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Beauty and The Beast [Version 2] by James Barry
Published: 29 April 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. Eight principals, pantomime horse and chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 10 songs including an audience 'songsheet' (and two reprises). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English pantomime in two acts. (A complete retelling of the story, replacing the bestselling 2007 version by the same writer.) |
| Synopsis | When old man Jacques seeks shelter in a castle, he ends up imprisoned by the Beast who lives there. Jacques’ beautiful daughter Belle swaps places with him, sees the Beast for the Prince he really is, and falls in love. The witch Malevolent wants to ruin everyone's fun. Can Dame Dotty Dolittle and her son Wally save the day? |
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Ali Baba and the Four She-Thieves by Peter O'Neal
Published: 28 April 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. The chorus of villagers has seven named roles, but these might be contracted (by redistributing lines) or expanded to suit the produciton. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 11 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with a lot of jokes (and considerable innuendo). |
| Synopsis | Ali and his best friend Abdul stumble across the hidden treasure cave of a band of female robbers. His evil brother Cassim hatches a devious plan to steal the loot for himself. Can Ali thwart Cassim's scheme and win the heart of slave girl Morgana? |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Perfect Storm by Barry Lambert and Amy Randall
Published: 25 April 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play (with elements of drama, thriller and whodunnit) in a single pub setting. |
| Synopsis | It's a dark and stormy night, with the regulars sheltering in the pub. Amongst them is the unpleasant Ernie Trubshaw, but in a brief powercut Ernie dies with a gunshot wound. Was it murder? And if so, who did it? |
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The Storm Before the Calm by Barry Lambert and Amy Randall
Published: 25 April 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. A male character appears only in the first act (on account of being dead by the end of it). A different male character appears only in the second act. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Because a character can't help but burst into song, one song is suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length play in a single pub setting, encompassing two mysteries - one a whodunnit, and one, more of a 'what they done'. |
| Synopsis | The regulars at The Fisherman's Arms are spending an uncomfortable stormy evening together when the lights go out and a mysterious death occurs. Once that has been sorted, a new mystery comes to light - one that might be more beneficial.
Act 1 forms a stand-alone play, so if you've only got forty minutes for a one-act play, see Perfect Storm. |
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Copycat by Charles Dennison
Published: 24 April 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act thriller - a drama with a twist, in a single kitchen setting. |
| Synopsis | Chris seems to have ended up at Harriot's house because of an accident, but he has evil plans in mind. A visit from her neighbours isn't going to be enough to stop a notorious killer from claiming another victim. But who will the victim be? |
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Finding Zanzibar by Susie Casson
Published: 24 April 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Written as one male, two female, but playable by any mixture. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with plenty of comedy drawn from the opposing attitudes of two librarians, and a satisfying dramatic ending. |
| Synopsis | Tom's library book has been overdue for a year but now he's summoned up the courage to return it. Surely the library staff will be kind to him? |
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Big Top Barry by Brent Alles
Published: 19 February 2025
Production by Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Chicago, IL, Playground Festival 2024, Audience Choice Award Winner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple story with a strong moral message and plenty of animal-themed fun. American English. |
| Synopsis | The Linguini Brothers Circus's most famous act is Lionel the lion whose roar thrills and chills crowds wherever he goes. Lionel's young son, Barry, can't roar like his dad and needs to find what he can do to be a star on his own. |
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Cassandra by David Morrison
Published: 19 February 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very engaging full-length historical thriller, with plenty of twists and turns and a mystery that will leave audiences with plenty to discuss. |
| Synopsis | 1941. The staff at Bletchley Park are overworked and understaffed in their mission to decode German naval messages. A new girl, Cassandra, demonstrates an incredible ability which can speed up the process - only to mysteriously disappear. As the clock ticks on the fate of a large convoy, a desperate search gets under way to find her, and to determine if an enemy agent is operating amongst the codebreakers. |
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King Mac by Rob Ricards
Published: 19 February 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The witches might be assumed female, but Shakespeare says they have beards (which of course was a joke as well as an insult, since in his theatre company they would have been played by men). |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch, having fun with Shakespeare's Macbeth. |
| Synopsis | The three witches are concocting a potion, with the Thane of Cawdor's underwear as the key ingredient. They have a prophecy for King Mac, but will need payment first. |
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Cinderella [Version 4] by James Barry
Published: 13 February 2025
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. Nine principals plus (non-speaking but singing and dancing) chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Nine songs are suggested (others may be used at the discretion of the production). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime - comedy, magic and mayhem, told well with plenty of good jokes. |
| Synopsis | The classic rags-to-riches (kitchen to palace) story brought to the stage with a 1920s seaside setting, with mainly appropriate Jazz Age-style songs and a dream sequence Swan Lake ballet for the Wicked Stepsisters. |
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