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The Alf Factor by David Dean |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. 3 characters are gender non-specific. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch combining a Viking era setting with a satire on reality TV. |
Synopsis | Alfred is trying to rally the Saxons to move against the Vikings. Unfortunately for him, they’ve heard a story about the cakes, and they’re not impressed. |
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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 This Time... by Jack Hutchinson Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Easy-to-stage comedy sketch, requiring only two chairs. Takes audition gossip to a new level of cattiness. |
Synopsis | Two ageing amateur dramatic divas have auditioned for the same role in this year’s pantomime. As they await the director's decision, they snipe and argue with each other over past glories. |
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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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The Alphabet Trip by Sherrill S. Cannon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Any number of children at the Producer's discretion. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] Dependent on songs used. |
Music | Nine song suggestions are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A rhyming script with songs, for young children. |
Synopsis | Every letter of the alphabet is covered and songs illustrate particular ones along the way. |
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The Also-Ran Club by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. An interesting set of people. It's not that they're a bunch of losers, just that they never manage to win... |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. No specific set requirements (you have to decide for yourself where the Also-Ran Club might meet.) |
Synopsis | A group of unsuccessful inventors including Ted Edison and Mickey Morse make valiant efforts to invent a club for also-rans but amid confusion they are doomed, as usual, to failure. |
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