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Please read the disclaimer at the bottom of the page before using this service. 100 by Heimann, Monaghan & Petterle
Synopsis: A strikingly original play combining traditional storytelling with physical theatre, created by The Imaginary Body. Winner of a Fringe First at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival.
Genre/s: Drama, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Nick Hern Books, The Glasshouse, 49a Goldhawk Road, London W12 8QP
Tel: 020 8749 4953 Fax: 020 8735 0250
Email: mailto:info@nickhernbooks.demon.co.uk Website: http://www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/ 1066 by Daniel Dalton & Daniel Hewitt
Synopsis: In 1066 King Edward died and King Harold was crowned as king. The problem was that Harold had promised William, Duke of Normandy, the throne.
Genre/s: Historical, Musical, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Educational Musicals Ltd, 10 Avon Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 1DH
Tel: 0870 910 5656 Fax: 0870 910 5657
Email: mailto:tony@educationalmusicals.com Website: http://www.educationalmusicals.com 1984 by Andrew Cowie from George Orwell
Synopsis: Winston Smith works in the Ministry Of Truth where he meets Julia from the Fiction Department and she enlists him to an anti-State resistance movement. Winston and Julia start a secret affair but they are betrayed to O'Brien, a member of the Inner Party. O'Brien tortures Smith in Room 101 and Winston ends up a broken, obedient Party member.
Genre/s: Drama, Set/technical requirements: Composite set
Comments: George Orwell's novel is still under copyright so this stage version is available royalty-free as long as it is performed on a not for profit basis for educational purposes only. It was written for a group of 26 young people aged 14 to 18 but you can scale the cast size up or down as required. Gender is flexible; it was originally performed with a female Winston Smith and both productions had a female O'Brien
Groups that have performed the play: The Crescent Youth Theatre, Birmingham (2005) Croydon Youth Theatre (2006) Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Crescent Youth Theatre, 5 Ingoldsby Court 68 Wake Green Road Moseley, Birmingham B13 9PT
Tel: 0121 449 4374 Fax:
Email: mailto:adcowie@yahoo.co.uk Website: http://www.portableprods.demon.co.uk Howzat! by Andy Collier
Synopsis: After a controversial incident on the field of play, two local village cricket teams resolve never to play each other again. The two teams are Stakeley, a rough team and Soulbourne, a better organised team. Stakeley resolve to get their own back on Soulbourne and plan a raid on the club's pavilion, stealing all the trophies. All this was happening while the two clubs were linked in a joint lottery scheme by lottery investigator Doreen Harton.
Genre/s: Musical, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Andy Collier,
Tel: 01234 766228 Fax:
Email: mailto:musicalandy@btinternet.com Website: http://www.musicalandy.co.uk/ Say Goodbye to Satchwell Road by Peter Nixon
Synopsis: A musical drama that explores the experience of the 1939 evacuation, its effects upon a group of London schoolchildren from various backgrounds and upon the Norfolk adults and children on whom they are billeted. The piece culminates in a pantomime “nativity play” with contemporary references (including an Angel/Chamberlain and a Herod Hitler) in which the characters attempt to come to terms with their situation and the impending reality of war.
Genre/s: Drama, Historical, Musical, Set/technical requirements: Set: Open stage area adaptable to various town and country domestic and public settings of 1939. Contemporary songs of 1930s and earlier, traditional hymns and childrens' chants (no original music).
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: SchoolPlay Productions Ltd, 15 Inglis Road, Colchester, Essex CO3 3HU
Tel: 01206 540111 Fax: 01206 766944
Email: mailto:schoolplay@inglis-house.demon.co.uk Website: http://www.schoolplayproductions.co.uk …and a Groundhog in a Pear Tree by Lindsay Price
Synopsis: There's trouble in Calendar Castle: The “Twelve Days of Christmas” are getting too big for their britches. They've all got agents, they're making demands, and worse, they're refusing to sing their signature song! Can Groundhog Day, the April Fool, and 29 February come to the rescue?
