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The Phantom Thief by Stuart Ardern is an adventure/mystery (two very simple sets, 2 boys, 7 others - could be boys or girls). A boy has gone missing. His disappearance coincides with a series of robberies. Can his friends find him and unravel the connection - or is their visit to the haunted house just harmless fun?

Nursery Crimes by Damien Trasler is a private eye spoof
. With a single set, three actors (2M, 1F) and a run time of around 10 minutes it is a very short play (or a long sketch!) aimed at teenagers.

Role Play by Geoff Bamber is a ten-minute sketch for teenagers (4m, 3f).
A teacher tries desparately to keep control of a role-playing exercise about teenage pregnancy.

Geoff Bamber normally writes plays for junior schools
- typically, these have minimum requirements for sets and lighting, plenty of opportunities for developing acting talent and also opportunities for singing and dancing (deliberately fashioned so that actors don't have to be jacks of all trades).
Hood is a humorous retelling of the Robin Hood legend
(complete with villains, heroic outlaws, beautiful damsels and a twist in the plot).
Another twist on a familiar tale can be found in Cinders, a short pantomime version of the Cinderella story. (This is British pantomime - a very specific form of comic theatre; if you need an explanation, click here.)
The Fourth Princess is a comic fantasy
in which the royal family of Tallania try to restore the wealth of a kingdom devastated by dowries.
Musketeer is a comic take on the life of 17th Century France,
with D'Artagnan and the Musketeers in the middle of a struggle for power between the King and the villainous Cardinal Richelieu.
The Chair is a one-act play
(about 30 minutes duration) following the life of a chair and the fortunes of its various owners.
The plot of Invasion from Planet Zorgon has aliens landing in a sleepy American town
- the usual sort of sleepy American town, populated by cowboys, sheriffs, super-heroes and the occasional pizza delivery man.
In Butterfly Shoes, an unheroic hero has to rescue a kidnapped granny
from the clutches of a tribe of mountain Amazons, mainly, it appears, for the sake of the granny's shoes.
Treasure Island gets the pantomime treatment in The King of Spain's Treasure
with a guest appearance of Robinson Crusoe.
The role of agriculture and its relationship to society is explored in
The Farmer and the Charuba Seeds which Geoff Bamber originally wrote for a harvest festival, where the scenes were interspersed between music and other activities.
Not many people know that the world is kept spinning by a mechanism primed by a golden key. In Megan and the Golden Key,
we discover what happens when the key goes missing!
The foggy streets of London are the setting for
Sherlock Holmes & the Emerald of Alcazar a melodramatic (and comic) addition to the Holmes cannon.

Once... by Raymond Blakesley is a fairytale/fantasy, with the story amplified by narrators in the voices of different newspapers, plus a "Greek Chorus" of "the poeple".

Minny Pinny Makes a Difference by Stuart Ardern is a junior school assembly piece: humorous, moral and with a couple of songs thrown in.

Like You've Never Seen it Before by Christine Harvey & Elisha Lee is a class-sized piece for older junior-school children, with a wide variety of roles to cover a range of talents.


"Short Pants" is Richard Coleman's category for pantomimes told humorously in verse by a small cast.
Here we present Rhyming Christmas Carol, Rhyming Cinderella, Rhyming Jack and the Beanstalk, Rhyming Mother Goose and Rhyming Snow White.
Other rhyming scripts (not strictly pantomimes) are Stuart Ardern's
Rhyming Red Riding Hood and Gerald P. Murphy's Rhyming Pied Piper, Rhyming Three Sillies and Cagic Mup
(which not only rhymes, but also Spoonerises)

Mrs. Clutterbook's War by Julie Cordingley is designed as a full-class production
for junior schools following the (English) National Curriculum key stage 2 history topic on World War 2. The script immerses children in some of the real issues confronting their peers during wartime.
I Didn't Think by Julie Cordingley is a junior school play, tackling the theme of bullying.

Georgina Cawood's Stoneybroke Hall or The Time Machine is a melodrama set amongst the staff and pupils of two rival schools.

In A Trip to the Beach by Sarah Cowan, a junior school trip to the seaside goes terribly and hilariously wrong, as the class have to rescue their teacher from a cliff-face.

We venture into musical territory with Drama Club Must Die by Gerald P. Murphy - set in an American High School where the drama club faces closure by the wicked principal within a week, unless it can mount a production of The Wizard of Oz from scratch.

Meanwhile, Little Bigfoot by Gerald P. Murphy is a musical set in a summer camp for computer addicts, where the kids are set the task of capturing a Bigfoot.

Romeo Loves Juliet by Gerald P. Murphy is a musical pitching Shakespeare into modern America, where the Montagues and Capulets are still feuding.

See also One-act Plays and Other Plays for additional scripts.
Theatre Resources See the resources page for links to other sites and useful production information. See also the photo gallery for costume ideas.

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