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1001 Arabian Nights and a matineeAuthortlc 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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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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** 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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A Fishy School

Performance by Dean Hole Primary School won the 10th annual Wolfit drama and verse speaking competition.

AuthorRaymond Blakesley
Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 41. Chorus. The characters are mainly fish (with kingfishers and an angler's worm). Speaking chorus, divided up into several groups, commenting on the action.
Run time Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A large-cast fantasy, set in an underwater school. Minimal set and props. Opportunities for dance routines (music is not provided with the script).
Synopsis The tiddlers in the school are threatened by the pike family, King & 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?
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A Grimm Night for Hans Christian Andersen (Musical)AuthorSue Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. Lots of speaking parts, but few characters per scene so easy to structure small rehearsals. Whilst it does not require a chorus, there is scope for extra characters in a few of the scenes. Some of the characters sing!
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for 7 original songs and 3 pieces of incidental music is provided with the producer's copy of the script.
Style Comic retelling of fairytales as a musical play. Many scenes, but using the same few pieces of 'set furniture'. Simple props.
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.
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** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
A Grimm Night for Hans Christian Andersen (Play)AuthorSue Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. Lots of speaking parts, but few characters per scene so easy to structure small rehearsals. Whilst it does not require a chorus, there is scope for extra characters in a few of the scenes.
Run time Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Comic retelling of fairytales - many scenes, but using the same few pieces of 'set furniture'. Simple props.
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.
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A Letter to SantaAuthorSue Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Two of the characters are nominally adults. It is written so that the cast can be divided into two - a school class and Santa's elves.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for 5 original songs is provided with the producer's copy of the script.
Style A light musical for young children. Basic sets.
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.
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
A Little Elfin MagicAuthorDonna Brightwell
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are written as male or female, this is largely a matter of personal pronouns, so the script can easily be adjusted to accommodate anything from ten boys through to ten girls.
Run time Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act (well, technically two acts, but of one-act play length!) secular Christmas play. Aimed at junior school children, but could enjoyably be played for laughs by older groups!
Synopsis It's September and the Elves in Santa’s toy workshop are in a spot of bother - they've only just woken up after their New Year Party and they have three months to make a year's worth of toys. Worse still, could the new department member be a spy?
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A Load of Rubbish - MusicalAuthorSue Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. The characters described as 'a few small pieces of fruit and veg' play a chorus role. Their numbers are very flexible. The characters are inanimate objects, so gender is flexible!
Run time Around 60 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Piano and vocal scores for eight original songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script.
Style One-act large-cast musical (probably a whole school class) for kids. A comedy with a strong ecological message. Little in the way of set or props - mostly characters instead of props! (The Producer's copy of the script includes costume suggestions!)
Synopsis Life on an overspill rubbish dump takes a philosophical turn, with items of garbage asking 'why are we here?' - and making a song and dance about it!
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
A Load of Rubbish - Play

Performance by Thurso Junior Players, Winner of SCDA One Act Play Festival Highland Division Intermediate Section, 2007

AuthorSue Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. The characters described as 'a few small pieces of fruit and veg' play a chorus role. Their numbers are very flexible. The characters are inanimate objects, so gender is flexible!
Run time Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act large-cast play (probably a whole school class) for kids. A comedy with a strong ecological message. Little in the way of set or props - mostly characters instead of props! (The Producer's copy of the script includes costume suggestions!)
Synopsis Life on an overspill rubbish dump takes a philosophical turn, with items of garbage asking 'why are we here?'
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A Magic Paint BrushAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Whilst Chen is written as a girl, the character could easily be switched to a boy (likewise Old Sing and the Magician are written male but could be female). Cast includes a cow and a small flock of (talking) chickens.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for children, based on a Chinese folk tale. Simple set (the set calls for a hut upstage, but that could merely be implied by an upstage exit), simple props.
Synopsis In feudal China, Chen and her mother are oppressed by their landlord and his greedy, vindictive family. Then a magician arrives and gives Chen a magic paint brush, painting with it makes dreams come true...
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A Monster CatchAuthorRay Lawrence
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run time Around 5 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Five-minute comedy sketch. No particular set requirements.
Synopsis Two fishermen discuss a new theory on the nature of the Loch Ness Monster.
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A Trip to the BeachAuthorSarah Cowan
Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, assumed to be played by children. The roles could be redistributed over a larger or smaller group.
Run time Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Song and incidental music suggestions included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Humorous tale of a contemporary school outing. Suitable for a full class production.