Genre/s: Christmas, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Theatrefolk, 2873 Dundas Street West, Suite 302, Toronto ON M6P 1Y9, Canada
Tel: 00 1 416 410 2282 Fax: 00 1 416 410 2282
Email: mailto:tfolk@theatrefolk.com Website: http://www.theatrefolk.com/ 1001 Arabian Nights and a Matinee by tlc Creative
Synopsis: There's trouble brewing in old Baghdad! Unless the Princess Jasmina marries before her 21st Birthday, the evil Vizier will take control of the city! Things look grim… but hang on! A posse of would-be heroes are here to save the day! The love sick Ali Barber (who pines for the Princess), his dim witted brother Singbad the sailor and his fearsome mother, Dame Barber are ready to intervene and foil the villain's fiendish plot. They are helped along the way by their pal 'Bob' (a lad with a secret), a pantomime camel named Humpy and a lady genie who's been stuck in a magic ruby for far too long!
Genre/s: Pantomime, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Lazy Bee Scripts, 2 Wood Road, Ashurst, Southampton, SO40 7BD
Tel: 023 8029 3120 Fax:
Email: mailto:enquiries@lazybeescripts.co.uk Website: http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/ 2B or not 2B by Bill Tordoff
Synopsis: It's the Friday afternoon drama lesson, only the usual teacher has bunked off. The girls want to do a romantic costume drama, the boys want to fight. The time is ripe for an Arthurian romance…
Genre/s: Comedy, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Lazy Bee Scripts, 2 Wood Road, Ashurst, Southampton, SO40 7BD
Tel: 023 8029 3120 Fax:
Email: mailto:enquiries@lazybeescripts.co.uk Website: http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/ 3's Company by David Wenden
Synopsis: Three friends venture into business together and through the eyes of each women we are given a retrospective look into their growing up with each other. Scenes from childhood, student days, working days and Mondays in particular tell this triumvirates' tale of relationship and a 'girlies' special bond. A poignant look at what they were and what they are to become, told comically to highlight the tragedy that befalls them.
Genre/s: Drama, Set/technical requirements: Set: Minimalist, three office desks and chairs
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: SchoolPlay Productions Ltd, 15 Inglis Road, Colchester, Essex CO3 3HU
Tel: 01206 540111 Fax: 01206 766944
Email: mailto:schoolplay@inglis-house.demon.co.uk Website: http://www.schoolplayproductions.co.uk 48 Shades of Brown by Philip Dean
Synopsis: In his final year at school, and with his parents overseas, Dan is forced to grow up fast when he moves in with his 22-year-old aunt Jacq and her eccentric friend Naomi. Light-hearted and funny, with a definite twist of insanity. Adapted from Nick Earl’s novel.
Genre/s: Drama, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Currency Press,
Tel: Fax:
Email: Website: http://www.currency.com.au/ A Bad Dream by Simon Brett
Synopsis: Between June and November 1902, the year of Edward VII's coronation, Bellingford Amateur Dramatics Society is rehearsing A Midsummer Night's Dream. The murder of Henry Irving, set against Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, a new ping-pong craze and the invention of fingerprinting, broadens the plot and develops the characters.
Genre/s: Historical, Musical, Set/technical requirements: A committee room
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Samuel French, London, 52 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 5JR
Tel: 020 7387 9373 Fax: 020 7387 2161
Email: Website: http://www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk A Balancing Act by Susan Galbraith
Synopsis: This is the story of several people’s battle with drug and alcohol abuse.
Genre/s: Drama, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Baker's Plays, PO Box 699222, Quincy, MA 02269-9222, USA
Tel: 00 1 617 745 0805 Fax: 00 1 617 745 9891
Email: Website: http://www.bakersplays.com A Captivating Situation by Damian Trasler
Synopsis: Howie's having a bad day - he left the house for little shopping, now, a few hours later, he's holed up in an abandoned house with a hostage upstairs and a bullet in his stomach. Can he negotiate a solution with Police Officer Zip before the SWAT team arrives?
Genre/s: Drama, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Lazy Bee Scripts, 2 Wood Road, Ashurst, Southampton, SO40 7BD
Tel: 023 8029 3120 Fax:
Email: mailto:enquiries@lazybeescripts.co.uk Website: http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/ A Christmas Carol by Christopher Bedloe, James Wood & Malcolm Shapcott from Charles Dickens
Synopsis: Pretty, singable music, witty lyrics and plenty of scope for dancing and colourful staging make this musical version of a well-loved story.
Genre/s: Christmas, Historical, Musical, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Samuel French, London, 52 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 5JR
Tel: 020 7387 9373 Fax: 020 7387 2161
Email: Website: http://www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk A Christmas Carol by John Mortimer from Charles Dickens
Synopsis: Dramatised with flair and wit in a version first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, this adaptation of the ageless story captures Dickens' ironic point.
