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| Bye Bye Miss Amelia Pye by Patricia Gay |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Three characters are portrayed in both 1959 and 2009. |
| Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length detective thriller with a single simple setting. Action slips between 2009 and 1959. |
| Synopsis | In 1959, in the remote Longmoor Manor, a young girl called Amelia Pye was found murdered. Arthur Pye, an ex-commando turned communist was the prime suspect. However, his guilt was never proven. In 2009 the long-married Charlotte and Edward Colville play host to the obnoxious Selena Harper and her mollycoddled son Hadley. Hadley, with his unhealthy fascination with murder, fancies himself as an amateur sleuth, and sets out to solve the mystery. |
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| Bygone Pastures by S. J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act, humorous play suitable for 9-12 year olds. 4 minimal sets. |
| Synopsis | Bygone Pastures is an old folks’ home in financial trouble. The owners have gone bankrupt, and the administrator needs half a million to keep it going. The movie star who’s moved in next door won’t help, but maybe her painting will... |
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| A Cabinet Meeting by Seán Lang |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. All characters are written as elderly men, but can be played by actors of any gender. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A small historical backwater provides the backdrop for a moving, compelling drama. One-act play in a single setting (a dining room used for a formal meeting). |
| Synopsis | The President of Poland and his cabinet fled to London after the Nazi occupation. Fifty years later, they are still living in exile, and holding regular meetings, despite having no control over what's going on in their homeland. Some of the ministers believe it is time to end it, but the senile President doesn’t want to move on. |
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| Caesar - The Panto by Jenny Gilbert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 15. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 31. Minimum total without doubling = 54. Chorus. Romans, Egyptians, a camel and a pantomime goose! |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of suggested songs is included in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English pantomime - slapstick, puns, mayhem, and even a bit of history thrown-in! |
| Synopsis | For once the all-conquering Julius is relaxing at home, but action is never far away! One of his court dancers has been turned into a flat cut-out from an Egyptian frieze, and Caesar will stop at nothing to find out who done it - especially if it keeps him away from his wife Calpurnia! He summons an informant and they, along with a bunch of hangers-on and the devilishly handsome Mark Anthony, head off on the trail of the villain. Senna, Caesar's Nanny, dons a variety of disguises to help Caesar, whilst keeping Brutus and fellow conspirators on the wrong track. |
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| Caesar and the Pirates [Full Version] by Nicholas Richards and Timothy Hallett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Flexible - the pirates roles could easily be shared by a smaller number and other doubling is possible. On the other hand, there is scope for pirate and soldier chourses. Only one specfied female role - Venus! - but others could be cast female. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for six songs. |
| Style | Musical comedy play for kids - though the songs are optional.
A shorter version of the same play is available.
First published in 2011, revised in 2012. |
| Synopsis | An older Caesar is recounting his campaigns in Gaul to a bored scribe, who suggests that it might benefit Caesar's public image to tell a tale of his younger days... Something dashing, perhaps, involving pirates? As it happens, Caesar does know such a story...
Great fun (and secretly educational) with a genuine event in Caesar's life. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Vocal recording for five tracks and six rehearsal tracks (accompaniment with an instrument playing the vocal line) for the songs from Caesar and the Pirates [Full Version].
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| Caesar and the Pirates [Short Version] by Nicholas Richards and Timothy Hallett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Flexible - the pirates roles could easily be shared by a smaller number and other doubling is possible. On the other hand, there is scope for pirate and soldier chourses. Only one specfied female roles but some could be cast female. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for six songs. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids - with optional songs.
(A longer version of the same play is available.) |
| Synopsis | An older Caesar is recounting his campaigns in Gaul to a bored scribe, who suggests that it might benefit Caesar's public image to tell a tale of his younger days... Something dashing, perhaps, involving pirates? As it happens, Caesar does know such a story...
Great fun (and secretly educational) with a genuine event in Caesar's life. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Vocal recording for five tracks and six rehearsal tracks (accompaniment with an instrument playing the vocal line) for the songs from Caesar and the Pirates [Short Version].
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| Caiaphas by Mike Sparks |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play which can be produced with minimal staging (so could easily be done within a church). |
| Synopsis | The events of the last few days of Holy Week are shown from the viewpoint of High Priest Caiaphas and his family. |
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| Calamity Dame - A Wild West Panto by Tracy Canavan-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. The characters are not quite a standard pantomime set - Calamity is obviously a Dame, her sister Felicity is the 'principal girl' and Frankston is the villain. Make up your own mind as to whether the Sherrif is played as a (female) 'principal boy'. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for thirteen songs are included in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime (jokes, far-fetched plot, outrageous characters, cross dressing, magical creatures, that sort of thing), but set in the Wild West. |
| Synopsis | The inhabitants of Big Gulp are desperate for the Railroad to come through their town and put it on the map, but the Indian Chief wants the land protected to save the legendary Big Gulp Bunny, whose access to the Feeding Grounds would be disrupted by the train line. The scheming Frankston Frugal of the Railroad company arrives with his legal documents and gets everyone to sign, but are they giving away more than they know? Calamity's beautiful sister knows the truth and must enlist the help of the Sheriff, the Chief, Calamity and the BGB himself to defeat the villain. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Calamity Dame and the Lost Treasure by Tracy Canavan-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. It's a pantomime. Make your own mind up as to who does what! |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Twelve songs are suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime (jokes, far-fetched plot, outrageous characters, cross dressing, that sort of thing), but with a Wild West heroine transported to Egypt. |
| Synopsis | Calamity Dame's sister Felicity is off treasure hunting with archaeologist Ivor 'Bendy' Bones when she is kidnapped. Calamity and her friend Dipper rush off to the rescue and get caught up in the search for the treasure of King Rubabutti. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Call To Duty by Nettie Baskcomb Brown
The original production won the Five Counties and Mercia division trophies and was a semi-finalist in 2014 All England Theatre Festival, winning adjudicator's award for excellence. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Award winning One Act play for youth theatre with various (simple) settings. |
| Synopsis | Sam is bored by his school history and drama lessons about the First World War, but through his brother's console games, he learns more than he expected.
The play vividly brings to life the bravery of ordinary soldiers who fought in World War One by merging modern virtual war games with the shocking reality of the WW1 trenches and using comedy and tragedy to take actors and audiences on an emotional, thought provoking journey. |
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