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Little Red Riding Hood [Verse] by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Characters, of course, include a wolf. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Simple verse play for kids. (A sort of short British pantomime.) |
Synopsis | Red Riding Hood, her mother, and her brother Robin (who you may know from other pantomimes) live in a cottage in the woods. One winter's day Red's mother asks her to take a Christmas hamper to her Grandma, but a Wolf is on the prowl, and there's no woodcutter in sight... |
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Rhyming Jack and the Beanstalk by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Opportunity for non-speaking chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Jack and the Beanstalk told in rhyme by a narrator and small cast. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Through a combination of poverty and gormlessness, Jack sells the family cow for a handful of magic beans, from which grows a beanstalk reaching to the clouds. Up climbs Jack, with girlfriend Nancy, and at the top they find a giant, a goose, a golden egg and a lot of trouble! |
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Rhyming Christmas Carol by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children, assumed to be played by children. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A simple, humorous rendition of Dickens' A Christmas Carol in rhyme, minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | On Christmas eve, miserly Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his old business partner and three other ghosts. Being shown the error of his ways, he then sets out to make Christmas happy for others. |
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Jack and the Beanstalk [10 Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington The HAMS actors playing Jack and Jill at the Oxfordshire Drama Network (Virtual) Winter Festival 2021 were winner and runner-up respectively in the 'Rising Star' award category. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two roles are offstage voices only and could be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 13 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 (living room/top of beanstalk). |
Synopsis | A fast-moving take on the classic panto story, with all the usual suspects, songs, and lots of jokes. |
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Rhyming Mother Goose by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Mother Goose (the British pantomime version, more-or-less) told in rhyme by a narrator and small cast. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | As a favour from a fairy, Mother Goose acquires a bird that lays golden eggs. Unfortunately, it's a second hand goose, and its previous owner wants it back... |
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Rhyming Snow White by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Numbers are very flexible. There are nominally seven gnomes (not dwarfs in this version!), but this number could be shrunk or expanded. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A simple, humorous rendition of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in verse. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | On the run from the wicked queen, Snow White becomes housekeeper to a bunch of diminutive miners. The queen finds her and poisons her, but Snow White is saved by a handsome prince. The sort of thing that could happen to anyone. |
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Whittington and his Crazy Cat by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. (8 speaking parts) |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One song suggested, but not compulsory! Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A simple, humorous rendition of the story of Mr. Whittington and his Cat told in verse. Minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Coming to London, young Richard Whittington is taken in by Alderman Twicenightly. He finds a talking cat, a treasure map and the Alderman's daughter and together they set out to seek their fortune. |
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The Babes in the Wood [Rhyming] by Peter Bond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Whilst the characters all have specific gender, it's a pantomime, so cast it however you like. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script includes lyrics for one optional song (to the tune of The Grand Old Duke of York). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A fun script which packs a lot of both physical and verbal comedy into its short running time |
Synopsis | Ben and Lily are travelling through the dangerous Sherwood Forest, but these Babes are not as helpless as expected - they defend themselves with catapults and an assortment of vegetables against the Sheriff, the Nurse, Robin Hood, and even King Richard. |
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Sleeping Beauty [10 Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. We've assumed that all the fairies are female and that the King is male, but it's a pantomime, and you can make your own mind up as to who plays what. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short British pantomime in prose. (No songs, but the production notes include an alternative ending which suggests a song.) |
Synopsis | In this bite-sized panto, the King and Queen invite several fairies to Princess Courtney's christening, but one bad fairy places a curse on the young royal. |
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Smokin' Cinders by Leo Finn |
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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