Genre/s: Christmas, Drama, Historical, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: Large, flexible cast
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Samuel French, London, 52 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 5JR
Tel: 020 7387 9373 Fax: 020 7387 2161
Email: Website: http://www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk A Christmas Carol by David Holman from Charles Dickens
Synopsis: This is a bright, colourful adaptation of Dickens' popular Christmas story for reading aloud and performing. Scrooge's misery, the deadening chill as he meets the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, the merriment in Bob Cratchit's home and Scrooge's final, joyful celebration are all brought vividly to life.
Genre/s: Christmas, Historical, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Heinemann, Freepost (OF1771), PO Box 381, Oxford, OX2 8BR
Tel: 01865 888080 Fax: 01865 314029
Email: mailto:enquiries@harcourt.co.uk Website: http://www.heinemann.co.uk/ A Christmas Welcome by Jan Holdstock
Synopsis: These attractive new songs give a refreshing rendition of the traditional Biblical story. Songs can be sung alone or performed in a cycle as a cantata.
Genre/s: Christmas, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Golden Apple Productions, Musicroom.com Ltd, 14-15 Berners Street, London, W1T 3LJ
Tel: Fax:
Email: mailto:help@musicroom.com Website: http://www.musicroom.com A Day at the Sea-Side by Jeremy Lucas & Ward Baker
Synopsis: Great Yarmouth, 1904. Two parties of children arrive for day trips - one from a Norfolk preparatory school, the other from the slums of London. The social taboos of the period alongside the jollity of pierrot shows and the elegant lifestyle of Edwardian England provide a lively but thought-provoking piece of theatre, full of bustle, noise and humour, yet tinged with irony and culminating in harsh reality.
Genre/s: Historical, Musical, Set/technical requirements: Set: Based on sea-side architecture (railway station, bandstand, etc) changing rapidly through various aspects of an Edwardian resort. Mostly contemporary light music/songs of the Edwardian period; mix of solo and group items; scope for choreography; idea
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: SchoolPlay Productions Ltd, 15 Inglis Road, Colchester, Essex CO3 3HU
Tel: 01206 540111 Fax: 01206 766944
Email: mailto:schoolplay@inglis-house.demon.co.uk Website: http://www.schoolplayproductions.co.uk A Dragon for Dinner by Helen Murdoch & Ethel McCracken
Synopsis: The Princess was looking forward to meeting her new dinner guest, until she discovers she herself is on the menu. But maybe the Dragon will change his ways…
Genre/s: Musical, Set/technical requirements: A palace garden
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Samuel French, London, 52 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 5JR
Tel: 020 7387 9373 Fax: 020 7387 2161
Email: Website: http://www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk A Dress for the Wedding by Yair Packer
Synopsis: When their flight to Washington is delayed, Albert and Sabrina check into a hotel, only to find that they have picked up the wrong luggage from the airport. Instead of her dress for her nephew's wedding, Sabrina's suitcase contains something totally unexpected - and the name on the label spells trouble.
Genre/s: Comedy, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Lazy Bee Scripts, 2 Wood Road, Ashurst, Southampton, SO40 7BD
Tel: 023 8029 3120 Fax:
Email: mailto:enquiries@lazybeescripts.co.uk Website: http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/ A Fishy School by Raymond Blakesley
Synopsis: The tiddlers in the school are threatened by the pike family, King and Queenie Fisher, and the dangling worm. Only wimpy Wilfred Minnow can save them, but will he do it? Will Old Trout help him and who really is she? Can the stickleback teachers teach the tiddlers? Will the staff room run out of coffee?
Genre/s: Fantasy, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Lazy Bee Scripts, 2 Wood Road, Ashurst, Southampton, SO40 7BD
Tel: 023 8029 3120 Fax:
Email: mailto:enquiries@lazybeescripts.co.uk Website: http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/ A Game of Soldiers by Jan Needle
Synopsis: Jan Needle’s gripping story of some Falkland Island children who find a wounded Argentinean soldier. The book contains a powerful play script suitable for class work and school production, accompanied by resources including background material and lively activities.
