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| A Cautionary Tale by Howard Lipson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | A different take on the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, here showing the Rich Man (Ozymandias) arriving in torment, only for a fellow sufferer to point out the hopelessness of his situation. |
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| Christ's Passion by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 21. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 76. Chorus. Casting very flexible (the Producer's Copy of the script includes a doubling table to demonstrate how the minimum casting can be achieved). |
| Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Exactly what it says - a large cast passion play. |
| Synopsis | The story of Jesus, from birth to death and resurrection. |
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| A Christmas Box by Sharon Jenman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for 10 songs and 2 instrumentals is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Short one-act musical play for (young) children. |
| Synopsis | A school child gets his wish to see the Romanian child open the present he is sending. A Christmas play for infant schools. |
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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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| A Christmas Carol [Play for Schools] by Damian Woods |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 44. Chorus. Whilst some of the characters have specific ages, this is an indication for the purpose of costume and make-up rather than for casting! |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for the use of 7 carols. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act play for children, faithfully adapting the classic Dickens story. Simple sets (furniture) reconfigured between or during scenes. |
| Synopsis | On Christmas Eve 1843, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts, who help him see the error of his ways. |
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| The Christmas Carol [Version 4] by Anthony Paul Lashley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The number of carol singers is unspecified. The author suggests (but does not insist) that when Scrooge is reformed, he might be played by a different actor to emphesise the change! Something for productions to play with. |
| Run Time | Around 57 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics to a number of (out-of-copyright) carols are embedded in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play with songs. Multiple locations, but indicated by lighting and furniture rather than full-stage sets. |
| Synopsis | Dickens' Christmas tale of redemption is given a little comic twist and run at a smarter pace, but still delivers the required moral lesson along with the laughs. |
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A Christmas Carol by Andrew Yates
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 43. Chorus. Flexible cast - several scenes require lots of extras, many with speaking parts. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for seven original songs are provided with the producer's copy of the script. (The script also suggests the use of the carol 'God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen') |
| Style | Adaptation of Dickens classic tale of redemption as a musical play. |
| Synopsis | On Christmas eve, miser Ebenezer Scrooge receives a visit from the ghostly apparition of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley's ghost is followed by three more spectral visitors, who show visions of Scrooge's past present and future in an effort to show the old skinflint the error of his ways. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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| A Christmas Mouse by Susan Vesey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Variable chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Words for 8 of the 9 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A simple traditional nativity play, with chorus singing. |
| Synopsis | A Christmas nativity variation, with carols, songs, and a mouse... Suitable for young children. |
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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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| Crime Wave by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children, assumed to be all played by children. Only a few of the characters are fixed, so lines could be reassigned amongst a different-sized cast. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for kids. A modern rewriting of the story of Noah. Simple sets and props. |
| Synopsis | The story so far... Originally a small farmer, Noah has built up his business over the years into a large Food Products company. As the only employer in the area he used to give work to most of the people on the local council estate, then a few years ago he automated his factory and sacked his workers. Since then he and his family have run the business on their own and grown rich while the locals have been out of work... Then God intervenes... |
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| Daniel and the Lion's Den by Connie Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short rhyming play with minimal set requirements. Suitable for schools and youth theatre. |
| Synopsis | The classic Old Testament story of Daniel is updated to make him a football and media star, thrown to the 'lions' of a hostile press by scheming politicians. |
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