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Adventures of Oliver Twist by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. 16 speaking parts, plus an unspecified number of Urchins, playable by a company of 10 with a lot of doubling (and probably some rapid costume changes). |
Run Time | Around 77 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A new, humourous adaptation, in two acts, of Dickens' classic novel. |
Synopsis | The story of an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and lives with a gang of pickpockets before being rescued by a kind gentleman and an unexpectedly close relation. This is Oliver with a modern Twist. |
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The Adventures of the Jammy Dodger by Melanie Roberts, music by Rod Parvess Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 43. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of ages - children, parents and grandparents - but all intended to be played by children. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for six original songs plus two adapted sea shanties is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Large cast play for kids - an adventure story with music. Lots of scenes but simple (minimal) sets. |
Synopsis | A group of older folks encourage their grandchildren to try an old-style adventure, with fresh air, go-carts and pirates, and the children end up saving some ancient woods from building development. A grand adventure story for schools. |
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Extras | 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 ** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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Aesop's Famous Fables and Twisted Tales by Peter Nuttall Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are nominally gendered, it's only a mater of pronouns! Contains anthropomorphism. |
Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with the score for the concluding song. |
Style | One-act play, ending in a song. Could be performed by children or by adults to an audience of children. |
Synopsis | Four stories for Aesop's extensive collection, about a Tortoise and Hare, a lion and a mouse, the belly and its team, and the battle between the Sun and the North Wind. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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The Affidavit by Janet S. Tiger THE AFFIDAVIT - 1st place (1983) cash award and full production WORLD PREMIERE |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute play. Single set (a pawn shop in New York in the 1940s). A brief glimpse into individual lives, set against the background of the holocaust. |
Synopsis | Hilda Gruenberg has to renew her father's visa affidavit to stand a chance of getting him out of Nazi Germany to join her in America, but it'll cost her $650. She believes her family heirloom ring is worth $10,000, so she's shocked when the pawnshop owner, Mr Meyer, only offers her $650 for it. Why is he taking advantage of her desperation, and is she too proud to accept? |
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After School Special by Donna Brightwell Production by ZigZag Theatre Group won four awards (including Best Youth Production) at Brantham Festival 2014 |
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. [Estimated!] |
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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After the Beanstalk by Andrew Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. It's a pantomime. Make your own mind up as to who plays what. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for three songs. (More can be added at the discretion of the production.)17 Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | An entertaining pantomime with an original twist on the Jack and the Beanstalk characters and plenty of physical comedy action. |
Synopsis | Jack, of 'and the beanstalk' fame, has set up a garden centre funded by his golden egg-laying goose. Among his staff are bumbling duo Bill and Ben and ever-hungry café staff Rose and Daisy. Trouble arises when the devious Petunia plots to steal the goose, and the planting of a second beanstalk leads to a visit from the giant's wife. |
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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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Agamemnon & Clytemnestra: Special Victims Unit by Dick Caram |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 38. Chorus. Whilst there are nominally twelve jurors - forming a Greek Chorus - the numbers could be judiciously pruned! Other doubling is possible, particularly between the casts of the first and second acts (the police investigation and the courtroom). |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Greek tragedy for middle-graders in the style of TV crime drama! Structured in two acts, but of one-act length. Simple sets. |
Synopsis | The murder of Agamemnon and Cassandra, presented as an episode of the popular tv show, Law and Order. |
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Ageing Disgracefully by Frank Gibbons Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch set at a Post Office counter. |
Synopsis | Stella is manning the Post Office counter by herself, when a known awkward customer arrives. |
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Ahmed and the Mummy by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Eleven principals and a chorus (with lots of cameos). It's a pantomime. The usual gender juxtapositions are open to the production! |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 15 songs, together with a couple of lyrical tweaks. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | British pantomime - traditional character types, jokes and wordplay in an original story. |
Synopsis | Prince Ahmed is looking for the lost pyramid to try and lift the curse on his family. He meets the beautiful Ophelia but can't marry until the curse is lifted. With her father and a group of heroes he must overcome greedy robbers and a mummy to claim his true love. |
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Airfield by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act comedy play. Simple (minimal) staging. |
Synopsis | Fred and Lucy seem to have stumbled onto a real fly-by-night outfit when they signed up with Young Yettie Airways to fly to Barcelona. No hospitality, no departure lounge, not even any seats, and now there are delays and they might have to fly via Dublin...or is there something else afoot? |
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