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| Little Women [Full Length Play] by Louisa May Alcott ad. Richard Hills |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. 11 onstage characters and 3 offstage voices |
| Run Time | Around 156 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama, adapted from the novel of Louisa May Alcott, set in the 1860s, in a single composite set. |
| Synopsis | A faithful adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, following a mother and her daughters during the American Civil War. With their father away in the war, the four sisters must support the household at the same time as they each deal with the transition to adulthood. |
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| Local News by Sean Dooley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length farcical comedy. Multiple sets (to be changed quickly via backdrops). Divided into five acts - indicating the phases of the story, rather than places for audience breaks! (Contains one unsavoury throw-away line!) |
| Synopsis | The town of Taviscombe is a quiet, peaceful hamlet, however this leaves the local newspaper and police force without much to do. To try and combat their boredom and get themselves recognised on a national level, both organisations independently plan a robbery. Unfortunately the fool-proof schemes they come up with are identical, leading to a great deal of confusion and the disappearance of the money they were targeting. |
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| The Loft by James Brosnahan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play, with plenty of challenges for the actors! (Contains mild swearing.) |
| Synopsis | An apartment building (the Loft of the title) is scheduled for demolition, and shares a few of the stories he has witnessed before the button is pressed. |
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| The Long Game by Julie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Thriller, spread over a long timescale, but in a single set. |
| Synopsis | Marina seems very happy with the whirlwind romance and marriage to the much older Lawrence, but then she falls ill and her friends are concerned. Is Lawrence trying to drive them away? Is his stepson right about the death of his last wife? And ultimately, who is being conned by who? |
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| Long John Silver by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. Chorus size variable at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Places for six songs are suggested, but all songs are at the discretion of the production. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime with songs and multiple settings. |
| Synopsis | A swashbuckling panto, with Long John Silver and his giant parrot Petula helping The Countess of Delamere return to Cannibal Island to retrieve her jewels. Dame Miss Kitty joins in along with the evil pirate Cutthroat Jake. |
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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
** Four backing tracks and four corresponding vocal demo tracks for the songs from 'Treasure Island Revisited - Hang on to Your Long Johns!' a pantomime by Andrew Yates.
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| The Long Road by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Characters cover a range of ages from young adults to retired. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Set in Germany in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, and in the present day, with rapid changes implying minimal sets, but some large props (hospital bed) and some pyro effects. |
| Synopsis | For Alan, the memories of hospitalisation after World War II are more real than his current stay in hospital, to the distress of his family, but his flashbacks eventually explain the loss of his closest friendship. The play uses the unravelling of the mystery of a broken friendship to explore the nature of memory and its impact on behaviour. |
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| A Long Time Ago... by Paul Barron & Sarah Dyson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The text contains spots for songs. The Producer's Copy of the script includes a list of song suggestions. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Science fiction, panto-style, with lots of nods to a well-known film franchise. |
| Synopsis | Anyone to whom the title seems familiar will recognise what is being parodied here.
The Evil Mange is trying to take over the galaxy but the planet Diptheria is yet to fall. If he can get the mystic Golden Thermos of Queeg, he'll have the power he needs. He recruits young Flash Artois to get it, but things don't work out as he hopes... |
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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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| Look at the View by Rupert Dick |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun comedy thriller. A single set modified between the acts. |
| Synopsis | Max and Fiona move into a beautiful urban apartment that seems too good to be true. When they find a hidden burner phone, each accuses the other of hiding a secret. But their estate agent was not who he seemed, and they’re drawn into a series of events no one could prepare for. |
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| Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Charlie Cook adapted from Oscar Wilde |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length period comedy adapted from the short story by Oscar Wilde. Single drawing-room set and plenty of Wildean wit. |
| Synopsis | Lord Arthur gets himself in a tangle, postponing his wedding to Sybil so as to concentrate on his plot to murder his rich aunt from whom he is to inherit the family fortune. Unfortunately, his aunt dies a natural death, and Lord Arthur must again postpone his wedding, not least so that he can retrieve the poison capsule he had intended for his aunt. His inept murderous career continues with yet another wedding postponement for his ultimately and inevitably failed attempt to construct an exploding carriage clock to get rid of the Dean of Chichester. Of course, there's a happy ending, but which would you prefer - a murder, or a wedding? |
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| Lord Byron: Mad, Bad, And Dangerous To Know by Jim and Bronwyn Jameson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 91 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length historical drama with multiple sets adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Set in the early 19th century, this is the gripping story of Lord Byron’s turbulent life and loves, told largely from the female perspective, and including Byron - in vivid language. |
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