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| A Midsummer Night's Dream (Comedy Crew 60 Minute Version) by Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. 14 on-stage characters (played by a minimum of 9 actors) plus two offstage voices, which might be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 63 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very amateur theatre company present their take on Shakespeare. |
| Synopsis | Cowmoor Comedy Crew, a rural amateur group, perform a sixty-minute version of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The same story, with a preceding act, showing how the production came together, is told in The Dream! |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream [45-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | This one-act abridgement retains Shakespeare's original language and focuses on the nobles, the fairies, and the mechanicals. The lovers' plot is unapologetically omitted, but the narrative remains tight. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream [Modern English] by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. It would be possible, by adding attendants and fairies, to increase the cast to around 30. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for four pieces of music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Shakespeare abridged and (mainly) in modern English. No formal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A shortened version of the Shakespeare original, containing nuggets of the original text with modern insertions. Shakespeare's son Hamnet holds the whole thing together as if managing a production of the play. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Sebastian and Puck are written m but can be played f, with a name change for Sebastian and minor amendments to the text. |
| Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy for young actors, bringing a modern English version of the Shakespearean play to the stage. |
| Synopsis | Preparations are under way for the high-profile wedding of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and his bride the Warrior Queen Hippolyta, but the wedding planner Sebastian finds that he has more problems with the guests than the happy couple... including a rift in the Underworld, in-fighting among the entertainers, and a mischievous sprite to contend with. |
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Minny Pinny Makes a Difference by Stuart Ardern
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two songs. Words and sheet music supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Simple moral story, designed as a class assembly piece (with a target age group of around 8 years old). A small number of central characters and a 'Greek Chorus' commenting on the action with words and songs. |
| Synopsis | The farmer can't get to market, the driver can't drive him because his truck tyre is flat and there's nobody to take it to the garage. Minny Pinny is only a little girl, how can she help the farmer? How can she make a difference? |
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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
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
** CD with backing tracks for the songs from 'Minny Pinny Makes a Difference' by Stuart Ardern (One song is used at the beginning and end of the show. A second is used at the start of each scene with a different musical arrangement for each occasion.)
** CD with vocal demo tracks for the songs from 'Minny Pinny Makes a Difference' by Stuart Ardern (One song is used at the beginning and end of the show. A second is used at the start of each scene with a different musical arrangement for each occasion.)
** Zip file with backing tracks for the songs from 'Minny Pinny Makes a Difference' by Stuart Ardern (One song is used at the beginning and end of the show. A second is used at the start of each scene with a different musical arrangement each time.)
** Zip file with vocal demo tracks for the songs from 'Minny Pinny Makes a Difference' by Stuart Ardern (One song is used at the beginning and end of the show. A second is used at the start of each scene with a different musical arrangement each time.)
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| Minutes By Air by Robin Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act, light comedy play. |
| Synopsis | Janet hasn't arrived for the meeting yet, and since she's the one who takes the minutes and produces the agenda, nothing can happen. Everyone is annoyed, until she arrives - by UFO? |
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| Mirror Image by Julia Lee Dean |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters plus the off-stage voice of a stage-hand. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. Single dressing-room set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A young actor finds an unexpected and disturbing visitor in his dressing room after a triumphal last night performance. |
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| Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall by Nicholas Conti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, a haunting - on the edge of Melodrama. Single interior set - a house in Salem in the 1940s. Characters are all adults but could be within the grasp of teenagers. |
| Synopsis | A couple move into a new home in Salem, only to find that they are not alone... |
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| Mismatching Mates by Robin Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act character-driven drama with a single café setting. |
| Synopsis | Iris and Gert meet a few times in the café in town, and become friends. Iris lets slip that she's a widow with a generous settlement from her husband's life insurance, and she's looking on-line for a new man. Gert cautions her about the funny types you get out there, but surely Harry is a good man? |
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| Miss Glossop Comes to Tea by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Character ages range from young adult to retired. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Humorous one-act murder mystery. Single set (domestic living room). One-act play. |
| Synopsis | Hapless amateur sleuth, Miss Glossop visits an old friend and solves a murder to the satisfaction of everyone - especially the guilty. |
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