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The Jungle Book [Play] by Hugh Farey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. Since most of the characters are animals, whilst they are written male they could be played by either gender. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length adaptation of Kipling's Jungle Book stories (faithful to the originals, rather than playing for comedy) for school or youth theatre production. Minimal sets. |
Synopsis | Mowgli, a child separated from his village by Shere Khan, the tiger, is found by a company of wolves. Bagheera the panther persuades the wolves to protect the child, and Mowgli is brought up in the jungle - where he has both friends and enemies. |
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The Jungle Book by Tina & Robert Burbidge |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Whilst many of the characters have a specific gender, the animal characteristics matter more for casting purposes! |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | An authentic adaptation of Kipling's well-loved stories, with lots of opportunity for the audience to become involved with the (nearly all) animal cast. |
Synopsis | The wolf pack rescues Mowgli, the man cub, from the evil Shere Khan's clutches and defend him from the wicked tiger's attempts to recapture their charge. Shere Khan's henchmen, bumbling monkey pair Mojo and Jojo are thwarted in their comical antics by black panther Bagheera and Baloo the bear. |
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Just an Act by Chantel Kuli |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. The chorus is optional, mainly for the final party scene. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act romantic comedy for teenagers. |
Synopsis | Lisa is angry at Tommy because he hasn't learned his lines for the school production of Romeo and Juliet. Her anger is a mask for her growing attraction to Tommy, although she won't admit this to herself, Tommy or her jock-boyfriend Clark. Lisa finally realises her feelings when Clark provokes her, resulting in Lisa dumping Clark, but will Tommy take the initiative...? |
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Keep Smiling Through by Suzan Holder |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 15. Minimum total with doubling = 33. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Chorus size at Producer's discretion |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] Variable timing possible with songs used |
Music | Well known songs from the wartime era. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A play for schools, with songs, set in a theatre in Britain in World War 2. |
Synopsis | A Theatre Company preparing and presenting a variety show evokes life in wartime Britain through drama, song, dance and some pathos. |
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King Arthur by Jilly McNeil |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for twelve songs. (Others could be substituted at the discretion of the production team.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Off-beat British Panto (with a bit of post-modernism thrown in!). |
Synopsis | Merlin and Mrs Merlin are told by the Lady of the Lake that a boy will draw the sword from the stone and become King, but Morgana is determined to prevent it. Can young Arthur win both the sword and the heart of Guinevere? |
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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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King Arthur - The Panto! by Archie Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Characters include a dragon. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Arthurian romance cast as British pantomime with lots of audience participation, slapstick, corny jokes, heroes and villains. |
Synopsis | The show gets off to a storming start as the evil Morgana and her dragon battle with the elderly and forgetful Merlin. A romp through the story of Arthur and the sword in the stone, a heroic Sir Laughalot and a soppy love story thrown in for good measure. |
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King Charles and the Cheese by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. The chorus - patrons of the Royal Oak and members of the Roundhead army - is optional. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Historical (in the acurate as a Hollywood epic sense of the word) comedy drama for kids, set during the English Civil War. |
Synopsis | King Charles And The Cheese is the entirely (give or take most of it) true story of how a simple piece of cheese altered the course of English history. The English Civil War rages on but, after a heavy defeat at the Battle of Worcester, the would-be King Charles II attempts to make his way to, hopefully temporary, exile in France. In hot pursuit are Charles' enemy Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of All England and his Roundhead army Charles takes cover at the Royal Oak Inn but Cromwell and his men are upon him in short order. Is Charles doomed or can salvation be found in the Royal Oak's larder? |
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The King of Spain's Treasure by Geoff Bamber Performance by Cheshire Academy of Performing arts won the Syd Mence Trophy at the Wilmslow Guild One Act Play Festival may 2011 (for being 'a piece of magic'!) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Loosely based on Treasure Island - so loosely that Robert Louis Stevenson is probably spinning in his grave. Jokes and puns and a new take on an old story. Not strictly a pantomime, but might be played as one. |
Synopsis | Jim Hawkins, now in possession of the tattered map of a distant tropical island, sees a life of adventure and great riches beckoning but, as the story unfolds, he realises that he is not the only one with an interest in the treasure. |
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The King's New Clothes by Peter Bond & Bob Heather |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Characters include a pantomime dame (played by a male) and a principal boy (played by a female). |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | A few song suggestions made in the Producer's Copy of the script, other songs at the discretion of the production team. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | The Hans Christian Andersen story (of The Emperor's New Clothes) told for the stage as a traditional English Pantomime - lots of silly jokes and clowning. Originally published in 2008, revised in 2012. |
Synopsis | The King needs a new suit for his forthcoming marriage, and the royal tailors just can't cut it. The situation seems tailor-maid for the evil Barron Grumbleguts, who wishes to usurp the throne. He proposes a competition, and then engineers the humiliation of the king by means of an invisible suit. All comes right in the end, with the help of a deputy superintendent of vegetables, and Hercules, the performing flea! |
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Knight Fever by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Suggestions for 8 songs (mainly rock/pop) are included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length British Pantomime, laden with legend, packed with puns and bulging with buffoonery. |
Synopsis | The fair kingdom of Camelot is under threat from the evil Black Knight, and King Arthur, his knights and the magician Merlin seem unable to avert disaster! Brave Justin, a humble stable boy with dreams of becoming a Knight of the Round Table is quick to step into the breach and accept the quest to rescue a princess and save the kingdom - with only the help of a court jester and a dotty dame. |
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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 ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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