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| A Bag of Swag by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two-handed comedy sketch with no set necessary. |
| Synopsis | A cat burglar is going about his business one dark night, with a bag of swag over his shoulder, when he is confronted by a patrolling policeman. Can the burglar smooth talk his way out of his precarious situation? Will the policeman's suspicions be confirmed? Where do the turnips come from? Delve into A Bag of Swag and find out. |
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| Baggy Trousers by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play. |
| Synopsis | There's plenty of life left in Sid, although he’s approaching his eightieth birthday. But when Melanie arrives from the Cosy Comfort Care Agency, her blinkered patronising approach forces Sid to re-live scenes from his past. What will it take for Melanie to see - and appreciate - the real man? |
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| Bags And Browning by Liz Carroll |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Mary is a homeless woman known as the Bard of the South Bank for her recitations of 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' by Browning. But someone has heard she might have a valuable manuscript, and is willing to kill for it |
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| The Bags Of A Commercial Traveller by John Chambers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play for a cast of two middle-aged ladies. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Two women arrive for the funeral of a travelling salesman. One was his wife, the other was his mistress. After each realises who the other is, they exchange a few terse words, then come to realise they have more in common than just one man. |
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| Bah Humbug! by Tina & Robert Burbidge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions (and some original lyrics) are provided 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. |
| Synopsis | A retelling of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol', panto-fashion, with well-known songs merrily re-worded to suit the script.
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old businessman who believes Christmas is all 'humbug' to cheat him out of his money. Can the ghost of his long deceased partner, and three Christmas spirits, teach him the error of his ways? And will anyone realise Tiny Tim is not quite as endearing as we thought? |
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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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| Bakers by Tim Cole |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Optional chorus of bakery workers. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 8 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play - a family show - with strong characters, running jokes and a fair amount of bakery horseplay! Single main set (a bakery) with front-of-tab scenes. |
| Synopsis | Thanks to Mary's business partner, her bakery is about to close. Luckily the Town Hall Bread suppliers have failed and she could pick up the contract and save the bakery - unless her partner can throw another spanner in the works. |
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Baking Bread by Ashley Harris
Best Seller Finalist in the Cambridge Theatre Challenge (International play-writing competition) 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act drama with a single (park bench) set. |
| Synopsis | Bella is back at the bench by the lake, ready to feed the ducks. Before long John arrives and she can share the bread with him. But all is not as it seems, and soon Robin is there to tell Bella it's time to come home. It is a short, but emotive story. |
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| The Ballet of Fervour or Perhaps Bingo by Jos Biggs |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy-drama set on a stage or in a rehearsal room. |
| Synopsis | A director is sadly disappointed in the calibre of actors available for his masterwork. But though they may not fit the requirements of his play, his assistant happens to have another script they're perfect for - if the director will also act. |
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| Balloons in the Bar by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy drama on a single (hotel bar) set. |
| Synopsis | Jessica has sneaked away from her own hen party, and found the quieter hotel bar tended by Jake. She’s just collecting her thoughts when Rob, the man hired as a stripper for the hens, staggers in, also having second thoughts. |
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| Bank Holiday Mondays and Other Ways to Kill a Marriage by Lorraine Forrest-Turner |
| 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 two handed play, containing swearing. |
| Synopsis | Pippa and Jake are stranded in a traffic jam on their way home from Jake's parents' house. Worse, they don't have the bag with the baby things for little Josh. He's asleep for now, but surely things couldn't get worse? |
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