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Snow White and the Mini Miners by Stuart Ardern (with Jonny Ardern) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. No role for a pantomime dame (though the mirror could play that role). Includes a pantomime horse. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for 4 original songs supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Short pantomime - well, given the subject, it would be. Wordplay and slapstick |
Synopsis | Tells the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with the minimum of characters. On the run from her wicked stepmother, Snow White takes refuge with a group of miners who are a bit short on - well, everything, they have even mislaid a mineshaft. Then there are the problems with the apple seller and the handsome prince. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show ** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show ** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Spirits! by Karin Diann Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Eight roles but two of them are written to be doubled by specific cast members. |
Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A very silly, raucous farce set around a séance. Fun characters, cheeky wit, a lot of physical humour, and some audience interaction. (American English.) |
Synopsis | Madame Sirena prepares to conduct a séance at the mansion of wealthy widower Taffy, who has sworn to bring his late wife's murderer to justice before he remarries - but the clock is ticking for his fiancée, Felicity, who must wed before she turns 30 to claim her inheritance. Meanwhile, escape artist Harry Hugweenie resists the advances of his spirited assistant as he waits on a promised message from the other side. |
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Stoppit by Marcus Grollman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Characters are 12 children and three adults (assumed to be played by children). |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act ghost story for kids, set in a playground/classroom (originally played in--the-round so needs little in the way of set), simple props. |
Synopsis | It's time to hand in homework again and no-one is looking forward to another of Mrs. Devenish's bad moods. It's especially worrying for Luther, who is running out of imaginative excuses for why he hasn't done his work again. No-one was expecting the strange events that were going to transform this normal school day into something that no-one was ever likely to forget! |
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Sweet and Spooky by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play (give or take a couple of minutes). A gently humorous teenage ghost story. |
Synopsis | Millie wants to be a writer, and she wants Pete, her handsome schoolfriend, to look through her latest work. The trouble is that Millie's ex-boyfriend is dead. Dead but not forgotten - his ghost haunts the attic room where she writes. |
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A Teenage Christmas Carol by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. Very flexible casting - there are 11 narrators, who could ultimately be condensed to one role, and other doubling would be possible. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play in a mix of verse (from the narrators) and prose (from the rest of the cast). No set requirements, simple props. |
Synopsis | The great granddaughter of Ebenezer Scrooge needs to be taught the same lessons he learned - and in a very similar fashion! |
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That's the Spirit by Caroline Spencer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for youth theatre. Also available as part of the Fright Size collection. |
Synopsis | A ghostly comedy intermingling Haloween and Christmas themes. |
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That's the Spirit by Eileen Clark |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The Reverend Timms is written male, but might be played female. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A funny and farcical script which has a great selection of characters, a fast pace, and a good mix of physical and verbal humour. Well contained on one set. |
Synopsis | Bertie and his sister Harriet are trying to sell off their dilapidated family mansion, but the discovery of a skeleton in the cellar, and the subsequent appearance of a ghostly maid, throws a spanner in the works. Can they send Ruby back to her rest without alerting their fey sister Emily, sly council official Jones or nosy neighbour Miss Potts? |
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The Theatrical Dead by Bart Meehan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy with a single (theatre) setting. |
Synopsis | A frustrated stage manager is desperately dealing with last minute frustrations as he prepares for opening night. However, the ghost of a famous actor appears quoting Hamlet on stage and proves impossible to remove. |
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There's Always Time For Dancing by Helen Boyce |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One song, to be played over the closing dialogue, is suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | One-act drama on a single (living room) set. |
Synopsis | After a lovely church service, Michael and his wife relax at home. He does his best to make her laugh, encouraging her to dance with him, though she’s tired. But a persistent noise distracts her, and leads her to a sad discovery. |
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A Thirty-Minute Hamlet by Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Whilst there isn't a formal chorus, the numbers of attendants and courtiers could easily be increased. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', with the original text of around three hours cut down to 30 minutes. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
Synopsis | Hamlet, the Danish prince, finds himself haunted by his father's ghost. The ghost confirms that he was murdered by his brother, Claudius, who is now king. Hamlet dithers in his course of action - should he avenge his father or submit to Claudius? Ultimately it ends tragically for the whole court. |
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