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| The Star's Nativity by Martin Kirkland |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the scripts suggest the use of four Christmas songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Nativity play. |
| Synopsis | A school nativity play with a difference, with the story charmingly told from the star's point of view. With appealing humour and characters the story shines through and the cleverly placed amusing colloquial asides will give opportunities for some cheeky young chappies to shine. |
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| Stoneybroke Hall by Georgina Cawood |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 27. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children. Written for children to perform, but could be played by a mixture of adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Melodrama. Multiple sets, but sets can be stylised rather than realistic. |
| Synopsis | Stoneybroke Hall used to be an excellent school, but recently it has started to go down hill. Staff have been leaving and, mysteriously, the rival school at Graspyng Grange seems to have benefit. The mystery is unfolded by a cast of teachers, pupils and historical figures accidentally caught in a time machine |
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| The Storm Clouds Gather and The Evacuees by Roger Hurn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An educational piece ideal for school assemblies, with no set required. |
| Synopsis | This assembly, designed to support work on Britain since 1930, concentrates on some of the events that occurred on the home front at the time of the Second World War. It has been divided into two parts. The first, The Storm Clouds Gather can be used to set the scene for the following section, The Evacuees. Both scenes are prefaced and linked with narration. There are 35 speaking parts including narration. |
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| Storm in a Spell Book by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | No music is included, but points at which songs could be added if desired are suggested. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act comedy based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, with various settings. Suitable for performance by children. |
| Synopsis | Survivors of a shipwreck find themselves on the island inhabited by Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, who's used his magic to bring them here and plans to regain his title. All manner of magic and confusion ensues. |
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Strictly Fairytale Come Dancing by Sarah Cowan
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Wide range of roles, including speaking, non-speaking, dancing and a pantomime donkey. Ugly Sisters and Jack's Mother could be played by boys dressed as pantomime dames for comic effect. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of suggested music is provided in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Large cast play for kids, with lots of opportunities for dancing. A comic collision between fairytales and TV Game Shows. |
| Synopsis | Hansel and Gretel need to escape from the clutches of their wicked stepmother. They need a wish from the good fairy - which just happens to be the prize for the competition 'Strictly Fairytale Come Dancing'. |
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| Stromboli the Puppet Master by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Principal characters nominally adults (give or take a wooden puppet and a cat). Chorus could be mixed adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Magic, evil villains, jokes and a talking cat. An unconventional pantomime (without a doe-eyed heroine). |
| Synopsis | Geppetto makes Pinocchio, whom the Blue Fairy brings alive. Pinocchio is tricked into joining Stromboli's puppet show. He overhears Stromboli's plan to marry, then kill the Duchess Chloroform, so Stromboli must get rid of him. Pinocchio escapes, and Stromboli chases him into the wood, where the Weird Sisters protect him and get their revenge on Stromboli. Pinocchio, achieves his greatest wish to become a real boy. Everybody is happy - Hurrah! |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Swan Princess by Dave Jeanes |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy by Female. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Production notes list recommended songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime, based on Swan Lake. Magic, an evil villain, slapstick and running gags! |
| Synopsis | Rothbart the sorcerer has turned Odette into a part-time swan. Fairy Truelove contrives to break his spell with the help of Prince Otto, Chester the Jester and dame Griselda Pudding. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Sword in the Stone by Tina & Robert Burbidge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. The usual panto flexibility with gender assignment! |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 12 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime, full of jokes, parodies and spectacle. |
| Synopsis | The story of England's Greatest King gets a reworking, panto style. When humble page Arthur pulls a sword from a stone, he should become king, but jealous Mordred, aided by his witch of a mother, has other ideas and steals the throne. Can Merlin and Arthur's friends save the day? |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| A Tale Of A Nail - A Musical Play by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 37. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for four original songs (and two original pieces of music) is provided with the producer's copy of this script. |
| Style | A play (with music) for children featuring the human immune system - as an injured man imagines what is happening inside his body. |
| Synopsis | When Mr Gauche accidentally hammers a nail through his thumb, he only wants medical help from the Doctor, but he gets a thorough lesson in the body's defence mechanisms anyway. A version without any music is available here. |
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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A Tale of a Nail by Nicholas Richards
Performance by Central High School finished as runner-up in the Maine Principals Association drama competition 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Whilst Mr Gauche, for example, is given a gender, it isn't really key to the plot! Many of the characters, are, when all's said and done, anthropomorphic personifications of cells and micro-organisms. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act play set in the imagination of a character fighting off an infection, where the protagonists - germs and blood cells - act-out their roles. Fantasy, but with a lot of educational value. |
| Synopsis | When Mr Gauche accidentally hammers a nail through his thumb, he only wants medical help from the Doctor, but he gets a thorough lesson in the body's defence mechanisms anyway. A musical version is available here. |
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