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Ghosts at the Grange by Karen Doling |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comic whodunnit. Single living room set. |
Synopsis | Lancelot and Guinevere are dead, and have been for a hundred years. They haunt Arthur's house, and are the only witnesses to his murder. But how can they let his family know who committed the foul deed? |
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Half Measures by Peter Harrison |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun and efficient one act with wit and action giving an original take on the 'boring husband' trope. Easily stageable in one living room set, with just a bit of furniture shifting between scenes. |
Synopsis | Susan is fed up with her husband, who, after forty years of marriage, is more interested in his model trains than his wife. She wants an amicable trial separation, but Geoff refuses to leave. The solution involves a length of police crime-scene tape. |
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How Did That Get In My Locker? by Andrew M. Frodahl |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 63 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act school play - chiefly American in theme and content, though could be adapted for other audiences. |
Synopsis | When prom queen Emily goes missing and her bra turns up in Dullon Bland’s locker, only teen PI Ithaca Shue can help him. |
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Inspector Quaker of the Yard by Peter Stallard |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play - a spoof detective story. |
Synopsis | Cecil has gone missing (from his position on the mantlepiece) and Lady Boulder has to find him - and his urn. The stage is set for Inspector Quaker of the Yard in The Return of the Cecil Vessel. |
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Inspector Snow and the Elf-Inflicted Wounds by Skip Chalker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act Christmas story for children with various simple settings. US English. |
Synopsis | Inspector Snow and Sergeant Merryman are back on the case, hunting the killer of not one, but two Mall Santas. Before the killer can strike for a superstitiously crucial third time, Snow and Merryman must catch them! |
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Inspector Snow and the Sleeping Santa by Skip Chalker Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Without any doubling, the script has 8 speaking roles, 8 non-speaking roles, and 2 optional clucking roles. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act Christmas story for children with various simple settings. US English. |
Synopsis | Inspector Snow and Sergeant Merryman are called to the McGrew house one Christmas Eve, where Santa has been found fast asleep. As well as getting him on his way, they must find out who drugged him, and why they want to delay Christmas. The investigation takes them to interviews with the Easter Bunny, April Fool, and the Tooth Fairy, and ultimately back to the McGrew house. |
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Inspector Snow and The Twelve Murders of Christmas by Skip Chalker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Alternate lyrics to 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' are included, to be performed at the end of the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one-act festive comedy on a variety of simple sets. Suitable for a family audience. |
Synopsis | Inspector Snow and his sidekick, Sergeant Merryman, have to catch the fiend who has embarked on a killing spree in the run up to Christmas. But what, if anything, connects all these murders? |
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The Little Mermaid - A Pantomime with Pirates! by Alan Robinson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 106 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Suggestions for 8 songs are included in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | British pantomime. Single set (with location changes indicated by lighting and props). |
Synopsis | Coralee, the little mermaid princess, dreams of adventure in the Great Beyond. But, with an overprotective father and a life of rigid rules, it seems her dream will never come true. Until one day, a band of pirates come sailing by and a handsome Prince falls off their ship and into Coralee’s life, turning both their worlds upside down. |
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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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Madame Skoodle's Noodles And The Poodle Doodle by Erica Glenn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Twelve human characters plus a show dog! |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A surreal comedy that requires almost no set with a witty and fast paced dialogue. |
Synopsis | There's a news report that Noodles the Poodle has been found dead, just before he was supposed to win the big Poodle Doodle competition. Who killed him? There's a regular parade of suspects, but is Noodles really dead? |
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Merely Players by Damian Trasler Performance by Debenhem Players won the Adjudicator's Award at the 2015 Woodbridge Drama Festival. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Each of the actors plays two contrasting roles. |
Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play, morphing from light back-stage romantic comedy into a murder mystery and back again. Single set, most of which is put in place during the course of the play. |
Synopsis | This is great fun. Starting with a bare stage, under the guise of tidying the theatre's store of props and costumes, the characters accidentally build the set of a drawing-room murder mystery, and Phyllis's daydream of being the Lady of the Manor suddenly comes to life as a period drama, until the spell is broken, leaving Phyllis with new insights into her life. |
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