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Three Women and Shakespeare's Will by Joan Greening
2022 Edinburgh Fringe production received a 5-Star review from Arts Reviews Edinburgh. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Quick-witted one-act comedy. Single set requiring only a few items of furniture. |
| Synopsis | After the death of William Shakespeare, Anne Hathaway is visited by two women with shocking revelations. Both claim to have known her husband intimately, and each want a piece of Will's will. |
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| To Be Hamlet by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play. Simplest set - a bare stage - simple props. |
| Synopsis | An actor struggles with the role of Hamlet as Hamlet struggles with his destiny. |
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| Toil and Trouble by Karina Fernandez |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy, set backstage at a school production of 'The Scottish Play'. |
| Synopsis | Tensions mount as the young actors ready themselves for the impending curtain up, and things are made worse when the director announces that a West End producer is in the audience. |
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| Tony and Bee-ing Cleopatra by Fiona Scott Patrick |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Lindsay is dressed in a bumble bee costume with a Cleopatra wig. (Just in case you need a hint about the provenance of the strange title.) The cast includes four numbered tourists. Others might drift through! |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute character-driven play, minimal set. (I realise that the residents of Edinburgh might be offended by the description of one of their streets as minimal, but it doesn't need to be a realistic set!) |
| Synopsis | Lindsay is handing out flyers for her show at the Edinburgh Fringe, but she feels she's too old to be there - she's a serious actress. Then she meets Tony, a little drunk and recently dumped by her boyfriend, and the pair find a new enthusiasm for acting. |
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| The Tragedie of Macbreth by Robert Hunter Allan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth with a single (dark moor) setting. |
| Synopsis | Macbreth encounters three witches, who can satisfy his avaricious ambitions if he complies with their demands for unpalatable tasks. |
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| Tree Audition by Hugh Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | An actress uses underhand tactics to put off a rival while waiting to audition for the part of Lady Macbeth. |
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| The Tudor Times by Richard Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Some song suggestions are made in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Rhyming play for schools (designed for the English National Curriculum Key Stage 2 topic 'The Tudors'). No set requirements. Simple props (as long as you don't take the cook too seriously). |
| Synopsis | A rhyming romp from the last Henry to the first Elizabeth. Wives, discoveries, the Armada and an introduction to Elizabethan cookery. |
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| Tudors Rich and Poor - Assembly by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 78. No chorus. Very flexible cast size! |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of musical suggestions is included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act assembly piece for a large cast of children. No specific set required, but ideally lots of props representing historical artifacts! |
| Synopsis | A romp through the world of the Tudors, meeting Shakespeare, royalty and commoners, talking about housing, entertainment, health and employment, amongst other things.
Based on the English National Curriculum History Syllabus, Key Stages 1 & 2, Unit 8: 'What were the differences between the lives of rich and poor people in Tudor Times?' |
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| Tudors Rich and Poor - Mini-Plays by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Five plays with six characters in each. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A set of five mini-plays (with run times around 6 minutes) for a school class studying The Tudors (English National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Unit 8, contrasting the lives of rich and poor). No set requirements. Producer's Copy includes a quiz. |
| Synopsis | Five short plays looking at different aspects of life in the Tudor Age, covering the country, the city, life at court, fashion and the theatre. |
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| Twelfth Night [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night', with every word remaining Shakespeare's.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | A cross-dressing survivor of a shipwreck, separated from her twin brother, finds herself in the centre of a confusing love triangle. |
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