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| The King's New Clothes by Peter Bond & Bob Heather |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Characters include a pantomime dame (played by a male) and a principal boy (played by a female). |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A few song suggestions made in the Producer's Copy of the script, other songs at the discretion of the production team. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | The Hans Christian Andersen story (of The Emperor's New Clothes) told for the stage as a traditional English Pantomime - lots of silly jokes and clowning.
Originally published in 2008, revised in 2012. |
| Synopsis | The King needs a new suit for his forthcoming marriage, and the royal tailors just can't cut it. The situation seems tailor-maid for the evil Barron Grumbleguts, who wishes to usurp the throne. He proposes a competition, and then engineers the humiliation of the king by means of an invisible suit. All comes right in the end, with the help of a deputy superintendent of vegetables, and Hercules, the performing flea! |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Kippers Can’t Swim by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, furniture only. |
| Synopsis | Teenager Alex gets talking to elderly Gladys in a hospital waiting room. |
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| Kit Kat Man by James Addis |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An efficient spy drama - like a compact Le Carré. Realistic dialogue leading to a surprising but well-planted twist.
Simple set - another chance to wheel-out the park bench. |
| Synopsis | Moscow, near the end of the Cold War. Paula Wilson seeks to coax the defector Gerald Soames back to Britain, ostensibly as a means of undermining the intelligence Soames has given to the Soviets. In reality, her motives are more sinister. |
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| The Kitchen Skirmishes by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy of circumstance. Stage split between domestic set and bar. |
| Synopsis | When Lucy and Bernard have their first child, they decide that Bernard will stay home and be the househusband while Lucy continues working. Bernard thinks it will be a walk in the park... he has a surprise in store... |
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| Kitty had her Moments by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. A young man, his grandmother and great aunt. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Sketch. Single set (minimal, but it's set on a railway station in the 1950s). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | In the aftermath of a funeral, the bored Steven waits on a railway station with his grandmother and great aunt - who have more than small-talk to occupy them. |
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Knight Fever by tlc Creative
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for 8 songs (mainly rock/pop) are included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British Pantomime, laden with legend, packed with puns and bulging with buffoonery. |
| Synopsis | The fair kingdom of Camelot is under threat from the evil Black Knight, and King Arthur, his knights and the magician Merlin seem unable to avert disaster! Brave Justin, a humble stable boy with dreams of becoming a Knight of the Round Table is quick to step into the breach and accept the quest to rescue a princess and save the kingdom - with only the help of a court jester and a dotty dame. |
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** A 'backing track CD' with 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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| Knight in Shining Armour by Jos Biggs |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The dragon and the horse are nominally male, but they are, after all, a dragon and a horse (and the horse is made from two people), so casting aginst gender is the least of the production's problems. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch (a long sketch or a very short play!) with minimal set requirements (although it does require a rock and chains). |
| Synopsis | A not-so-heroic knight is on a quest, but when he finds a maiden to rescue, the prospect of going up against an actual fire-breathing dragon is a bit much for him. Luckily for her, there's another option. |
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| A Knight to Remember by Johnny Jarman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length farce on a single (hotel suite) set. |
| Synopsis | Sir Ronald is going to accept a Lifetime Acting Achievement award, if he can learn his speech in time. But sadly for him, his night is going to be full of interruptions from all kinds of people - and even his own murky past! |
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| Knights Of The Flat Pack Table by David Dean |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with a simple setting. |
| Synopsis | King Arthur, assisted by Merlin, takes on the perils of constructing his round table from a self- assembly flatpack. Queen Guinevere is not amused at their antics. |
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Knock, Knock, Knock by Bob Eccles
In a production by shiskine drama club, this script was awarded the Douglas Sillers Trophy in the Isle of arran drama association festival, February 2016 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Seven on-stage characters and the offstage voice of a child. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play with a single domestic setting, where a seance is held. |
| Synopsis | Teddy has passed away and in an effort to be sure that he is happy Jacky recruits medium Petunia to perform a séance and contact him. Jacky's sceptical brother Fred joins in the fray determined to disrupt proceedings, as does gormless neighbour Fran who doesn't quite understand what is going on. Fraudster Petunia does her best to contact Teddy but is shocked to discover who he really was. |
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