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Bunkers by Peter Lancaster Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Whilst there isn't a formal chorus, there is a party going on in one corner of the set, into which extras could be added. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act comedy play. Single set (indicative of a newspaper office). Written as a verbal comedy, but since one of the characters is accident-prone there is plenty of opportunity for development of a physical side. |
Synopsis | Delphine has arranged a job at the newspaper where she works for her accident-prone flat-mate, Sally. Now the job of Foreign Correspondent is up for grabs and Sally has applied! Here comes Armageddon! |
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The Business Meeting by David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch |
Synopsis | Two motivated high flyers plan their strategies in a business meeting with a twist. |
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Busted by Kev Salter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy on a single police station set. |
Synopsis | You'd think working in a rural outback police station would be boring, but with a serial thief on the loose, these three cops get themselves mixed up in all sorts of trouble. Plus, their boiler's broken. |
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The Butcher by Terry Adlam |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters described as one male and one female. Could be played by 2M or 2F with minor modifications. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comic sketch, madcap style (think Monty Python), two characters simple set and props. |
Synopsis | A customer attempts to buy beef from a crazy butcher. |
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Butchers by Tim Cole |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 129 minutes. [Estimated!] Original production running time was between 95 and 105 minutes. |
Music | None. |
Style | A full-length comedy whodunnit with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | John Cleaver has just changed his will when he is found apparently murdered. The new will demands certain unpalatable tasks from some, but not all, of the beneficiaries. Novice detective Bullock struggles with his investigation into the members of the dysfunctional Cleaver family. |
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A Butler Did It! by Robert Scott Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length play - a dark comedy farce. |
Synopsis | The funeral of Aunt Francesca has finally brought the Butler brothers together again. Shockingly, she is not dead - at first - and soon secrets and lies are almost outnumbered by corpses. |
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Buttons by Susan Vesey |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] Structured as two acts, but could be played as a long one-act. |
Music | None. |
Style | British pantomime - a Cinderella sequel. Two acts in structure, but on the boundary between a one-act and full-length show in run-time. |
Synopsis | A year has passed since Cinderella became Queen. Buttons has the catering contract for Prince Charming's Ball and he employs Ciabatta and Cappuccino, the ugly sisters who have returned in disguise, as cooks. Cinderella's stepmother, Elvira, has taken a correspondence course and is now a powerful fairy, able to defeat the Fairy Godmother. Cinderella ends up as a scullery maid, unable to speak, and with the name Linda, and Buttons falls in love all over again. Who can restore the balance of magic and save the day? |
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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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Bye Bye Miss Amelia Pye by Patricia Gay |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Three characters are portrayed in both 1959 and 2009. |
Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length detective thriller with a single simple setting. Action slips between 2009 and 1959. |
Synopsis | In 1959, in the remote Longmoor Manor, a young girl called Amelia Pye was found murdered. Arthur Pye, an ex-commando turned communist was the prime suspect. However, his guilt was never proven. In 2009 the long-married Charlotte and Edward Colville play host to the obnoxious Selena Harper and her mollycoddled son Hadley. Hadley, with his unhealthy fascination with murder, fancies himself as an amateur sleuth, and sets out to solve the mystery. |
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The Cabbage Consortium by Jim Pinnock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single pub setting. |
Synopsis | A disparate group of pub regulars join forces to develop Harry’s sure fire money making scheme involving the cabbage futures market. Things go well until the Russian Mafia get wind of the machinations and the consortium find themselves in difficulties with the gangsters. |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Poster template, illustrated by Dale French, for 'The Cabbage Consortium' by Jim Pinnock. (High resolution jpg file with space for adding information about the production.)
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Cadbury Angels by Alison Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] The estimated run time allows time for 15 songs. |
Music | 15 songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Full-length play with songs. Set some time in the 2000s and in the 1940s. First published in 2022, revised 2023. |
Synopsis | Clearing the house after her mother has died, a daughter finds some strange treasures packed away: letters, some nylons, a ball of chewing gum? She's uncovered a secret of her mother's past - she was a Cadbury Angel. |
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