Synopsis Miss Brown takes her class on an educational trip to the seaside. A diverse, argumentative group of children sets out to examine cliff-top habitat, an examination which comes too close to comfort for Miss Brown.
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Across The RoadAuthorPeter Lancaster Walker
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run time Around 6 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short sketch. Single set. Several domestic props - at least at the start of the play.
Synopsis Mary and Henry are having a quiet afternoon at home, when Mary spots some strange goings on next door. It’s a pity she doesn't keep a better eye on her own house...
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Aesop's FablesAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Characters include a wolf, a lamb, a lion, a mouse, three ants, a grasshopper, an owl, a dog, a tortoise, and a hare.
Run time Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for children - a narrated dramatisation of four of Aesop's fables. Very flexible format - no specific props or set needed and the stories could be presented individually or as a set.
Synopsis Four tales in which wolf bullies lamb, mouse befriends lion, ants ignore grasshopper and tortoise out-runs hare.
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AladdinAuthorStuart Ardern
Roles Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal boy by Female. Lots of small speaking parts for chorus members.
Run time Around 120 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Lyrics and sheet music to six songs supplied with the Producer's Copy. Production Notes suggest additional songs.
Style British Pantomime. Strong characters - dynamic hero, hissable villain, camp genie, henpecked emperor, etc. Packed with jokes, wordplay and sight gags.
Synopsis Mayhem in China as the wicked Abanaza wields the magic lamp with its great and powerful genie, and captures the Emperor's daughter. Aladdin comes to the rescue, with the aid of Widow Twankey and the camp Genie of the Ring.
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Aladdin [Short Version]AuthorGeoff Bamber
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. There is a lot of flexibility available in the casting: it would be possible, for example, to play Aladdin as a pantomime principal boy (played by F) and Widow Twankey as a Dame (played by M).
Run time Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short pantomime (generally, but not exclusively, intended to be played by children). Single set (as simple or complex as you wish). Few props.
Synopsis The Emperor has arranged the marriage of his daughter, Yasmin, to the son of the Grand Vizier. However, Princess Yasmin, Aladdin and the Genie of the Lamp have other ideas.
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
Aladdin [Version 2]AuthorBob Heather
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy by Female.
Run time Around 120 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Lyrics to three songs included in the script, all other songs at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Traditional pantomime -jokes, slapstick/physical comedy and magic.
Synopsis In order to marry Princess So Shy, Aladdin needs to become very rich - and in a hurry. Unfortunately his get rich quick scheme involves helping the wicked Abanazar. Aladdin ends up trapped in a cave - but with help from two genies, and the staff of Widow Twankey's laundry, Abanazar gets taken to the cleaners.
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
Aladdin [Version 3]Authortlc Creative
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. Widow Twankey is a pantomime dame (played by male), Aladdin is a principal boy (played by female).
Run time Around 105 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Eleven songs suggested (some new lyrics supplied). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Family pantomime. Heroes, villains, songs, jokes, physical comedy and slapstick.
Synopsis The wicked Abanazer is seeking the magic lamp that contains the all-powerful Genie, so that he can rule the world, and is just steps away from succeeding! Is all hope lost? No! Help is at hand! A family posse of wannabe heroes are here to foil Abanazer's evil scheme! The innocent local lad, Aladdin, his brother, the cheeky Wishee Washee and their fearsome mother, washerwoman Widow Twankey are ready to intervene and save the day! Throw in a magic carpet, a mystical Slave of the Ring, the Emperor of China, a beautiful princess and a couple of inept police officers and you have all the ingredients for a fantastic tale and great entertainment.
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Plus 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
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Aladdin [Version 4]AuthorJack Shaw
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. A nucleus of 11 principals plus chorus (with occasional lines). Aladdin is assumed to be a principal boy (i.e. played by Female), Widow Twankey a pantomime dame (i.e. played by Male).
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style English pantomime - comedy, physical, visual and verbal humour.
Synopsis Sultan Abanaza, wicked but bored, finds a magic ring which leads him on a quest for an even more valuable magic lamp. He needs the help of Aladdin, a Peking washerwoman's son and would-be suitor of the beautiful princess. Mayhem and magic ensue!
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
Aladdin [Version 5]AuthorDave Jeanes
Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Aladdin assumed to be a Pantomime principal boy (i.e. played by female), Widow Twankey is a Pantomime Dame (played by a male). After that, make your own mind up!
