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Panto Question Time by Sue Gordon Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The characters are all nominally adults, but could be played by children. Having a pantomime theme, it would be entirely possible to play one or more of the female characters as a pantomime dame (i.e. played by a male) |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute sketch, combining pantomime themes with the format of the TV 'Question Time' panel format. |
Synopsis | Cinderella's Stepmother, Alice (Mrs. Whittington), the Giant's Wife (from the top of the beanstalk) and Jack's Mother (from the other end) take questions from (planted in!) the audience and might well come to blows... |
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Pantomania by Mike Sparks Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Whilst Cinderella and the fairy are nominally female, this is a pantomime, and it doesn't really matter who plays which gender. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script suggests the use of one (optional) song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short rhyming pantomime with no set requirements. |
Synopsis | There's Cinderella, Jack (of beanstalk fame), a dame, a comedy character, an evil henchman and a fairy. All the ingredients of a pantomime, but which one? |
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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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Pantomime Academy by Helen Spencer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 16. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 52. No chorus. The script as written features 52 speaking roles and 3 non-speaking roles but can easily be adapted to suit larger or smaller groups. Most roles are gender-neutral. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producers' copy of the script contains suggestions for well-known songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act pantomime ideal for performance by Key Stage 2 students. |
Synopsis | The Pantomime Academy is putting on a big show to celebrate its centenery, but poor Maurice seems destined to always play the back of the cow. Follow him on his journey to be recognised as someone greater. |
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Parents! by Margaret Histed |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The script assumes a cast of four with one male and one female doubling as each set of parents. Of course, these roles could be separated. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for and about teenagers. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Jaz and Izzy compare notes on whose parents are harshest, but end up surprised when their Mothers have a chat in town... |
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Party Games by Alan J. Laing |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Characters are children plus two teachers (assumed to be played by children) |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute classroom comedy play for kids, with a moral. |
Synopsis | The day before the Christmas Holidays, and the class are filling their spare time with various activities. Penny has a surprise for the school, but it's spoilt kids Amber and Jade who are the most surprised. |
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Pea Pandemonium by Jessica Sandys-Clarke |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are nominally female, they are, when all is said and done, vegetables! |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute farce for kids. Minimal set, simple props. |
Synopsis | It's a regular day in Chill Pepper's Salon, with massages, manicures and bizarre temper tantrums. Today also sees two pea twins reunited. |
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Percy and The Holy Grail by Sharon Hulm |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Song suggestions are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A pantomime with a good take on the Arthurian storyline. |
Synopsis | When King Arthur is poisoned by his evil half-sister Morgana, only a drink from the fabled Holy Grail will save him. With all the knights proving unequal to the task, can young Percy master his urge to ask questions, find the Grail and win his girl? |
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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 Perfect Princess and the Wonky Wizard by Jonathan Edgington New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One of the characters is a unicorn. For the purpose of counting roles, we have assumed this requires one actor, but of course it might be played as a full skin costume, like a pantomime horse. (The narrator might double as the unicorn.) |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | An optional song is suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Short fairytale for children's theatre, with an original story. |
Synopsis | Wilhelmina the Wicked Witch is holding Spoony the Uni, a unicorn, prisoner in an enchanted forest - which is no longer enchanted due to Walter the Wonky Wizard casting the wrong spell! Two owls, Joey and Snowy, and a young crow, Pickles, team up with Princess Arabella on her quest to rescue Spoony. |
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Perseus - A Hero's Headhunt by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. Whilst there are nominally 25 roles, the piece is structured for flexibility - and could be played as a series of linked sketches with different actors playing the recurring characters. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] Add another 10 minutes for the optional songs. |
Music | Piano/vocal scores for two optional songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Sword and sandals myth brought to the stage as a comedy play (or series of sketches) for schools (and anyone else), with a couple of optional songs. |
Synopsis | The story of Perseus is told with a mixture of narration and brief, dramatised scenes. The narration is delivered by the gods Athene and Hermes - who also take part in several scenes (because they want the hero to get a head.) |
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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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Perseus and Medusa by Tony North |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. The chorus is nominally 12 people (representing the gods of Ancient Greece). Only one of the three Gorgons speaks, likewise only one of the three Graces. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, large cast school play, in the style of Ancient Greek drama. (Appropriate for the English National Curriculum KS2 History topic Ancient Greece.) |
Synopsis | A retelling of the classic myth with rhyming chorus and hideous Gorgons. |
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