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| Snow White and the Seven Robbers by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy play for kids. It has leanings towards a British pantomime (in that some of the characters 'break the fourth wall' to interact with the audience), but it doesn't have some other elements - so make up your own mind. Anyway, it's funny. |
| Synopsis | When King Benedict decides to take a new wife, life for his beautiful daughter, the Princess Snow White, takes a turn for the worse.
The evil Queen Dragomira is consumed by jealousy and acquires a magic mirror which, she hopes, will confirm her as the 'fairest in the land'. Unfortunately for Dragomira the mirror, in the form of its human 'extension kit', can only tell the truth and Snow White's fate is sealed. The young princess is cast out into the forest to die.
Can the interventions of a group of inept robbers (they used to be dwarves, but they grew) and an even less ept prince save the day?
(Well, this is a fairy tale, so the answer is, at the very least, 'probably'!) |
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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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| Soft Soap by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 14. Minimum total with doubling = 28. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. Whilst the play is written with 28 speaking parts and no chorus, some of the parts could be combined or redistributed, so other casting regimes would be possible. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music (by Adrian Watts) for two original songs (one of which is reprised) is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | One-act musical play for kids. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Life is hard for the Viking women of Olaf's raiders, until Soapy comes to their village with his bright ideas and miracle soap powder. He makes great changes, but it's too late before they think to wonder what's in it for him... |
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| Stardust by 10 x 10 Writers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Six short plays inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. |
| Synopsis | Six short plays, a mixture of comedy and drama, inspired by the life and work of David Bowie. All were winners of the October 2016 Chesil Theatre New Writing Festival. The plays are available individually, but are provided here as a collection at a discount. |
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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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| Survive the Night by Lucy Atkinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama for a youth theatre company. |
| Synopsis | Ash wants to help Frankie adjust to the way life is. Together, they try out a video game that ends up helping change Frankie’s view of a lot of things. It was built by Ash from one of younger Frankie’s stories. |
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| The Taming of the Shrew [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Shakespeare's play efficiently cut down without damaging the flow of the story. A comedy in the renaissance sense of ordinary people, witty dialogue and a happy ending.
Contains Shakespearean insults. |
| Synopsis | Bianca has many suitors, but her father won't let her marry until he has also given away the hand of her hot-tempered and uncontrollable elder sister Katharina. While Lucentio concocts a plan to win Bianca as his wife, Petruchio decides to wed Katharina and subdue her shrewish nature. |
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| A Tantalising Christmas by Andrew Weaver |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 64. Chorus. The chorus takes two forms - a small choir and optional non-speaking roles. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the Script contains suggestions for 16 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act, large-cast, secular Christmas play for schools. |
| Synopsis | It's Christmas Eve in Jack Jingle's toyshop, and he's nearly collected all the pieces of his Christmas Crystal, which will allow him to return to his old job as Head Elf in Santa's workshop. But Tanta Lies, the witch, is also on the trail of crystal. |
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| They Called Her Tante Anna by Elisabeth Marrion |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 53 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act historical drama suitable for educational use. Three simple settings. |
| Synopsis | From December 1938 until the outbreak of WWII, ten thousand Jewish children were evacuated from Nazi Germany to England on the Kindertransport. This is the story of some of those children. |
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| The Turing Test by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Three principal females. The cafe manager, carer and social services manager could be male or female and could be played by one actor. Equally, the carer could be played by two actors, each taking a scene. |
| Run Time | Around 49 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An emotional one-act drama in which a family confronts dementia.. (Could be staged with just furniture, making it a good festival piece.) |
| Synopsis | Alison Grove, an artificial Inteligence researcher, is struggling to cope with her mother's Alzheimer's disease when she should be focused on the question of whether machines are capable of rational thought. |
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| Twist by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Whirlwind adaptation of Dickens' Oliver Twist as a one-act comedy for kids. |
| Synopsis | Wide-eyed innocent Oliver progresses from orphanage to workhouse to den of thieves to prison cell and then back onto the mean streets as a fugitive, and not only from the law. No matter, things can only get better, can't they? Even the ever-optimistic Oliver is beginning to have doubts about that. |
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