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A Christmas Carol - The Real Story by Colin Calvert	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Two characters required for performance as a simple duologue, a further 7 (nominally 5F, 2M) required if the action is staged. Run Time Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Essentially a duologue which could either be done without additional actors, (as an after-dinner piece) or be staged as a narrated mime. Minimal staging requirements. Makes no attempt to be 'politically correct'! Synopsis Two narrators tell the story of a modern day Scrooge who's having the wool pulled over his eyes by dishonest Bob Cratchit and his gang of cronies. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Crime Done in Rhyme by tlc Creative	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Run Time Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Rhyming skit (parody of Dr. Seuss) no set requirements, a few common props. Synopsis There's been murder afoot, but who can have done it? If there's a prize for rhymed mystery, this one has won it! The victim's a cat, but much more than that, He's a cat that has often been seen in a hat. A detective is called and a Mistress is found, (while the corpse of the cat is left there on the ground). It's funny, irreverent and won't take much time, and the best of it is, every line is in rhyme! Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Language Lessons by Nicholas Richards	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. There are two consistent characters throughout (plus an offstage voice). The rest are brought on for each 'lesson' so the 'Englishman' could be played by a different character in each scene (and need not be male). Run Time Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Prologue and eleven short comedy skits with no requirements for set. Could be done as written (one continuous performance) or could be split across a sketch show as a running gag. (Contains caricatures, silly accents and foreign words!) Synopsis Polly and Glott present an informative (and amusing) look into the necessity for having some skill with a foreign tongue. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Leading Ladies by Christina Simpkin	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Run Time Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Short comedy sketch set on a busy stage! Synopsis Bertha and Florence are backstage at the latest big production, preparing for the vital role they play in the piece. But they don't feed lines to anyone... Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Light of the World by Hilary Mackelden	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Run Time Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Short sketch intended for church groups. Synopsis What happened in the Inn the day after Jesus was born. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Little Red Riding Hood [Verse] by Peter Bond	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters, of course, include a wolf. Run Time Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Simple verse play for kids. (A sort of short British pantomime.) Synopsis Red Riding Hood, her mother, and her brother Robin (who you may know from other pantomimes) live in a cottage in the woods. One winter's day Red's mother asks her to take a Christmas hamper to her Grandma, but a Wolf is on the prowl, and there's no woodcutter in sight... Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. Extras 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
Medieval Help Desk by tlc Creative	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The Herald and Advisor are written as male roles. It is not imperative that they should be played as males. Likewise the Messenger is referred to as 'he' and as only one person, though there could be as many as five of her! Run Time Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Comedy sketch - a torrent of parody and puns - set in a medieval office. Synopsis You've reached the Medieval Help Desk. How can we give you excellent service? Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Modern Santa by Colin Calvert	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Whilst the Chairman and Mr. McCrumm are written male, the author has no objection to their gender being reassigned. Run Time Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Fifteen-minute skit. No specific set requirements, and no requirement for movement. (Could be done as a party-piece or front-of-curtain during a set change). Contains mild swearing and adult humour. Synopsis Santa appears before a committee vetting his application for seasonal work. (They suggest that his contract needs additional clauses.) Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Now Is Not The Time by Nicholas Richards	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Death, War, Pestilence and Famine, and Mr. and Mrs Lamb - a couple from Yorkshire. Run Time Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Twelve-minute comedy skit. Single set (though the location is largely conveyed through dialogue). Synopsis A couple are trying to get their guest house ready for a party of four when four horsemen arrive. The Four Horsemen. The couple have to explains that they've no vacancies and the End of the World simply isn't convenient at this moment in time... Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Panto Question Time by Sue Gordon	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The characters are all nominally adults, but could be played by children. Having a pantomime theme, it would be entirely possible to play one or more of the female characters as a pantomime dame (i.e. played by a male) Run Time Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Ten-minute sketch, combining pantomime themes with the format of the TV 'Question Time' panel format. Synopsis Cinderella's Stepmother, Alice (Mrs. Whittington), the Giant's Wife (from the top of the beanstalk) and Jack's Mother (from the other end) take questions from (planted in!) the audience and might well come to blows... Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.

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