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| All The Little Dickie Birds by Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 91 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with a single setting. Contains some strong language. |
| Synopsis | Richard Finchley is a bird enthusiast who fanatically monitors the garden birds on his computer, but when a new neighbour arrives next door with a pet cat the feathers begin to fly. The Finchleys have an adopted son and a teenage cleaner who get caught up in the chaos. |
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| All's Well that Ends Well [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'All's Well that Ends Well', with every word remaining Shakespeare's.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | When the low-born Helena cures the King's illness, she chooses as her reward marriage to Bertram, Count of Rousillon. Bertram, unimpressed by this, goes to war to avoid his new wife. Helena concocts a plan to win him over.
A comedy in the Shakespearean sense of a story with a happy ending. In modern terms, more of a drama. |
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The Amateur Killer by Robert Scott
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length murder mystery thriller with multiple endings. |
| Synopsis | Theatre director Daniel is letting his personal history with Lucas affect their relationship as he directs the production of Adieu in the local Dramatic Society. But it’s his knowledge of Lucas’ affair with Natalie that will lead to murder. |
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| The Amazing America Roadtrip by Rob Roznowski |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. 4 main roles (2M, 2F) and 18 further roles designed to be split between 2 actors (1M, 1F). |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy adaptable to small or large casts. US English. |
| Synopsis | After a particularly challenging presidential election, a family decides they need to take a driving vacation across America. Along the way they meet a collection of colorful characters who restore their faith in the country. This surprisingly patriotic yet non-partisan comedy showcases the best of the American spirit. |
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| Amore by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. Actors are intended to be doubled up across both acts. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two act play, adapted from the plays that in turn inspired Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night. (Plautus’ The Menaechmi and Siena Academy's The Deceived Ones) |
| Synopsis | When two sets of identical twins are separated, one of them weaves a sticky web of romance and deception in which the other becomes unwittingly entangled. In Act One, Deception, one of the twins is lost as a child and is discovered by his twin brother ten years later, leading a life of love and deceit in a far-off town.In Act Two, Disguise, a twin sister disguises herself as a boy to get the man she loves, only to find that when her identical twin brother shows up, he is mistaken for her. Each individual act is available separately. |
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| Amy's Brief Visit To The Garden Of Earthly Delight by Tony Best |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. There are 22 speaking roles (15 female, 7 male) plus four non-speaking rugby players (*) but it could be played with a lot of doubling by a cast of six.
* For speakers of US English, these would be 'jocks'. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play for a youth theatre or high school company. A bold play, dealing with peer-pressure, and teenage bravado. Contains swearing and teenage themes. |
| Synopsis | Determined to catch up with her friends, Amy loses her virginity to her friend's brother at a drunken party. Unfortunately she doesn't use any protection and finds herself not only pregnant, but sadly wrong about what her friends have been doing. |
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| And A Happy New Year! by Gwen Stevens |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 113 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with a split set - lounge, bedroom and hallway. |
| Synopsis | Susan and Nigel bring the children to her parents' home for Christmas. Little do they know how disastrous their stay will be. Mother is ill in bed and her Father is suffering with Alzheimer's. Then the heating won't work, the telephone is dead, and they are snowed in - leaving them stranded... |
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| Angel of Happiness by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 68 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two-act comedy, liberally adapted from Moliere’s ‘Tartuffe’. |
| Synopsis | When Oliver had a nervous breakdown, Angelo was there to help him. But now that he’s Oliver’s guru, does Angelo really have Oliver’s best interests at heart? Why’s he trying to seduce Oliver’s wife, and break up his daughter’s romance? |
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| Anthony And Cleopatra The Pantomime by Giles Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 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 | Full-length British pantomime (set in ancient Egypt). |
| Synopsis | We are whisked back in time to ancient Egypt where Cleopatra's rightful place on the throne has been usurped by her two naughty little brothers, Ptolemy The Absolutely Tiny and Ptolemy The Even Younger. Her hilarious strategies, aided and abetted by her old nurse Dame Fatima Fattypuss, include using the latest Ancient Egyptian precursor to the internet to find a hero. Into the fray comes Mark Anthony, a hero capable of vanquishing her enemies, crowning her the true queen of Egypt and hopefully providing some romance along the way. A mad chase through ancient Egypt ensues in a version of the legendary lovers previously unknown to history. Oh and is that really how you build a pyramid? |
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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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| Any Colour But Red by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Fourteen on-stage characters (including a detective written male, but playable by either gender) and an offstage female voice. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] The original production took 50 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy whodunnit with adult themes. Two almost identical kitchen sets! |
| Synopsis | When Jim and Jani hold an Open Morning to sell their house, a mix-up in arrangements sends them some extremely unusual prospective buyers, some with bizarre expectations. Twenty-four hours later, the house has become a crime scene and the police need the help of the neighbours, Fred and Molly. |
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