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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 [90-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', with the original text reduced by a thousand lines or so.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Fairies make mischief in the Athenian woods, mixing up two couples and pairing the fairy queen with one of the 'Rude Mechanicals' who are in the woods rehearsing a play. When all is straight, we finally get to see the Mechanicals' play, and the Athenian nobility turn critics.
The text aims to provide a workable edition of Shakespeare for secondary schools. |
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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 In 17 And A Half Minutes Or Less by Christine Harvey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] (But see also the title - which assumes a fast pace.) |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act Shakespearean comedy with various simple settings. |
| Synopsis | A fast-paced version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Perfect for schools, this is a compact, humorous adaptation of the classic tale of love and mishap in seventeen and a half minutes or less. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream The Pantomime by Matthew Harper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Variable chorus number at Producer's discretion |
| Run Time | Around 155 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Songs and musical suggestions included with the Producer's copy. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime, with the Shakespearean storyline |
| Synopsis | This adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream includes all the usual pantomime characters and fun, making the original play easily accessible without losing the essence of the story. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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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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| A Midsummer Nightmare by Karen Ince |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play for schools - with a single, village tavern, setting. |
| Synopsis | William Shakespeare is suffering with writers' block. Struggling to find inspiration he visits a local inn, and whilst listening to a group of local workmen - who are planning to put on a play for a special wedding day, comes up with the plot he is looking for. |
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| Migration Madness by Angela Lorenzo-Thompson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Whilst the Monarch King is nominally male, he is, when all is said and done, a butterfly, so the gender of the actor doesn't matter much! There are 26 speaking roles, but most of the lines could be redistributed to suit the available cast. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's cope of the script comes with musical scores for 4 original songs (and one reprise). Two of the scores include percussion to be performed by the children. |
| Style | Short musical play for young children. |
| Synopsis | An anthropomorphic but otherwise accurate performance piece about the migration of Monarch butterflies between Mexico and the USA. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Military Intelligence by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst the characters are written male, this is a comedy sketch and the author would not be alarmed if women were cast! |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by Mark Niel.) |
| Synopsis | Two German spies report back to their superior on their failed mission to London and blame the map provided. |
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| Mind Over Manor by Loretta Willoughby |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The characters are all adults. They are written as 3M, 7F, but one of the male characters could be switched to female with the change of a couple of lines. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Modern comedy play. Single set (reception room of large, old US house), simple props. Three acts. |
| Synopsis | Jasmine and Chester arrive at Summer Meadows, a large out-of-town mansion, looking for the owner. What they meet is a collection of people who are, at the very least, eccentric. When Jasmine starts to question them fiercely, the residents start to question her motives - then Jasmine goes missing... |
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