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| Long Live Pantomime by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming monologue (no requirements for set or props). |
| Synopsis | A brief introduction to the traditions of British pantomime. |
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| The Match Girl's New Year's Eve by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The cook is written male, but need not be. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for schools, based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale. |
| Synopsis | A friend, a cook, two nutcrackers and grandmother of course, drop in to make the little match girl's New Year's Eve warm and bright. |
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| Medieval Help Desk by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The Herald and Advisor are written as male roles. It is not imperative that they should be played as males. Likewise the Messenger is referred to as 'he' and as only one person, though there could be as many as five of her! |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch - a torrent of parody and puns - set in a medieval office. |
| Synopsis | You've reached the Medieval Help Desk. How can we give you excellent service? |
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| Meet the Inventor by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are written male, but could be played male or female. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very short sketch. Set requirements: two chairs |
| Synopsis | An interview with the inventor of a time machine explores just some of the paradoxes inherent in time travel. |
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| Meet the Solar System by Lou Treleaven |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Delightfully, there is an optional chorus of Kuiper Belt objects. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics set to familiar tunes are embedded in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | This would make a fun assembly or classroom piece, suitable for primary school children. Some useful educational facts are imparted through songs which children would enjoy. No set or props required. |
| Synopsis | An astronaut visits the planets of the solar system. Songs based on well-known nursery rhymes are used to teach us about them all. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Free zip file containing three versions of the logo (created by Lucy Treleaven) for Meet the Solar System by Lou Treleaven.
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| Merry Christmas Everyone by Mark Seaman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple, thoughtful short play for Christmas. Single set (just enough to indicate a family home). Originally published 2013, revised 2019. |
| Synopsis | The family are just trying to have a day together to enjoy the important things of Christmas - the food, the presents and not having to watch the Eastenders special with Grandma - when a homeless man at the door really spoils the mood. But he must be mad... He says he's Jesus. |
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| A Monster Catch by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Five-minute comedy sketch. No particular set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Two fishermen discuss a new theory on the nature of the Loch Ness Monster. |
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| More Nursery Crimes by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Old Mother Hubbard is nominally female, but could be played as a pantomime dame (by a male). |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play, parodying the style of Raymond Chandler, with Puss-in-Boots as a hard-boiled detective. No set requirements. The only listed prop is a handkerchief. |
| Synopsis | There is consternation at court! The famed slipper belonging to Princess Cinderella has been stolen! The Palace guards suspect the identity of the thief but do they have the right man? Enter private investigator extraordinaire, Puss In Boots to solve the baffling crime! A short crime story in film noir style, set in Nursery Land! |
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| Motor Mouth by Richard James |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters are written male, but could be either |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch, requiring something to represent a dentist's chair. Family-friendly, light-hearted humour. Would fit easily into a community revue evening or an event of similar tone. |
| Synopsis | A man shows-up for a dental appointment only to find that his usual dentist is participating in a government-sponsored job swap... |
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| Mrs Stonely's Solution by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Victorian Melodrama (with a few contemporary references!) Simple sets, few props. A good vehicle for introducing children to melodrama! |
| Synopsis | Whilst Mr. Stonely spends his meagre wages at the pub, his children are desperately eating crumbs, and his wife is harassed by the rent collector. Forced to go out to work, Mrs. Stonely finds a cunning route to their salvation. |
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