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| Short Break by Andrew Bawn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The travel agent is written female but could be male. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch set in a travel agent's shop. |
| Synopsis | Dorothy and Norman want to book a holiday, and the strangely behaved travel agent offers them a fantastic deal. |
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| Shot To The Heart by Kyle Forsyth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short, tense play, set in a vacant apartment, and with strong language. |
| Synopsis | Assassins, James and Tony are presented with a heart-stopping situation as they line up their target. Their position becomes ever more indecisive, as the action culminates in a shock ending. |
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| Show-Down at the Hoe-Down by Ed Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. Dame assumed to be played by a male. The hero could be a 'principal boy' (i.e. played by female). |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Twelve songs suggested in the production notes (part of the Producer's Copy of the script.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English Pantomime - jokes, visual humour, etc. - in a Wild West setting. |
| Synopsis | There's a hoe-down coming up and dame Ellie-May wants to look her best. Unfortunately her jewels have been stolen by Tex Gunslinger and his sidekick Heinz. Will Barrow, the new Sheriff, forces a show-down with Tex in the hope of impressing the beautiful Mary-Lou. (And if that isn't enough, there's added confusion from a snake-oil salesman and his Injun accomplice, a judge who cheats at cards and a troublesome barmaid.) |
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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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| Showdown at Shuddering Heights by Anne Graham |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One optional M or F |
| Run Time | Around 77 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce, in three acts. |
| Synopsis | Faced with bankruptcy Ella, the owner of the isolated Bear Inn, takes to the bottle. An unexpected visitor arrives and the contents of his luggage - a plastic carrier bag - starts a madcap sequence of events. |
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| Shreds - The Unravelling of Charles Dickens by Phil Porter (music Mary Harrison Hewett) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. Two principals (Dickens and George Dolby), plus many other characters, real and from Dickens' writing, who might be played by a number of on-stage 'voices'. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] (The original production ran for one hour.) |
| Music | Keyboard scores for 10 pieces of background music are provided with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Drama in a single simple set, designed to be accompanied by projected images (with the option for an on-stage pianist providing mood music). |
| Synopsis | A dramatization of the circumstances that led Charles Dickens to wild success reading extracts from his novels on stage, and the terrible toll it took on him. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** CD with 40 images, 18 sound effects, 3 video clips and 10 pieces of musical accompaniment for 'Shreds - The Unravelling of Charles Dickens' by Phil Porter (Music by Mary Harrison Hewett)
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| Shyfari by David Lovesy & Brian Two |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch |
| Synopsis | Come on a Safari tour in the Kruger National Park: seeking those animals that are much harder to find! |
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| The Sick, Sad Wolf by Jamie Hope |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Twisted, somewhat adult riff on a fairy tale. Single set. |
| Synopsis | Jack is always drawn to beauty, but as soon as he recognises that it will fade, a terrible compulsion overcomes him and he does dreadful things. After such an encounter, he meets a pure little girl called Red Riding Hood, and things are different. |
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| The Siege of Manchester by Ben Alexander |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. 38 speaking roles plus an offstage voice, 2 non-speaking soldiers and various opportunities for crowds. Can be performed with a minimum of 12 actors, though 18 or more would be optimum. |
| Run Time | Around 125 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A historical thriller with various settings. |
| Synopsis | King Charles I, at loggerheads with his Parliament, is faced with rebellion. Lord Strange, Lord Lieutenant for Lancashire and a Royalist, attempts to take military command in Lancashire. Manchester, Protestant by persuasion and for Parliament, resists under the leadership of some of the deputy-lieutenants. The play recounts their resistance, culminating in Derby's siege of the town in September 1642. |
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The Signalman by Matthew Harper
Production by Progressive Players won the Northern Semi-Final of the All England Theatre Festival - 2021 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice, which could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A Victorian gothic drama in one act with a single (signal box) setting. |
| Synopsis | The thrilling Charles Dickens story is brought to life in this stage adaptation, as tension inexorably builds towards the signalman's fate. |
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| Signs of Grace by Sarah Howard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. Friends and narrators parts may be doubled, at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play with simple (or no) set. |
| Synopsis | In a modern setting and using narration with action, the Old and New Testaments of the Bible are brought together - to provide a parable, showing why Jesus died for our sins. |
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