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| Enlightenment by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One of the characters (Jim) is written as male but could easily be Jennifer. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch. Single set (the interior of a filling station), simple props. |
| Synopsis | Victor is seriously depressed - until a chance encounter in a filling station sends his life in an unexpected direction! |
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| Entre las Líneas by Sofía Kin & Pilar Muerza |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Personajes incluyen un lobo (de cuento de hadas)! El coro (de los niños) es opcional. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Partituras musicales de trece canciones se incluyen con la copia del productor del guión.
(Scores are provided with the Producer's copy of the script.) |
| Style | Comedia musical para los niños en un Acto. Escenario mínimo. Utilería simple. |
| Synopsis | Es hora de un cuento para dormir, pero las cosas no son como nos hemos acostumbrado a esperar de ellos... El lobo feroz tiene miedo a los niños pequeños y las princesas están luchando contra dragones para rescatar a los príncipes durmientes.
Spanish translation of 'Between the Lines' by Erica Glenn. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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| The Epic of Gilgamesh by Adrian Jarvis |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Four thousand-year-old Sumerian epic brought to life. This play skilfully combines dance, mime and music with challenging acting and technical opportunities together with a gripping story, ideal for Secondary Schools, Drama Acadamies, and Youth Groups. |
| Synopsis | King Gilgamesh is convinced that he can find the secret of eternal life and his dramatic odyssey is brought to life as he wanders the mythological world in his quest for immortality. We travel with him as his travails become ever more arduous and he becmes embroiled in ever more dramatic conflicts. |
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| Escape From Garden Grove by Mathilde Dratwa |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters of different ages |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy duologue set on a bus stop bench. Set in America, but with a universal theme. Includes (appropriate) strong language. |
| Synopsis | Teenager Sophie and her grandmother Faye are about to set off on an adventurous trip. With pathos and comedy, and her sagacity, Faye helps Sophie see the world in a different light. |
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| Esmerelda and the Baron by Leo Finn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The characters include a tree (always good for a wooden performance). |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short British pantomime designed for a small cast on a small stage with minimal scenery. |
| Synopsis | The evil Baron Grim rules the land since the mysterious death of the Duke and his wife. He wants to uncover the charms of young Esmerelda, but she has fallen in love with the stranger, young Hott, who is really the Prince. Will true love triumph? Of course it will. |
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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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Esther by Richard Cowling
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for 16 songs, one instrumental and 15 scene-change pieces. (A conductors score and band parts are available as an optional extra.) |
| Style | Full-length Musical based on the biblical story of Esther. Designed as a school musical, could equally well be done by an adult or mixed company. |
| Synopsis | King Xerxes of Persia maries Esther, a Jewish orphan who has been brought up by her uncle, Mordecai. Haman, the chief minister of Xerxes court insists that everyone bow down to him. When Mordecai refuses to do so, Haman flies into a rage and plans to kill Mordecai, and all the Jewish people in the kingdom. Mordecai calls upon Esther for help, but this means she must confront the mighty Xerxes... |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
** Backing CD with instrumental version of the 16 songs and 16 musical interludes (including scene changes) for the musical Esther by Richard Cowling.
** Vocal tracks for the 16 songs (with 16 musical interludes) from the musical Esther by Richard Cowling. (Vocals by Leanne Cooper and Richard Cowling.)
** Conductor's score and band parts (keyboard, trumpet, trombone, woodwind, bass, etc.) for the songs and incidental music (32 pieces) from the musical Esther by Richard Cowling.
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| Eva of the Golden Hair by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short stage adaptation of Saki's The East Wing. |
| Synopsis | Socialite Lucien Wattleskeat and Major Boventry, after much deliberation, make heroic efforts to save Eva of the Golden Hair from the blazing East Wing of Lady Gramplain's manor house. |
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Even Numbers by Tony Domaille
Best Seller Winner of the Derek Jacobi Award for New Playwriting 2023. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Dr Vincent is written male, but could be played female. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Multi-award-winning thriller with strongly written dialogue and good roles for three actors. One-act, one set (prison consulting room) with a scene in a prison cell created purely by lighting. |
| Synopsis | Mary-Ann has poisoned and killed five people and Doctor Vincent must make an assessment of her mental state for the court. In trying to establish if she is insane, or just plain evil, a shocking truth is discovered. |
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Every Pantomime That Ever There Was by Tony Domaille
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 50. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Whilst the author suggests that there should be a final song, he doesn't suggest what it shouldbe! Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | For youth theatre - a very short pantomime with large cast and minimal set. |
| Synopsis | This is a quickfire trip through pantoland, with many characters and much panto fun - in a short space of time! |
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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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| Everything All Right, Sir? by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. The characters are largely adults (with a few children), but intended to be played by a school group. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy (of a broad-brush, knock-about kind), set in a restaurant. |
| Synopsis | It's opening night at Jolyon's, a new restaurant. Jolyon and Leo are hoping for some customers, but they get a lot more than they bargained for, with a grumpy couple, the family from Hell, a paranoid man who hides under a table... In the end they're relieved to see a Policeman. |
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