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music A list of suggested songs is provided in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style British pantomime - jokes, physical comedy, audience participation and mayhem.
Synopsis Abanaza the villainous magician discovers the whereabouts of a fabulous magic lamp. However he needs the help of Aladdin to get it. And with Aladdin comes Aladdin's mother, Widow Twankey and his inventor brother, Wishee Washee. There's mayhem in Wishee Washee's factory, mayhem in Widow Twankey's laundry and mayhem in the streets of China as Aladdin pursues his love for the Emperor's daughter, So-Shi.
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
Aladdin [Version 6]AuthorSteve Shaw
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The usual pantomime assumptions apply - female playing the principal boy, male playing the dame.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music List of songs and some original lyrics provided in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style English Pantomime - silliness, songs and physical comedy.
Synopsis Aladdin has seen the princess - but that's forbidden and the palace police are after him (fortunately in the form of Woo and Choo, a pair who make Clouseau look competent). Meanwhile, Abanaza has designs on a certain lamp - and he needs Aladdin's help. That leaves Widow Twankey's laundry understaffed - until she enlists the Emperor!
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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All in the StarsAuthorMark Billen
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus.
Run time Around 110 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Two act play aimed at a large cast of children.
Synopsis King Confort is worried. He can't find a citizen who is willing to criticise him or his government, and tradition demands the execution of a critic to accompany his birthday celebrations. Discouraged, he informs his Astrologer that, dissatisfied with endless gloomy predictions, he has written into his will that the Astrologer must die fifteen minutes after the king breathes his last. The king's sisters then gang up on the Astrologer, pressuring him into predicting that the king will die, in the hope of worrying him into an early grave. Into all this confusion come a heavily disguised princess and her father, investigating the kingdom before her marriage to the king. All sorts of unfortunate and unforseen consequences follow!
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All's WellAuthorSusan Vesey
Roles Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. The usual panto collection of a dame (played by a man), various immortals, and, unusually, three ducks.
Run time Around 95 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Song suggestions are made in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style English pantomime - traditional panto format but new story!
Synopsis Three ducks and a motley assemblage of villagers join forces with the local newspaper to try and save the historic clear water wells from being transformed into a mineral water bottling plant by the money grubbing Baron. A new panto tale with all the familiar elements preserved.
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Plus 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
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
An Arrowing ExperienceAuthorRay Lawrence
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The character is an arrow. (Presumably the acting style required is pointed - even barbed - but essentially wooden!)
Run time Around 4 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short comedy monologue, no set, no props. Might even be regarded as educational (English Key Stage 3 history topic 'The Normans')
Synopsis The famous arrow that took King Harold in the eye at Hastings gives his (or her) side of the story. A humorous monologue with comedy accent.
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Ancient Greek AssemblyAuthorSue Russell
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 64. Chorus. Immortals, Mortals, legendary characters, cartoon characters and the Minotaur.
Run time Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Suggestions for 10 pieces of music to accompany the script are included in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Full class assembly piece - essentially a series of linked, themed, skits, summarising Ancient Greek civilisation and myth! Aimed at the English National Curriculum Key Stage 2 topic on Ancient Greece.
Synopsis A variety of characters from History and Mythology appear on the stage for the entertainment and education of the audience, occasionally with musical accompaniment.
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Anyone for Bison?AuthorBill Tordoff
Roles Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. All characters are adults, intended to be played by children. Whilst there isn't a formal requirement for a chorus, other characters could easily be added.
Run time Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Costumed comedy for kids. Single set (with teepee).
Synopsis This is what might of happened when a bunch of English settlers first encountered native Americans - a clash of cultures resolved in a uniquely American way.
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Apparently NotAuthorHayley Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. Principal characters are four girls (plus the school principal and a teacher). The chorus is the bullies gang - number unspecified. The chorus lines could be spoken by one person or shared amongst several.
Run time Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One act play, set in and around a school.
Synopsis A new girl in school, is forced to choose between supporting her new friend and fitting in with a gang of bullies, and makes the easier choice.
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Are We There Yet?AuthorDamian Trasler
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two adults and one child. The child is written as a boy, but could easily be chaged into a girl.
Run time Around 6 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style An allegorical sketch about Advent! (Minimal staging requirements)
Synopsis A family explore a different way to start their holiday. A play with an Advent theme.
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Babes in the WoodAuthortlc Creative
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus.
