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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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2B Or Not 2BAuthorBill 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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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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A Boy and A Snow BallAuthorSusan Vesey
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. This is a pantomime. You can make your own mind up about which gender of actor plays which character!
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for songs (but not sheet music). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style British pantomime based on an original interpretation of the story of Snow White and the Seven something-or-other. Jokes, slapstick and mayhem!
Synopsis Many years ago tragedy struck the Kingdom of Snowdonia, leaving baby Princess Snow White an orphan. The beautiful but wicked Queen who took over as Regent now plans to trick Snow White into signing over her kingdom permanently when she marries Prince Kevin. There is only one problem: Snow White and Prince Kevin can't stand the sight of each other so the Queen comes up with another plan involving a poisoned apple.
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
A Boy and Some BeansAuthorSusan Vesey
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Characters include the usual pantomime assortment (Dame, usually played by a man, Principal Boy, usually played by a girl) and a pantomime cow.
Run time Around 120 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Eight songs suggested. Original lyrics to some of the songs are included in the producer's copy of the scripts. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Full-length British Pantomime (magical characters and events, parodies, silliness and general mayhem!). Note that some of the scenes are optional and can be left out without harming the plot!
Synopsis To pay the rent on the family home, Jack has to sell the beloved cow. On the way home he gives the money to a crone in exchange for a magic bean and falls in love with the daughter of the Baron who's demanding the rent in the first place. Fast forward to the next day and the whole crowd are up the giant beanstalk to discover a smallish giant who hasn’t been eating the girls sent up to him on their twenty-first birthdays, but has been treating them in his theme park, Ogreland. Thus Jack’s long-lost sister is now, in fact, the Giant’s wife, and even the Baron’s wife is still alive and kicking. She redoes the Baron’s accounts and finds enough money that everyone is let off rent for a year and Jack can marry his girl.
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
A Captivating SituationAuthorDamian Trasler
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run time Around 12 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short play. Contemporary realism. Single set, simple props.
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?
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A Case of Good IntentionsAuthorPeter Stallard
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act light comedy play, set in a Welsh pub on Chrismas Eve. Simple props. Contains mild swearing.
Synopsis A motley group are assembled in the bar room of the Black Pig on Christmas Eve. They discuss Turkeys, drinking and Christmas, and then a mysterious stranger enters their lives, and subsequently leaves something behind which changes everything for everyone.
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A Christmas Carol - The Real StoryAuthorColin Calvert
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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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.
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A Day at the RacesAuthorWill van der Lande
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run time Around 6 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A short, absurd sketch. No set requirements, a few props.
Synopsis It's the Duck Derby and an Aristocrat is exchanging small talk with the owner of today's favourite, Dangerous Dennis. Surely nothing can prevent a win for Dennis today?
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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 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 Lottery TicketAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run time Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Ten-minute play, adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov. Single set, simple props (give or take a period telephone).
Synopsis Sylvia's lottery ticket matches the published part of the winning number. A single phone call well tell her of success or failure, but meanwhile she and her husband contemplate what might happen if she has won...
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A Meeting on a TrainAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are written as young adults.
Run time Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Ten minute play, based on the short story 'An Enigmatic Nature' by Anton Chekhov. Single set (train carriage, with no specific furnishings), minimal props.
Synopsis Meeting on a train, Ian tries to impress his travelling companion Ana. As it turns out, Ana impresses him in an unexpected way.
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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 New YouAuthorWesley A. Knoch
Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus.
Run time Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Piano and Vocal sheet music for nine original songs is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script
Style One act musical comedy play - set in the studio of a TV make-over show complete with cheesy presenters and sponsorship jingles.
Synopsis A Nasally over-blessed heroine (Miss Nodda Tragtiff) takes part in a reality Makeover show, only to find that the New You promised has caused her to lose her old friends and only gained her fleeting popularity with new people. She comes to understand that real beauty comes from within, and true friends aren't swayed by appearance.
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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
A Savoy Christmas CarolAuthorNigel Holloway
Roles Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. The main characters are adults, with a smattering of children.
Run time Around 120 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music A Piano and Vocal score for all the 27 songs (with 22 orchestral pieces scored for multiple instruments) is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. The scores have deliberately kept away from extremes of vocal range.
Style Operetta, setting the Charles Dickens story to the music of Arthur Sullivan.
Synopsis A traditional re-telling of Dickens' classic story of the redemption of a miser, using pieces from many of Gilbert and Sullivan's musicals with original lyrics.
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** Additional copy of the Piano and Vocal Score for 'A Savoy Christmas Carol' in an A4 ring binder. Scores for 29 songs and 22 (orchestrated) instrumentals. (This is the same as the copy provided with the Producer's Copy of the script.)
A Spirit for EvermoreAuthorIan McCutcheon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Cast include the usual pantomime juxtapositions (Dame played by a male, principal boy by a female) plus a pantomime dog!
Run time Around 100 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for songs (but not sheet music). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Full-length British pantomime with an original story.
Synopsis The Kingdom of Evermore is nearly bankrupt, thanks to the thieving of evil butler Skulk. To restore their fortunes, the Princess Daisy is to be married to rich but thick Lord Larry of Luton, but then she meets George and falls in love. Will Skulk stop the match to get his hands on Larry's loot too, or can Willow the ghost come to the rescue?
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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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A Ventriloquist's TaleAuthorRay Lawrence
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst this is presented as a monologue, it could also be performed by three people, playing narrator, ventriloquist and psychiatrist.
