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| Captain Crimson by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. This is another script in which wooden acting might be an advantage. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Parody sketch. (If you don't understand what is being parodied, then it clearly isn't for you!) |
| Synopsis | It's another tough day at crime-fighting organisation PRISM's HQ. Someone has been paralysing the agents of Prism one limb at a time! Could it be the Mysteroffs? And why is Captain Crimson holding those shears? |
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| Captain Hook's Revenge by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy (Peter Pan) by Female. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A few song suggestions are made in the production notes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime. Slapstick and silliness, lots of jokes and a crocodile. |
| Synopsis | Captain Hook plots his revenge on Peter Pan, with the help of a crocodile and a poisoned cake. Peter Pan, Tonkerbell (the punk fairy) and the crocodile have other ideas. (Follows much of the plot of Peter Pan, but has more collisions with trees.)
Note that as with all adaptations of Peter Pan, we pay half the author's royalties to Great Ormond Street Hospital |
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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 Captivating Situation by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play. Contemporary realism. Single set, simple props. |
| Synopsis | Howie's having a bad day - he left the house for little shopping, now, a few hours later, he's holed up in an abandoned house with a hostage upstairs and a bullet in his stomach. Can he negotiate a solution with Police Officer Zip before the SWAT team arrives? |
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| Career Change by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Written as 2 male and 1 female, but could be reversed with minor changes. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy parodying religious logic. It might offend some of the more devout members of audiences, but they'll get over it. |
| Synopsis | Wally visits the local vicar to say he is considering a career change and thinks he might like to become a god. The vicar is understandably sceptical at first, but is eventually won over. |
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| Careless Talk by Hugh Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch - a parody verging on the surreal. Set on a railway station, but really doesn't need any set. |
| Synopsis | Two wartime spies meet at a railway station and talk nonsense. |
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| Carpe Diem by Damian Woods |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy in a single (furniture only) set. |
| Synopsis | Joan believes her life is practically over now she has been placed in a retirement home. Longer-term residents Agnes and Teddy try to convince her that life is still worth living and age isn't a barrier. |
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| Carrie's Lions by Amelia Armande |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. 'Carrie' appears in three guises - as a narrator/protagonist, as a child and as an adult. 'Michael' appears as narrator/protagonist and as an adult. There are two small non-speaking roles. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with plenty of technical and acting challenges! Whilst it is not formally divided into scenes, there are five locations - indicated symbolically by props and furniture. |
| Synopsis | Through a series of conversations with her guardian angel, Carrie tries to come to terms with the death of her father. |
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| A Case of Good Intentions by Peter Stallard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act light comedy play, set in a Welsh pub on Chrismas Eve. Simple props. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A motley group are assembled in the bar room of the Black Pig on Christmas Eve. They discuss Turkeys, drinking and Christmas, and then a mysterious stranger enters their lives, and subsequently leaves something behind which changes everything for everyone. |
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| Cash in the Attic by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst the characters are written male, this is a comedy sketch and the author would not be alarmed if women were cast! |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by Mark Niel.) |
| Synopsis | It's another edition of 'Cash in the Attic' and the team find some amazing items in Herr Schutzstaffel's house. |
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| Castle Royal by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 28. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. There is flexibility to assign the parts amongst a greater or lesser number of actors. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for kids. Simple sets (two scenes, but using the same set furniture). Mainly simple props (though the King and Queen ride a tandem!) |
| Synopsis | The worlds smallest country advertises for a royal family - then have to deal with the results when ridiculous rules get in the way of common sense. |
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