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| Identity Theft by Hugh Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch in a living room setting. |
| Synopsis | A man arrives home to tell his wife that he's been the victim of identity theft. Moments later, a second man enters to tell the same story. |
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Idiot Spaz by Eddie Coleman
One of the finallists in the 2016 'British Theatre Challenge' play writing competition. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] Performance at the British Theatre Challenge showcase ran to 17 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play, set at a fair - by or in - the hall of mirrors. |
| Synopsis | Peter has cerebral palsy and his carer knows him well. Today, however, she must leave for a new job, and the supervisor believes he knows what Peter needs... But Peter knows better. |
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| If The Shoe Fits by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play, with a rehearsal room setting. |
| Synopsis | Vicky and Sam are both trained dancers and actresses, auditioning for the part of Cinderella in a production called 'Cinderella Ballerina'. When they meet each other inside the audition room they begin to have doubts. Will they get the part they have always coveted? Will they actually want the part - once the director has revealed his ideas? |
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| Illusion/Delusion by David Pollard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of three one-act plays, all of which are also available separately. |
| Synopsis | Three stories which question the reality of their situations. In 'Can Malone Die?', a best-selling author is confronted by his character brought to life. In 'Aspects of a Betrayal', Dolly is visited by a colleague of her late husband, who was a spy and defector. And in 'Clause Fourteen', aging actor Clifford finds himself playing opposite his ex-wife in a production which, against all probability, is a smash hit. |
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| Imaginary Friends by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as two female, one male, but other divisions would be possible. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play. No set requirements, simple props (two chairs and a book). |
| Synopsis | Two people thrown into a room have to come to terms with the way of preserving sanity adopted by the existing occupant. |
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| Imagine You Are A Tree by David Lovesy & Brian Two |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch |
| Synopsis | Sometimes meditation doesn’t bring the peace and tranquility that was sought. |
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| Imelda and the Magic Dust by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Characters include a pantomime cat. Twelve principals and a chorus - nominally 8 roles, but these could be spread more thinly or thickly! |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 7 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with an original story. |
| Synopsis | As the eldest daughter, Imelda feels she should be the one marrying the wealthy Belgian, Jean-Claude Van Eyer, but he only has eyes for her younger sister Rosie. With the help of a wicked fairy and some magic love dust, Imelda disposes of Rosie and bags Jean-Claude... For a while, anyway. |
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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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Immature with Age by Wally Smith
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy short, single set. |
| Synopsis | Elderly widower Tom Fisher is trying to occupy his time as much as possible. His daughter, Sandra, a divorcee with two children in their twenties, has encouraged him to find some outside activities, but has not anticipated the result of his joining the local amateur dramatics group. |
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| Impatience and Improbability by Nic Dawson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single (hotel terrace) setting. A witty and clever intertwining of the mannered world of the eighteenth century and modern day mores - with a bit of farce thrown in. |
| Synopsis | This diversion in One Act, dedicated with respectful admiration to Miss Jane Austen - with humble apologies for any liberties taken - sees Julia providing eighteenth century elegance and ambience in her unique hotel. The idyllic, mannered world descends into infidelity and recrimination as the modern day intrudes. |
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| Imperfect Speakers by Wally Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Gibson is written male but could, conceivably, be female. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play - something of a political thriller. Simple set - the interpreters' booth at an international conference - which could even, at a pinch, be played front-of-curtain (though it requires a few small desks). Includes swearing. |
| Synopsis | Andy and Nigel are two old school friends reunited whilst translating at an international environmental summit. Nigel has always been a rabble-rouser but Andy and Ingrid, a German translator with a teddy bear, both realize that his responsibility as a diplomatic translator and his interest in politics overlap a little too keenly. |
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