|
Rhyming Robin Hood by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Most of the roles are nominally male, but don't let that put you off casting female Merry Men, for example! |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | English pantomime (more or less) as a short verse play. |
Synopsis | Robin Hood and his Merry Men hatch a plan to rob the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and give back to the poor. The Sheriff finds out about Robin's plan and invents a scheme of his own to catch the outlaws. A few rhymes, imprisonments and swordfights later, good triumphs once again. |
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
|
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Aladdin [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. There is a lot of flexibility available in the casting: it would be possible, for example, to play Aladdin as a pantomime principal boy (played by F) and Widow Twankey as a Dame (played by M). |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short pantomime (generally, but not exclusively, intended to be played by children). Single set (as simple or complex as you wish). Few props. |
Synopsis | The Emperor has arranged the marriage of his daughter, Yasmin, to the son of the Grand Vizier. However, Princess Yasmin, Aladdin and the Genie of the Lamp have other ideas. |
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
|
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Snow White and the Other Seven Dwarves by Sarah Cowan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Musical suggestions listed in the Producer's Copy of the script Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-class sized junior school play. Lots of song and dance opportunities. |
Synopsis | The original Seven Dwarves have gone off to form a boy band. Their replacements are chosen via a dwarf talent contest. Meanwhile, Snow White has apple seller trouble again, and a handsome prince must be found. |
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
|
Feedback | Click here to find out what other customers said about this script. |
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
2020 Pied Piper by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. Some of the characters are written with a particular gender in mind, but that doesn't really matter. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Not so much a rhyming pantomime as a raging satire. Minimal sets, few props. |
Synopsis | There's a plague of rats about to fall on Hamelin, and the Mayor has gone on holiday. Even when he gets back, his trap and trace scheme is failing. Enter the Pied Piper with a scheme for which the mayor is more than happy to take credit, but not so eager to pay... |
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
|
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Bo Peep Gets Shut In by Jonathan Goodson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 57 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Small-cast pantomime, structurally in two acts, but of one-act length. Simple to stage (one set representing two locations), original and very funny. (Contains one rude word which might be replaced in a polite production.) |
Synopsis | Bo Peep and her mother are shut in their cottage thanks to an unexpected plague of wolves hounding the village. Unknown to them, the cause of the plague is actually the wicked Lupina, who has designs on Bo's magical crook. |
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
|
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Another Cat, Another Hat by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. As presented on the web site, the script requires a minimum cast of 15, but the Producer's Copy provides a number of variations to the text which can reduce the cast size to 10 (with doubling). It's panto so gender is flexible. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] (Variations cutting characters and dances would bring the time down to around 20 minutes.) |
Music | The script has several places for songs and dances at the producer's discretion. The score for one song is provided (it's not essential, but it happens to fit.) |
Style | One-act rhyming pantomime version of Puss in Boots, designed for minimal sets but requiring a few portable items. |
Synopsis | The miller's son, to his distress Is poor and can't court the princess That's something which his cat disputes - A talking cat, it's Puss in Boots! |
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: ** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
|
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
The Wrong Pantomime by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act rhyming British pantomime. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | It's panto season once again, but nobody is quite sure which show is happening this year! A jumble of characters turn up, rhyming scripts at the ready, and the villains decide to do away with the heroes once and for all, by means of a poisoned cake! But the heroes, as always, may have the upper hand in the end. |
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
|
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Cinderella's Missing! by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | British pantomime with a twist on the traditional tale. |
Synopsis | A Christmas pantomime is usually quite straightforward, but what happens when the principal member of the cast can't be found? Cinderella's missing, so Buttons must take her place! |
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 |
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Chaos In Wonderland by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 51 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | No specific music suggestions, although there is an optional song performance in Scene Three. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act rhyming play |
Synopsis | Alice unexpectedly teams up with Jack and his magic beans to overthrow the Queen of Hearts in this rhyming one-act collision of tales. |
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 |
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|
|
Babes in the Wood [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. The chorus (Captain Sprague's crew) is optional. There are nominally four police constables, but these could be increased or decreased in number. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | There are opportunities for songs and dances, but no specific songs suggested in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act comedy (somewhere near an English pantomime, but not exactly that!) for kids. Nominally 5 locations, but no set requirements, so could be performed without set changes. |
Synopsis | When prosperous businessman Edwin Merryweather is mysteriously lost at sea together with his wife, Constance, their two children, Lizzie and Tizzy, are placed in the care of their Aunt Lydia and her new husband, Lemuel Viper. Viper has his sights set on the Merryweather fortune but he cannot get his hands on that while Lizzie and Tizzy are alive. He hatches a plot to have the girls done to death in Spooky Wood but the ineptitude of the hired killers, the interference of a posse of belligerent elves and the appearance a rather sinister old lady ensure that his plans do not run smoothly. |
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 |
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. |
|