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| Losing Count by Alan Hargreaves |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Eleven on-stage characters plus a brief offstage voice, which might be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play in a single set. A balance of fun farcical comedy and satisfying character development. |
| Synopsis | Oli is the producer at a low-budget TV station attempting an ambitious live election night broadcast. But the show starts to go downhill when the guests don't show up, the host gets drunk, and a reporter picks a fight with a lager-lout. With so much happening, it can only be sabotage. |
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| The Lost World by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] Estimated timing includes 16 songs. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 16 songs (with some new lyrics). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with memorable characters, strong humour and plenty of action (including dancing dinosaurs). |
| Synopsis | In this pantomime take on Arthur Conan Doyle's ripping yarn, Professor Challenger, Lord Roxton, and their ragtag gang seek the lost word of Ugenya to discover dinosaurs. To complicate matters, Sid, great-great-grandson of a Spanish conquistador, is on their trail, hoping to get his hands on the gold his ancestor stole from the Aztecs. |
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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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| Lotta Crabtree! by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music (piano and vocal) for 19 songs is included with the Producer's Copy of the Script. |
| Style | Full-length light musical comedy, set in the California Goldrush |
| Synopsis | A fantasia on the real life of Lotta Crabtree, who, as a child, made her living (and her mother's living) touring her song and dance act around the mining camps of the California goldrush. |
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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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| Love's Labour's Lost [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 60-minute abridgement of the Shakespeare comedy.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Ferdinand, King of Navarre, has decided that he and his court will devote three years to an ascetic life of studying, fasting, and forswearing the company of women. However, he has forgotten that the Princess of France and her retinue are due to visit. So, will the court pursue asceticism or pretty women? |
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| Lucky Balls by Louise Roche |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The chorus is optional (bar staff and band members). The script includes an on-stage band. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggested songs (titles only) are embedded in the script. These are intended to be played by the on-stage band. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play. Single set (with various locations within a wedding reception indicated by lighting and set dressing). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Nine wedding guests are the victims of a really bad seating plan. They try to get along, then one suggests they chip in to buy a lottery ticket. When they win all their masks slip away to reveal who they really are. The poor maitre d' tries to keep the reception on track but in the end he can only watch as relationships unravel. |
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| Lucy Locket by Ian Cartwright |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Ten principal roles, cameos and chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] The run-time assumes the use of the 16 suggested songs. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 16 songs with some parody lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length pantomime, inspired by the nursery rhyme of the same name. Includes lively characters, physical and verbal comedy and lots of songs. |
| Synopsis | When Demon Debt introduces a magic coin into circulation via Lucy's lost pocket, all manner of havoc is wreaked at the Locket, Stocket and Barrel bank,with Nanny Fanny Fisher being accused of stealing the bank's assets. Helped by Fairy Frugal and security guards Nick and Knock, the heroes head for Switzerland to recover the stolen money. |
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| Macbeth [75-Minute Abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. Twenty-nine roles, but playable by a cast of ten. (The producer's copy of the script includes a table of roles per scene to help figure out the doubling options.) |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 75-minute abridgement of Shakespeare's Scottish play.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Witchcraft, prophecies, hallucination, regicide, porterage, portents, usurpation, amicide, phantom at the feast, apparitions, equivocations, blood-boltered spectre, family massacre, somnambulation, suicide, tyrannicide, decapitation.
All good clean fun. |
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Madame Blavatsky Lives by Joan Greening
Production by Spotlight Theatre Company won Best Play, Best Actress and Best Director at Havering Drama Festival, 2018 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Four women with playing ages of 50 to 60. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A sparkling comedy in two acts (and four seasons) for an all-female cast. Single domestic set. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Three lifelong friends, Pam who is unhappily married, Jane whose marriage appears to be perfect and their batty spinster friend Lily regularly meet for girlie nights in. All of their lives change dramatically over the course of a year after they meet psychic Maureen who takes on the persona of Madam Blavatsky. Has she really predicted these events? Is she genuinely second sighted as Lily believes or is she the charlatan Pam and Jane are convinced she is? The answers to these questions, and more, are to be found in this hilarious look at the lives of these women of a certain age. Their mirthful journey towards a happy ending is tempered with a tender comic treatment of what otherwise could be tragic events. |
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| The Magdalen Whitewash by Valerie Goodwin |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Optional female chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama. Multiple locations, but simple set requirements, with main scenes played on the full stage and smaller scenes downstage with a few pieces of furniture. |
| Synopsis | In 1946, teenage Nancy tracks down her birth mother Mary to one of the many 'Magdalen laundries' set up in Ireland to house women shunned by society for unmarried pregnancies. But why doesn't Mary want to leave with Nancy? Sixteen years earlier, during Mary's first days at the laundry, she and the other women deal with isolation, pregnancies, and mistreatment from the nuns and priests. |
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| The Magic Carpet by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Family entertainment, designed to fill a similar slot to a British panto (but not sharing all the features of pantomime - more story and less 'variety show'). |
| Synopsis | Ahmed, the Great Mufti of Itsnothatabad, is an old style Middle Eastern potentate whose main aim in life is to out-do his cousin Faisal, particularly when it comes to their wealth and wives. With a visit from Faisal imminent, Ahmed is determined to trump his cousin once and for all with a special new addition to his harem. Tired of brown-eyed beauties with dark hair he sends his hapless servant Saleem on a quest for a blue-eyed blonde. A magic carpet comes to Saleem's rescue and transports him to modern day London but the bombshell he returns with has no intention of fitting into Ahmed's plans. His life is turned upside down in this comedy of sexes and cultures with consequences he could never have imagined. |
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