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| Emporium 2 by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute comedy play, single (simple) set, simple props. |
| Synopsis | The Emporium has been broken into overnight (after the staff closed the shop at 5:37 the previous evening) and P.C. Bromley is sent to investigate. Ms. Dressoir, the shop owner, has some specific ideas about how the investigation should continue and how P.C. Bromley should stay away from her daughter Michelle. (Set in the same establishment as 'Emporium', so could be played stand-alone or as a sequel.) |
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Every Pantomime That Ever There Was by Tony Domaille
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 50. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Whilst the author suggests that there should be a final song, he doesn't suggest what it shouldbe! Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | For youth theatre - a very short pantomime with large cast and minimal set. |
| Synopsis | This is a quickfire trip through pantoland, with many characters and much panto fun - in a short space of time! |
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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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| Everybody wants to be a Cat by Louise Arnold |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. The characters are all cats and dogs! There is an optional 'chorus' of cats - members of Daphne's coterie. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for kids about friendship. |
| Synopsis | A young cat makes an unusual friend, and then has to learn to deal with peer pressure and prejudice. |
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| Everything's Coming Up Roses by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A romantic comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | Hayfever sufferer Rose has been advised to relieve her work stress by sitting and smelling the roses. Her visit to the park does little to relieve her stress until she meets gardener Brad and romance blooms. |
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| Extra Time by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters could be female. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play, with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | A student is into the last couple of minutes of his exam time when the new invigilator takes over. Despite exam conditions, the student seems determined to talk, and even test the invigilator on his mathematical skills. |
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| The Fall Guy by Paul Mathews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst the characters are all male, it would be easy to adapt for an all-female cast. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fifteen minute play (nominally in two acts!), a single dressing room set. |
| Synopsis | Two ageing thespians compete to inveigle the assistance of the newcomer in disabling the other. When push comes to shove, however, they find it's easier to put their differences aside and close ranks against him. |
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| The Family Planning Clinic by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy play, single set (or four pieces of furniture to indicate a set). |
| Synopsis | When Suzie visits her local Family Planning Clinic, the advice she receives is not quite what she expected |
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| The Farmer and the Charuba Seeds by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short contemporary fable for children. No set requirements. A few simple props. Designed to be played on its own or as part of a broader entertainment. |
| Synopsis | A farmer tries to eke out a living from the land, whilst everyone around him believes that they know better. |
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| Feeding the Ducks by Paul Mathews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play - a two-handed comedy with some serious edges and good acting opportunities. Simple set (a bench) and ducks brought to life by sound effects. |
| Synopsis | Moira loves to feed the ducks, and has done so ever since her husband died. But Paul is an ornithologist on a mission to save ducks from those who clog their crops with damp bread! |
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| Final Motions by Jamie Hope |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as 2M, 1F, but that isn't important for the content, so any mixture could be used with appropriate tweaks to the way the characters are addressed. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short, dark, surreal comedy play. (If it had music, it would be a musical.) |
| Synopsis | Doctor Schliersee has to deliver some bad news to Mr Whoston, who doesn't take it well. He also doesn’t appreciate the doctor's exhortation to make the most of his remaining time, rather than seek a cure. |
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