Genre/s: Drama, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Collins Education, 77-85 Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 8JB
Tel: 020 8741 7070 Fax:
Email: mailto:customerservices@harpercollins.co.uk Website: http://www.collinseducation.com A Ghost for Rosanda by Herman Ammann
Synopsis: Four school girls arrive at a dilapidated, lonely old house planning to meet Rosanda, great-aunt of one of them, and spend two nights making up ghost stories. The point: Rosanda, who has lived in France for many years, now wants to return to her childhood home and advertise “haunted house” tours to make money. Rosanda arrives and describes a long-ago, imaginary murder that took place in an old chest in the room. The girls' fears continue to rise after Rosanda leaves, and they take turns telling ghost stories which culminate in the near death of one girl in the chest. Exhausted and asleep at last, the girls are unaware that they will hurry away when they awake and see the real ghosts of Rosanda, her French maid Yvette, and their mutual lover Chadwick. The murder was real, and the house is already haunted.
Genre/s: Drama, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: I.E. Clark Publications, PO Box 246, Schulenburg, Texas 78956-0246, USA
Tel: Fax:
Email: mailto:email@ieclark.com Website: http://www.ieclark.com/ A Giant's Giant Pizza by Julian Garner
Synopsis: Giant Rumblebottom is about to destroy the kingdom. Our unlikely hero, Olaf, who thinks he's ugly, ins the lottery and has plastic surgery. With his increased confidence he asks the king's daughter or a date, but alas, the Giant comes between them, kidnaps the princess and demands a giant pizza. It falls to Olaf to win the day! The play has five delightful songs.
Genre/s: Fantasy, Musical, Set/technical requirements: Various simple settings
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Samuel French, London, 52 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 5JR
Tel: 020 7387 9373 Fax: 020 7387 2161
Email: Website: http://www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk A Grimm Night for Hans Christian Andersen by Sue Gordon
Synopsis: Hans Christian Andersen gets an unexpected visit from the Brothers Grimm - who seem to be upset over the matter of stealing story lines. A competition ensues, with characters from Andersen and Grimm stories taking the stage - often in unexpected ways.
Genre/s: Comedy, Fairytale, Musical, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Lazy Bee Scripts, 2 Wood Road, Ashurst, Southampton, SO40 7BD
Tel: 023 8029 3120 Fax:
Email: mailto:enquiries@lazybeescripts.co.uk Website: http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/ A Happy Christmas by Bill Connolley
Synopsis: The Nativity in a modern setting. Herod becomes a wicked landlord and the Three Wise Men are streetwise!
Genre/s: Christmas, Set/technical requirements: Set: A bed-sit.
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: SchoolPlay Productions Ltd, 15 Inglis Road, Colchester, Essex CO3 3HU
Tel: 01206 540111 Fax: 01206 766944
Email: mailto:schoolplay@inglis-house.demon.co.uk Website: http://www.schoolplayproductions.co.uk A Heart Divided by Cherie Bennett & Jeff Gottesfeld
Synopsis: The Confederate flag - an historical icon or a racist symbol? This thought-provoking and gripping play sheds new light on a controversy.
Genre/s: Drama, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing, 311 Washington Street, Woodstock, IL 60098-3308, USA
Tel: 00 1 815 338 7170 Fax: 00 1 815 338 8981
Email: mailto:plays@dramaticpublishing.com Website: http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/ A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas by Laurie Brooks
Synopsis: In their poorest winter ever, when the crops have been devastated by locusts and the family must deal with the death of baby Freddie.
Genre/s: Christmas, Drama, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing, 311 Washington Street, Woodstock, IL 60098-3308, USA
Tel: 00 1 815 338 7170 Fax: 00 1 815 338 8981
Email: mailto:plays@dramaticpublishing.com Website: http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/ A Letter to Santa by Sue Gordon
Synopsis: A school class write Christmas letters to Santa, and we discover that they are dealt with by Mrs Santa and a bunch of fractious elves.
Genre/s: Christmas, Musical, Set/technical requirements: No information
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Lazy Bee Scripts, 2 Wood Road, Ashurst, Southampton, SO40 7BD
Tel: 023 8029 3120 Fax:
Email: mailto:enquiries@lazybeescripts.co.uk Website: http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/ A Little Princess by Michael Wild from Francis Hodgson Burnett
Synopsis:
Genre/s: Historical, Musical, Set/technical requirements: Various settings on an open stage
Comments: No information
Groups that have performed the play: No information Please note that NAYT has no information on the performance rights associated with scripts. You will need to contact the publisher directly.
Publisher: Samuel French, London, 52 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 5JR
Tel: 020 7387 9373 Fax: 020 7387 2161
Email: Website: http://www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk
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