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| The Ugly Duckling by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The chorus is described as 'more ducks'. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Strong original plot riffing on the Andersen story. Good takes on traditional panto scenes and a good range of characters. |
| Synopsis | Ornithologist Hans Andersen is on the trail of the very rare Cackling Duckling. With a crew of friends, including Olly Pifflewaffle, his dog Poodle Maps, and housekeepers Miss Adventure and Miss Hap, Hans sets sail for Australia. By a failure of navigation, they find themselves at Loch Ness, where they are harassed by aggressive ducks intent on taking over the world. |
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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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| Ulysses and the Dogman by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play. Single set (figurative New York street scene, 1910). |
| Synopsis | A Westerner visits New York to look up an old friend - and finds him regretting the enforced changes of marriage and city life, such as his duty to walk the dog... |
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| The Uncomfortable Announcer by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short two-handed sketch, with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | A hardware store decides to increase its sales figures, with some new in-store announcements... which seem to have a certain amount of innuendo. |
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| Under the Hood by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama (on the lower boundary of two-act length). Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | Rose, an actor, is rehearsing the title role in a new psychological interpretation of Red Riding Hood under a hot-shot director. Meanwhile, her husband, Mark, is torn between the frustrations of his well-paid dead-end job and the uncertainties of his dream of creating his own business. |
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| Undercover Boss by Hugh Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny set-up makes for a good sketch that doesn't outstay its welcome. Needs a desk and two chairs. |
| Synopsis | The new owner of a ballet company and its principal male dancer meet to discuss a recent performance of Giselle, at which the boss had gone undercover. |
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Underground by Jon Boustead
Production by Tykes won Best Youth Production (Teignmouth Drama Festival, 2017) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. All cast should be of same or similar age. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act thriller for youth theatre, with a single - crashed Tube train carriage - setting. |
| Synopsis | A group of youth-age children on a school outing are left to fend for themselves, as they find themselves trapped in a crashed tube train and their teachers are nowhere to be found. They all have to deal with the horror in their own way and they take the plot along through intermittent narration and action. |
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| Underneath At Archie's by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, one-act drama. Single simple set. |
| Synopsis | Peter and Paula are contemplating some renovations, when Paula decides she doesn't want to get rid of the old painting from the nook. Peter is surprised, and this leads to a deep examination of their relationship and their roles as man and woman. |
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| Unearthed by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short play - a ghoulish mystery. No set, but Andrew has to appear to be digging a hole! (Props consist of the pleasing combination of a spade and a mobile phone.) |
| Synopsis | As brother and sister Andrew and May dig a hole in the local park at midnight, they unearth more than Andrew had bargained for as the truth behind past horrors is revealed. |
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| Uneven Surfaces by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for two female actors (and an off-stage male). |
| Synopsis | Visiting her widowed grandmother Grace, who lives alone by the sea, Emily discovers the meaning of true love as Grace expounds on her vast collection of sea shells. |
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| An Unexpected Duty by Robin Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play which could be used as a full length play. |
| Synopsis | Charlie's rushing off to Home Guard duty, but takes time to warn his wife about their daughter's scandalous dress sense and his worries about her new man. Little does he know that before the night is out he'll be facing down an armed spy! |
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