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The Affidavit by Janet S. Tiger
THE AFFIDAVIT - 1st place (1983) cash award and full production WORLD PREMIERE |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute play. Single set (a pawn shop in New York in the 1940s). A brief glimpse into individual lives, set against the background of the holocaust. |
| Synopsis | Hilda Gruenberg has to renew her father's visa affidavit to stand a chance of getting him out of Nazi Germany to join her in America, but it'll cost her $650. She believes her family heirloom ring is worth $10,000, so she's shocked when the pawnshop owner, Mr Meyer, only offers her $650 for it. Why is he taking advantage of her desperation, and is she too proud to accept? |
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After The Funeral by Jamesine Cundell Walker
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
| Synopsis | Edna believes that everyone should have a hobby. Hers is attending funerals. |
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After the Matinee by Damian Trasler
Best Seller |
| 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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Aladdin [10 Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Altered lyrics to one well-known song, and a suggestion for a second song, are included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short pantomine script with two simply staged sets (launderette/palace). |
| Synopsis | A short, pacy version of the classic Aladdin story with lots of new material and jokes. |
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| Ali The Barber and the Forty Thieves by Hugh Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Thirty-seven of the forty thieves remain off-stage. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes a suggestion for a closing song. (This isn't essential.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A sketch-length pantomime or a pantomime-themed sketch. |
| Synopsis | A gang on work experience hide swag stolen from a barber's shop in a secret cave. The barber’s brother stumbles across it and hatches a plan to trap them in the cave. |
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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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Alice In Wonderland [10 Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 2 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short prose panto based on the Lewis Carroll story. 4 different settings, all achieved with simple furniture. |
| Synopsis | Alice is bored one day when she encounters the White Rabbit and pursues him into Wonderland. Here she meets a variety of fantastic creatures and confronts the Queen of Hearts. |
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| Aliens v Aliens by Sarah Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 one act play with a single (office) setting on a far away planet.
Part of the Aliens collection of short plays for youth people. |
| Synopsis | A satirical look at our dependence on technology. which has led to a breakdown in personal social interaction. Aliens plan to invade the Earth but are bewildered by this state of affairs. |
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| All the President's Turds by Bernard Scahill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Whilst most of the characters are written male, adjustment would be easy. There are nominally five reporters in the White House press corps, but their lines could easily be combined. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute comedy play - a parody of war-mongering and political coalition building. |
| Synopsis | The President of the USA needs a distraction as he comes up for re-election, so he 'finds' a new Al-Qaeda base, but he needs a coalition to lead. Bob and Jay can only find one country to go along with it - the newly formed Turdistan. |
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| All Your Future Endeavors by Molly McCluskey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Lynn has a playing age appropriate to someone who has put in 20 years at the workplace. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute bitter-sweet comedy. Single (implied) workplace setting. Contains very mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Lynn's being let go after twenty years with the company. Downsizing, they call it, but even though they've sent Joseph the security guard to escort her off the premises, she's not going quietly. |
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| An Almost Correct Christmas Story by James O'Sullivan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Most of the characters are written male, but since their activities are gender-neutral, reassignment would not change the piece. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light hearted take on the Nativity. |
| Synopsis | Following the gospels relatively closely with a few whimsical modifications, the play makes for a humorous end of year festival production with the added benefit of being suitable for performance as a satirical piece by adults or as a tongue in cheek comedy by children and youth groups. |
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