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| The Devil of a Job by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single set, divided into earth and hell (as so many sets are). |
| Synopsis | Mephistopheles and Lucifer plan to corrupt the soul of an intellectual former demonologist. The demonologist recognises what Mephistopheles is trying to do and succeeds not only in turning him away, but convinces him to do some charity work. |
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| The Dial Conspiracy by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Stage crew - optimum number 2, are non-speaking roles. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short-ish one act comedy/farce, with a single (hotel room) setting. |
| Synopsis | A crime caper at a remote hotel in the Highlands of Scotland, where weird and wonderful stratagems are used - as a succession of unlikely characters including a surly porter and the driver of a lime green Ferrari, vie with National Security officers. |
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| Dialogue by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two characters are written as male, but could be played female without changing the nature of the piece. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Unnerving and disturbing, but gripping one-act play. Single simple set. |
| Synopsis | Two immortal beings argue about the pros and cons of passing the time by experimenting with creation. Eventually the one who has worked hard on his people and his vision has to admit it's all gone horribly wrong. The other is happy to bring things to a close. |
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| Diamond Jubilee 2012 by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. Generally, the characters are fairly normal, although one of them is a football. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Revue - that is to say, a themed sketch show. Structured with a chairman (of the Music Hall sort) to introduce the act. Few set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A collection of twenty four sketches suitable for the celebration of Queen Elizabeth the Second's Diamond Jubilee (and probably other occasions).
Not a musical show as written, but structured so that musical numbers could easily be inserted between the acts. |
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| Diary Of A Squirrel Hunter by Peter Stallard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. This is essentially a monologue. The final offstage police voice could easily be a recording. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch - exhibiting the comedy of bad taste! Minimal set (could easily be done as a front-of-curtain piece). |
| Synopsis | Dave the squirrel hunter has passed on, under unusual circumstances, but his friend Tyrone has found Dave's diary and is taking the opportunity to read out some of the final passages at the funeral. |
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| The Diary of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain adapted by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The voice of God could be a recording (as it so often is). |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play (adapted from 'The Diary of Adam Eve' by Mark Twain. Single set (representing the Garden of Eden and what lay beyond), simple props. |
| Synopsis | Alone in the Garden of Eden, Adam is bored and, though he doesn't realise it, lonely. Of course, God has the answer... What follows is told through the diaries of those involved. |
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| Dick Whittington - Eighties-Style by Mark Jack |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Variable chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 139 minutes. [Estimated!] Experiential run time (first production) 1 hours 50 minutes. |
| Music | Song suggestions for 11 songs are provided with the Producer's copy. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A pantomime set in the 1980s, with the usual ingredients and multiple sets. |
| Synopsis | Young Dick takes on the forces of King Rat to save good old London Town (and mostly Alice Fitzwaterman) from the dreadful rodent infestation. Aided by his trusty cat Tommy and the Fairy of Bow Bells, Dick is bound to save the day - in 80's style. |
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Dick Whittington [Version 11] by James Barry
Best Seller Nominated for Best Script in the Great British Panto Awards 2020 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. It's a pantomime. Make your own mind up as to who plays what. Some doubling is essential - a running visual joke. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 15 songs & dances. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length panto for a small cast (or small group of principals and non-speaking chorus). |
| Synopsis | Dick Whittington falls for Alice Fitzwarren and becomes a proxy in Fairy Bow Bells' war with King Rat. Having met with a cat and some success working for Alderman Fitzwarren, Dick is taken on a sea voyage with Captain Horatio Barnacle (who bears a striking resemblance to Alderman Fitzwarren) and, after a shipwreck, meets the Sultan of Morocco (who bears a striking resemblance to Alderman Fitzwarren). |
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| Dick Whittington [Version 2] by Bob Heather |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Twelve major roles plus chorus (including several cameo roles). It's a pantomime - make your own mind up as to who plays what! |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics for one song included in the script, all other songs at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime with traditional pantomime characters - dame, village idiot, goodies and baddies, magic, slapstick and comedy.
Originally published in 2005, revised 2011. |
| Synopsis | Penniless Dick Whittington is given a job by Alderman Fitzwarren and falls for the Alderman's daughter. With the aid of Fairy Bow-Bells, Dick has to conquer the evil King Rat in order to win her hand. |
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Dick Whittington [Version 3] by tlc Creative
Best Seller Production by Watson Players won the NODA best pantomime award for East Midlands region Derby for 2019. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. Hero assumed to be played by female (panto principal boy), dame assumed played by male. Includes a cat and numerous rats. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Nine songs suggested in the Producer's copy of the script, with new/additional lyrics for six of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Conventional large-cast pantomime, with slapstick, puns, anachronisms, magic and opportunities for spectacle. |
| Synopsis | King Rat is threatening to take over London. Only the penniless but brave Dick Whittington and his trusty feline sidekick, Tiddles, can stop the rodent's quest for domination! Aided by the magic of a very cockney Spirit of London, the more down to earth and questionable 'help' of his mother, Dame Sarah, and his loyal but brainless pal, 'Barrow Boy' Billy, Dick's adventure takes him from the East End of London to distant tropical shores before the final showdown with the villainous King Rat and his henchrats, Nip and Tuck! |
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