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| Androcles and the Lion by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. The chorus - of soldiers, slaves, Christians and lions - is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming fable for kids. |
| Synopsis | Androcles is a man who loves all living things - he's even reluctant to kill a lamb to feed himself. So when a lion appears, he's less worried about it eating his sheep and more concerned that there's a thorn in it's paw. Helping this lion turns out to be a good move in the long term... |
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| Are We There Yet? by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two adults and one child. The child is written as a boy, but could easily be chaged into a girl. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An allegorical sketch about Advent! (Minimal staging requirements) |
| Synopsis | A family explore a different way to start their holiday. A play with an Advent theme. |
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| The Atheist Missionaries by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play with a Christian perspective. Single set (informal party) |
| Synopsis | A party is no place for Religion or Politics, but Brian is a recent convert to Christianity. Will his friends resist the urge to un-convert him? |
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| Baboushka by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Whilst there is no formal requirement for a chorus, there are options for attendants for the Wise Men, and a choir. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are places for a couple of carols during the performance. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short, charming dramatisation of the Russian Christmastide folk tale. |
| Synopsis | Baboushka welcomes the Three Wise Men into her spotless home as they pause overnight on their journey to Bethlehem. She is too busy cleaning her house to accompany them as they follow the star and subsequently spends the rest of her life searching for the Christ child. |
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| Bright - A Play About Heaven by David Webb |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play with a Christian theme delivered in a direct style. No specific set - requires only a bench. |
| Synopsis | A man suffering after his second heart attack meets a friend in a beautiful garden, where the air makes him feel better than the doctors have managed. Then he remembers that friend was badly hurt in an accident and begins to realise where he is. |
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| Devil in the Detail by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play, set in the less favourable regions of the afterlife. |
| Synopsis | Harry is newly arrived in Hell and he's not happy about it, but Claude De Ville isn't open to appeals. Harry is given an assignment to bring a soul back to Hell in exchange for eternity away from the Sulphur Mines. But the man in question has help on his side... |
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| End of the Road Pub - a play about Hell by David Webb |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as Australians, though there is no reason that they couldn't come from other places. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play with a Christian perspective on the riskier areas of the afterlife. (Single public bar setting, simple props.) |
| Synopsis | Marty and Jim stagger into a pub after a nasty car crash. They have a drink to steady their nerves but soon notice something strange about the pub. It turns out that crash was nastier than they thought and they've got their own lock-in, forever! |
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| The Football Manager by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Because the writer is English, the manager is the manager of a football (soccer!) team - but it could just as well be another team game. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An allegorical sketch about Advent! (Minimal staging requirements) |
| Synopsis | A football manager has a novel approach to the game. A play with an Advent theme. |
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| God's Minstrel by Joseph P. Ritz |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Four of the characters are intended to be doubled by one actor (though they need not be). The roles of Clare's Cousin and the Soldier are optional. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | You can think of this either as a short two-act play, or a long one-act play. Single set. |
| Synopsis | Mixed in with a little tale from modern times, this is the story of how Francis of Assisi became a saint. A moving and honest telling. |
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| The Great Divide by Howard Lipson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Cast is five adults and two children. (The children are non-speaking - and a minimal production might leave them out, with the other characters were to mime meeting them. As written, they perform a brief musical entertainment.) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play with a Christian theme. Minimal staging requirements. |
| Synopsis | Binky and Astrid are shocked to see that they are at a dinner party with three smelly, badly dressed people. It turns out one of them was once a famous author, and another is a poet. Can Astrid accept the message their host is trying to send? |
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