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Being Rose by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Requires 5 actresses of varying ages to play the title character. Every male character is intended to be played by the same actor, and every female character (aside from Rose) by the same actress. |
Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A powerful one act play with various settings. |
Synopsis | Rose looks back on her life from old age but as we see her memories replayed before us, differences emerge between her stories and reality. As her confusion increases, a doctor's diagnosis explains all. In this emotional look at the devastating effects of dementia, Rose is able to recollect momentous emotional events in her life which are vividly and evocatively played out on stage. |
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Billionaire School by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for ten original songs is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Simple musical for kids - an excuse to dip into a few historical topics! |
Synopsis | Billionaire Gil Bates is a smart man when it comes to computers, but has trouble with remembering basic history and culture. He and his wife hatch a plan: combine a group of teachers and Gil's love of musical theatre, and present some of history's greatest moments in musical form! |
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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
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Famous People of the Twentieth Century by Sue Russell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Five scripts, six characters per script. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A set of five mini-plays (with run times around 10 minutes) designed for 'readers theatre' (i.e. use for small group reading), though they could also be performed as plays. No set requirements. Producer's Copy includes a quiz for each play. |
Synopsis | Five short plays looking at the lives of famous people from the 20th century, including Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and a group of famous women : Diana, Princess of Wales, Margaret Thatcher, Madame Curie, Mother Theresa, Anne Frank and Helen Keller. The scripts are aligned to the English National Curriculum, Key Stages 1 & 2, History Syllabus Unit 20 ('What can we learn about recent history from studying the life of a famous person?'), Citizenship Unit 5 (Living in a Diverse World) plus the R.E. Unit on Famous People. |
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The Fifty Year School Trip by Alan J. Laing |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act play, which can be split into two - if a break is needed. |
Synopsis | Jenny and her gran are visiting the local museum and they look at a classroom from the 1960's, when Jenny's gran was a pupil. Jenny sits in the class when the others leave and finds herself transported back fifty years, where some things aren't that different at all... |
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John Lennon Assembly by Sue Russell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 58. No chorus. Lots of cast flexibility! |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The script includes suggestions for musical interludes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Short assembly piece for a full cast of children. No specific set requirements (give or take the representation of a bed!). |
Synopsis | A short review of the life of John Lennon, looking at where he fitted in to the twentieth century. Written to support the English National Curriculum Key Stage Two, History Unit 20 - What can we learn about recent history from studying the life of a famous person? |
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Marvellous Marie by Richard Cowling |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 31. Minimum total without doubling = 38. Chorus. Many of the characters appear in only one or two scenes, so a lot of doubling is possible. There are also numerous choruses - Polish Dancers, Parisians, and an American crowd, for example. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for 28 songs, instrumentals and pieces of scene-change music. |
Style | School musical. Lots of scenes but with location indicaters rather than lavish sets. |
Synopsis | Moving, inspirational musical exploration of the life and work of Marie Curie from Polish upbringing to Paris and the Nobel Prize. Original songs for an original scientific life. |
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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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Questions of French History by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 58. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A series of comic, educational sketches with no set necessary. Adaptable for presentation as a whole or as a pick and mix, for use as an assembly piece or a classroom aid. A large number of roles but performable by just a handful of actors. |
Synopsis | A series of sketches touching light-heartedly on several episodes of French history, from the Stone Age to the Common Market, providing elementary oral French and a bit of fun with history. |
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Round, Round by Linda Stephenson and Alison Hudson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Chorus size may be adjusted at Producer's discretion |
Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act fantasy adventure for children. |
Synopsis | Step brother and sister Carl and Becky discover an old magical carousel, which takes them back in time to 1919. Their adventure enables them to rescue Lucy and Joe from the clutches of their evil step father. In the process they are able to reconcile themselves to their own new relationship. |
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Time to Leave by Jackie Fitton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, intended to be played by kids (but could be done by a mixture of adults and children). |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | A list of suggested songs is included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Play (with suggested songs) for kids. (Roughly half speech and half songs.) |
Synopsis | A play for kids charting the passage of time through the music of different generations in different decades. |
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The Titanic by Sue Russell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute presentational play for a school class. |
Synopsis | The tragic story of the Titanic retold in Assembly form, with survivors and the less fortunate passengers telling their stories. |
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