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| Aesop's Fables II by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Characters include mice, a cat, a lion, sheep, a wolf and foxes. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for children - a dramatisation of four of Aesop's fables. Very flexible format - no specific set needed and the stories could be presented individually or as a set. |
| Synopsis | A group of mice are delighted by their plan for constraining the local cat - until it comes to executing the plan.
Meanwhile, a lion falls in love, a boy ruins his chance of promotion in the shepherding business, and a fox tries to make the most of a fashion disaster!
(A musical version of this set of stories is available as Aesop's Fables - The Musical) |
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| Aesop's Fables III by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Characters include farm animals, crows and various rodents. (Whilst they have gender-specific names, they're animals, and the gender of the actors is irrelevant!) |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for children - a dramatisation of four of Aesop's fables. Very flexible format - no specific set needed and the stories could be presented individually or as a set. |
| Synopsis | Tales of resourceful crows, splitting hares, bovine buffoonery and meals for mice.
(If Aesop lived today, he would be inspired by the video of Tool-Making Crows on YouTube.) |
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Aesop's Famous Fables and Twisted Tales by Peter Nuttall
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are nominally gendered, it's only a mater of pronouns! Contains anthropomorphism. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with the score for the concluding song. |
| Style | One-act play, ending in a song. Could be performed by children or by adults to an audience of children. |
| Synopsis | Four stories for Aesop's extensive collection, about a Tortoise and Hare, a lion and a mouse, the belly and its team, and the battle between the Sun and the North Wind. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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| The Affairs At Meddler's Top by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A hilarious comic spoof of a murder mystery, set in the 1920s. (Two acts - but relatively short.) |
| Synopsis | A country house weekend is organised with a view to trapping a thief. Various tangled affairs are revealed, leading up to a murder. |
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The Affidavit by Janet S. Tiger
THE AFFIDAVIT - 1st place (1983) cash award and full production WORLD PREMIERE |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute play. Single set (a pawn shop in New York in the 1940s). A brief glimpse into individual lives, set against the background of the holocaust. |
| Synopsis | Hilda Gruenberg has to renew her father's visa affidavit to stand a chance of getting him out of Nazi Germany to join her in America, but it'll cost her $650. She believes her family heirloom ring is worth $10,000, so she's shocked when the pawnshop owner, Mr Meyer, only offers her $650 for it. Why is he taking advantage of her desperation, and is she too proud to accept? |
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After Esme by Kathryn West
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy for a female cast, set in three cafes and in the vicinity of a secluded bench. (So a single set with a variety of set dressing.) |
| Synopsis | Alice, Jenny and Pauline get together for regular catch-ups, though they have a habit of getting kicked out of restaurants - and there's someone missing. Each of the women reconciles in their own way with the loss of their friend Esme. |
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After School Special by Donna Brightwell
Production by ZigZag Theatre Group won four awards (including Best Youth Production) at Brantham Festival 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters are teenagers (plus a waitress). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for teenagers, single café set. |
| Synopsis | With the guys too shy to ask the girls, and the girls too shy to ask the guys, will anyone be going to the Senior Prom? Luckily, the waitress at the coffee shop takes a hand... |
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| After the Beanstalk by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. It's a pantomime. Make your own mind up as to who plays what. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for three songs. (More can be added at the discretion of the production.)17 Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | An entertaining pantomime with an original twist on the Jack and the Beanstalk characters and plenty of physical comedy action. |
| Synopsis | Jack, of 'and the beanstalk' fame, has set up a garden centre funded by his golden egg-laying goose. Among his staff are bumbling duo Bill and Ben and ever-hungry café staff Rose and Daisy. Trouble arises when the devious Petunia plots to steal the goose, and the planting of a second beanstalk leads to a visit from the giant's wife. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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After The Flags And Bands by Allan Williams
Production by Offshoots won Best Play, Best Actress & Technical Excellence Award at the Anglesey Drama Festival 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An all female cast, one act drama - with a single (church hall during World War One) setting. |
| Synopsis | Throughout the First World War we follow the women left at home, through letters and monologues, as their good companionship helps them cope with the devastating events on the Western Front. |
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| After The Funeral by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
| Synopsis | Edna believes that everyone should have a hobby. Hers is attending funerals. |
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