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Beware McGruff! by Skip Chalker
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The script includes 'a number of police officers'. That number could be one.
Run TimeAround 78 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleAn entertaining full-length comedy, riffing off Shakespeare's Scottish Play. US English with American cultural references.
SynopsisIn the middle of a production of Macbeth, Mark finds himself thrust into the lead role. Moreover, the denizens of the props store predict he could lead the drama company. Soon he's up to his neck in corpses and dire warnings.
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Dagger in a Smile - A Young Actors' Macbeth by Gill Medway
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. The play can be acted by an all-male group, an all-female group or a mixed cast. The ensemble roles can be played by a minimum of five but can be expanded to suit the size of the group.
Run TimeAround 40 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act (by length) modern language adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth for young actors, containing all the witchcraft, ghosts and gore you'd expect. (Read the script to see if the level of violence is appropriate to your actors.)
SynopsisThe Ghost of Macbeth comments on the action and charts the progress of his rise to the Scottish kingship and his downfall.
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The Day The Woods Came To Dunsinane by Steve Eddison
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. Characters include talking trees (allowing me to make the usual joke about wooden actors) and (unnumbered) dancers.
Run TimeAround 50 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy play for kids. Full of the sort of verbal humour that graces British pantomime, though with a different structure (and more trees).
SynopsisFour children on a hiking trip stumble into the plot of Macbeth (portentious witches, poor hospitality, portable forests - that sort of thing). Can they escape unscathed?
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Find the Lady by Helen Sharman
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Written for two men and two women, but each taking several roles.
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne act play. Minimal set, with only a dressing table and clothes rail, plus a sofa and table arrangement that remain onstage throughout. Contains very mild swearing.
SynopsisAn actress struggles to contain the character of Lady Macbeth as the play both infects and reflects other parts of her life.
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Macbeth by Geoff Bamber
Best Seller  Production by Blairgowrie Players won two rounds of the SCDA festival 2023, then won the Colin Peter Award for showing the greatest creativity in the Scottish Youth Final.
RolesMinimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShakespeare's Macbeth as a modern language play (with modern humour) for kids. A one act play in five acts. Simple sets and props. Options for songs and dances.
SynopsisThere should be three witches, but one of them is having problems with her satellite navigation system. Eventually they give a fateful prediction to Macbeth, who likes the idea of being the new king enough to dispatch the old one. Much murder and wringing of hands ensues. All this and a mad Scottish doctor. The bard will be spinning in his grave!
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Macbeth - Which Witch is Which? by Juliet Devon
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. All parts written female but, at a pinch, the Head Teacher could be male. Assumed to be performed by a youthful cast (although, of course, the two teachers and the cleaner could be played by adults).
Run TimeAround 18 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort comedy with a minimal set.
SynopsisNikki, the drama teacher, tries to put the witches through their paces for a school production of Macbeth. Round and round the cauldron go - or would go, if the props team had finished making the cauldron.
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Macbeth [a 60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare abridged by Dwayne Lawler
RolesMinimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 60 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleAbridgement of William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', with the original text of around three hours cut down to 60 minutes.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.)
SynopsisWitches, prophesies, murders, battles and ghosts. Shakespeare's Macbeth compressed to the compass of a small cast.
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Macbeth In Seventeen And A Half Minutes Or Less by Christine Harvey
RolesMinimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. Various minor parts may be doubled.
Run TimeAround 18 minutes. [Estimated!] This is dependent on the cast!
MusicNone.
StyleA short one-act comedy, with no set required.
SynopsisThe three witches attempt to tell their version of Macbeth in seventeen and a half minutes or less. As they condense it, an amusing and fast-paced summary emerges. Will they succeed in meeting their deadline? Don't blink or you'll miss all the fun of finding out!
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The Musical Scottish Play by Bill Siviter with Lea Anderson
RolesMinimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!] Up to 90 minutes with banquets, ballads and battles!
MusicSheet music for six original songs (Music by Lea Anderson, Lyrics by Bill Siviter) supplied with the Producer's copy of the script.
StyleIrreverent play in verse and song, told by the protagonists and by narrators with the action mimed. A good introduction to Shakespeare's story! (The specified run-time is the minimum - banquets, battles and bopping will add to the run time!)
SynopsisThe Musical Scottish Play - or 'Kids in Kilts' The complete story of Shakespeare's Macbeth (witches, murder, walking trees, revenge - that sort of thing) told as in verse and songs as a play for kids. [Note that there is also a version of this play without the songs, called The Scottish Play. It is identical except that the songs have been omitted.]
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ExtrasThe 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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The Politics Of Bendy by Jim Pinnock
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 39 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne act political farce in a single setting.
SynopsisGodfrey was hoping Charles would hand him the leadership of the opposition, leaving him a dead cert for Prime Minister, but now Charles has decided to hang on and Godfrey's wife is looking more like Lady Macbeth.
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ExtrasThe following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'The Politics of Bendy' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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