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About Life by Rob Ricards
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny one-act play with some dramatic depth. Simple to stage (single set, could be just a table and chairs). |
| Synopsis | Mabel's slobbish, bullying husband Jack has died in the night, and she's glad to be rid of him. Her friend Gladys is initially shocked by Mabel's attitude, but soon joins her in planning what to do with the newfound freedom. |
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About Michael by Peter Anthony Fields
Audience Appreciation Award Second Place - The British Theatre Challenge 2017 Act II |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama on a stage divided into two sets. US English. Originally published 2018, revised 2019. |
| Synopsis | A high school English teacher meets with the administrators for his mid-term evaluation, only to discover that it is in fact an interrogation. |
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Above and Beyond by Robert Scott
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Music to be played in background at certain points in the script, including a TV-style theme tune, to be chosen at producer's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length farce on a single set - which is both a bookshop and a hotel lobby. |
| Synopsis | Mortimer and Philomena run a hotel with their child, Alexus. But this is no normal hotel - for one thing, it’s in a bookshop, and for another, the clients and owners are from outer space! |
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| Absolute Angels by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy horror, inspired by (but deliberately not sticking to the storyline of) 'The Turn of the Screw' by Henry James. |
| Synopsis | Young governess Angela is hired to look after two precocious teenage children. When she arrives at the country house, she finds the household haunted by the ghosts of a former caretaker and governess, whose behaviour and death have seemingly corrupted the souls of the two orphans. |
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| Absolute Dandy by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters written as 2M, 2F, but it doesn't much matter. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy set in a hitherto uncharted branch of literary history. |
| Synopsis | Jane Austen is developing her characters as she prepares her latest, as yet untitled, book. She dresses as a man to find her inner Darcy and seeks advice from Beau Brummel as to wardrobe and demeanour. |
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Absolute Pantomonium! by Jon Monie
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Seven roles, but intended to be played by a cast of four. Whilst some of the roles are nominally male or female, it's a pantomime, so it's up to you how you sort this out. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 9 songs (and a reprise), with some panto-specific lyrics. All songs are at the discretion of the production. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act British pantomime with an original story written for a cast of four. |
| Synopsis | When the beloved Fairy Tales is kidnapped by the villainous Killjoy, a young unnamed girl from the village of Ensemble must locate the Magical Book of Pantomimes and embark on a journey that will change her life forever. Along for the ride are the handsome Prince Charmless and the hapless Tilly and Billy Topps from the local Panto Emporium. |
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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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Absolutely Aesop by Lou Treleaven
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy play with a simple setting. For a cast of children, youth or adults. |
| Synopsis | As part of the series of Absolutely Ancients, Aesop is brought onto a chat show to discuss his most famous fables and meet some of the characters again. Things don’t quite go as planned. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Free zip file containing three versions of the logo (created by Lucy Treleaven) for Absolutely Aesop by Lou Treleaven.
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| Accident of Birth by Trevor Suthers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Two speaking characters and one optional non-speaking character. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play on a single (interview room) set. |
| Synopsis | Anthony, a patient/inmate in Broadmoor, confronts his birth mother in an attempt to discover the cause of his insanity. |
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The Accident by Herb Hasler
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A play within a play with no props or set (that being close to the point). Contains very minor bad language. |
| Synopsis | A small theatre company is preparing for opening night of their friend's original play when an accident prevents the truck carrying costumes and props from arriving. Determined to salvage the production, the actors stage the play using other actors and their stagehands as scenery... |
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According To Rumour by Robert Scott
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Identical (f) twins do not appear onstage together, intended doubling. One offstage megaphone voice could be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A classic full length farce, staged in three acts, with a single set. |
| Synopsis | Carter can't remember exactly what happened last night, but the naked woman is the last person he wants his Mum to find in his flat. And there's the puzzling matter of the bag of money in his fridge... It's a fine tangle to be mixed up in! |
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