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Aesop's Famous Fables and Twisted Tales by Peter Nuttall
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are nominally gendered, it's only a mater of pronouns! Contains anthropomorphism. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with the score for the concluding song. |
| Style | One-act play, ending in a song. Could be performed by children or by adults to an audience of children. |
| Synopsis | Four stories for Aesop's extensive collection, about a Tortoise and Hare, a lion and a mouse, the belly and its team, and the battle between the Sun and the North Wind. |
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** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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| The Affairs At Meddler's Top by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A hilarious comic spoof of a murder mystery, set in the 1920s. (Two acts - but relatively short.) |
| Synopsis | A country house weekend is organised with a view to trapping a thief. Various tangled affairs are revealed, leading up to a murder. |
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| After the Beanstalk by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. It's a pantomime. Make your own mind up as to who plays what. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for three songs. (More can be added at the discretion of the production.)17 Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | An entertaining pantomime with an original twist on the Jack and the Beanstalk characters and plenty of physical comedy action. |
| Synopsis | Jack, of 'and the beanstalk' fame, has set up a garden centre funded by his golden egg-laying goose. Among his staff are bumbling duo Bill and Ben and ever-hungry café staff Rose and Daisy. Trouble arises when the devious Petunia plots to steal the goose, and the planting of a second beanstalk leads to a visit from the giant's wife. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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After the Matinee by Damian Trasler
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two characters (1M, 1F) are young adults, the other two middle-aged. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play, with panto actors outside a pantomime - reflective, gently humorous. |
| Synopsis | In between the Matinee and evening performances of the Panto an old hand explains Amateur Theatre to an enthusiastic Buttons. |
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| An Afternoon In September by B.J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A drama in two acts (though, with just under an hour's run time - can be performed in one). Touches of tragicomedy and a supernatural element. A simple, multi-functional set. |
| Synopsis | The residents of an old folks home are all concerned about Morris who is approaching the end. He expresses a final wish which they all contribute to making come true. An out of world experience he encountered during his service in the Royal Navy poignantly repeats itself for him, with the help of a small pebble. |
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| Ahmed and the Mummy by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Eleven principals and a chorus (with lots of cameos). It's a pantomime. The usual gender juxtapositions are open to the production! |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 15 songs, together with a couple of lyrical tweaks. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime - traditional character types, jokes and wordplay in an original story. |
| Synopsis | Prince Ahmed is looking for the lost pyramid to try and lift the curse on his family. He meets the beautiful Ophelia but can't marry until the curse is lifted. With her father and a group of heroes he must overcome greedy robbers and a mummy to claim his true love. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Airfield by Bob Tucker
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play. Simple (minimal) staging. |
| Synopsis | Fred and Lucy seem to have stumbled onto a real fly-by-night outfit when they signed up with Young Yettie Airways to fly to Barcelona. No hospitality, no departure lounge, not even any seats, and now there are delays and they might have to fly via Dublin...or is there something else afoot? |
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| AKA Charlie by Frances A. Lewis |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A split-set one act play. |
| Synopsis | Veronica has plenty to cope with in her job as Dental Assistant, but when her jailbird brother Charlie asked for a place to stay, she can't refuse him. Sadly for Veronica, Charlie can't help using the Dental Practice as a useful place to run a few cons and build himself some stake money.
This script can tie in with another by the same author - Switched - but both work perfectly well as a stand alone pieces. |
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| Aladdin by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal boy by Female. Lots of small speaking parts for chorus members. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics and sheet music to six songs supplied with the Producer's Copy. Production Notes suggest additional songs. |
| Style | British Pantomime. Strong characters - dynamic hero, hissable villain, camp genie, henpecked emperor, etc. Packed with jokes, wordplay and sight gags. |
| Synopsis | Mayhem in China as the wicked Abanaza wields the magic lamp with its great and powerful genie, and captures the Emperor's daughter. Aladdin comes to the rescue, with the aid of Widow Twankey and the camp Genie of the Ring. |
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano 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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Aladdin - Adventures In The East by Suzan Holder
Best Seller ACT AWARD Most Creative Comic Portrayal, Dulcie Whadock as Wishee Washee, Prestbury Youth Pantomime 2014.(Association of Community Theatre.) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 106 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 16 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length modern pantomime, with various settings. |
| Synopsis | Aladdin believes there's more to life than washing dirty socks in the Twankey laundry. With the help of a big-headed Genie of the Lamp and a Ring Genie, Jennie - who thinks she works in a call centre, he takes on evil Abanazar in this magical adventure in the mysterious East. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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