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Acting FunnyAuthorJack Burgess
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 52. Chorus. Three of the characters (two in one sketch, one in another) are intended to be played by children.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Piano and vocal scores for the opening and closing songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. (Original lyrics, music by Sir Arthur Sullivan)
Style A revue - a set of 17 comedy sketches and songs, varying in length from one to ten minutes. Basically a family show, but includes mild swearing in a few of the sketches.
Synopsis A collection of sketches, including opening and closing songs, five Great Moments from History, two French Lessons, three monologues, a very small circus, the ante-rooms to the after-life, a spoof of a medical soap opera, a martial arts demonstration and the Dead Carrot sketch. [Note that some of the longer sketches are also available individually.]
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Nursery Crimes - the Complete SeriesAuthortlc Creative
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus.
Run time Around 95 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Six one act plays (durations from 10 to 30 minutes) with simple staging requirements.
Synopsis A series of six short plays - using nursery rhyme characters to parody other forms, notably film noir. Most of them could be performed by children, but all of them would amuse adults as well as children. The plays are Nursery Crimes, More Nursery Crimes, Nursery Crimes - The Egg's Files, Nursery Crime Scene Investigation, Nursery Crimes - Four and Twenty and Finally Nursery Crimes - The Da Wincey Code.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

The Complete Short PantsAuthorRichard Coleman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 80. Chorus.
Run time Around 95 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Collection of seven short rhyming pantomime scripts (ten to 15 minutes each)
Synopsis The tales of Cinderella, A Christmas Carol, Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk, Whittington and his Crazy Cat, Ali Baba and Mother Goose told in rhyme.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Plus The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show

Varadachary's Annotated Chess MasterpiecesAuthorVithal Rajan
Roles Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 44. No chorus. Characters include Ghandi, Tolstoy, Fidel Castro, Marcel DuChamp, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Napoleon!
Run time Around 230 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience.
Synopsis A cycle of 11 one-act plays, linked by the character of Ramanujan Varadachary, an old Indian story-teller - who uses the chess games as allegories for discussions about, art, ethics, politics, love and revolution!
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