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| Market Forces by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The script includes lyrics to two songs (and one reprise) set to popular melodies. The producer's copy of the script comes with sheet music for the two songs. |
| Style | One-act play (with music) for kids. Good against evil. That sort of thing. |
| Synopsis | With no Lord of the Manor to repair the Market Hall, it's under threat of redevelopment by the wicked Swilco Supermarket, who's got the townspeople bedazzled through the use of O-Bey-Me gas. Can Marshy and Daisy save the day? |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Marvellous Marie by Richard Cowling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 31. Minimum total without doubling = 38. Chorus. Many of the characters appear in only one or two scenes, so a lot of doubling is possible. There are also numerous choruses - Polish Dancers, Parisians, and an American crowd, for example. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for 28 songs, instrumentals and pieces of scene-change music. |
| Style | School musical. Lots of scenes but with location indicaters rather than lavish sets. |
| Synopsis | Moving, inspirational musical exploration of the life and work of Marie Curie from Polish upbringing to Paris and the Nobel Prize.
Original songs for an original scientific life. |
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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
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| Mary Had a Little Lamb by Ian Cartwright |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Some of the roles are written male or female, but it's a panto, so cast whomsoever you like (I mean within the span of your company - so it's no good casting Sir Ian McKellen because the chances are he won't be available). |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 17 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length pantomime with an original story inspired by the nursery rhyme. |
| Synopsis | The evil Lady Wolfe intends to take control of Dame Dora Drover's farm. Dora lays her hopes in Professor Knutz's new shearing and knitting machine, but Knutz can't get it to work well enough to make the money they need. Fortunately a chance purchase by Dora’s daughter Mary at the livestock auction brings a talking lamb to the rescue. |
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| A May Dream by Sally Kinnell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 32. No chorus. In addition to the 32 human roles (playable by a cast of 14) there is Crumble the Dog who can double as Starveling's Dog. There are two brief (silent) appreances of children ('School Boy' and 'Child' who could probably be doubled). |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama. Multiple locations but simple settings. Contains mild (Shakespearean) swearing. |
| Synopsis | A collection of Shakespeare's Rustics pursue their own plotlines outside their plays, converging on Hecate's shop and Doll Tearsheet's bar. Philosophy, love, conspiracy and the unmasking of a villain, in genuine Shakespearian language.
A May Dream was specially written in response to the Royal Shakespeare Company's Open Stages Project in 2012. |
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| Meet the Ancient Greeks - Mini Plays by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Five plays with six characters in each. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A set of five mini-plays (with run times around 10 minutes) for a school class studying The Ancient Greeks (English National Curriculum Key Stages 1 & 2, Units 14 and 15, 'The Ancient Greeks'). No set requirements. Producer's Copy includes a quiz. |
| Synopsis | Five different short plays with an Ancient Greek theme, covering The Gods, War, the Olympics, Theatre and the Arts. |
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| Meet the Anglo-Saxons by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Five plays with six characters in each. (Whilst the characters are nominally male or female, for the purpose of Readers' Theatre, the gender of the actors doesn't matter.) |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A set of five mini-plays (run times 4 to 6 minutes) for a class studying The Anglo-Saxons (English National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Unit 6B - invasions and settlements of Britain). No set requirements, no props. Producer's Copy includes a quiz. |
| Synopsis | Five plays covering Anglo-Saxon history, archaeology and myth. Includes King Alfred, the venerable Bede, Beowulf, Arthurian myth, and the Sutton Hoo discoveries.
Intended for guided reading or reader's theatre uses, but could also be staged. |
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| Meet the Vikings by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Five plays with six characters in each. (Whilst the characters are nominally male or female, for the purpose of Readers' Theatre, the gender of the actors doesn't matter.) |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A set of five mini-plays (run times 4 to 6 minutes) for a class studying The Vikings (English National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Unit 6C - invasions and settlements of Britain). No set requirements, no props. Producer's Copy includes a quiz. |
| Synopsis | The history of Viking invasion and settlement of Britain told in a series of guided reading plays covering Viking life and mythology. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream The Pantomime by Matthew Harper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Variable chorus number at Producer's discretion |
| Run Time | Around 155 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Songs and musical suggestions included with the Producer's copy. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime, with the Shakespearean storyline |
| Synopsis | This adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream includes all the usual pantomime characters and fun, making the original play easily accessible without losing the essence of the story. |
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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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| Mixed-Up Cinderella by Karen Doling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The usual principal boy (to be played by a girl), two ugly sisters (played by men) and rather a lot of rats and a couple of bounty hunters with the strange names of Ant and Dec. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions (plus some original lyrics) provided in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Cinderella pantomime with a few new twists - such as the arrival of a pied piper. |
| Synopsis | Cinderella is put upon by her ugly sisters and wicked stepmother, but that's not her only problem - there's a pied piper lurking, and he hasn't been paid... |
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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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| Mixed-Up Mother Goose by Karen Doling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. The chorus appears mainly for the opening and closing songs. (The director could choose to make greater use of the chorus with additional songs and dances or to dispense with it altogether.) Otherwise, the usual pantomime juxtapositions, plus a cat! |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for five songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime for a small(ish) cast. A gentle, modern interpretation of a traditional story. |
| Synopsis | The tale of Mother Goose, swindled out of her golden egg-laying goose by her own desire for youth, but aided this time by Dick Whittington, on his way to London. |
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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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