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Botany Bother by Nicholas Richards Published: 24 February 2012 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. Gerald, Geoffrey and Aloysius are written male, but need not be - well, give or take the beard. There are six speaking parts amongst the natives, but there could be many more chanting parts, if you happen to have a spare chorus of natives to hand. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play. The majority of characters speak a hitherto undiscovered language. (Fortunately, the script contains a glossary.) |
Synopsis | A pair of intrepid botanical collectors have an unfortunate encounter with the local inhabitants. |
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A Bottle Of Sherry by Jim Hollingsworth Published: 25 May 2017 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act farce with a living room setting. |
Synopsis | A misprint in a newspaper has inspired two redundant employees of a sherry importer to take up a new and risky career as 'gurglars'. On one of their working days, when they visit a house without bothering to ask the inhabitants, they stumble upon a domestic secret exposing the hidden life of an apparently respectable lawyer. A tangle of extra-marital affairs, money laundering and sherry thieves, together with a string of coincidences is unravelled in this fast moving farce. |
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Bottoms Up! by Rob Wellington Published: 20 June 2009 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal score for 13 original songs plus Overture and Entr'act are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Musical comedy play set amongst the staff of a High School. Simple sets. |
Synopsis | The disconsolate teachers of Neeson High have a new member of staff, whom the young male members absolutely fawn over. But following her to the school is her crime boss father and his two henchmen. |
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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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Bottoms Up! - The Panto by Hilary Ayshford Published: 28 June 2016 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 117 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy contains suggestions for nine songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A full length pantomime. |
Synopsis | A full length panto take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mixing Shakespearean quips with modern day humour, the play features spells going awry, misplaced love and plenty of confusion, culminating in a wedding to remember. |
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The Box by Alan Tibbles Published: 13 June 2012 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. In addition to the seven human characters, there is a crucial role for Winnie the cat! |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy drama set in an English kitchen in the 1960s. Contains a modicum of swearing. |
Synopsis | Mr and Mrs Parker want to move into a smaller house so the children will get their own places, and the kids wonder if they dare move out or whether the parents would miss them too much. Is the mysterious box Dad found in the garden the answer? Or is it just some old junk Grandad hid? |
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Boy by Janice Sampson Published: 18 December 2012 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy duologue with a simple single setting in a park. |
Synopsis | Featuring Boy, a rather foul mouthed assertive West Highland Terrier, and the timid young woman who is dogsitting whilst his owners are away. Disgruntled with the way in which he is being cared for, Boy deliberately disobeys the young woman and, using very adult language, lets the audience know just how he feels. As the tussle for superiority progresses the roles become reversed ending in a newly subservient Boy being dominated by the young woman who, as a result of Boy's behaviour, has found a new self-assurance. |
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A Boy and A Snow Ball by Susan Vesey Published: 4 May 2008 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. This is a pantomime. You can make your own mind up about which gender of actor plays which character! |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for songs (but not sheet music). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | British pantomime based on an original interpretation of the story of Snow White and the Seven something-or-other. Jokes, slapstick and mayhem! |
Synopsis | Many years ago tragedy struck the Kingdom of Snowdonia, leaving baby Princess Snow White an orphan. The beautiful but wicked Queen who took over as Regent now plans to trick Snow White into signing over her kingdom permanently when she marries Prince Kevin. There is only one problem: Snow White and Prince Kevin can't stand the sight of each other so the Queen comes up with another plan involving a poisoned apple. |
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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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A Boy and His Cat by Susan Vesey Published: 5 February 2009 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Lots of pantomime juxtapositions possible, plus cat, dog, rats, woodland creatures and the appearance (possibly the first) of the pantomime octopus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs, including some original lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length British pantomime. |
Synopsis | The story of Dick Whittington re-told in Panto style with a dog, a cat and numerous rats. A novel (science fiction!) twist on the story, in which Dick is tricked into a body exchange and has to clear his name and regain his own body in time to marry his true love. |
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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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Boy Band by Margaret Histed Published: 8 February 2011 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters are all vampires and all members of a 'boy band'. (So, whilst there are only four of them, offstage there are hordes of screaming fans!) |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for a teenage cast. Single (minimal) 'back-stage dressing room' set. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
Synopsis | The four members ofO Positive are talking after their latest gig - should they be higher in the charts than number forty nine after two hundred years together? Should they wear something other than black? Should they have let their fifth member leave? Pop is hard on vampires too... |
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Boysenberry Park by Henry P. Gravelle Published: 10 November 2008 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two adult couples, each with a teenage child. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play about teenagers and their long-suffering parents! Single set (indicative of a forest clearing). |
Synopsis | Two families find themselves sharing the same clearing on a camping trip, and things quickly deteriorate between them. The peacemakers come as a surprise. |
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