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1001 Arabian Nights and a Matinee by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Characters include a pantomime camel. Dame assumed to be played by male, principal boy by female. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Scores for 7 original songs supplied with the producer's copy of the script. (Other songs at the discretion of the producer.) |
Style | British Pantomime. Slapstick, visual jokes, puns, mayhem and a camel. |
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! |
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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 ** Rehearsal CD with music for the 7 songs which are supplied with the '1001 Nights' master scripts. [Note that the script also suggests two points at which additional songs might be added at the discretion of the producer. These are NOT on the CD!]
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12hr Life by Robert Scott People's Choice Award by Manchester High School's Lancer Theatre Company, USA 2017 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act drama for a cast of two and a minimalist setting. |
Synopsis | Dylan should be going to a conference, but a chance encounter with Samantha and some forthright discussion, and he's playing truant and having the time of his life. Is it possible to live a life in one day? |
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22 Hardcastle Court by Gary Diamond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters are four adults, with a range of ages, and two seventeen-year-olds (who like each other). |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play. Two sets (with the neat conceit that in moving out of her mother's house, Emily takes her sofa with her!), one of which requires a practical door. Contains some bad language (and lots of good language) and mild adult themes. |
Synopsis | When Emily finally manages to move out of her Mother's house, she thinks her worries are over, but thanks to the flat's former owner, she has to contend with mysterious calls from Mr X as well as her mother's interruptions and an amorous pair of students wanting help with their play... |
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2B Or Not 2B by Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 29. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. Characters are (mainly) school children playing the parts of adults. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Single set, simple props, comedy designed to be played by a whole school class. |
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... |
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50/50 [One-act Play] by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two on-stage characters and two offstage voices, one of whom is definitely recorded. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A good relationship drama in one act. Various locations, but achieved by lighting and a few props. |
Synopsis | Jo is reluctant to look at the results of her pregnancy test, despite encouragement from her partner Danni. Flashbacks show us how they met and their relationship leading up to this point. |
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The ABC Of Christmas by Andrew Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Roles interchangable for girls and boys. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy contains suggestions for seven songs, including sheet music and lyrics for one original piece. |
Style | A Christmas play for primary schools |
Synopsis | The letters of the word Christmas are spelled out and depicted, in words and music, by various characters from both modern and holy yuletides. The light-hearted seasonal sketches, songs and poems can accommodate all year groups. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show ** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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Abi's Apartment by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Four roles, but the author suggests that Monsieur and Madam might be played by the same actor. |
Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An odd but fun comedy with lively fast-paced dialogue and good roles for (three or) four actors. Single set and easy to stage. |
Synopsis | Abigail and Benjamin, a maid and chauffeur, await the return of Madam, their famous employer, from a costly court hearing involving her unfaithful boyfriend. Fearing for their positions, they play an elaborate role-playing game to outwit each other and try to gain their mistress's favour. |
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Above and Beyond by Robert Scott Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Music to be played in background at certain points in the script, including a TV-style theme tune, to be chosen at producer's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length farce on a single set - which is both a bookshop and a hotel lobby. |
Synopsis | Mortimer and Philomena run a hotel with their child, Alexus. But this is no normal hotel - for one thing, it’s in a bookshop, and for another, the clients and owners are from outer space! |
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Absolute Dandy by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters written as 2M, 2F, but it doesn't much matter. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy set in a hitherto uncharted branch of literary history. |
Synopsis | Jane Austen is developing her characters as she prepares her latest, as yet untitled, book. She dresses as a man to find her inner Darcy and seeks advice from Beau Brummel as to wardrobe and demeanour. |
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Absolute Pantomonium! by Jon Monie Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Seven roles, but intended to be played by a cast of four. Whilst some of the roles are nominally male or female, it's a pantomime, so it's up to you how you sort this out. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 9 songs (and a reprise), with some panto-specific lyrics. All songs are at the discretion of the production. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act British pantomime with an original story written for a cast of four. |
Synopsis | When the beloved Fairy Tales is kidnapped by the villainous Killjoy, a young unnamed girl from the village of Ensemble must locate the Magical Book of Pantomimes and embark on a journey that will change her life forever. Along for the ride are the handsome Prince Charmless and the hapless Tilly and Billy Topps from the local Panto Emporium. |
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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
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