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The Box by Alan Tibbles |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. In addition to the seven human characters, there is a crucial role for Winnie the cat! |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy drama set in an English kitchen in the 1960s. Contains a modicum of swearing. |
Synopsis | Mr and Mrs Parker want to move into a smaller house so the children will get their own places, and the kids wonder if they dare move out or whether the parents would miss them too much. Is the mysterious box Dad found in the garden the answer? Or is it just some old junk Grandad hid? |
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A Boy and A Snow Ball by Susan Vesey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. This is a pantomime. You can make your own mind up about which gender of actor plays which character! |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for songs (but not sheet music). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | British pantomime based on an original interpretation of the story of Snow White and the Seven something-or-other. Jokes, slapstick and mayhem! |
Synopsis | Many years ago tragedy struck the Kingdom of Snowdonia, leaving baby Princess Snow White an orphan. The beautiful but wicked Queen who took over as Regent now plans to trick Snow White into signing over her kingdom permanently when she marries Prince Kevin. There is only one problem: Snow White and Prince Kevin can't stand the sight of each other so the Queen comes up with another plan involving a poisoned apple. |
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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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A Boy and His Cat by Susan Vesey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Lots of pantomime juxtapositions possible, plus cat, dog, rats, woodland creatures and the appearance (possibly the first) of the pantomime octopus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs, including some original lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length British pantomime. |
Synopsis | The story of Dick Whittington re-told in Panto style with a dog, a cat and numerous rats. A novel (science fiction!) twist on the story, in which Dick is tricked into a body exchange and has to clear his name and regain his own body in time to marry his true love. |
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A Boy and Some Beans by Susan Vesey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Characters include the usual pantomime assortment (Dame, usually played by a man, Principal Boy, usually played by a girl) and a pantomime cow. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Eight songs suggested. Original lyrics to some of the songs are included in the producer's copy of the scripts. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length British Pantomime (magical characters and events, parodies, silliness and general mayhem!). Note that some of the scenes are optional and can be left out without harming the plot! |
Synopsis | To pay the rent on the family home, Jack has to sell the beloved cow. On the way home he gives the money to a crone in exchange for a magic bean and falls in love with the daughter of the Baron who's demanding the rent in the first place. Fast forward to the next day and the whole crowd are up the giant beanstalk to discover a smallish giant who hasn't been eating the girls sent up to him on their twenty-first birthdays, but has been treating them in his theme park, Ogreland. Thus Jack's long-lost sister is now, in fact, the Giant's wife, and even the Baron's wife is still alive and kicking. She redoes the Baron's accounts and finds enough money that everyone is let off rent for a year and Jack can marry his girl. |
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A Bride In The Hand by Angela Lanyon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length farce with a single setting. |
Synopsis | Widowed Kate is to marry George and daughter Vickie is doing her best to organise the wedding day, which is becoming more and more frenetic. Best man Eddie is variously mistaken for a delivery man, an electrician and Vickie’s fiancée - but his true identity turns out to be even more bizarre. |
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Bride with Two Grooms by David Pemberton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The script calls for an unspecified number of Morris Dancers. A normal Morris side would be six dancers, however they need not all be visible on the stage and three might be doubled by other members of the cast. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comic melodrama on two simple sets, inspired by the sensational Victorian novel, Lady Audley's Secret, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, with the setting moved to the 1930s. |
Synopsis | When the charming Miss Lucy marries wealthy widower, Sir Michael Audley, little is known about her past. But when she pushes her first husband down a well and then tries to blow up her new family, there are suspicions that she may not be as delightful as she appears. |
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A Brief Encounter with Murder by Peter John Cooper |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Jones the Carpet is written female, but could be either. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Absurd comedy. Single livingroom set. |
Synopsis | A restful holiday in a 1940s themed holiday home becomes a bizarre murder mystery as Mother goes missing with a bearded fisherman and a fat vicar lies dead in the front room. Was it the Rat Catcher, the Carpet Fitter or the French Dressmaker? And who is the Man with the Big Hammer? |
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A Budget Cinderella by Peter Bond Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Chorus size at Producer's discretion |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Song suggestions are provided with the Producer's copy Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A One Act Pantomime. |
Synopsis | In this watered down version of the old favourite there is no watering down of the action, as the usual suspects put a different slant on the Cinderella story. |
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Building Bridges by Colin Calvert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One character (the dog walker) could be an offstage voice! |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length character comedy with an environmental theme. Single set - simple, give or take the boardwalk which is constructed on-stage during the show! Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | It's nerdy Clive's first time with The Ferrets - a group of environmental volunteers - and today they're building a boardwalk over some boggy ground. What will he make of officious Bob, strident Beryl and ASBO Mandy? And what's so special about Molly's culinary offerings? |
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Butchers by Tim Cole |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 129 minutes. [Estimated!] Original production running time was between 95 and 105 minutes. |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length comedy whodunnit with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | John Cleaver has just changed his will when he is found apparently murdered. The new will demands certain unpalatable tasks from some, but not all, of the beneficiaries. Novice detective Bullock struggles with his investigation into the members of the dysfunctional Cleaver family. |
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