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| The Star's Nativity by Martin Kirkland |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the scripts suggest the use of four Christmas songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Nativity play. |
| Synopsis | A school nativity play with a difference, with the story charmingly told from the star's point of view. With appealing humour and characters the story shines through and the cleverly placed amusing colloquial asides will give opportunities for some cheeky young chappies to shine. |
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| Step Sisters by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun and energetic monologue. |
| Synopsis | Enthusiastic aerobics teacher, Katie, tries her hardest to deliver her step class. Despite her valiant efforts to put her step sisters through their paces, she is faced with interruptions and setbacks throughout. |
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| Sticky Snail and the Fire Dragons by Richard Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. All characters are animals. Numbers could be increased by multiplying the numbers of each sort of animal! |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming script aimed at an audience of young children (UK years 1-3, US K-2). |
| Synopsis | The animals are cold, damp and miserable - they need fire to warm them up, but for that, they must persuade the fire dragons to help. Unfortunately, the fire dragons only want to fight! |
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| Still Life by Karen Ankers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two adults and two teenage lads. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play. Simple (street) setting. Contains swearing (and poignancy.) |
| Synopsis | A moving, thought provoking one act play with a modern tale of two social misfits coming together and each, in their own way supporting the other. Jenny is lonely and frightened having had no social contact since her childhood, not having left the house she shares with her abusive father for over twenty years. She has suffered a final trauma at home and in her despair wanders the streets where she encounters Keith, a bitter unemployed alcoholic trying to eke a living as a street entertainer. As an uplifting, at first reluctant, relationship develops between them an optimistic chink throws light on their despondency. |
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| Stone Soup by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. There is no specific requirement for a chorus, but the group of stockbrokers could easily be expanded to the available numbers! |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Modern American fable told as a one-act play. No set requirements - continuous action with locations indicated by a few props carried on by the actors. |
| Synopsis | The Jones family are broke. They need to sell their worthless farm, and all they have left in the world is a heap of stones and their wits! |
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| Stonehenge by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are a father and two teenage children. How you cast those ages is up to you! |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch with no requirement for set or props. |
| Synopsis | An enthusiastic father takes his two teenage children to visit Stonehenge again and again and again. The teenagers think there have been too many agains. |
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| Stonewinge by Peter May |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch with no set necessary. |
| Synopsis | A traveller walking alone in Southern England happens upon a man moving large blocks of stone and engages in conversation with him. |
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| Stop Shouting, George by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy monologue with a simple kitchen setting. |
| Synopsis | Ruth is worried about what has happened to her husband George's fashion sense since his retirement. |
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Stop the Clocks by Keith Badham
Performance by Up-Stage Theatre Company won Most Theatrical Moment and the Audience Appreciation Award at the Bedfordshire One Act Play Festival, 2011. Royal Manor Theatre won the adjudicators award at the Dorset Drama League Festival, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 88. No chorus. The fifteen scripts have casts ranging from two to sixteen, however the author expects that some groups will reorganise the twenty-character script for a smaller group - his estimated minimum cast is seven. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A series of short scripts for teenagers. Simple to set, but with plenty of performance challenges. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Fifteen short scripts:
Introduction (Nominally sixteen roles)
Death Of Innocence (Seven roles)
Back to school (Eight roles)
The Interview (Five roles)
Twins (Three roles)
And Lo (Seven roles)
Monster Mum (Two roles)
The Quest For Happiness (Six roles)
Punch and Judy (Three roles)
Knife Crime Horror (Two roles)
The Priory (Two roles)
We Three (Part One) (Six roles)
The Teachers Are Afraid... (Two roles)
We Three (Part Two) (Six roles)
Death (Thirteen roles) |
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| Stoppit by Marcus Grollman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Characters are 12 children and three adults (assumed to be played by children). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act ghost story for kids, set in a playground/classroom (originally played in--the-round so needs little in the way of set), simple props. |
| Synopsis | It's time to hand in homework again and no-one is looking forward to another of Mrs. Devenish's bad moods. It's especially worrying for Luther, who is running out of imaginative excuses for why he hasn't done his work again. No-one was expecting the strange events that were going to transform this normal school day into something that no-one was ever likely to forget! |
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