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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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| 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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| 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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| Jack and the Beanstalk [A Deadpan Panto] by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. It's a pantomime. Make your own mind up as to who plays what. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Originally written for an unrehearsed reading at a Christmas party, so no set, simple lines, minimal action (if any) and a good deal of silliness. |
| Synopsis | With the aid of his mother, their cow, a fairy and some magic beans, Jack Trott rescues a princess and a hen from a giant and thwarts the greedy landlord. |
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| The Great British Panto Chase-Off Quiz by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun mash of panto and quiz show tropes, which would easily fit into a revue evening. Fast paced with a lot of good jokes. Small cast and could be done under social distancing if needed. |
| Synopsis | Buttons, the presenter of a popular TV quiz, plays host to four pantomime characters determined to win the prize money. In true panto villain style, their opponent, Abanazar, sets out to thwart their plans and steal the prize money. |
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| Rapunzel [Verse] by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One character is optional and silent. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short verse play (probably, but not necessarily for kids). |
| Synopsis | A couple offend a witch and hand over their daughter, Rapunzel, to her by way of recompense. Rapunzel is locked-up in a tower, accessible only by a window - with the aid of her hair as a climbing rope. She stays there until she is visited by a handsome prince and the audience is visited by an unexpected plot twist! |
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| Hansel and Gretel [Verse] by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming play. This approaches the border of the British pantomime genre. (Make you own mind up on that point!) |
| Synopsis | A short rhyming play that preserves the villainous role of the father, but takes extreme liberties with other parts of the original tale, casting Hansel and Gretel in a less-than-favourable light. |
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| Panto Question Time by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The characters are all nominally adults, but could be played by children. Having a pantomime theme, it would be entirely possible to play one or more of the female characters as a pantomime dame (i.e. played by a male) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute sketch, combining pantomime themes with the format of the TV 'Question Time' panel format. |
| Synopsis | Cinderella's Stepmother, Alice (Mrs. Whittington), the Giant's Wife (from the top of the beanstalk) and Jack's Mother (from the other end) take questions from (planted in!) the audience and might well come to blows... |
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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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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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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... |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| 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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