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| The Perfect Couple by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch, set in a living room. |
| Synopsis | Whilst comparing their idyllic marriage with that of other couples' relationships some surprising home truths come out. |
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| The Perfect Princess and the Wonky Wizard by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One of the characters is a unicorn. For the purpose of counting roles, we have assumed this requires one actor, but of course it might be played as a full skin costume, like a pantomime horse. (The narrator might double as the unicorn.) |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | An optional song is suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short fairytale for children's theatre, with an original story. |
| Synopsis | Wilhelmina the Wicked Witch is holding Spoony the Uni, a unicorn, prisoner in an enchanted forest - which is no longer enchanted due to Walter the Wonky Wizard casting the wrong spell! Two owls, Joey and Snowy, and a young crow, Pickles, team up with Princess Arabella on her quest to rescue Spoony. |
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| Perseus and Medusa by Tony North |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. The chorus is nominally 12 people (representing the gods of Ancient Greece). Only one of the three Gorgons speaks, likewise only one of the three Graces. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, large cast school play, in the style of Ancient Greek drama. (Appropriate for the English National Curriculum KS2 History topic Ancient Greece.) |
| Synopsis | A retelling of the classic myth with rhyming chorus and hideous Gorgons. |
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| Pet Rescue by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch with a single (reception desk) setting. |
| Synopsis | Derek wants an animal rescue centre to take on his unicorn when he just can’t care for it any more. |
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| Peter and The Violin Teacher by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are both written male - one old, eccentric adult, and one young, precocious boy. Could be played with the ages as written, but could also be played by two children or two adults. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch. Single set and, at its minimum, a single prop (in the form of a violin). |
| Synopsis | Peter is sent to the great Dr Villiamanovittikovskevitschki and the doctor endeavours to overcome Peter's Englishness in order to teach him the violin. But Peter has a question for the Doctor. |
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| Peter's Tale by Mike Sparks |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act mystery play (in the sense of the medieval religious mystery plays) in modern English. No set requirements, no props. |
| Synopsis | Peter's perspective of the ministry of Jesus, as he reflects on their time together after Jesus' arrest. |
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| The Peterloo Principle by William Campbell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A manager is having trouble seeing past the firm’s regulations when it comes to a friend’s problems, so she takes him back to the Peterloo massacre in 1819 to give him some perspective. |
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| The Petting Zoo by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch set in the office of a zoo. |
| Synopsis | A Petting Zoo seems a great tourist attraction but perhaps it could have been planned a little better... |
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| Petty Thievery by Molly McCluskey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy play, single domestic set (indicated by a few props). |
| Synopsis | Mary comes home to find evidence that her flat has been burgled. Policeman Patrick helps her to solve the case. |
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| The Phantom And The Phoenix by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. The characters are largely written male, but none of them need to be! |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Single set (a museum, which could be endearingly minimalist). |
| Synopsis | The Phoenix, a priceless statue, is brought from an ancient temple deep in the Amazon jungle and exhibited at a failing museum. The presence of The Phoenix can save the museum from closure. Unfortunately the statue is a sure target for ace thief - The Phantom. Can museum security, assisted by Inspector Fletcher (of The Yard) thwart the master criminal? Don't put money on it. |
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