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| Ali Baba and the Four Thieves by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. The cast could be extended with additional policemen. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids, with an economic rendering of the Arabian classic. |
| Synopsis | When Makram the miller is robbed of some bags of gold dust he decides to retire and turn over the mill to his elder son, Cassim. However it is his other son, Ali Baba, who locates the thieves' secret cave and retrieves his father's gold. When Cassim learns of the cave his greed gets the better of him. Unfortunately the brutal thieves then get the better of Cassim. To make matters worse they vow to track down whoever found their cave in the first place. |
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Alice in Wonderland by Richard Coleman
Best Seller Production by Dingwall Academy Drama Society won the Best Stage Presentation trophy in the Highland Division of the SCDA festival 2015 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Besides the various principals, there are unspecified numbers of (animal) jurors and (up to) a whole set of chess pieces. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming fantasia on a theme of Carroll.
A whirlwind tour of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass told as a verse play. |
| Synopsis | Dreaming on a river bank, Alice sees a White Rabbit who is late for an appointment. She follows him down a rabbit hole where a Hatter, a rather decisive Queen, a thieving Knave, a couple of Kings and a host of others await. |
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| Alice in Wonderland [Version 3] by Paul Cockcroft |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Many characters can be played by M or F. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act treatment of the story which sticks closely to the original Alice by Lewis Carroll, introducing some Pantomime elements, but no music. |
| Synopsis | This comedy play successfully merges the rich core of Lewis Carroll's wit with some fun - in pantomime. |
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| Aliens by 10 x 10 Writers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of children, grown-ups and aliens, intended to be played by a school, youth theatre or mixed-age company. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection of seven short plays, a mixture of comedy and drama. |
| Synopsis | A collection of seven short plays/sketches for youth theatre with the theme of aliens. (All the plays are available individually, but are provided here as a collection at a discount.) |
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| Aliens At School by Raymond Blakesley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Thirteen named roles plus a chorus of the rest of 'the class' (whose lines can be separated out for individuals). |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for a school class. |
| Synopsis | Teacher, Miss Brightwell has to deal with a class expecting an alien invasion of the playground. The problem is that Jack, the class boffin, has probably attracted them with his amateur dabbling. Clarence the class goldfish comes to the rescue as the aliens arrive. |
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All at Sea by Peter Ayre
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. As with all such pantomimes, there's a lot of flexibility in the casting - two of the female parts could be played by males as pantomime dames, the hero could be played by a female - the traditional pantomime principal boy. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Four songs suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-Act British Pantomime - visual jokes, verbal jokes and a little vulgarity. Fairly complex sets for a short piece (but this is pantomime and the sets are flexible too!) |
| Synopsis | Sinbad the Sailor sets out to thwart the designs of Blackbeard the pirate and win the hand of the lovely Charlotte. (All this and a fairy too.) |
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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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All By Myself by Robert Scott
Best Seller The EGA Trophy for Outstanding Production, Best Male Support and Best Presentation by Rhyl Liberty Players at Clwyd Community Theatre Association Festival of One-Act Plays 2019 (UK) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four characters may be M or F |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy, with no specific set. |
| Synopsis | Seven years alone on an island after his shipwreck have driven Larry to the edge of sanity, but that's nothing compared to the shock of discovering he's not - and never has been - alone! |
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All By Themselves by Robert Scott
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy, nominally in two locations, but with no set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Still marooned on an island after other shipwrecked souls took a raft (his raft!) and left, Larry curses the fact that he's still not alone. And that he let the raft go. But the raft didn't go as far as he thinks, and he's even less alone than he suspects. |
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| All For A Good Cause by D. M. Kimpton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 63 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy on a single charity shop set. |
| Synopsis | A group of volunteers running a charity shop have to deal with personal problems, and the peculiarities of the regular customers, as well as the mysterious theft that has police all over the town. |
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| All's Not Well That Ends Well by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Written as a mix of children and adults, but could all be played by youth. The Head Teacher and Mrs Bloss are written as female, but could be changed to male. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play set on a school hall stage. |
| Synopsis | Despite a number of cast members being missing, Drama Teacher Nikki is pressing on with her rehearsal of 'All’s Well...' Unfortunately, she also has to contend with pupils sent to her for detention, the cleaner, and the Head. |
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