Run time Around 5 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short rhyming comedy monologue (no set or props required).
Synopsis A Ventriloquist who fears he's being controlled by his dummy seeks professional help and gets some straight talking.
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A Whole New WorldAuthorRebecca Grabill
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. All the characters are named by sounds - and their names are vocalised as sounds rather than words!
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short single-set one-act comedy play (set in a radio studio in the far distant future).
Synopsis A radio show from the far, far future discusses the possible uses for a peculiar relic dug up on the long uninhabited planet earth. Some of the suggestions shock and disgust the listeners, but in the end it’s lack of proper authority that brings the broadcast to a premature end.
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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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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.]
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After School SpecialAuthorDonna Brightwell
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters are teenagers (plus a waitress).
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for teenagers, single café set.
Synopsis With the guys too shy to ask the girls, and the girls too shy to ask the guys, will anyone be going to the Senior Prom? Luckily, the waitress at the coffee shop takes a hand...
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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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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
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Aladdin (Small Cast)AuthorJames Barry
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Songs at the producer's discretion. A few suggestions made in the Production Notes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style British Panto with traditional pantomime, with jokes, slapstick and magic.
Synopsis Aladdin falls for Princess Jasmine, but needs to find a fortune to convince her father of the match. He strikes lucky, with a lamp and a genie, but he has to contend with the wicked Abanaza.
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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
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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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
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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** 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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Albert in the 21st CenturyAuthorRay Lawrence
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus.
Run time Around 2 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Comedy monologue, in the style of - and referring to - Marriott Edgar's 'Albert and the Lion' (made famous by Stanley Holloway).
Synopsis You've heard how young Albert Ramsbottom
At a zoo, for a lion, was chow
Now here's a lament from Ray Lawrence
Saying things like that don't happen now!
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Ali Baba and the Four Tea ThievesAuthorLee Baddock & Chris Kirby
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. The chorus is optional. The cast includes a pantomime camel and the usual pantomime juxtopositions - with the dame played by a man and the 'principal boy' role open to a lady.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Eight songs are suggested in the Producer's Copy of the scripts, with alternative lyrics to one of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Full-length British pantomime - jokes, slapstick, that sort of thing. One scene is a bit bloodthirsty, but the authors provide an alternative in the Producer's Copy of the script!
Synopsis Ali Baba overhears the thieves password to get into their treasure cave. Unfortunately for him, the thieves find out and sneak after him disguised as oil jars! (Fortunately for Ali, the thieves are rather incompetent and, for many years, have stolen little but tea!)
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Alice... The PantoAuthorArchie Wilson
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. The numbers are very flexible, but the minimum numbers would require a lot of costume changes! The chorus (for songs and dances) is optional.
Run time Around 70 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Opportunities for music at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style English Pantomime version of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland'
Synopsis Alice takes a trip down the rabbit hole in this panto version of the classic tale, meeting all the usual suspects, playing croquet, looking after babies and having a tea party.
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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
All at SeaAuthorPeter Ayre
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. As with all such pantomimes, there's a lot of flexibility in the casting - two of the female parts could be played by males as pantomime dames, the hero could be played by a female - the traditional pantomime principal boy.
Run time Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Four songs suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style One-Act British Pantomime - visual jokes, verbal jokes and a little vulgarity. Fairly complex sets for a short piece (but this is pantomime and the sets are flexible too!)
Synopsis Sinbad the Sailor sets out to thwart the designs of Blackbeard the pirate and win the hand of the lovely Charlotte. (All this and a fairy too.)
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
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.
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 '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 Apple for NewtonAuthorRay Lawrence
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The perfect role for a wooden actor.
Run time Around 7 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short prose monologue - no set requirements or props, but some ingenuity required for the costume!
Synopsis An apple tree gets to the core of Isaac Newton's most famous discovery.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
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.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
An Ice Mess You Got Me IntoAuthorRay Lawrence
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Erm, an Iceberg!
Run time Around 4 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Monologue. No set, no props.
Synopsis An iceberg complains about the unexpected results of being struck by a certain liner in 1912.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
An Inn Keeper's TaleAuthorMike Sparks
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run time Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Modern version of a medieval mystery play. Single, minimal set, basic props.
Synopsis An Innkeeper relates the strange events surrounding a local crucifixion. Various members of the Easter Story drop in to give their view of the events.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
And Then There Were Three!AuthorJohn F. Glen
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One of the listed characters is a voice-over which is used at the start of the piece and could be pre-recorded. Whilst the characters are named in the script (for readability) they are presented to the audience anonymously.
Run time Around 45 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One act play for teenagers. Single set (which changes slightly through the play). Contains swearing.
Synopsis A disparate group of children meet up in the aftermath of a disaster with a biological weapon that has killed all the adults. Can they learn to co-operate and survive? And what will happen when they reach adulthood?
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Anna of NazarethAuthorSue Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus.
Run time Around 50 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Piano and vocal score for 16 songs supplied with the producer's copy of the script.
Style One-act musical for performance by teenagers, young adults or a mixture of adults and teenagers. No specific set requirements.
Synopsis Christmas musical telling the story of Mary from her betrothal to Joseph up to the birth of Jesus (roughly Matthew 1, 18-25, Luke 1, 26-38 and Luke 2, 1-7). Told from the point of view of a teenage girl, Anna, a jealous friend of Mary. It brings out the difficulty of Mary’s situation within her community, but the resolution is joyous and uplifting.
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 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show