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Noah's Ark by Bill Siviter
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. Chorus. Non-speaking parts include 'all the creatures of the earth'! |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Verse play, mainly told by narrators (with plenty of scope for a large cast to mime the actions) |
| Synopsis | See the book of Genesis, chapters 6 to 9! |
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| Noah's Ark [Version 2] by Steven Bergman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. The cast includes a number of animals, with an optional crowd of all the animals available! |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act dramatisation. (The setting is described as a desert! Minimal staging is implied.) |
| Synopsis | The biblical story of Noah brought to life with contributions by a pigeon, a pig, a monkey and a cow. |
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| Nobbo by David Pollard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act dark comedy with a single (backstage) setting. |
| Synopsis | Ben and Jerry are the pantomime horse Nobbo. During the play's interval, amidst the mayhem of a missing dame, the two disagree on the future of their act. Their once-bright future has been reduced to what is to all appearances a failure. Ben wants out and has the golden opportunity of a legacy from his aunt. Jerry perversely cannot bring himself to quit and it becomes apparent that he closely identifies with Nobbo. |
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| The Nobodies by Jon Boustead |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Additional or fewer voices may be used to adapt to a desired cast size. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for primary (junior) school children with simple settings. |
| Synopsis | In Nobody Land there are no stories, no reading, no dreaming, no nothing! In a manner reminiscent of the Thought Police, the Voices make sure that the rules are enforced. In the end the Storytellers prevail and The Nobodies at last become Somebodies. |
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| The Non-Emergency Call by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The roles could be played m or f. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch requiring props. |
| Synopsis | When in an accident, a call to the Emergency number should bring a response - and assistance, surely? |
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| Non-Sequitur by S. J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch in the absurdist mode with no set necessary. |
| Synopsis | A number of characters interchange absurd conversations with a surprising conclusion. |
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| Nor Hell A Fury by Elizabeth Poynter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama, single conservatory set. |
| Synopsis | Claire is infatuated with her friend and handyman Scott, but is unable to tell whether he feels the same way about her. Her obsession leads her down a dark path. |
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Normal For by Tony Domaille
Winner UK Community Drama Festivals Federation 'Geoffrey Whitworth Trophy' for the Best Original script of 2022 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama in a single set. A great festival piece with potential for use in child protection workshops as a discussion starter. |
| Synopsis | Teacher Emma worries about a nine-year-old boy in her class. But when she raises concerns, they are dismissed as 'Normal for here'. As she struggles against a culture of indifference, Emma finds herself facing a real dilemma.
Articulates the dilemmas of teachers suspecting that pupils are abuse victims. The classroom setting and focus on the teacher allows it to honestly and openly explore these issues while not actually having to use any child actors or depict any abuse. |
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| The Norman Conquest by Richard Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One set of song lyrics embedded in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Verse play, fitting with the English National Curriculum Key Stage 3 History syllabus. |
| Synopsis | We travel back in time to England in 1066 where William sails from Normandy (bringing an army and 'beaucoup fromage'). defeats King Harold and sets about building fortifications and surveying his new kingdom. |
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The Normandy Conquests by David Weir
Constance Cox Award for best play (Sussex Playwrights) 2015 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A wistful full length comedy - some strong language. |
| Synopsis | As a group of family and friends spend a weekend away in Normandy, past tensions come to the fore. Susan looks forward to seeing her lifelong unrequited crush Colin for the first time in 20 years, while trying not to murder her tedious husband Jeff. With her sister and niece, and Colin's libidinous brother and disapproving mum also in the Normandy farmhouse, the scene is set for tale of life, love and the ones that got away. |
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