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| A Boy and A Snow Ball by Susan 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. [Estimated!] |
| 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
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| A Boy and His Cat by Susan Vesey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Lots of pantomime juxtapositions possible, plus cat, dog, rats, woodland creatures and the appearance (possibly the first) of the pantomime octopus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs, including some original lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime. |
| Synopsis | The story of Dick Whittington re-told in Panto style with a dog, a cat and numerous rats.
A novel (science fiction!) twist on the story, in which Dick is tricked into a body exchange and has to clear his name and regain his own body in time to marry his true love. |
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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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| A Boy and Some Beans by Susan 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. [Estimated!] |
| 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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| 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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| Boy Band by Margaret Histed |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters are all vampires and all members of a 'boy band'. (So, whilst there are only four of them, offstage there are hordes of screaming fans!) |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for a teenage cast. Single (minimal) 'back-stage dressing room' set. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
| Synopsis | The four members ofO Positive are talking after their latest gig - should they be higher in the charts than number forty nine after two hundred years together? Should they wear something other than black? Should they have let their fifth member leave? Pop is hard on vampires too... |
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| Boysenberry Park by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two adult couples, each with a teenage child. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play about teenagers and their long-suffering parents! Single set (indicative of a forest clearing). |
| Synopsis | Two families find themselves sharing the same clearing on a camping trip, and things quickly deteriorate between them. The peacemakers come as a surprise. |
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| Bradley No Mates by Linda Stephenson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Written to be performed with four groups of three narrators. The chorus is non-speaking but interacts with the action. The adult roles might be played by adults or children. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for a school company on the theme of bullying. Multiple locations but little or nothing needed in the way of set. |
| Synopsis | Bradley is at a new school and having trouble fitting in. Worse, the school bully, who's reputed to carry a knife, has got it in for him. But Bradley has found he can visit the past, and the village school that was knocked down years ago. Maybe his trips there can help him in the present. |
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| Brainstorm by Raymond Blakesley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. The chorus is an optional ensemble of brain cells |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for kids. Minimal set requirements. Opportunities for melodramatic over-acting! |
| Synopsis | The action takes place inside the brain of playwright Ivor Pippin, who is trying to write another melodramatic play. His characters and his brain cells conspire to turn things around, allowing the heroine and villain to escape, and a new play to emerge. |
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| A Brand New Ancient Tradition by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst the sketch doesn't require a chorus, additional characters would be in the spirit of the piece. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch, set in the aftermath of a revolution. |
| Synopsis | The people of Sovazni have revolted and a new regime is in its infancy. But the new state needs tradition and history behind it to bring a bit of legitimacy to its identity... |
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| Brave Saint George by Kate Goddard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. The script allows for - indeed, encourages - four different actors to play Saint George. Whilst many of the characters have a specific gender casting across gender would be entirely appropriate to the form! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script suggests suitable music to accompany the performance. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Modern version of a traditional English mummers' play. Since such things were often performed outdoors, informally, there is no requirement for a set. |
| Synopsis | St George, a noble knight is keen to marry Princess Saffron and to show how brave he is. The King and Queen set him a test - to fight the toughest enemies from faraway lands. He defeats each enemy in turn - though each is brought back to life by a different doctor (a special character with a strange cure.) St George is, unfortunately, a bit of a big-head, and by the time he defeats the last enemy, the Dragon, Princess Saffron has begun to have other ideas about a suitable partner... |
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| Break Both Legs by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. There is no formal chorus, but the sketch is about a theatrical rehearsal, so there could be other actors around. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent. |
| Synopsis | As all actors know, there are plenty of superstitions linked to the theatre... |
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