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| The Scary Tale of Frankenstein by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, rhyming Gothic horror comedy play for kids! Single laboratory set! |
| Synopsis | Professor Frankenstein creates a new life from recycled body parts. Unfortunately, his assistant, Egor, drops the brain, so a substitute has to be used. Whilst the brain seems to work, the locals see Frankenstein's creation as a monster and they really aren't happy! |
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| The Scary Tale of The Mummy's Curse by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. (Whilst the script doesn't require a chorus, there are options for dances and for 'extra' roles. The narrator role could be split amongst a group.) |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, rhyming horror comedy play for kids! |
| Synopsis | An archaeologist in search of treasure finds the mummy of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh in a cursed tomb. (A good time is had by all.) |
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| The Scary Tale of The Werewolf by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, rhyming Gothic horror comedy play for kids! Multiple locations, but not intended to be staged naturalistically! |
| Synopsis | There's a Werewolf on the loose! But when the culprit finds out what happens to him by the light of the full moon, he seeks medical help (and hairdressing). |
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| Scene Six by Andrew McGuirk |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The 'director' is an offstage voice and could be doubled by 'David'. The characters appear in a flashback as their childhood selves. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Character drama with plenty of acting challenges. Structured in two acts, but, at around 55 minutes, of one-act length. (Includes some swearing.) |
| Synopsis | Two old friends and a new acquaintance decide to put on a play, but the assigned parts, emotional attachments, and the ruthlessness of the director cause rifts between the three. |
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| The Scent of Daffodils by Radek Zwolak |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 107 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length drama with a single (garden) setting. |
| Synopsis | Vince and his son Charles have been estranged for many years. In an attempt to explore a reconciliation, Charles and new wife Ann visit. The subsequent soul-searching and raw emotions come alive as the father and son relationship is thoroughly tested, with a final heart-wrenching result. |
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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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