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| Abi's Apartment by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Four roles, but the author suggests that Monsieur and Madam might be played by the same actor. |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An odd but fun comedy with lively fast-paced dialogue and good roles for (three or) four actors. Single set and easy to stage. |
| Synopsis | Abigail and Benjamin, a maid and chauffeur, await the return of Madam, their famous employer, from a costly court hearing involving her unfaithful boyfriend. Fearing for their positions, they play an elaborate role-playing game to outwit each other and try to gain their mistress's favour. |
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Adolf's Girls by Frank Gibbons
Young Portonians TC production won the East Stirlingshire Trophy at the SCDA Falkirk District Festival, 2016 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Has good scope to be performed by youth theatre groups, with some parts that could be played by either youth or adults. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play set in Germany during World War 2. Multiple locations, but intended to be indicated by lighting changes, so does not require major sets.
Originally published in 2010, revised edition published 2014 |
| Synopsis | In the midst of the German war effort, the young girls of a BDM group (the female equivalent of the Hitler Youth) are oblivious to the horrors of the European fronts. That is, until circumstances - and a Gestapo officer - threaten to change their lives for the worse. |
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| The Adventures of Captain Blood by Geoff and Vera Rogers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Variable chorus size possible at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 56 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are 7 song suggestions included with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A family show (possibly an alternative to Pantomime) told in verse, structurally in two acts but run time is approximately one hour. |
| Synopsis | In an original comedic rhyming story, a band of treasure-crazy Pirates are caught in a storm... shipping them onto dry land. Unknown to the Pirates, this landfall will result in their meeting three women - determined to make husbands of them, and the disguised love of their press-ganged crewmember. There are opportunities for fun audience interactions and some familiar songs. |
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The Adventures of the Jammy Dodger by Melanie Roberts, music by Rod Parvess
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 43. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of ages - children, parents and grandparents - but all intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for six original songs plus two adapted sea shanties is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Large cast play for kids - an adventure story with music. Lots of scenes but simple (minimal) sets. |
| Synopsis | A group of older folks encourage their grandchildren to try an old-style adventure, with fresh air, go-carts and pirates, and the children end up saving some ancient woods from building development.
A grand adventure story for schools. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Ali Baba and the Four Thieves by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. The cast could be extended with additional policemen. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids, with an economic rendering of the Arabian classic. |
| Synopsis | When Makram the miller is robbed of some bags of gold dust he decides to retire and turn over the mill to his elder son, Cassim. However it is his other son, Ali Baba, who locates the thieves' secret cave and retrieves his father's gold. When Cassim learns of the cave his greed gets the better of him. Unfortunately the brutal thieves then get the better of Cassim. To make matters worse they vow to track down whoever found their cave in the first place. |
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| Aliens by 10 x 10 Writers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of children, grown-ups and aliens, intended to be played by a school, youth theatre or mixed-age company. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection of seven short plays, a mixture of comedy and drama. |
| Synopsis | A collection of seven short plays/sketches for youth theatre with the theme of aliens. (All the plays are available individually, but are provided here as a collection at a discount.) |
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| All-Day Dreamer by Wesley A. Knoch |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 21. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 39. Chorus. Many characters could be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Music for the 7 songs and 4 instrumental pieces are included with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | An American one act, musical play for schools, with various settings. |
| Synopsis | Young loner Reve finds it difficult to make friends and so he populates his world with day-dreams and imaginary friends who help him navigate a typical day in school. This only seems to succeed in getting him into more trouble. Then, when he is at his most distraught - his suffering is relieved by a newcomer. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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| All's Well that Ends Well [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'All's Well that Ends Well', with every word remaining Shakespeare's.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | When the low-born Helena cures the King's illness, she chooses as her reward marriage to Bertram, Count of Rousillon. Bertram, unimpressed by this, goes to war to avoid his new wife. Helena concocts a plan to win him over.
A comedy in the Shakespearean sense of a story with a happy ending. In modern terms, more of a drama. |
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| Anna of Nazareth by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal score for 16 songs supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | One-act musical for performance by teenagers, young adults or a mixture of adults and teenagers. No specific set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Christmas musical telling the story of Mary from her betrothal to Joseph up to the birth of Jesus (roughly Matthew 1, 18-25, Luke 1, 26-38 and Luke 2, 1-7). Told from the point of view of a teenage girl, Anna, a jealous friend of Mary. It brings out the difficulty of Mary's situation within her community, but the resolution is joyous and uplifting. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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| As You Like It (60-minute abridgement) by Shakespeare abridged by Philip Schwadron |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. There are optional roles for non-speaking lords and attendants. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'As You Like It', with the original text pruned to 60 minutes.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
Shakespeare's pastoral comedy pared down to around 60 minutes. A play, set in the Forest of Arden, for fans of romance, jesters, dukes, wrestlers, foresters, shepherds, exiles and cross-dressers.
There. Who does that leave out? |
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