Run time Around 120 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Some original lyrics included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style British pantomime. Strong characters, slapstick, visual jokes, puns and mayhem
Synopsis All is not well in Nottingham! The wicked Sheriff is growing rich on the many taxes he is forcing the poor townsfolk to pay and he is just about to become even richer. Pip and Penny, recently orphaned and heirs to vast fortunes have been entrusted into his care and he is hatching a horrible plan to make sure that he will inherit the cash and marry Maid Marion into the bargain. All that stands in his way is the very brave and dashing Robin Hood and his Merry Men, the fearsome Nanny Coddle, brainless Dave Knave (the wannabe outlaw) and a rather overworked Fairy. Will they succeed in thwarting the evil plot and beat the Sheriff and his villainous henchmen?
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** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Babes in the Wood [Version 2]AuthorBob Heather & Roger Lamb
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy by Female.
Run time Around 110 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Lyrics for one song included in the script, all other songs at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style British Pantomime with traditional pantomime characters - dame, village idiot, goodies and baddies, slapstick and comedy.
Synopsis A battle between the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood over the custody of the Sheriff's wards, aided or confused by the village idiot, Tom Piper, his mother, Robin's Merry Men and the Sheriff's incompetent deputies.
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
Beauty and the BeastAuthorStuart Ardern
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. The usual pantomime ambiguity - Belle and the witch are definitely female. The Beast and the Merchant definitely male. Mrs. Bustle could be female or male (a pantomime dame), the prince is probably a principal boy (played by a girl).
Run time Around 120 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for 11 original songs (counting two reprises) supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script.
Style English pantomime - puns, slapstick, visual jokes, songs. (It should be stressed that this is pantomime and not the Disney version of the story!)
Synopsis The arrogant prince is turned into The Beast by a scheming witch. He can only redeem himself if someone loves him for what he is. Into the Beast's castle comes a hapless merchant, father of the beautiful Belle. The merchant incurs the Beast's wrath, but when it is time for him to return to face justice from the Beast, Belle returns in his place.
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:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
Between the Lines

Winner of the VIP Arts Playwriting Competition, One-Act Musical Category, 2004

AuthorErica Glenn
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Characters include a (fairytale) wolf! The chorus (children) is optional.
Run time Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Musical scores for 13 songs are included with the Producer's copy of the script.
Style One-act comedy musical for kids. Minimal set requirements, simple props.
Synopsis It's time for a bedtime story, but things are not as we've come to expect them... The big, bad wolf is afraid of small children and princesses take to fighting dragons to rescue sleeping princes.
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** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
Billy Goat Gruff - PlayAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The troll is nominally male. One male goat and two female goats. The narrators are elves.
Run time Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Simple play for young children. Basic stage set (a bridge!). Costumes, but no props.
Synopsis Overweight goats meet greedy troll. The troll's dinner menu changes when Billy Goat butts in.
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Bl... Bl... BluebeardAuthorMark Billen
Roles Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. All characters are adults, intended to be played by children or by a mix of adults and children.
Run time Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A comic dramatisation of the Bluebeard legend (owing more to Offenbach's opera than to Perrault's fairy tale). Three sets, simple props.
Synopsis Duke Bluebeard lives in a grim castle and is feared by all. No one really knows what dark things happen in his castle. Having disposed of wife number five Bluebeard decides that Boulotte, the local May Queen will be his next wife, little knowing what he has let himself in for! Presenting his new wife at the court of King Bobeche and Queen Hortensia he spies their daughter Princess Marie and immediately decides that she shall be wife number seven. He orders his personal inventor, Popolani, to make the arrangements and proceeds to the palace. Challenged to a duel Bluebeard apparently kills Marie's fiancé, Prince Bruno, and demands the princess's hand in marriage. Suddenly Boulotte and Bluebeard's previous wives reappear and confront him.
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Bobbin and the TravellersAuthorGeoff Bamber
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus.
Run time Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Humorous fantasy, minimal sets.
Synopsis The town is terrorised by the evil witch, Phlegma. So great is the fear that the Mayor and town council take the drastic step of sealing off the town, and appoint the hapless Bobbin to the post of Guardian of the Mystic Pathway (the road to town). Enthusiastically assisted by Skank, best friend and village idiot, all goes well for Bobbin until a motley band of travellers turn up, keen to get to the safety of town, not least as they have just had a run-in with Phlegma. Can the evil witch be thwarted? Can Bobbin become a hero? Surely the diverse talents of Captain Scramble, Miss Marcia Thesp, the Pied Piper of Hamelin and the mighty Valgar, Dragon Slayer will be more than a match for Phlegma. Don't count on it.
