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| Alice in Wonderland [Version 4] by Kathleen Thompson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Many parts could be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 106 minutes. [Estimated!] Dependent on the songs used. |
| Music | There are 13 song suggestions provided with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime-style, family show, with various settings. |
| Synopsis | An adaptation of Lewis Carroll's book, re-told by an American writer. Alice is chasing the White Rabbit and then meets all the curious characters from the classic tale. |
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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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| Alice Through the Looking Glass by Andrew O'Leary |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. A good mix of principal roles, cameos and chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing allows for 12 songs. |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 12 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Original pantomime, riffing on, rather than following the plot of Lewis Carroll's second book of Alice. |
| Synopsis | After overthrowing the Queen of Hearts, Alice and Jack are set to be married and rule Wonderland. However, the Red Queen, sister to the Queen of Hearts, sends Alice back to the real world and imprisons Jack. Who can save Wonderland? |
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| Alice... The Panto by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. The numbers are very flexible, but the minimum numbers would require a lot of costume changes! The chorus (for songs and dances) is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Opportunities for music at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English Pantomime version of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' |
| Synopsis | Alice takes a trip down the rabbit hole in this panto version of the classic tale, meeting all the usual suspects, playing croquet, looking after babies and having a tea party. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| 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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| Aliens by 10 x 10 Writers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of children, grown-ups and aliens, intended to be played by a school, youth theatre or mixed-age company. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection of seven short plays, a mixture of comedy and drama. |
| Synopsis | A collection of seven short plays/sketches for youth theatre with the theme of aliens. (All the plays are available individually, but are provided here as a collection at a discount.) |
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| All in the Stars by Mark Billen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two act play aimed at a large cast of children. |
| Synopsis | King Confort is worried. He can't find a citizen who is willing to criticise him or his government, and tradition demands the execution of a critic to accompany his birthday celebrations. Discouraged, he informs his Astrologer that, dissatisfied with endless gloomy predictions, he has written into his will that the Astrologer must die fifteen minutes after the king breathes his last. The king's sisters then gang up on the Astrologer, pressuring him into predicting that the king will die, in the hope of worrying him into an early grave. Into all this confusion come a heavily disguised princess and her father, investigating the kingdom before her marriage to the king. All sorts of unfortunate and unforeseen consequences follow! |
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| All Is Not Lost by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. Most of the characters are written male, but really it doesn't matter. Characters are a mix of ages, so could suit a mixed age company. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with sheet music for five original songs. |
| Style | Full-length comedy with musical elements, speculating on the culture clash between Anglo Saxons and Romanised Britons. |
| Synopsis | Sir Ambrosius Pengarth used to be the valiant, beast-slaying ruler of the Five Hills, but now is more interested in playing his lyre than protecting the people. When rumours of a dragon spread through the castle, his young son and nephew bunk off lessons to go and slay it themselves. |
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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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| All-Day Dreamer by Wesley A. Knoch |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 21. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 30. Minimum total without doubling = 39. Chorus. Many characters could be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Music for the 7 songs and 4 instrumental pieces are included with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | An American one act, musical play for schools, with various settings. |
| Synopsis | Young loner Reve finds it difficult to make friends and so he populates his world with day-dreams and imaginary friends who help him navigate a typical day in school. This only seems to succeed in getting him into more trouble. Then, when he is at his most distraught - his suffering is relieved by a newcomer. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| 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
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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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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| Androcles and the Lion by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. The chorus - of soldiers, slaves, Christians and lions - is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming fable for kids. |
| Synopsis | Androcles is a man who loves all living things - he's even reluctant to kill a lamb to feed himself. So when a lion appears, he's less worried about it eating his sheep and more concerned that there's a thorn in it's paw. Helping this lion turns out to be a good move in the long term... |
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| Androcles et Leo by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. Most of the characters are written male (even the lion), for reasons of historical verisimilitude. Don't let that put you off. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama (played for comedy) in which the protagonists speak Latin and the narrators, where necessary, translate. |
| Synopsis | The optimistic story of the slip-away slave meeting the limping lion - with a side-order of the private life of Emperor Claudius. |
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