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| A Children's Christmas Carol by Richard James |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute play. No set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Charles Dickens' festive classic much abbreviated as a play for an audience of young children, to be performed by a cast of adults (or possibly by a company of older children.) |
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| Cholesterol by Charles Stott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch for three men in a pub. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Old mates, Tom, Dick and Harry , meet as usual at their local pub. Over a convivial pint or two, they discuss Tom's problems with his cholesterol levels and the consequences for his life style. He fondly remembers the fish and chips, bacon butties and especially wife Stella's famous cauliflower cheese sauce. Fond memories and some regrets... |
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| A Christmas Carol - The Real Story by Colin Calvert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Two characters required for performance as a simple duologue, a further 7 (nominally 5F, 2M) required if the action is staged. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Essentially a duologue which could either be done without additional actors, (as an after-dinner piece) or be staged as a narrated mime. Minimal staging requirements. Makes no attempt to be 'politically correct'! |
| Synopsis | Two narrators tell the story of a modern day Scrooge who's having the wool pulled over his eyes by dishonest Bob Cratchit and his gang of cronies. |
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| The Christmas Play by Peter Lancaster Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. The chorus is an optional mixture of choir and extras! Could be played by children or a mixture of adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suitable Christmas carols are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Fifteen minute play. Simple hospital set, used to frame the nativity play within the play. |
| Synopsis | Missing the school Nativity play, thanks to a broken toe, Sarah is sulking, but the nurse has an idea. Soon a cast is assembling for the hospital ward Nativity and Sarah gets to sing along after all. |
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Cinderella [10 Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. We've assumed that Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother are both played female, but it's a pantomime and you can cast it however suits you. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script suggests one optional popular song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short prose panto telling a familiar story with a few modern twists. |
| Synopsis | Against the wishes of her evil stepsisters, Cinderella dreams of going to the ball and meeting a Prince. She may get her wish, with help from her robot Zippers and a Fairy Godmother with an Amazon Prime subscription. |
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| Citizen by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three characters but any mix of gender. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute comedy play, single (minimal office) set. |
| Synopsis | A long term resident is renewing his residence permit, but this new official really is... officious. |
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| Class Divide by Damian Woods |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two adult roles (teachers) and one role for a 14/15 year old (the student). |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama on a single (teacher's office) set. No props required. |
| Synopsis | A passionate teacher tries to show a troubled pupil the error of his ways before it's too late and his future is compromised. |
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| Close Family by Iris Winston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A powerful short drama giving us a sensitive take on the socially unacceptable subject of incest. Stage split between two domestic locations. |
| Synopsis | Janet, a young university student, is looking forward to her return to university after the summer break. She has exciting plans to move out of the halls of residence in Vancouver to live with her divorced father, Peter who has set up home there with his new partner, Janet’s pregnant Aunt Anne. Back home in Ottawa, Peter's divorced wife Carole is horrified to discover Janet's plans and does her utmost to dissuade her daughter from joining the incestuous home. Janet is insistent that her move to her father's house is in her best interests until she arrives and to her dismay the horror of her mistake is revealed. |
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| The Coat by Jos Biggs |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy. (Either a long sketch or a very short play!) |
| Synopsis | A customer is after some help selecting a coat. The store's Personal Shopping Adviser has other ideas... |
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| Coffee Morning Chaos by Jessica Sandys-Clarke |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute comedy play. Minimal set and props. |
| Synopsis | Some lady volunteers are preparing for the hoards who are about to descend - any moment now! - on a coffee morning. Fun with flapjacks, more scorn than scones and just as much gossip as you'd expect - but when is everyone going to arrive? |
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