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Cinderella's Beanstalk by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming pantomime mixing folk tales. |
Synopsis | A wonderful rhyming collision of Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella, with an unexpected but happy ending for everyone except the no-so Charming Prince. |
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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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Cinderella's Missing! by Richard Coleman Best Seller |
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! |
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Cinders by Geoff Bamber Best Seller Performance by East Leake Amateur Players (Juniors) won the best play award at Notts and Nottingham Drama Association youth festival 2018. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. The ugly sisters could be played male or female. The Prince is assumed to be played male, but could be played female as a Principal Boy. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Opportunities for music at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Jokey, knowing telling of the familiar story, with entertaining plot twists and strong characterisation. Not strictly a pantomime, but can be played as one. Written to be played by children but appeals to all ages. |
Synopsis | Self-obsessed prince meets upwardly-mobile kitchen maid, bent on escaping from dreadful relatives. Cinderella has a ball and the plot has a twist. |
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Circus Daze by Robert J Withers Performance by Lamlash Drama Club won the AK Wooley Cup (Best Overall Production) at the Isle of Arran Drama Association one-act festival 2024. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy in a single domestic set. |
Synopsis | Harry and Gabs' marriage has turned stale due to his reluctance to seek any excitement in life. When a circus arrives across the road, an unexpected house visit from a clown and ringmaster stirs things up. |
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The Class by Michael Pearcy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy play with lots of action. |
Synopsis | This play finds us at the church hall joining Melanie's self defence for ladies class. New member Wendy is a little apprehensive at first, but soon joins in with the other ladies as relationships develop and tensions appear, with Brian at the centre of the conflicts. His intriguing male presence at a class for ladies is gradually revealed as the class proceeds. Then, in an amusing and surprising final twist we find that Brian has other interests. |
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Closure by Robert Scott People's Choice Award by Manchester High School's Lancer Theatre Company, USA 2018 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play with a minimal set. |
Synopsis | Luke's birthday party is a lonely affair - there's just him, until his ex-girlfriend Tanya walks in. She only meant to drop off his gift, but soon they're involved in a strenuous argument over closure and who gets it. |
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Cold Case by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Written as 3M, 2F, but the waiter could easily become a waitress, with a few minor tweaks. |
Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, one-act comedy (with a crime drama lurking in the background). Single simple restaurant/bar setting. |
Synopsis | Emma and Simon are celebrating their wedding anniversary in Tenerife when Emma recognises a man from a jewellery store robbery she investigated for the police thirty years ago. Tom was an employee at the store, but Emma always thought he knew more than he let on. She plucks up the courage to finally confront him. |
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The Connection by Graham Jones |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play. Not so much a whodunnit as a 'what on earth is going on'? As it morphs from a comedy of mistaken identity to thriller and back. Single (simple office) set. |
Synopsis | Five strangers, with five very different problems, are called to a certain office to meet Mr Hargreaves... But he isn't there! Is there a more sinister reason for them being locked in together? Can they find out what connects them? |
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Consulting an Ancient Doctor by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A series of short educational scenes. The narration is in English and the dialogue in Latin. Suitable for Latin classes and assemblies. |
Synopsis | A series of comic scenes set in Roman times in which an ancient doctor deals with various patients - in Latin. Narrators bind the scenes together, explain the Latin for those who need it, and provide some elementary background information on ancient medicine. The piece is designed as an educationally useful but recreational activity for Latin classes, and could make an entertaining Assembly or be interspersed with other pieces in an end-of-term show. |
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The Cruise by Liz Dobson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act poignant comedy with a single (sewing factory) set. |
Synopsis | Recently widowed Vera is retiring after a lifetime of work at the same factory and has mixed feelings about her future. Her colleagues are supportive as she reminisces about her past but there is a final shock for them that no-one expected. |
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