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Aesop's Famous Fables and Twisted Tales by Peter Nuttall Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are nominally gendered, it's only a mater of pronouns! Contains anthropomorphism. |
Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with the score for the concluding song. |
Style | One-act play, ending in a song. Could be performed by children or by adults to an audience of children. |
Synopsis | Four stories for Aesop's extensive collection, about a Tortoise and Hare, a lion and a mouse, the belly and its team, and the battle between the Sun and the North Wind. |
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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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All Is Not Lost by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. Most of the characters are written male, but really it doesn't matter. Characters are a mix of ages, so could suit a mixed age company. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with sheet music for five original songs. |
Style | Full-length comedy with musical elements, speculating on the culture clash between Anglo Saxons and Romanised Britons. |
Synopsis | Sir Ambrosius Pengarth used to be the valiant, beast-slaying ruler of the Five Hills, but now is more interested in playing his lyre than protecting the people. When rumours of a dragon spread through the castle, his young son and nephew bunk off lessons to go and slay it themselves. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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Caesar and the Pirates [Full Version] by Nicholas Richards and Timothy Hallett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Flexible - the pirates roles could easily be shared by a smaller number and other doubling is possible. On the other hand, there is scope for pirate and soldier chourses. Only one specfied female role - Venus! - but others could be cast female. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for six songs. |
Style | Musical comedy play for kids - though the songs are optional. A shorter version of the same play is available. First published in 2011, revised in 2012. |
Synopsis | An older Caesar is recounting his campaigns in Gaul to a bored scribe, who suggests that it might benefit Caesar's public image to tell a tale of his younger days... Something dashing, perhaps, involving pirates? As it happens, Caesar does know such a story... Great fun (and secretly educational) with a genuine event in Caesar's life. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Vocal recording for five tracks and six rehearsal tracks (accompaniment with an instrument playing the vocal line) for the songs from Caesar and the Pirates [Full Version].
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Caesar and the Pirates [Short Version] by Nicholas Richards and Timothy Hallett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Flexible - the pirates roles could easily be shared by a smaller number and other doubling is possible. On the other hand, there is scope for pirate and soldier chourses. Only one specfied female roles but some could be cast female. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for six songs. |
Style | Comedy play for kids - with optional songs. (A longer version of the same play is available.) |
Synopsis | An older Caesar is recounting his campaigns in Gaul to a bored scribe, who suggests that it might benefit Caesar's public image to tell a tale of his younger days... Something dashing, perhaps, involving pirates? As it happens, Caesar does know such a story... Great fun (and secretly educational) with a genuine event in Caesar's life. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Vocal recording for five tracks and six rehearsal tracks (accompaniment with an instrument playing the vocal line) for the songs from Caesar and the Pirates [Short Version].
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Don Q And His Squire Sancho by Dick Caram |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. Whilst most of the characters are written male (with three written female), the author believes that indicating the gender of the character by costume is sufficient! |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano/vocal scores for two songs (based on Spanish folk tunes) are included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Comedy for kids in two short acts. No specific staging requirements, with some aspects of set and sound effects being provided by the on-stage chorus. |
Synopsis | Miguel de Cervantes's famed tale of the eccentric knight and his inept but trusting squire. Alonso Quixano is obsessed with tales of chivalry. So much so that he believes himself to be a knight - Don Quixote - and he sets out to seek adventure, with a peasant farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Midi files of songs from the show
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Gallinsay by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Characters of a variety of ages (from 10 to 100) |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script includes sheet music for three original songs. |
Style | A full-length comedy, presented in three acts. Multiple locations, but mainly requiring imagination. |
Synopsis | St John Carrington de Beauville has forgotten to book his family's summer holiday, a problem solved when an elderly aunt grants St John's children ownership of the remote Scottish island of Gallinsay. But Gallinsay is already inhabited by a commune of enterprising young pioneers who wish to escape modern society, and is also the target of a pair of geologists hired to search for gold. |
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Harmony by Neil Armstrong |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. Four of the roles are non-speaking. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano/vocal score for the song 'Harmony' is included with the Producer's copy of the script. |
Style | One act play (with a song) for a youth theatre group. (Originally commissioned for the youth of the South Shields Customs House Theatre.) |
Synopsis | Established as a haven or harmonious living, the village of Harmony is waiting for the prophesied visitors that will declare the village the happiest in the world and bring about world peace. But Lizzy and Bez have dropped in on the vital day, and they will change everything. |
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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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The Horrible Hot Air Homicide by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Melodrama stereotypes - the wicked squire, the poor-but-hones heroine, etc. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One song (to a G&S tune). Sheet music for the song is supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Melodrama set in Victorian times, but written in the 21st century - so something of a send-up of the format. |
Synopsis | 'The Horrible Hot Air Homicide' - or 'Fanny's Free For All' sees the wicked squire in pursuit of the poor heroine, Fanny. However, in fear that his past misdeeds will be exposed, the squire frames his rival for murder, then furnishes a fiendish fate for Fanny. |
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Jesters, Jousters & Donuts by Patti Veconi |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Eight pieces of Renaissance-themed music, scored for junior school musicians, are provided with the Producer's copy of this script. |
Style | A one act Renaissance-themed school play with music. |
Synopsis | A troupe of re-enactors assemble in a small town to stage their annual Renaissance Fair - just as contractors with the Dept. of Buildings arrive to announce plans for the sale of the land they are on. The narrator arranges a stay of execution and the show, featuring an archery contest, juggling jesters, a jousting match and not one, but three rival queens, can go on. When the contractors return, (with donuts to share), the actors make their sad goodbyes and exit. The clever Narrator, however, makes a discovery that saves the Renaissance Fair and brings the charming village of Notting-Sher-Wessex-Wood back. |
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The Labours Of Heracles by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. The minimum cast assumes reallocation of the Amazons' lines. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with scores for four original songs. |
Style | Comedy play with four original songs. Multiple locations, but intended for minimal staging. Intended for school productions from Year 6 (US Grade 5) upwards. |
Synopsis | Heracles' twelve mighty labours are recreated (and rehydrated) just off the stage in this light comedy based on the Greek legend.(No lions need be harmed in this production.) |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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