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| A Ventriloquist's Tale by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst this is presented as a monologue, it could also be performed by three people, playing narrator, ventriloquist and psychiatrist. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming comedy monologue (no set or props required). |
| Synopsis | A Ventriloquist who fears he's being controlled by his dummy seeks professional help and gets some straight talking. |
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| The Very Busy Stable by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Narrator role could be split amongst several narrators. There are optional choruses of stars, angels and animals. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] The timing assumes the use of four songs. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for four songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short rhyming nativity play (with options for including songs). Principally told by the narrator, with lines for the other participants. |
| Synopsis | The nativity story told very simply as just the stable scene with visitors. |
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| A Very Modern Wedding by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Some flexibility of ages would be suitable - at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 2 song suggestions are included with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act satirical comedy with a single (church nave) setting. |
| Synopsis | A satire on modern society, particularly the rush to litigation, is played out - as Charlie and Fenella, who have known each other for three weeks attempt to take their vows. There is quasi-legal squabbling between Best Man and Maid of Honour, and an impatient Vicar... |
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| A Very Roman Family - 235 AD by Roger Hodge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. The eight minor roles can be shared by two actors. |
| Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Bawdy Roman farce! Contains a tiny amount of mild swearing (and lots of innuendo). A single set is implied - the courtyard of a Roman home in 235 AD.
Originally published in 2010, revised 2015 |
| Synopsis | Titus Rambus is a senator, who intends to become emperor by means of assassination. He has chosen Formaggius Vastus to be the assassin in the mistaken belief that Formaggius, a seller of asses, has a brilliant army record. As if that were not bad enough for Formaggius, Emperor Severus has learned of the plot - but not the intended assassin - and he too engages Formaggius to bump-off his rival. Not only that, but Formaggius learns that after the deed the assassin will not survive for long. Can Formaggius save himself and his diverse family? |
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| A Victorian Street Scene by Roger Hurn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Cast flexibility comes by way of choruses of Passers-by, Urchins, and Salvaitonists, plus the option of the narrators doubling other roles. Four roles are nominally gendered, but this is really not important. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Vignette for a class or school assembly |
| Synopsis | A scene intended to convey the feel of a bustling Victorian street and give voice to the different types of tradespeople and characters who might be found there. |
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| The Victorians by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. Very flexible numbers! The roles are a mixture of adults and children, but intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for six original songs (plus a late-Victorian popular song) are included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Short educational and entertaining musical for kids. |
| Synopsis | A brief history of Victorian England brought together through a series of songs and Vignettes. |
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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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| The Victory of the Revolution by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
| Synopsis | Game Seven in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. The Cuban revolution, reviewed through Fidel Castro's 1966 chess match against the Mexican master Filiberto Terrazas. |
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| View from the Prom by Neville Judson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama of a three-way conversation. Easy to stage, requiring just a bench for the three women to sit on. |
| Synopsis | Three women, from three generations of a family, sit on a bench overlooking the beach in Tenby. Tegwyn has decided to send her mother Gwendolyn to an old people's home for a few days, but is uncomfortable about it. Tegwyn's daughter Celyn is not happy being away doing research and wants to come home. Gwendolyn sees four swimmers whom she believes she had last seen many years before.
[Gwendolyn has seen the swimmers before - their meeeting is told from the swimmers' perspective in The Barrier. Knowledge of this is completely irrelevant to the content of this play, but nevertheless, the two plays would work well together.] |
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| The Vikings - Class Play by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. Unusually, the characters include a fly! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of suggested music is included in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full class assembly piece - essentially a series of linked, themed, skits, about the Vikings in Britain. Aimed at the English National Curriculum Key Stage 2 topic 6C on settlers in Britain. |
| Synopsis | A whirlwind tour of the Vikings in (and beyond) Britain, covering raids, kings, domestic life and exploration. |
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The Vikings by Andrew Yates
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 43 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Two origninal musical scores supplied with the producer's copy of the script, plus new lyrics to 4 familiar melodies. |
| Style | A one act musical play for schools. |
| Synopsis | An educational and musical play that dispels a few myths about Vikings, while providing some real insight into their history and daily lives, as well as their effect on Britain. |
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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
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
** Backing tracks plus backing tracks with lead melody line for 5 of the 6 suggested songs from The Vikings by Andrew Yates. (The 6th song is a pop song for which a Karaoke track would suit better than Andrew's arrangements!)
** Vocal Demo tracks for the 5 songs from The Vikings by Andrew Yates
** Vocal Demo tracks for the 5 songs from The Vikings by Andrew Yates
** Zip file of backing tracks plus backing tracks with lead melody line for 5 of the 6 suggested songs from The Vikings by Andrew Yates. (The 6th song is a pop song for which a Karaoke track would suit better than Andrew's arrangements!)
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