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Long Live Pantomime by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming monologue (no requirements for set or props). |
Synopsis | A brief introduction to the traditions of British pantomime. |
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Looking for the Rainbow by Philip Bird (music Isabelle Michalakis) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. More children can be added at the producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 46 minutes. [Estimated!] Dance music, which is not provided, is at the Producer's discretion. |
Music | Full scores for the 3 songs are included with the Producer's copy of the script. Dance music, not provided, is at the Producer's discretion. |
Style | A play with music and dance for children, set on an open stage. |
Synopsis | A fantastical adventure in which two groups of children living on opposite sides of the mountain manage, despite their differing cultures, to join together to find their rainbow. |
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Lord of the Mince Pies by Ashley Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. The pupils of St Hippocampus' School are written male, but really could be any combination. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Three Christmas Carols are suggested during the course of the show. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Comedy melodrama for kids - with a gruesome flavour! Alternates between full-stage sets and front-of-curtain scenes. Simple props. |
Synopsis | An outbreak of Tebbit's Disease (which turns teachers insane and mean) coincides with a heavy fall of snow, cutting off St Hippocampus' school (from the village of Chipping King Edwards). The teachers' nerves are at breaking point, supplies are low and now the roads are cut off by snow! What will the teachers do for food? (If you need a clue, it is likely that the teachers are familiar with Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal'...) |
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Macbeth by Geoff Bamber Best Seller Production by Blairgowrie Players won two rounds of the SCDA festival 2023, then won the Colin Peter Award for showing the greatest creativity in the Scottish Youth Final. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Shakespeare's Macbeth as a modern language play (with modern humour) for kids. A one act play in five acts. Simple sets and props. Options for songs and dances. |
Synopsis | There should be three witches, but one of them is having problems with her satellite navigation system. Eventually they give a fateful prediction to Macbeth, who likes the idea of being the new king enough to dispatch the old one. Much murder and wringing of hands ensues. All this and a mad Scottish doctor. The bard will be spinning in his grave! |
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Macbeth In Seventeen And A Half Minutes Or Less by Christine Harvey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. Various minor parts may be doubled. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] This is dependent on the cast! |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one-act comedy, with no set required. |
Synopsis | The three witches attempt to tell their version of Macbeth in seventeen and a half minutes or less. As they condense it, an amusing and fast-paced summary emerges. Will they succeed in meeting their deadline? Don't blink or you'll miss all the fun of finding out! |
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Macbeth The Musical by Gerald P. Murphy Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | All songs included in the script are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. |
Style | A one act musical play for older children, with simple settings. |
Synopsis | Seeking a plot on which to base a musical, two young writers decide that the Scottish Play would be an ideal choice for their tragical comedy musical farce . It turns out as such... |
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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
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The Magdalen Whitewash by Valerie Goodwin |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Optional female chorus. |
Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length drama. Multiple locations, but simple set requirements, with main scenes played on the full stage and smaller scenes downstage with a few pieces of furniture. |
Synopsis | In 1946, teenage Nancy tracks down her birth mother Mary to one of the many 'Magdalen laundries' set up in Ireland to house women shunned by society for unmarried pregnancies. But why doesn't Mary want to leave with Nancy? Sixteen years earlier, during Mary's first days at the laundry, she and the other women deal with isolation, pregnancies, and mistreatment from the nuns and priests. |
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The Magic Shoes by Jack Burgess |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. Includes a dragon and an unspecified number of ghoulies. |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing includes an estimate for 13 songs and dances; the production may use fewer or shorter! |
Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs and 5 dances. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Original British pantomime. Great jokes and panto action, with opportunities for audience interaction. |
Synopsis | King Bumbell the Good is persuaded by his brother Count Scrofula the Bad to go dragon-slaying. In his absence, Scrofula bans everything including dancing, and he attempts to marry-off Princess Inflagrante to his son Prince Eric. But never fear! Help is at hand in the form of Prince Lustin the Likely and a frog called Phineas. |
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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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The Magician's Assistant by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Simple sets and props. |
Synopsis | Down-on-her-luck cleaner Celestena and down-on-his-luck magician The Great Sponaldo dream of bettering themselves. Celestena by getting rid of her sweeping brush and Sponaldo by performing at the Royal Palace for the Queen and Prince. It seems a case of so near yet so far as Sponaldo is offered the job but on condition that he has an assistant. Auditions to find one only succeed in getting him robbed of the money that the Queen has paid him as an advance and seeing the job handed over to the dubious Stupendo the Magnificent and his highly decorative assistant, Chantalle. Can Sponaldo and Celestena win through? |
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Maid in China by Philippa Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Characters include the Emperor's pet dragon and the occasional panda. The chorus is optional. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for the proglogue song is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. Other songs may be added at the discretion of the production team. |
Style | Full-length comedy play for children (or a mixed company of adults and kids) based on the Willow Pattern story. |
Synopsis | Henry Hopper is not the least bit interested in China plates and their history. But when a cursed plate in a museum transports him to ancient China, he soon finds himself caught up in the mystery of two missing bluebirds, a pair of secret lovers, and the role they play in the Willow Pattern... |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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