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A Bit of a Problem by Geoff Parker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Mary should be old enough to be Adam's mother. |
Run Time | Around 106 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An unusual, full length play with strong language and adult situations, in two split settings. |
Synopsis | Against their better judgement, Mike and Adam have brought their wives to see the local drama group's play. But the plot of a man sleeping with his brother's wife hits a bit close to home and a whole surprising bunch of secrets come tumbling out in one busy evening. |
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Bl... Bl... Bluebeard by Mark Billen |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. All characters are adults, intended to be played by children or by a mix of adults and children. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comic dramatisation of the Bluebeard legend (owing more to Offenbach's opera than to Perrault's fairy tale). Three sets, simple props. |
Synopsis | Duke Bluebeard lives in a grim castle and is feared by all. No one really knows what dark things happen in his castle. Having disposed of wife number five Bluebeard decides that Boulotte, the local May Queen will be his next wife, little knowing what he has let himself in for! Presenting his new wife at the court of King Bobeche and Queen Hortensia he spies their daughter Princess Marie and immediately decides that she shall be wife number seven. He orders his personal inventor, Popolani, to make the arrangements and proceeds to the palace. Challenged to a duel Bluebeard apparently kills Marie's fiancé, Prince Bruno, and demands the princess's hand in marriage. Suddenly Boulotte and Bluebeard's previous wives reappear and confront him. |
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Blackmail by Lynn Snyder |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. One role is non-speaking. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Tense full-length drama with political, and moral themes. First published in 2010, revised in 2013. |
Synopsis | A congressman is being investigated over the disappearance of an intern with whom he was having an affair. His son tries to remain loyal but may have to sacrifice his own political career. Then the son meets the sister of the intern and falls in love, changing everything. |
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Blackmailing Butterflies by Nigel Holloway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Recommended 4 or more Chorus |
Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Scores for songs (mainly from The Beggar's Opera) are supplied with Producer's copy of the script. |
Style | A full length comedy play with music, set in a garden and a rehearsal room. |
Synopsis | Tensions within a theatre company arise when a couple of mid-life crises unexpectedly drag past and present emotions into the sharp focus of an ambitious young blackmailer. |
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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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Blond by Rob Wellington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters are all adults, but suitable for a teenage cast. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy comes with sheet music (piano and vocals) for 13 songs. |
Style | Small-cast comedy musical, packed with manic zaniness. Few staging requirements, but some interesting sound effects (head struck by frying pan, that sort of thing). Includes mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Jackson Bligh isn't quite the brilliant detective he thinks he is, but he undertakes the job of safeguarding James Blond's amazing recipe from the dreaded Morticia De Bauch. She's in league with James' sister, and it'll take a miracle to save the world... |
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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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Blue Ridge Cinders by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. This is a British pantomime, which means the assignment of roles to genders is pretty flexible. |
Run Time | Around 145 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 12 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | An innovative full length pantomime based on the Cinderella story. (Not quite the Wild West, but heading in that direction.) |
Synopsis | This new look at Cinderella sets the story in the town of Golden, Virginia, USA, with all the usual panto characters, including ugly sisters and fairy godmother - plus a bear and FBI agents. |
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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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Boadicea - The Pantomime by Giles Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 126 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 9 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length (ancient) British pantomime. |
Synopsis | Queen Boadicea is deprived of her kingdom by the evil Roman Emperor Nero, who demands extortionate taxes in order to fund his new theatre. When her Iceni tribe try to resist, Boadicea's daughters Voira and Denua end up locked in Nero's dungeon. Boadicea gathers an assortment of heroes and less than helpful historical characters to save the day. |
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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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Bottoms Up! by Rob Wellington |
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 |
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 |
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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