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Smokin' Cinders by Leo Finn
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Characters change role within the action. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short rhyming modern pantomime, with a basic set. |
| Synopsis | A potted-panto version of the Cinderella story in three short scenes, with a feisty Cinders and with minimal effects. |
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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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| Snakes and Ladders by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, 'furniture' only. |
| Synopsis | After a secret liaison, Malcolm and Karen find themselves trapped in the office storeroom. |
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| Snow White [10-Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. 2 male roles (which can be doubled with each other), 2 female roles, 9 non-gender-specific roles, and an offstage voice cameo. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short, pacy, funny pantomime treatment of the traditional story. Two song suggestions. |
| Synopsis | When the Magic Mirror tells the Queen she is no longer the fairest in the land, she orders Sir Gareth Hunt to kill Snow White. Snow White escapes and starts up a new life with seven of Santa’s elves, who are working from home in the forest. |
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| The Snowflake Mistake by Lou Treleaven |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Amongst other roles, members of the cast play the machine that makes snowflakes. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for young children based on the illustrated children's book The Snowflake Mistake by Lou Treleavan. No set required, just simple props (which could be made by children as part of the preparation for the show). |
| Synopsis | When Princess Flurry is left in charge of the snowflake machine, she gets distracted and the machine breaks down. She gets her friends to help her make snowflakes manually, and her mother the Queen is delighted with the results. |
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| So Long, Prince Charming by Molly McCluskey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Max is written male, but the writer suggests that other interpretations would be possible. One of the female characters is a non-speaking cameo. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play. Genre? Well, George, the central character, wants this to be a romantic comedy, but Ingrid has other ideas. Single cafe setting. |
| Synopsis | George is a romantic, and determined to overcome Ingrid's reluctance with a muffin, his natural charm and a detailed explanation of his good points. Ingrid is in the cafe for the peace and quiet, but after a few minutes of George's company, she's ready to leave... with Max. |
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| Soccer School by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Additional extra cast members may be added in. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch, set in a classroom. |
| Synopsis | A privileged 'fly-on-the-wall' view of a classroom at Premiership Soccer School... |
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| Soldiers by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short WW1-set drama on a simple set, suitable for adults or teens. |
| Synopsis | Three soldiers find themselves in a holding cell as dawn breaks during the First World War: one on a drunk charge, one held for assaulting an officer, and one a conscientious objector. |
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| Some People Like To Gossip by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Mabel and Ada do like to drink tea, eat cakes and exercise their vocal cords. |
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| Someday I'll Find You by Charles Alverson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Main two characters in late middle age |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy set in the office or waiting room of a retirement village in America. |
| Synopsis | Jack and Helen meet by chance at a retirement village some forty years after he abandoned her for her best friend. They discuss what has happened to them in the intervening forty years and whilst nothing is resolved, who knows what their future will be? |
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| Something Off The Menu by Rupert Haigh |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Off-beat ten-minute comedy play. Cafe setting (little more than a table and chair). |
| Synopsis | The customer is always right, but this one isn't quite sure what he wants. The waitress has plenty to offer, but he's only interested in things that aren't on the menu. After a side trip to the cafe storeroom, he reveals his true identity, but the Waitress is a match for him. |
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