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Cinders by Geoff Bamber
Best Seller Performance by East Leake Amateur Players (Juniors) won the best play award at Notts and Nottingham Drama Association youth festival 2018. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. The ugly sisters could be played male or female. The Prince is assumed to be played male, but could be played female as a Principal Boy. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Opportunities for music at the discretion of the producer. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Jokey, knowing telling of the familiar story, with entertaining plot twists and strong characterisation. Not strictly a pantomime, but can be played as one. Written to be played by children but appeals to all ages. |
| Synopsis | Self-obsessed prince meets upwardly-mobile kitchen maid, bent on escaping from dreadful relatives. Cinderella has a ball and the plot has a twist. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Circus Daze by Robert J Withers
Performance by Lamlash Drama Club won the AK Wooley Cup (Best Overall Production) at the Isle of Arran Drama Association one-act festival 2024. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy in a single domestic set. |
| Synopsis | Harry and Gabs' marriage has turned stale due to his reluctance to seek any excitement in life. When a circus arrives across the road, an unexpected house visit from a clown and ringmaster stirs things up. |
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| Citizen Putrumpkin by Richard Smithson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 69 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act satire on populist politics. |
| Synopsis | In the Eastern European nation of Subsurbia, government ministers pick famous game show contestant Boris Putrumpkin to be their puppet president. When Boris's idiotic nature almost derails everything, they recruit convict Kiril Dvoynik to be his stand-in. But Kiril has his own plans for power. |
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| Citronella by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act rhyming pantomime, requiring little in the way of scenery. |
| Synopsis | In a mirror image of the traditional Cinderella set-up, Cintronella is a sour lazy young lady with two attractive sisters, and Prince Charming is plotting a trick with a glass slipper to avoid finding a girl to marry... It's up to the fariy godmother and the narrator to get the story back on the rails. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Class by Michael Pearcy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy play with lots of action. |
| Synopsis | This play finds us at the church hall joining Melanie's self defence for ladies class. New member Wendy is a little apprehensive at first, but soon joins in with the other ladies as relationships develop and tensions appear, with Brian at the centre of the conflicts. His intriguing male presence at a class for ladies is gradually revealed as the class proceeds. Then, in an amusing and surprising final twist we find that Brian has other interests. |
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Closure by Robert Scott
People's Choice Award by Manchester High School's Lancer Theatre Company, USA 2018 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | Luke's birthday party is a lonely affair - there's just him, until his ex-girlfriend Tanya walks in. She only meant to drop off his gift, but soon they're involved in a strenuous argument over closure and who gets it. |
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| Cold Case by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Written as 3M, 2F, but the waiter could easily become a waitress, with a few minor tweaks. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, one-act comedy (with a crime drama lurking in the background). Single simple restaurant/bar setting. |
| Synopsis | Emma and Simon are celebrating their wedding anniversary in Tenerife when Emma recognises a man from a jewellery store robbery she investigated for the police thirty years ago. Tom was an employee at the store, but Emma always thought he knew more than he let on. She plucks up the courage to finally confront him. |
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| The Comedy of Errors [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. Speaking roles - 4M, 4F, 8 either, plus at least 3 non-speaking townspeople. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'The Comedy of Errors', with every word remaining Shakespeare's.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Antipholus of Syracuse has come to Ephesus with his servant, Dromio. Unknown to them, their identical twin brothers, also called Antipholus and Dromio, have been living in Ephesus for many years. There is a heap of comic confusion until their true identities are at last revealed. |
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| The Connection by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Not so much a whodunnit as a 'what on earth is going on'? As it morphs from a comedy of mistaken identity to thriller and back. Single (simple office) set. |
| Synopsis | Five strangers, with five very different problems, are called to a certain office to meet Mr Hargreaves... But he isn't there! Is there a more sinister reason for them being locked in together? Can they find out what connects them? |
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| Corner's Last Case by Martin Ward |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy whodunnit in two short acts. (In length it's on the boundary between a one-act play and a full-length play.) Three remarkably similar office sets. |
| Synopsis | The legendary, brilliant Inspector Corner is not only up against the dastardly Butcher of Baker Street but also has to contend with his superior the mysterious Superintendent Marsha Mallow. This jolly ripping yarn sees the Inspector solve more than just the murder of Sir Newell Post as he comes up against the Russian Mafia in the shape of the Sodov brothers (one of whom is female). |
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