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| The Rhyming Diary Of Mrs Pepys by Carolyn Kain |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 52 minutes. [Estimated!] Original production ran to 70 minutes with suggested music. |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for seven intermission pieces. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A rhyming historical comedy (lots of period detail and lots of laughs). Structurally in two acts, but possible to stage as a one-act in the sense of half an evening's entertainment. |
| Synopsis | Mrs Pepys takes her husband’s famous diary and reveals the legacy of King Charles II's womanising. The rivalries of his numerous mistresses are depicted with historical accuracy. |
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Rhyming Jack and the Beanstalk by Richard Coleman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Opportunity for non-speaking chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Jack and the Beanstalk told in rhyme by a narrator and small cast. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Through a combination of poverty and gormlessness, Jack sells the family cow for a handful of magic beans, from which grows a beanstalk reaching to the clouds. Up climbs Jack, with girlfriend Nancy, and at the top they find a giant, a goose, a golden egg and a lot of trouble! |
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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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| Rhyming Macbeth by Jeremy Tyburn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. There are 22 Non-speaking roles, but Narrators 1 and 2 could be further divided at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A rhyming, modern language version, one act length - written originally as a Readers' Theatre piece. |
| Synopsis | A shortened adaptation of Macbeth in rhyming form, which could be performed with a very simple set, or no set. |
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| Rhyming Mother Goose by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Mother Goose (the British pantomime version, more-or-less) told in rhyme by a narrator and small cast. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | As a favour from a fairy, Mother Goose acquires a bird that lays golden eggs. Unfortunately, it's a second hand goose, and its previous owner wants it back... |
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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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| Rhyming Pinocchio by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The narrator is Gepetto's talking cat. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple, humorous rendition of the story of Pinocchio in rhyme, minimal set requirements. Not quite a full-blown pantomime, but in the same comedic area. |
| Synopsis | Geppetto makes Pinocchio, whom the Blue Fairy brings alive, however, as part of the spell, if Pinocchio tells lies, his nose will grow! Pinocchio is tricked into joining Stromboli's puppet show. Stromboli plans a show for the Duke which will make him rich, he tries to get Pinocchio to flatter the Duke's court, with disastrous results for the puppet's nose. Pinocchio is trapped, but who will rescue him? |
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| Rhyming Red Riding Hood by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. (Could involve more people by using multiple narrators or having the actors mime the actions and someone else speak their words.) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Not so much a pantomime as a humorous horror story for children! Told in rhyming couplets, including a brief nod to Monty Python. |
| Synopsis | Red Riding Hood is getting in her mothers way, and is sent off to visit her grandma. Unfortunately, a wolf gets to grandma's house first - unfortunately for the wolf, as he more than meets his match. |
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Rhyming Robin Hood by Richard Coleman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Most of the roles are nominally male, but don't let that put you off casting female Merry Men, for example! |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | English pantomime (more or less) as a short verse play. |
| Synopsis | Robin Hood and his Merry Men hatch a plan to rob the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and give back to the poor. The Sheriff finds out about Robin's plan and invents a scheme of his own to catch the outlaws. A few rhymes, imprisonments and swordfights later, good triumphs once again. |
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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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Rhyming Snow White by Richard Coleman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Numbers are very flexible. There are nominally seven gnomes (not dwarfs in this version!), but this number could be shrunk or expanded. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple, humorous rendition of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in verse. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | On the run from the wicked queen, Snow White becomes housekeeper to a bunch of diminutive miners. The queen finds her and poisons her, but Snow White is saved by a handsome prince. The sort of thing that could happen to anyone. |
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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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| Rhyming Treasure Island by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. More major female roles than the original tale. (It should be noted that female pirates were not unknown!) There is a chorus of three pirates which could be expanded to as many pirates are aboard your ship. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming comedy (with some of the characteristics of a British panto). |
| Synopsis | Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of buried treasure adapted for the stage as a verse play. |
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| Rich Man Poor Man by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 94 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two-act drama set in 1990s London, on a compound office/boardroom set. |
| Synopsis | A drama of power and greed. Years of family repression and business ruthlessness surface when Sir Hugh Pierce-Morgan decides to expand his investment house. The question is - in order for his business to survive, is he capable of atonement? |
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