetBox by Deanna Alisa Ableser |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Gender of characters could be altered to suit production. |
| Run Time | Around 61 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama for youth theatre with a simple split stage setting, in American English. |
| Synopsis | A subtle examination of homelessness amongst teenagers, with an inspirational message delivered with a tender touch and dramatic staging. |
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Strictly Fairytale Come Dancing by Sarah Cowan
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Wide range of roles, including speaking, non-speaking, dancing and a pantomime donkey. Ugly Sisters and Jack's Mother could be played by boys dressed as pantomime dames for comic effect. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of suggested music is provided in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Large cast play for kids, with lots of opportunities for dancing. A comic collision between fairytales and TV Game Shows. |
| Synopsis | Hansel and Gretel need to escape from the clutches of their wicked stepmother. They need a wish from the good fairy - which just happens to be the prize for the competition 'Strictly Fairytale Come Dancing'. |
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| The Strictly Talent Factory by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Intended for a youth theatre group, but could well be performed by adults or a company of mixed ages. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script suggests 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Comedy play with (suggested) songs. In length it's on the boundary between a one-act play and a full-length play (it could occupy a full evening or be paired with a shorter piece). Structurally in two acts. |
| Synopsis | A musical play with energy, fizz, music and dance. In a world dominated by television talent competitions two families with great ambition battle it out for the ultimate prize of celebrity. The Lemons and the Greens continue a long-running feud with each other on to a TV talent show. With an astute use of Shakespearian themes and quotations ('the perfect antidote to all this madness') along with imaginative settings and flashbacks we are taken on a modern journey with a wry and satirical comment on reality television and the culture of celebrity. |
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| The Stubborn Little Girl and the Spider's Web by Jon Boustead |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Whilst there is no explicit chorus, there is a lot of flexibility in the numbers of Witches and Shrieks. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Drama for the junior ranks of a youth theatre, a mix of narration and action with no specific set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Isobel, a stubborn and rather rude girl, learns the error of her ways through encounters with a magical woodpecker, a vampire, witches, a spider and the awesome Shrieks. |
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| Student Teacher's Day by Garry R. Keane |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. All characters are sixth graders (which is year seven in English money). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for a school class. |
| Synopsis | It's the traditional day when one of the Sixth-Graders gets to be teacher, but is Anita abusing her privilege? And what will the class report to the school during tomorrow's assembly? |
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| Summer Break by Caroline Spencer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Character (playing) ages are 11 (F), 15 (M) and adult (M). Intended for a company of teenagers. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for and about teenagers. No set requirements. A difficult situation handled with grace and balance. |
| Synopsis | Anna and Steve, a brother and sister, spend some quality time together, and Steve tells his little sister something he couldn't tell anyone else. |
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