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| Defenceless by Damian Woods |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A well-written drama which touches on interesting issues of psychology and gender politics while being first and foremost a procedural crime thriller. One set - a police interview room with practical door. |
| Synopsis | A newly appointed female Detective Inspector has the difficult task of getting a suspected murderer to confess his guilt as lack of evidence means he may have to be released. |
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| Delilah by Len Cuthbert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. 3 adult roles and 1 with a character age of 12. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length drama with a multi-functional set. Canadian English. |
| Synopsis | Jade has a history of being the victim of abandonment. As a result, she struggles with her relationships with the people she is closest to. Her survival mechanism is to be in control of her own life and everyone else’s. But that ability to control is threatened when she faces one of the most difficult decisions of her life. |
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| The Delphi Dilemma by Jonathan Caldicot |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for teenage cast, set at an archaeological dig in Greece. |
| Synopsis | A school party have been set a discovery quiz on their educational trip to Greece. All goes smoothly, if a little competitively, until a schoolboy prank goes badly wrong. |
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| Detention by Donna Brightwell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. One character should be older than the rest of the cast. |
| Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for teenage actors, with a divided stage set. |
| Synopsis | There's been a minor fire in the school Science Lab, and now a group of students find themselves in Detention Hall - until the Principal has spoken to them all and discovered who is behind it. They learn more about each other than the fire. |
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| Detour by Kev Salter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Four characters must be played by the same (male) actor. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single airport lounge setting. |
| Synopsis | Stranded in a remote Latvian airport as their plane undergoes a bizarre series of repairs, a group of passengers regret choosing a budget airline. |
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| The Diabolical Duplication of Daisy by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy. A modern take on the conventions of Victorian melodrama - innocent heroines, scheming wicked squires, that sort of thing. |
| Synopsis | Daisy, working with her mother in the kitchens, is trying hard to resist the grubby blandishments of Sir Odious Malpractice, who wants her to marry him. Unknown to Daisy, Victor Tallbody has arrived to tell her she has inherited a fortune, just in the nick of time. |
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| Diamond In The Sky by Mike Standing |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length drama with two simple settings |
| Synopsis | The Cosmic Eagle has been hurled through space and time from an alternative universe into the 21st century. The crew are confused when they land near a medieval battle taking place in mid-Wales. The Re-enactment Society are equally confused when they are beamed up to the spacecraft. |
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Dick Whittington [10 Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] Add a couple of minutes each for the two suggested songs. |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 2 songs (with altered lyrics) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short prose pantomime. Four locations, but designed for minimal sets. |
| Synopsis | Dick Whittington has given up on London due to the rat infestation in his room. When he meets a cat named Kat, his fortunes are turned around. |
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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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| Digging Up Edwin Plant by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama in two settings. |
| Synopsis | Bernard's been looking for traces of his old school bully - has he changed since the bad old days? Are these poems really by him, and if so, do they indicate regret? Lucy doesn't think so. |
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