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| A Trip to the Beach by Sarah Cowan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, assumed to be played by children. The roles could be redistributed over a larger or smaller group. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song and incidental music suggestions included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Humorous tale of a contemporary school outing. Suitable for a full class production. |
| Synopsis | Miss Brown takes her class on an educational trip to the seaside. A diverse, argumentative group of children sets out to examine cliff-top habitat, an examination which comes too close to comfort for Miss Brown. |
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| Triple Negative by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play. Single set (a police interview room). Not so much a whodunit? as a who's going to get convicted for it? |
| Synopsis | A harassed investigator tries to get to the bottom of a tricky murder, but he isn't helped by any of the three suspects, the evidence or the lawyer. |
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| The Trophy by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Two mature gentlemen. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. No set. (In theory, the protagonists are looking at a notice board, but this need not be physical.)
From the Laughter Lines collection. |
| Synopsis | A championship bowls match is in prospect, but what's coming to the winner? |
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| Troy Story by Graham Milton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for schools - ideal as a classroom or assembly piece. |
| Synopsis | A comic take on the story of the Trojan War, with a rapping and bloodthirsty Greek chorus keeping the audience up to date. This short play covers argument between Achilles and Agamemnon over two captive women, through Achilles' sulk and Patroclus' sacrifice, through Hector's and Achilles' death, to the destruction of Troy via Odysseus' stratagem of the Wooden Horse. |
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| Truant by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Freda occurs as a character in other Gill Medway plays. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama for two and a bench. |
| Synopsis | Fourteen-year-old Evie has bunked off school to escape her bullies, and takes refuge on Freda's favourite park bench Meeting Freda for the first time, she's frightened and hostile at first, but Freda's irreverent take on life gradually helps her confidence to blossom. |
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| The Trumpeter by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming comic monologue. No set or props required.
Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
| Synopsis | With a fanfare, we present the tale of Thomas the Trumpeter and his performance before Her Majesty the Queen. |
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| Truth and Reconciliation by Cassandra Newman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Emotionally-charged one-act drama set in a basement office. |
| Synopsis | Anita has come to the Baltimore Truth and Reconciliation Commission to tell the story of her son's death, only to find one of the people there to record her statement witnessed the death. The three characters struggle to find a path to peace and forgiveness in the aftermath of violence and fear. |
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| Try To Get It On Like Once Before by Kirsty Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A ten minute play with adult themes. |
| Synopsis | In the far future, a man and a woman are being taught how to procreate the old-fashioned way, but the instructional video is somewhat odd. |
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| The Tudor Times by Richard Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Some song suggestions are made in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Rhyming play for schools (designed for the English National Curriculum Key Stage 2 topic 'The Tudors'). No set requirements. Simple props (as long as you don't take the cook too seriously). |
| Synopsis | A rhyming romp from the last Henry to the first Elizabeth. Wives, discoveries, the Armada and an introduction to Elizabethan cookery. |
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| Tudors Rich and Poor - Assembly by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 78. No chorus. Very flexible cast size! |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of musical suggestions is included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act assembly piece for a large cast of children. No specific set required, but ideally lots of props representing historical artifacts! |
| Synopsis | A romp through the world of the Tudors, meeting Shakespeare, royalty and commoners, talking about housing, entertainment, health and employment, amongst other things.
Based on the English National Curriculum History Syllabus, Key Stages 1 & 2, Unit 8: 'What were the differences between the lives of rich and poor people in Tudor Times?' |
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