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| Dracula In Pantoland by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Roles include bats, dwarfs and an Igor. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing assumes six two-minute songs. |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for six songs.
Two of them have original lyrics and arrangements for which backing tracks are available. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime (with Transylvanian touches). |
| Synopsis | Worried about the prospects of finding a suitable wife in Transylvania, Dracula decides to spread his wings and try his luck further afield. Thanks to a glossy brochure for 'Pantoland' theme park, he is convinced that Snow White is the girl for him. Refusing to believe she is not real, he ups sticks, together with his dysfunctional household and heads west. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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Dreadfully Good by Peter Robbie
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for a cast of 5, set in a theatre. |
| Synopsis | As they await the adjudicator's verdict, two amateur actresses pass their own judgement on the performances at a drama festival. But their bitchiness causes trouble in the auditorium and the adjudicator turns out to be an old 'friend'. |
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| Dream Holiday by Elizabeth Poynter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An emotional drama with a twist. Single living room set. |
| Synopsis | Ellie and her daughter Lisa have just returned from the perfect holiday. But then Lisa disappears. |
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| Dream Job by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch set in an interview room (so a desk and a couple of chairs). |
| Synopsis | A job interview for a man who has - and knows he has - a nasty streak. |
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| The Dream! by Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Ten on-stage characters plus two offstage voices, which might be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 121 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy. Act 1 follows the rehearsal process of a rural amdram society, Act 2 presents their take on A Midsummer Night's Dream. |
| Synopsis | Cowmoor Comedy Crew, a rural amateur group with a history of failure, can only dream of winning the County Drama Cup. New director Mo offers to direct them in a sixty-minute version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. They're not keen on the Bard, but Mo shows them that Shakespeare can be a lot of fun to act, as well as very funny to watch. |
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The Dreaming by Richard James
Best Seller Performance by Maidenhead Drama Guild won Best Play and Best Actor at the Henley Drama Festival, 2017. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are written male, but could be either. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, suitable for a bare stage presentation. |
| Synopsis | Two men find themselves in a featureless room, with no memory of how they arrived there, or even who they are. Their only clues come from scraps of paper on the floor, that seem to mirror words they have spoken. Can it be true that they're just characters in an unwritten play? |
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| The Driving Test by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch set in a car (which need only be a couple of chairs).
From the Laughter Lines collection. |
| Synopsis | The aftermath of a driving test, which doesn't seem to have gone well. Could anything make it go better? |
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| Droolin' Banjos by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Youthful characters may be played by an older cast. |
| Run Time | Around 53 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Four pieces of music are suggested in the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | An offbeat, single set, one act black comedy, which has language advisory notes. |
| Synopsis | Stevie is definitely going back to jail, but he has to speak to his children first. It's very important that they go back to school and avoid making his mistakes. They're not enthusiastic about this plan, but he has another detail to explain - for every day of school they miss, he serves one more in prison. |
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| Drunkula by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single (gothic dining room) set. |
| Synopsis | Drunkula and his weird manservant, Schnapps, meet their match when two young English ladies show their drinking mettle - with disastrous results for the drunken vampire. |
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| The Duchess of Argyle by Chris Hicks |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dramatic monologue with a simple (furniture-only) set. |
| Synopsis | A middle-aged woman with a flamboyant alter-ego and expensive tastes, confesses to a theft in which she and her husband are complicit. |
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