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| The Purse by E. Bert Wallace |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 53 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act commedia dell’arte play on a single (village square) set. US English. |
| Synopsis | In a small Italian town in days of old, Arlecchino, a happy but none-too-bright servant, tries to keep the peace between his miserly master, Pantalone, and Dottore, a tipsy scholar. Dottore’s son Fabrizio returns from the University and promptly falls in love with Pantalone’s beautiful young wife, Isabella. Meanwhile, the bragging Capitano and his villainous sergeant Brighella arrive, seeking to con the town. |
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| The Pursuit Of Perfection by Anna Tyrie |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act fantasy play |
| Synopsis | Told through the eyes of twins and their mother, the play examines prejudice - set in an Orwellian world in which the 'natural crop' becomes dominated by those of 'perfect' genetically modified breeding. |
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| Puss in Boots [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Includes a cat and an ogre, so nothing out of the ordinary. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy (not really a pantomime treatment, though this is frequently a panto subject). Several different locations, but no real set requirements, so can be staged very simply. |
| Synopsis | Jack, the Miller's youngest son, finds himself cast out when his father retires and hands over the business to his other two sons. With only a burning ambition to be a magician, a dream of marrying a princess and his cat for company, he sets out to make his fortune. After an inauspicious start to his great adventure, a misfiring trick results in the cat being far more useful than Jack could ever have imagined. |
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| Putting it About by Sue Gowers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy. A single-set British farce, complete with multiple practical doors, behind which lurk multiple practical (and emotional) problems! |
| Synopsis | Though married, Danny is keeping a harem of ladies on the boil, including his step mother in-law. They all arrive at the house on the same afternoon, and he manages to keep them separate until his younger brother Matt arrives to throw a spanner in the works. |
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| Queen of the Pond by Tim O'Brien |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Whilst the pond creatures are written male and female, only serious biologists can tell the difference. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano/vocal scores for nine original songs (plus reprise) are included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical for schools and youth theatres. An original take on the time-tested tale of amphibian ambition. Alternates between two sets.
Originally published 2011, revised 2014 |
| Synopsis | Sarah wants to learn to be a princess so she has a chance of marrying Prince Chesterfield, however she's up against some serious - and scheming - competition from The Princess Club. A mistaken spell from a mathematically-challenged wizard turns Sarah into a frog instead of a princess. Can she still win the heart of the prince and save her friends in the pond at the same time? |
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| R.S.V.P. by Stephen Condor |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. One male role is walk-on and non-speaking. |
| Run Time | Around 99 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One song is suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Additional background music is at the director's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length comedy with a single (garden) setting. Some strong language and adult themes. |
| Synopsis | At a neighbourhood garden party held to bring everyone together, to which the audience are cordially invited, each neighbour has their own story to tell or eccentricity to reveal. One uninvited guest threatens to disrupt the harmony for good, but the partygoers discover that a problem shared is a problem halved. |
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| The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell, adapted by Dave Jeanes |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 20. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. The cast is mainly adults, but includes five children. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play adapted from Robert Tressell's classic English Socialist novel of the same name. |
| Synopsis | A group of painters redecorate a house, all the while discussing life and how to make a living whilst being trodden on by their superiors. Frank Owen, one of their number, is a firm socialist who believes his ideals can end the poverty from which they all suffer. Railed against by his peers, can he sway them to his way of thinking, or will he turn to theirs? And, ultimately, will it make a difference either way? |
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| Rapunzel by Philippa Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for four songs is supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. Other songs and dances may be added at the discretion of the Producer. |
| Style | Full-cast family show (an alternative to British Pantomime). |
| Synopsis | The classic tale of the long-haired lass retold with additional ghosts, dogs, magical folk and hobgoblins! |
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| Rapunzel [Short Version] by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Scores for eight original songs (with keyboard accompaniment, set in easy keys!) provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | One act musical comedy play with a Grimm spirit! Simple sets (a window frame stands in for Rapunzel's tower), simple props. |
| Synopsis | Rapunzel, abandoned by her careless and greedy parents and raised by an enchantress, is locked in a tower until she is saved by a prince's true love. |
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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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| Rapunzel [Version 2] by Luke Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 92 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions are included in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length family show. |
| Synopsis | In a departure from the original story, the evil Dr Grimm imprisons Rapunzel in a tower, so as to make use of the magical by-product of her hair - to hypnotise the villagers to do her bidding. Needless to say, she is eventually thwarted by the powers of good. |
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