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Adventures of Maid Marian by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. 14 speaking parts plus chorus of soldiers. The characters are nominally 11 male and 3 female, but most can be played by either gender. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 4 songs, plus snatches of medieval doggerel embedded in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | The Robin Hood legend treated as a farcical comedy of errors. One-act in structure, but on the boundary between one-act and full-length (so could stand alone or could be paired with something shorter). |
Synopsis | Three years after he cancelled their wedding and left her to look after Sherwood Forest, Maid Marian discovers that Robin Hood is about to make a hero's return from the Crusades - but can she ever forgive him? |
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The Adventures of Mother Goose by William Arnold Ashbrook |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. A pantomime, with a principal boy, a dame and a goose. (Make your own mind up as to the gender of who plays what!) |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for 16 original songs (including reprises) are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Musical English pantomime, offering an original interpretation of the tale of the goose who lays the golden eggs. |
Synopsis | Mother Goose is threatened with eviction by the evil Chancellor, Sir Jasper Skiddleflint. Her wandering son returns and joins with an inventor who make their goose grow into an enormous creature that lays golden eggs. Sir Jasper tries to kidnap the goose, but gets a decoy, who scuppers his plans. |
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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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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 Affairs At Meddler's Top by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A hilarious comic spoof of a murder mystery, set in the 1920s. (Two acts - but relatively short.) |
Synopsis | A country house weekend is organised with a view to trapping a thief. Various tangled affairs are revealed, leading up to a murder. |
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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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After the Matinee by Damian Trasler Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two characters (1M, 1F) are young adults, the other two middle-aged. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play, with panto actors outside a pantomime - reflective, gently humorous. |
Synopsis | In between the Matinee and evening performances of the Panto an old hand explains Amateur Theatre to an enthusiastic Buttons. |
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After Twenty Years by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A sketch on a blank stage, based on an O. Henry short story, |
Synopsis | Bob, a wanted criminal, visits New York to see a friend for the first time in twenty years. Ironically, his friend has become a cop. |
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Ageing Disgracefully by Frank Gibbons |
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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Aim by Terry Adlam |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short thriller - one act, single, simple set, few props. Contains violence and swearing. |
Synopsis | Two men - the edgy Wolf and laid-back Dove - are waiting in a room to meet a third man. When their visitor arrives, he has an unexpected female companion, and all the plans seem to be going wrong. |
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