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| Office Routine by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two on-stage characters plus a few more off-stage screams and howls than you might expect from the average office. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Absurdist comedy sketch in which the bizarre is treated as part of the daily grind of office life. |
| Synopsis | A couple of employees discuss the various shortcomings of other members of staff, plus the annoyance of trying to get through a day's work despite distractions like bank robberies, tiger attacks and people falling out of the building. |
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| Oh Dear, King Lear by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The Head Teacher and Mrs Bloss are written as female, but could be changed to male if preferred. |
| Run Time | Around 29 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act youth theatre play set on a school hall stage. |
| Synopsis | Nikki, the drama teacher, is running up to the performance of King Lear, despite the interruptions from the Head and the cleaning lady, but she's in for a nasty surprise - her Cordelia will be abroad on the nights of the play. |
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| Oh Frabjous Day by Maeve Edwards |
| 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 | A short drama on a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Emma visits her ex Mark in a hospice to tell him she had his baby when she was eighteen and kept it a secret from him. The girl, Alice, had been adopted but has now come looking for her biological parents. Mark, whose life could possibly be saved if a bone marrow donor is found, is angry at Emma’s deceit, not getting the significance that Alice could possibly be his saviour. |
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| Oh My Lord! by John Furse |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 76 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length farce with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | A Vicar is astounded when an adult daughter he never knew he had arrives at the vicarage. The problem is further compounded when he discovers that she is a page three model and the Bishop is due anytime. More chaos ensues as the mother of the girl turns up. |
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| Oh No It Isn't! by Sharon Hulm, Geoff Rogers & Vera Rogers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 53. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 11 songs with one set of original lyrics to a well-known melody. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Revue (sketch show) with a pantomime theme! (One sketch contains mild swearing.) |
| Synopsis | Seventeen comedy sketches, including
- Ministry Of Pantomimes
- The Wrong Props
- Before The Ball
- Summing Up For The Plaintiff
- Let Sleeping Princesses Lie
- Am I A Prince?
- The Naked Cow (parts 1 and 2)
-Good Morning Pantoland
- My Stepmother Tried To Kill Me
- After The Ball
- Dame Academy |
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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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| Oh Pair! by Rob Ricards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy/farce. Single set, which, being a farce has a sofa, multiple doors and a set of French Windows. (The difference from every other stage set with French Windows is that this one is actually set in France!) Contains mild adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Maddy and James are on holiday with their daughter and her baby. They've hired a French girl to act as an au pair during the holiday and return to England with them. At least, that's what they tried to do, but Dominique turns out to be Dominic, and he has a few other surprises in store for them... |
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| The Old Apprentice by Gary Diamond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play, single office setting. |
| Synopsis | A 65-year-old applicant for the TV programme 'Find Me An Apprentice' is interviewed by the surprised producer. |
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Old Boilers by Adrian Cale
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length farce. Single set (hotel foyer). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | When four women of a certain age decide to celebrate divorce in style, they hit upon the idea of a Hen Party in Blackpool - a chance to get away from it all and let their hair down. Except what happens when a face from the past looms along the Prom? And what if that face is the last one you want to see, this side of the Irish Sea... |
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| Old Folk by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play. Single set - the day-room of an old folks home (which can be easily implied through a few comfy chairs). |
| Synopsis | Leonard is the new arrival and only man in an old folks' home. The ladies nearly come to blows over him while he tries to fathom the mysteries of Bingo, random medicine assignment and teatime wrangles. |
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| Old King Cole by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. It's a panto - normal pantomime gender confusion applies! We also have the ever-popular pantomime pirates. (Say Aar!) And we have some rather unusual pantomime creatures. (Yes, all panto animals are unusual, but these are more unusual than that.) |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Producer's copy includes original lyrics to fifteen suggested songs. (Other songs may be substituted at the discretion of the production.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime - songs, dances, jokes, mayhem. |
| Synopsis | The hero has gone missing - or, at least, the King, and Old King Cole ought to be some sort of hero. Anyway, he's done a runner, and since then, everything at the court has turned sour. The princess has turned into a talking encyclopaedia and the Queen can barely speak. A doctor proposes a remedy - the Queen needs to laugh, but nobody seems to be able to make her so much as smile, least of all Gooseberry, the jester. Fairy Crackers sends Gooseberry on a mission - to bring back the world's funniest joke! But even if he finds it, will the Queen regain her sense of humour? |
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