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Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. Characters are a variety of ages. Many could be played as either gender. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy play (on the boundary between a one-act and a full-length play). Single (department store) set. Mildly surreal, bordering on farce, with lots of prop gags. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Just another day in a department store, where a pair of bewildered shop clerks encounter a clown, an accountant, a thief, some very colourful customers and a string of misplaced suitcases... |
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Dagger in a Smile - A Young Actors' Macbeth by Gill Medway New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. The play can be acted by an all-male group, an all-female group or a mixed cast. The ensemble roles can be played by a minimum of five but can be expanded to suit the size of the group. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act (by length) modern language adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth for young actors, containing all the witchcraft, ghosts and gore you'd expect. (Read the script to see if the level of violence is appropriate to your actors.) |
Synopsis | The Ghost of Macbeth comments on the action and charts the progress of his rise to the Scottish kingship and his downfall. |
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Dame Aphrodite's Ancient Greek Panto by Giles Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] The run time assumes the use of 12 two-minute songs. |
Music | Song suggestions for 12 songs are included in the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length pantomime set in Ancient Greece |
Synopsis | On a journey through Ancient Greece, we are taken on a madcap ride encountering mythological people and places. |
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The Dancing Princesses by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. The numbers are very flexible. There are three speaking princesses, but this could be reduced to 2. However, there is scope for a much larger number of (non-speaking) princesses and an equal number of dancing princes. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Verse play, with some elements of panto, based on The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces or The Twelve Dancing Princesses (depending on which translation of the Brothers Grimm you prefer). Several locations, but no major set requirements. |
Synopsis | A King offers the usual rewards (marriageable daughter, bits of kingdom, that sort of thing) for anyone who can discover why each of his daughters ruin a pair of shoes every night. Enter a wounded soldier and a helpful old lady to solve the mystery. |
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A Date With Dracula by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 57 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Song suggestions for 6 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act musical comedy, with a simple set. |
Synopsis | Florence is so desperate for a date that she turns to Dateze, the internet dating site, and finds she's set up with Count... sorry, Colin. Eager to meet a young woman, Colin, is also on the web. Luckily Florence's sister Tuna, takes Colin in hand, and even sorts out Florence's next date - Frankie. |
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The Day The Woods Came To Dunsinane by Steve Eddison |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. Characters include talking trees (allowing me to make the usual joke about wooden actors) and (unnumbered) dancers. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Full of the sort of verbal humour that graces British pantomime, though with a different structure (and more trees). |
Synopsis | Four children on a hiking trip stumble into the plot of Macbeth (portentious witches, poor hospitality, portable forests - that sort of thing). Can they escape unscathed? |
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Diamond Jubilee 2012 by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. Generally, the characters are fairly normal, although one of them is a football. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Revue - that is to say, a themed sketch show. Structured with a chairman (of the Music Hall sort) to introduce the act. Few set requirements. |
Synopsis | A collection of twenty four sketches suitable for the celebration of Queen Elizabeth the Second's Diamond Jubilee (and probably other occasions). Not a musical show as written, but structured so that musical numbers could easily be inserted between the acts. |
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Dick Whittington - Eighties-Style by Mark Jack |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Variable chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 139 minutes. [Estimated!] Experiential run time (first production) 1 hours 50 minutes. |
Music | Song suggestions for 11 songs are provided with the Producer's copy. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A pantomime set in the 1980s, with the usual ingredients and multiple sets. |
Synopsis | Young Dick takes on the forces of King Rat to save good old London Town (and mostly Alice Fitzwaterman) from the dreadful rodent infestation. Aided by his trusty cat Tommy and the Fairy of Bow Bells, Dick is bound to save the day - in 80's style. |
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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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Dick Whittington [Version 10] by Julie Petrucci and Chris Shinn Performance of Dick Whittington won Best Pantomime 2015 in NODA East District 4 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 101 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length pantomime with various settings. |
Synopsis | Dick and his cat, Tommy assist the people of London Town with the rat problem led by the evil King Rat. The search for the rats takes them to the island of Mycoco where they and the gang led by Dame Sarah land up after their ship sinks. Fortunately Dick manages to defeat King Rat and all is well in the end. |
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Dick Whittington [Version 11] by James Barry Best Seller Nominated for Best Script in the Great British Panto Awards 2020 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. It's a pantomime. Make your own mind up as to who plays what. Some doubling is essential - a running visual joke. |
Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 15 songs & dances. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length panto for a small cast (or small group of principals and non-speaking chorus). |
Synopsis | Dick Whittington falls for Alice Fitzwarren and becomes a proxy in Fairy Bow Bells' war with King Rat. Having met with a cat and some success working for Alderman Fitzwarren, Dick is taken on a sea voyage with Captain Horatio Barnacle (who bears a striking resemblance to Alderman Fitzwarren) and, after a shipwreck, meets the Sultan of Morocco (who bears a striking resemblance to Alderman Fitzwarren). |
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