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Quota by James Hutchison Audience Appreciation Award, 2017 British Theatre Challenge Act II, Produced by Sky Blue Theatre Company. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act satire on a simple living room set. |
Synopsis | Dave Dixon is looking for a job online when he is interrupted by the Metro City Census Taker and finds himself being targeted for corrective action because of his unemployment and the fact that he’s left-handed. When a two-kilo bag of white sugar is found on the premises and Dixon faces jail time, he has to make a moral choice between naming names and protecting himself. |
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Rabbits Are No Substitute For Men by Charlotte Court |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy for three thirty-something single women with one living room setting. There are adult themes but these are less raunchy than the title might suggest! |
Synopsis | Housemates Jennifer, Jane and Gaby all have their own way of dealing with the death of Jane's pet rabbit, the vagaries of Jennifer's on- off relationship with Danny and Gaby's pregnancy. |
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Race To The Wheelchair by David John Manning |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy play with a simple set. |
Synopsis | Catchpole and Rees have a long-standing friendship, despite their very different characters, so surely nothing could come between them? When Catchpole has a lottery win he promises to take Rees on a fine holiday, but then he meets Beryl... |
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Rambles On Radio by Robert Scott Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy |
Synopsis | Christopher is delighted to be performing his play on the radio with his daughter in a starring role, but others are less content with the casting. Worse still, there’s more drama behind the microphone than is going out over the air. |
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Ransom by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 56 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy with a single composite setting. |
Synopsis | Successful businessman Laurence Benson has been rather clumsily kidnapped by Robbie, Fran and Ted, a tough but likeable gang of unfortunate down-and-outs. It transpires that Benson is such an unpleasant individual that neither his wife, nor his son, nor his business partner want him back. How will the kidnappers react to being foiled and what will it mean for Benson? The action takes place in the days running up to 8th April 1967, when the Grand National was run, providing a vital cog in the plot. |
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Rapunzel [Short Version] by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Scores for eight original songs (with keyboard accompaniment, set in easy keys!) provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | One act musical comedy play with a Grimm spirit! Simple sets (a window frame stands in for Rapunzel's tower), simple props. |
Synopsis | Rapunzel, abandoned by her careless and greedy parents and raised by an enchantress, is locked in a tower until she is saved by a prince's true love. |
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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
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Rapunzel II - Back To The Tower by Sian Nixon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Eleven principles plus chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions, plus a pantomime camel. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs plus incidental music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Mid-length British pantomime. A completely different angle on the story of Rapunzel, starting a long way from the tower. |
Synopsis | It's time for Princess Rapunzel to get married, and the Queen has taken the advice of her wicked advisor Willy Advisor that they should interview a dozen candidates. Willy, of course, intends to rig the competition - so that his son will win. But Rapunzel has already fallen for Prince Lufred Now, even if she doesn't know it... |
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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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The Raven by George Douglas Lee |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy play for teenagers, inspired by (rather than based on) the poem by Edgar Allen Poe. Single set. |
Synopsis | A comedic swipe at the world of sorcery, pitting the not-quite-so-brilliant Phoebus and his apprentice Bulbo, against the evil Dr Sarcophagus in a mage battle to decide the fates of many. |
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Reading it Back by Gabriel Chanan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy with a single (office) setting. |
Synopsis | Author Arnold struggles with the plot of his latest novel and enlists the help of Julia. As work progresses, their relationship starts to mirror the written word. |
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Red Card by Alan Robinson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play, single domestic set (which could be done with furniture only). Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Bex, Shaz and Trish, three unattached girls looking for Mr Right, decide to hole themselves up in their appartment in an attempt to escape the ordeal of 'The Festival of Guilt' that is Valentine's Day. But the arrival of an anonymous card leads not to love, but to a war of words and confessions bound to test their friendship... |
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