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Inspector Whalley's Casebook by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A play in three episodes. (Think of this as three acts!) |
Synopsis | Three cases involving Inspector Whalley and the hapless PC Hitchcock. They try to catch the Battersea Batterer, the Wandsworth Weirdo, and solve the mystery of Hitchcock's breakdown. All with the help of a profiler and Doctor Boffin. |
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Inspector Whalley's Casebook - Volume 2 by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Same principal characters as Inspector Whalley's Casebook, but functions completely independently. |
Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door). |
Synopsis | Inspector 'Bloodhound' Whalley and his team take on a trio of tricky cases - missing persons, ATM cash theft, and ...Team Building! |
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The Invisible Man by Rob Johnston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. 8 characters, designed to be split between 3 actors. |
Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length gothic thriller, based on the novel by H. G. Wells, on a split stage. |
Synopsis | When a new guest arrives at the Coach and Horses in swathed in bandages, he is assumed to be a shy accident victim. But Griffin is in fact a scientist who has turned himself invisible, and not yet found the antidote. His condition, and the refusal of others to help, is destined to drive Griffin to violent madness. |
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Isaac and Ishmael by Christopher Kent |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A powerful play for a small cast in a single living-room set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Adam is waiting for the reading of his father's will, but that won't take place until the attorney arrives and Adam's institutionalised brother David is brought to the house. The noises only Adam can hear are scaring him, as does the fear his brother's madness may be genetic... |
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It's A Panto Jim... But Not As We Know It by Andrew Yates |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 33. No chorus. It's a panto - make your own mind up as to who plays what. Opportunity for three dame figures - cookie and the ugly sisters - plus seven dwarves four mice and a few other creatures. No formal chorus, but lots of minor roles. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Piano and vocal scores for eight original songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | British pantomime - in which the worlds of fairytale and TV science fiction collide, boldly going where no panto has gone before. |
Synopsis | The crew of the Spaceship Centipede interrupt their hundred year mission to help the Seven Dwarfs wake Snow White and on the way they help Cinderella get the man of her dreams. Just another day on the final frontier, give or take the evil Queens and mice. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show ** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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It's Business As Usual by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Eight on-stage characters and an off-stage voice. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length comedy play, largely set in the office of a pie making company. (A couple of scenes elsewhere which could be created without separate sets.) |
Synopsis | Plover's Pies may be in financial trouble. Certainly the bank want a closer look at the books, but the man they send has a few useful ideas for the business, if Percy Plover can drag his attention away from golf and his new secretary. |
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It's Deja View... Again by The Stannington Scribbler New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 118 minutes. [Estimated!] The original production run time was between 95 and 100 minutes. |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy play in a single set. (Mainly a living room set, with the option of separate areas at either side of the stage for two telephone operators.) |
Synopsis | Peter has been tied up and robbed, as well as hit on the head. Getting justice is just as hard as getting the insurance money, and then he's robbed again, and accused of the robbery! Can the Neighbourhood Watch help catch the real crook? |
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It's On, It's Off by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All adults. Range of ages. |
Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A tight, funny farce in two acts. Single (living room) set. |
Synopsis | It's two days before Tina Humphrey's wedding and her parents, Gerald and Daphne, are expecting their daughter's future mother-in-law for dinner. However, with infidelity, illegitimate children and a case of mistaken identity, all Daphne really wants to know is whether it's on or it's off! |
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It's Panto, Boris - But Not As We Know It by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Written for six separate actors (probably a mix of male and female), but could conceivably be played by one, probably female. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Six monologues - which could easily be performed as video conferencing pieces. |
Synopsis | A collection of six pantomime-themed monologues referencing topical issues of 2020. |
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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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Jack and Jill - The Troll's Story by Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 114 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing includes an estimate for 12 songs; the production may use fewer. |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length British pantomime with an original story. |
Synopsis | Jack and Jill go up the hill to fetch a pail of water, but trapped down the well is Prince Jason, who has been turned into a troll, and a wizard played by a hapless stand-in actor. Can Jack and Jill help save the kingdom from Jason’s evil brother Jasper? |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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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