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| Seven Ages of Love by Robert Burns |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act play with an interesting structure. (As our reviewer remarked, 'It's what you'd get if MC Escher was a playwright'.) Several locations, but can be done with indicative sets. Contains a mild swearword. |
| Synopsis | Mike's written a play about his failed love, telling the story in reverse for the benefit of his friend Phil. If you run a sad love story backwards, you end up with a happy ending, don't you? |
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| The Seven Wonders by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 17. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 72 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An accessible educational play for schools with a single (play room) setting. |
| Synopsis | A boy is given a book which tells him about the Seven Wonders of the ancient world in surprising 3D. As well as a lightly educational fantasy tour of the Seven Wonders of the World and associated historical matters this play is also a paean to the power of books in educating and inspiring children. |
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| Sex And Curry by Robert Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 93 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce for an adult audience. |
| Synopsis | Hannah's boyfriend has walked out, leaving her pregnant, but that's only the start of her troubles. Telling her parents that her gay flatmate is her fiancé and the child's father didn't solve the problem But Hannah is not the only one keeping secrets. |
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| The Shadow of Christmas by Martyn Chapman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 0. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Prose monologue - a good character piece - with minimal set and an ill-fitting costume! |
| Synopsis | A reluctant Father Christmas talks about his feelings during the festive season, remembering the daughter he lost and considering what life might have been like. |
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| Shadowdancer by Wesley A. Knoch |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for 9 songs and three instrumentals are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical for teenagers. (Structured in two acts, but of one-act length.) Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Rocky, the bullying leader of his gang, is led into a scary world of shadows, where he learns that he needs to pay his dues... |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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| Shadows In The Middle by Patti Veconi |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. Contains scenes altered for either predominantly male or female casts. |
| Run Time | Around 51 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A Shakespearean themed play for youth theatre (American English). |
| Synopsis | Puck's final monologue from A Midsummer Night's Dream is dramatically examined in the context of modern school life and everyday teenage angsts and relationships. |
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| The Shadows Of Antiquity by Adora Pingstock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Opportunities for doubling and pre-recording parts. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act gothic horror tale with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Madame Carlotta is the custodian of the shop in which each of the items on sale has a gruesome story attached to it. A young couple sheltering from a severe storm find refuge in the shop and are enthralled as Madame Carlotta's tales come to life, little knowing that they will be the subject of the next tale. |
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| Shah Jahan by Subrata Das |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 16. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 31. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 160 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | At the discretion of the Producer Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length translation and adaptation of D.L.Roy's epic saga of the Mughal Empire. |
| Synopsis | The retelling of last turbulent years of Shah Jahan's reign are brought to life in this powerful and gripping play, written in the spirit of a Shakespearean tragedy. |
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| Shakespeare - It's All Greek To Me! by Sarah Brown |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Various doubling options possible, depending on cast number available. |
| Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for older children, with various simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Rosie and her classmates are struggling with understanding the works of William Shakespeare. Rosie gets help with her project - not only from her teacher and her family but also from the Bard himself, along with Hermia and Lysander - who appear to her in an animated dream and the magic of Shakespeare's work is revealed to her... |
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| The Shakespeare Convention by Christine Harvey (with YAK Drama Camp) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. There are male and female characters, but in Shakespeare's day, they were all played by men, and there is no reason why the reverse convention should not be applied (or anywhere between the two extremes). |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play (which might be regarded as a coherent collection of skits) for kids. There's a lot going on, but it doesn't need a complex set. A fun introduction to Shakespeare! |
| Synopsis | Bumbling producer Burbage and his irate associate Iggy have put together a Shakespeare convention, at which the actors perform four plays and a sonnet in a rather unconventional manner. Iggy is out to ruin Burbage, but loses the plot a little towards the end! |
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