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Alice In Wonderland [10 Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 13 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThe producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 2 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleShort prose panto based on the Lewis Carroll story. 4 different settings, all achieved with simple furniture.
SynopsisAlice 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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Little Red Riding Hood [Verse] by Peter Bond
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleSimple verse play for kids. (A sort of short British pantomime.)
SynopsisRed 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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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Rhyming Jack and the Beanstalk by Richard Coleman
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 15 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleJack and the Beanstalk told in rhyme by a narrator and small cast. Minimal set requirements.
SynopsisThrough 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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ExtrasThe 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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Sleeping Beauty [10 Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 11 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort British pantomime in prose. (No songs, but the production notes include an alternative ending which suggests a song.)
SynopsisIn 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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ExtrasThe 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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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.
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 13 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicAltered 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.
StyleA short pantomine script with two simply staged sets (living room/top of beanstalk).
SynopsisA fast-moving take on the classic panto story, with all the usual suspects, songs, and lots of jokes.
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Panto Question Time by Sue Gordon
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleTen-minute sketch, combining pantomime themes with the format of the TV 'Question Time' panel format.
SynopsisCinderella'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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Dick Whittington [10 Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 12 minutes. [Estimated!] Add a couple of minutes each for the two suggested songs.
MusicThe producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 2 songs (with altered lyrics) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleShort prose pantomime. Four locations, but designed for minimal sets.
SynopsisDick Whittington has given up on London due to the rat infestation in his room. When he meets a cat named Kat, his fortunes are turned around.
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ExtrasThe 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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Smokin' Cinders by Leo Finn
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 16 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short rhyming modern pantomime, with a basic set.
SynopsisA potted-panto version of the Cinderella story in three short scenes, with a feisty Cinders and with minimal effects.
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
ExtrasThe 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
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details.

Rapunzel [Verse] by Peter Bond
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 8 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort verse play (probably, but not necessarily for kids).
SynopsisA 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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Whittington and his Crazy Cat by Richard Coleman
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. (8 speaking parts)
Run TimeAround 15 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicOne song suggested, but not compulsory! Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleA simple, humorous rendition of the story of Mr. Whittington and his Cat told in verse. Minimal set requirements.
SynopsisComing 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.
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
ExtrasThe 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
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details.

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