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| Sic Notus Ulixes? by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Whilst all bar Circe are written male, the author would be happy with any liberties taken with gender - and, in any case, what evidence do we have that Homer was male? |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Humorous Homeric epic in a fifteen minute play aimed at beginners' classes in Latin! |
| Synopsis | Three scenes from the story of Ulysses' homecoming translated from the original Greek (*) and thoroughly mangled and distorted for dramatic presentation. Narrated by the original poet himself.
* Whilst the above summary notes the translation from Greek, it does not note what it is translated into. In this case, it's Latin (which itself is translated - or at least clarified - into English by the narrator). |
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| The Spartan Conspiracy by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act satire. |
| Synopsis | Menelaus, Ulysses and Agamemnon meet with Achilles to discuss the disastrous rise in the price of Olive Oil, instigated by the Trojans. How can they prompt a war with Troy to combat the oil price? Then they send for Helen... |
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| Theseus - The Journey To Athens by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 17. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Additional chorus members could be included. |
| Run Time | Around 72 minutes. [Estimated!] This allows for including the song |
| Music | One song with score provided with the Producer's copy of the script |
| Style | A one act play for a class-sized cast, with an optional finishing song. |
| Synopsis | A fun presentation of an early episode in the life of a hero, Theseus.
It could be used as the first part of a double bill with 'Theseus - The Maze and the Minotaur'. |
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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
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| Theseus - The Maze and the Minotaur by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 19. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 33. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The scores for one optional song and one musical piece are included with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | A full length play for schools or youth theatre. |
| Synopsis | After only a couple of months in Athens, Theseus discovers that children are being sent in tribute to King Minos of Crete, and fed to his monstrous Minotaur. Joining the children, Theseus is determined to destroy the beast and end the tribute.
This is the second half of the Theseus legend, and so might form a double bill with 'Theseus - The Journey To Athens' |
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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
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| Theseus and the Minotaur by Tony North |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. The chorus is nominally 12 people (representing Athenian parents). There is also an ox (non-speaking) brought on to be slaughtered! |
| Run Time | Around 8 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 minor tour of the legend of Theseus. (Complete with Kings, hero, labyrinth, bull-headed monster and a ball of wool.) |
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| Trouble in Troy! by Mark Ash |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 15. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very funny comedy play for kids, set amidst the Trojan war. Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | Spectakles (pronounced in the Greek way!) the slave has a hard life in Troy, but the siege has made it harder. The King won't listen to any of his war machine inventions, and now Helen herself is causing him trouble too. Sent to the Greeks as an envoy, he gets them mad at him too. Can he survive the war? |
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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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| The Twelve Labours Exchange by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Hera is represented by an offstage laugh which might be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short Ancient Greek comedy - a riff on myth. |
| Synopsis | Hercules (Heracles to the Greeks) is out of work and looking for a job at the Labour Exchange. Preferably one where Hera won't find it easy to continue trying to kill him. |
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| What's Up, Icarus? by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. Whilst there is no formal chorus, there is the option of adding non-speaking slaves and soldiers. The Minotaur is an off-stage presence. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comic rendition of an Ancient Greek myth as a one-act play for kids. Several locations, but no set requirements. |
| Synopsis | King Minos of Crete is a man ahead of his time, seeing his island as a successful holiday destination. The resident monster, the terrifying half-man, half bull Minotaur and a labyrinth to keep it in are key elements in his plan. [So a major tour to see the Minotaur? No? Suit yourselves...] Brilliant designer Daedalus, assisted by his son Icarus, is enlisted to construct the labyrinth but when Daedalus finds that King Minos is inclined to imprison him too, he realises that his next design must be for a means of escape. Icarus is less than enthusiastic about the method chosen. Perhaps he sees a Greek tragedy on the cards. |
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