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| The School for Scandal (abridged) by Sheridan abridged by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Eighteenth century comedy of manners, abridged to one-act play length. |
| Synopsis | Plots and intrigues abound to blacken names and ruin reputations, but when true love is expressed it awakens the good characters of some of the school's members. |
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| School Night by Amir Rahimzadeh |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play with a simple restaurant set. Contains swearing (but a lot else beside). |
| Synopsis | We meet four couples whose individual stories unfold in front of us as well as new, hapless waitress Amy. We are introduced to young couple Steven and Sally whose relationship seems a little precarious, John and Hamish having difficulty with a homophobic neighbour, Trevor and Margaret who are movingly dealing with Trevor's serious illness and Derek and Stacey on the look out for recruits for their swingers party. The dialogue is realistic, touching and amusing and the serendipitous connection between Trevor and Stephen adds a surprising final twist. |
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| School Survivor by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. As written, the characters are two TV show presenters and two (non-speaking) secondary school students. We don't think this should be a constraint on the ages of the actors. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dark comedy sketch in which the stresses of reality TV meet the stresses of the education system. |
| Synopsis | The latest TV reality show. Can the competing students survive the challenges? |
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Schoolroom Sketch by tlc Creative
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. Chorus. Pantomime dame (Male playing female) and class of children (of any age!) |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Sketch extract from English Pantomime - knockabout clowning and wordplay |
| Synopsis | A teacher contends with a disruptive class! |
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| SCInderella by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. It is assumed that this will be played as a pantomime, with the dame (in this case the ugly sisters) played by a male (doubling as both sisters) and the principal boy (Prince Charming) will be played by a female. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One popular song is suggested (for which additional lyrics for one verse are supplied in the producer's copy of the script). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Small cast pantomime with integrated science content, designed to support the (English) National Curriculum Key Stages 2 and 3. (Not the whole of the curriculum, obviously!) Audience participation, slapstick, silliness and science. |
| Synopsis | Prince Charming is on the hunt for the girl of his dreams but the mean ugly sisters, Positivia and Negativia will try their best to stop Cinders from making it to the Ball. Along the way the audience and the characters learn all about pollination, separating mixtures, circuits, light and forces. With lots of audience participation, a fairy godmother and, like all good fairytales, a happy ending! |
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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
** MP3 backing track for I'm a Believer for use with the science pantomime SCInderella. (By arrangement with Sound-board.com)
** A four-page colour activity pack with jokes, games and puzzles to reinforce the Science from SCInderella. Ready to be downloaded from the internet (2.7MB file) and printed for your audience. (Content identical to the monochrome version.)
** A four-page black-and-white activity pack with jokes, games and puzzles to reinforce the Science from SCInderella. Ready to be downloaded from the internet (2.7MB file) and printed for your audience. (Content identical to the colour version.)
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| Scoop Jackson by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Character genders could be matched to cast available. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy for young actors - nine years and older. |
| Synopsis | The ailing Daily Special is under threat of closure from its owner, Big Boss. Cub reporter Scoop Jackson sets out on a mission to rescue the paper by way of getting a 'big story' from the worlds of show business, politics, or law and order. Success seems to be eluding him as he desperately puts 'Plan D' into action. Will it work? Hold the front page! |
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Scotch Broth by Geoff Bamber with songs by Stuart Ardern
Production by Stranraer Drama Club Juniors won loads of trophies at the Wigton division of the SCDA festival, 2015 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for two songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of ther script. (Two further songs are suggested.) |
| Style | A dramatised partial (probably in both senses) history of Scotland suitable for Primary School aged children and above. Minimal sets (although Hadrian's wall is built - very rapidly - during the show.) |
| Synopsis | Two Inter-Galactic time travellers arrive in Scotland on a fact-finding mission. Guided by a helpful Narrator, they take an eventful journey through the nation's history and culture and encounter some famous faces on the way. |
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The Scottish Play by Bill Siviter
Performance by Greenock Players Youth Section winner at the Inverclyde One Act Play Festival, 2008 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] Up to 90 minutes with banquets, ballads and battles! |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Irreverent verse play, 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!) |
| Synopsis | The Scottish Play - or 'Kids in Kilts' The complete story of Shakespeare's Macbeth (witches, murder, walking trees, revenge - that sort of thing) told as a verse play for kids. [Note that there is also a musical version of this play, called (with great enterprise) The Musical Scottish Play. It is identical except that six original songs have been added.] |
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| Scrabble, Stamps and Goldfish by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Nigel is fat and unhappy, so his friends are trying to find him a woman through an online dating service. Sadly, Nigel isn't very enthusiastic, or very decisive, so Bob and Ron have to make a lot of the decisions for him. Surely there's someone out there for him? |
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| The Scramblings at Spriggly Torch by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comic play - a Second World War mystery. One set, divided into three locations. |
| Synopsis | It is 1943, and enemy plans for a new fighter aircraft have fallen into the hands of British intelligence, but a traitor is suspected of attempting to retrieve them. |
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