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The Queen's Orchid by Geoff Bamber Performance by Chelford Junior Players won the Adjudicator’s Special Award at Chelford Drama Festival 2015 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Some roles - Prime Minister, Doctor, Gardener, Guard Captain... - are written male but could be played female. Can non-speaking roles be a chorus? If so, the Guards are a chorus. If not, there's just a number of unspeakable guards. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Thirty-minute play for kids. (I think this is a one-act play, but it's structured in four acts.) There are, in theory, two locations, but, as it says in the script, all castles are identical! |
Synopsis | Things aren't looking good for King Rufus of Celestopia. His kingdom is perpetually on the brink of war with the neighbouring Zeldania, his daughter wants to marry a Zeldanian prince, and his wife's birthday is coming up. He know's it's coming up because she keeps dropping hints about it. She wants a present. A very specific present. She want's a particular orchid. And guess who grows this orchid? None other that the rival Queen Zelda - a woman so powerfull that she has a whole kingdom named after her... |
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A Quest for a Nest by Michal Y Noah |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. As written, there are six characters. However, the narrator's role would be easy to divide amongst a larger number. It would also be easy to add choruses - particularly of ants and rabbits - to join in with the songs. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for 3 original songs is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. (The short theme song, 'Little by Little' is sung 6 times through the show.) |
Style | Short verse play for young children, interspersed with simple songs. (Can be staged very simply or more elaborately for those so inclined.) |
Synopsis | Melody, a little bird, demonstrates the magical power of persistence through her efforts to build a nest. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A CD with backing tracks plus vocal demos for the songs from A Quest for a Nest by Michal Y Noah. (Both backing and vocal tracks include all the reprises of 'Little by Little'.) ** A set of MP3s with backing tracks plus vocal demos for the songs from A Quest for a Nest by Michal Y Noah. (One instance of each distinct track, so the reprises of 'Little by Little' need to be achieved by replaying the track.)
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Questions of French History by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 58. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A series of comic, educational sketches with no set necessary. Adaptable for presentation as a whole or as a pick and mix, for use as an assembly piece or a classroom aid. A large number of roles but performable by just a handful of actors. |
Synopsis | A series of sketches touching light-heartedly on several episodes of French history, from the Stone Age to the Common Market, providing elementary oral French and a bit of fun with history. |
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Rabbie Burns' Night by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Whilst the characters are nominally gendered, this need not be taken too seriously. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A children's introduction to the celebration of the Scottish bard. No set or props required, but the odd display of tartan wouldn't go amiss. |
Synopsis | It's Burns' Night, and some very special characters have gathered to tell us a little more about Scotland's most famous wordsmith. Mrs Haggis, Mr Whisky, Mr Bagpipes and Mrs Mousie, helped out by the Misses Neep and Tattie. |
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Rainforest Assembly by Sue Russell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script gives suggestions for songs/music to accompany the piece. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Educational piece for a school class with a good deal of information amongst the jokes and songs, and several jumping-off points for further study. No specific staging requirements. |
Synopsis | An educational presentation on the animals and occupants of the rainforests of the Amazon. |
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Rapunzel [Short Version] by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Scores for eight original songs (with keyboard accompaniment, set in easy keys!) provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | One act musical comedy play with a Grimm spirit! Simple sets (a window frame stands in for Rapunzel's tower), simple props. |
Synopsis | Rapunzel, abandoned by her careless and greedy parents and raised by an enchantress, is locked in a tower until she is saved by a prince's true love. |
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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
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Rapunzel [Verse] by Peter Bond Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One character is optional and silent. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short verse play (probably, but not necessarily for kids). |
Synopsis | A couple offend a witch and hand over their daughter, Rapunzel, to her by way of recompense. Rapunzel is locked-up in a tower, accessible only by a window - with the aid of her hair as a climbing rope. She stays there until she is visited by a handsome prince and the audience is visited by an unexpected plot twist! |
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The Ratbusters of Hamelin by Philip Bird (music Isabelle Michalakis) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. Whilst there is no formal requirement for a chorus, there are opportunities for additional townsfolk and additional children. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano/vocal scores for three original songs are included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Musical play for kids, with an interesting variation on the Pied Piper story. (As suits modern tastes, it comes with a happy ending, though the mayor probably wouldn't think so.) |
Synopsis | The people of Hamelin shake their mayor and town council out of their greedy complacency when the town's children are kidnapped by they hypnotic piper - assistant to the unpaid and affronted travelling doctor. |
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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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The Raven by George Douglas Lee |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy play for teenagers, inspired by (rather than based on) the poem by Edgar Allen Poe. Single set. |
Synopsis | A comedic swipe at the world of sorcery, pitting the not-quite-so-brilliant Phoebus and his apprentice Bulbo, against the evil Dr Sarcophagus in a mage battle to decide the fates of many. |
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Redd by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. Some of the characters are written with specific genders which can easily be changed! No formal chorus but the cast includes an unspecified number of dancers and members of a rock group. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for kids. No set requirements. (A modern and very different take on the story of Red Riding Hood.) |
Synopsis | Redd. No Little, No Riding, No Hood. Just Redd. Brenda Hudd longs to be a 'celebrity' and appear in 'Wow!' magazine. Despite having no discernible talent in any direction, she determines that she will succeed in fulfilling her ambition. She takes advice from a range of questionable role models and finds herself being represented by theatrical agent, Flavius Wolf, who is keen to point out that talent is hardly a qualification in Celebland. Will Brenda, now re-branded as 'Redd' (with two Ds) master any of the skills she attempts or will she have to depend on Reality TV to be her salvation? |
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