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BondingAuthorGeoff Bamber
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. A dysfunctional family and some fully-functional aliens. The character split assumes that the aliens and the tramp are female and that the police officer is male. These parts could easily be changed to suit a different split of actors.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act comedy for kids. Single set.
Synopsis Pa Hoskins believes that the family would benefit from a 'bonding' weekend in the countryside where wholesome, healthy, old-fashioned activities will be the order of the day. The family have other ideas. Junior has brought a satellite dish and Cheryl is permanently attached to her mobile phone. What none of the family bargained on was the arrival of a couple of angry aliens, brought crashing to earth by Junior's satellite dish and bent on a rather nasty revenge - at least till help comes from an unexpected quarter!
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Brian the Christmas TreeAuthorSarah Cowan
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. The number of characters is very flexible. It would be easy, for example, to add a number of dancing Christmas trees!
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Musical suggestions made in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Non-religious Christmas play for young(ish) children. Simple sets, simple props.
Synopsis It's Christmas and the trees are waiting to be sold. All except grumpy Brian, who doesn't want to be a Christmas Tree - he wants to grow up to be a telegraph pole.
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BulliesAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children. (Could all be played by children.)
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Scores for eight songs are included with the Producer's Copy of the script
Style One-act musical play for performance by children or a mixture of adults and children. Very simple set and no specific requirements for props.
Synopsis A review and also a revue! A series of linked musical sketches presenting an investigation of issues surrounding bullying at school, covering reasons for bullying and approaches to dealing with it.
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Butterfly ShoesAuthorGeoff Bamber
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus.
Run time Around 60 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Humorous one-act fairy tale for kids, simple sets.
Synopsis 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.
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Cagic MupAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters include a pantomime cow.
Run time Around 8 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A fable told as a Spoonerising verse play for children.
Synopsis Captain Spoon's family are starving. Their cow must be sold. The exchange for a magic cup provokes delight and disaster.
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Captain Hook's RevengeAuthorRichard Coleman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy (Peter Pan) by Female.
Run time Around 70 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music A few song suggestions are made in the production notes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style British Pantomime. Slapstick and silliness, lots of jokes and a crocodile.
Synopsis Captain Hook plots his revenge on Peter Pan, with the help of a crocodile and a poisoned cake. Peter Pan, Tonkerbell (the punk fairy) and the crocodile have other ideas. (Follows much of the plot of Peter Pan, but has more collisions with trees.)
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Captain Kelly's DiamondAuthorAndrew Weaver
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus.
Run time Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Production notes list recommended songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Large cast one act play for schools.
Synopsis Pirate captain Kelly returns from his latest venture with a huge diamond. He’s planning to split it with his first mate as soon as he can, but an old flame appears and demands the diamond ring he promised her. The pair hide the diamond in a stuffed parrot, but are blackmailed by fellow pirate Blackbeard who wants the diamond for himself. They all end up with their just desserts.
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Castle RoyalAuthorBill Tordoff
Roles Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 28. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. There is flexibility to assign the parts amongst a greater or lesser number of actors.
Run time Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for kids. Simple sets (two scenes, but using the same set furniture). Mainly simple props (though the King and Queen ride a tandem!)
Synopsis The worlds smallest country advertises for a royal family - then have to deal with the results when ridiculous rules get in the way of common sense.
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Caterpillar CrawlAuthorRaymond Blakesley
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Lots of flexibility. The cast are a mix of children and adults (assumed to be played by children) with options for dances and a chorus (the class) who chant rhymes. The caterpillar role can be played by actors or could be a puppet.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for a flexible cast of children in a mixture of prose and rhyme. Options for dances. Includes information about the butterfly lifecycle.
Synopsis When Tom finds a talking, dancing caterpillar he thinks life is going to be easy, but Salome is almost as much trouble as his classmates. But he organises a concert for her anyway.
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Caught By ChristmasAuthorSharlee Glenn with songs by Erica Glenn
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Whilst the children are named as boys and girls, this is flexible! Both classes can be expanded by the chorus.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music (for three original songs) is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script.
Style Short one-act (secular) Christmas musical for kids. School set (two classrooms) but minimal set requirements and simple props.
Synopsis Mr Grump teaches class 4b and is ignoring the approach of Christmas, as usual. Miss Jingle and the jollier kids of 4a are celebrating, and they decide to take their party next door, with interesting consequences.
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** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the sho