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Confession by David Weir
Published: 19 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The 9 roles are intended to be played by 3 actors (with Actor 1 playing the teenage Kevin throughout, except when narrating as his adult self). |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Energetic one-act comedy. No formal set, just props. Continuous action with location indicated by Kevin's soliloques. Written in Scotland, but the location can be changed at the discretion of the production. |
| Synopsis | Kevin's a teenager who wants nothing more than to drift through life and the undying love of 'The One And Only Girl In All The World'. But his Uncle Ignatius has different plans - for Kevin to join the priesthood. |
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Daddy Issues by Ged Quayle
Published: 19 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A sketch which transitions satisfyingly from smutty comedy to emotional drama. From the synopsis, you'll deduce that this contains a lot of 'adult' content. |
| Synopsis | Sex worker Carla is with a client when he dies of a sudden heart attack, and she finds herself trapped under the corpse. The only person she's able to call for help is her ex-husband. |
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Ring O' Roses by Jenny Devaux
Published: 19 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An atmospheric, effective ghost story in the form of a monologue told by an adult looking back on her childhood. No set or props required, but needs atmospheric sound effects. |
| Synopsis | Ten-year-old Anna found it hard to settle in her new village. She was woken up at 3:25am every night by a group of children, who invited her to play with them. When one of their games turned more serious, Anna found herself running for her life. |
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About Life by Rob Ricards
Published: 16 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny one-act play with some dramatic depth. Simple to stage (single set, could be just a table and chairs). |
| Synopsis | Mabel's slobbish, bullying husband Jack has died in the night, and she's glad to be rid of him. Her friend Gladys is initially shocked by Mabel's attitude, but soon joins her in planning what to do with the newfound freedom. |
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Prince Charming's Ball by P. J. Reed
Published: 16 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The character is male, but, since this is a fairytale character, might be played as a principal boy. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Monologue. A fun twist on the well-known character from Cinderella, exposing him as an entitled brat of a prince. |
| Synopsis | Prince Charming has read scandalous accusations about his behaviour in the broadsheet, and has some stern words for the culprits. |
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George and the Dragon by David and Fiona Barker
Published: 15 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. It's a pantomime - cast whomsoever you like! |
| Run Time | Around 92 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 12 songs and a dance (and rough guidelines for play-in music). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Two-act pantomime with an original story. |
| Synopsis | Princess Poppy must marry a suitable suitor, like a knight, but she loves George. He can't become a knight unless he kills a dragon, which neither he nor Poppy wants. Plus there's a wicked witch holding the kingdom hostage over heating. |
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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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Farewell by David Titchener
Published: 13 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Charcter-driven drama in a single set. |
| Synopsis | Brothers Tom and Bill have been running the family funeral home business for years. Now their wayward brother Geoff has turned up again, but this time, he doesn't want money, he wants to rejoin the family. |
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The Musicians of Bremen - Pantomime by Hilary Mackelden
Published: 12 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. As the author puts it, 'All characters can be played by actors of any gender.' (Many of them are animals.) |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing assumes the inclusion of 15 songs. |
| Music | Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 15 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length pantomime, based (fairly loosely!) on the Brothers Grimm story. Multiple sets, but front-of-curtain scenes keep the show moving during set changes. |
| Synopsis | Mother Hubbard needs money to keep her farm, and stop the evil Henry Harrington turning it into a chicken pie factory. Her animals hatch a plan to enter the best band contest at the local music festival - but before they get the chance, they're framed for bank robbery! |
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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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Welcome to the Café Two Maggots by Léo Woodland
Published: 9 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short farce. An odd piece, but very enjoyable. |
| Synopsis | Napoleon, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot and others improbably meet in a shabby French bar and (with Karl Marx) find themselves acting in The Archers. |
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Good War, Soldier? by Salli Belsham
Published: 8 May 2025 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama, meditating on the first world war, remembrance and the treatment of soldiers. |
| Synopsis | In Westminster Abbey, Rudyard Kipling approaches the grave of the Unknown Soldier. He hopes for news of the whereabouts of the body of his son (who died in WW1), but he finds himself talking to four Unknown Soldiers, who challenge him to reflect on the value of monuments. |
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