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| On the Shelf by David John Manning |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act romantic comedy, set in the 1970s. Single set, simple props. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Arthur works in the stationery stores of a big company and rules his domain with a hand of iron. However, things are tough outside, and the company want him to pull his weight, so they send him an assistant... A woman! |
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| On The Street by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Gritty one-act drama set amongst a bunch of homeless people. Single (minimal) set. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Six characters share an area of street, making a small cardboard encampment. They discuss whether they should move on, then band together against the violent member of the group, showing that, even if society has turned its back on them, they are there for each other. |
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| On the Way to Mars by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Science fiction sketch, single simple set. |
| Synopsis | On the first manned mission to Mars, the boredom and monotony of the long space flight is taking its toll. How long before the crew finally crack? |
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| On the Way to the Wedding by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two couples: a middle-aged man and his wife, and the wife's parents. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Domestic comedy. Single set divided into living room, hall and garage. |
| Synopsis | Nora, her husband Sid and Nora's parents have been invited to a wedding. Sid couldn't be happier - but that's because he is in the garage, changing the oil on his beloved car, where he can forget that his mother-in-law has inexplicably moved in. |
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| On Unofficial Business by Craig Sandeman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An inspirational one act play mixing comedy with delicately handled pathos within the imaginative setting of a prison van! Contains swearing (and a lot of other things). |
| Synopsis | Prisoners Tam, Lenny and Bruce are being transferred to another jail when their van is hijacked by Christine who is struggling with her own desperate situation. As they hide in a forest clearing the unlikely quartet slowly become a unit, offering heart-warming and amusing support one for the other as they sit around the camp fire and gradually bare their souls. |
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| Once a Jolly Farmer by Frances Bartram |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Lots of great opportunities for character acting. Marion has a pit-bull attitude and biting lines to match. Tricia is naive with lots of opportunity for comic overacting. Sharon is the sexy vixen, Dad the confused old buffer, and so on. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single (farm shop) set. |
| Synopsis | Tricia's first day of work experience at the Farm Shop is a real experience, as Charles' mistress shows up unexpectedly and Tricia is recruited into the plot to keep her apart from Marion, Charles' wife. |
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| Once More Unto the Breeches by Peter May |
| 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 | A comedy sketch with minimal set requirement. |
| Synopsis | Darren and Sharon are having a quiet evening at home. The television is being repaired so they are both reading. Darren criticises Sharon’s choice of novel. |
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Once Upon a Time by Paul Barron & Sarah Dyson
Best Seller Performance by Oswestry Musical Theatre Company awarded NODA West Midlands (District 2) best panto, 2015. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. Usual pantomime juxtapositions - dame played by a man, principal boy by a girl. After that, you can make up your own mind! |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Some songs suggested in the Producer's copy of the script - others are left to the native wit of the production team. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Two-act English Pantomime (physical comedy, jokes, cross-dressing, that sort of thing.) |
| Synopsis | The daughter of Cinderella is about to marry the son of Snow White, banishing evil from Pantoland forever or so the ancient prophecy says. Naturally the baddies aren't taking this lying down! Evelyn, the wickedest of wicked witches, spirits Princess Lottie and her two idiot helpers Nick and Nack away from the palace and drops them on the edge of Pantoland in the hopes that Prince Marvellous will despair and abandon his plans to marry her. Of course, the Prince embarks on a rescue mission, but what lies in store for him? |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Once Upon a Time NOT in Bollywood by Subrata Das |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 19. Minimum Female roles = 15. Minimum total with doubling = 34. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Many characters may be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 86 minutes. [Estimated!] Dependent on the songs used. |
| Music | Suggestions for 8 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length play with music and dance, in five acts - although two act length, and with many settings. |
| Synopsis | This play portrays the kinds of struggles moderates face within the left and right-wing political parties in India. Malati and Praveen, have had opposing political views since their days growing up together in a village, but enjoyed a romantic relationship. Despite his love for politics, Praveen still dreams about being a Bollywood actor... and the play explores the voices of rich, middle class, and poor people, obstacles within families for women in politics, and extreme political rhetoric. |
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| Once Upon A Witch by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Characters include a dragon and a hand puppet! |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for six songs, with new lyrics to a couple. (Others could be substituted at the discretion of the production team.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime - a fantasia on fairytale themes! |
| Synopsis | Once upon a time, Fairyland is in a financial pickle and has had to downsize its workforce, meaning there can be only one prince, princess, wolf and witch to tell every story. To make matters worse, the Fairyland storybook is missing and all the tales are getting tangled together. In the midst of this muddle, the wicked witch spies an opportunity to magic up a bad ending, but she can't do it alone... Could her spellbinding new apprentice, Aurora, hold the key to her destiny or does the girl have her own wish to fulfill? |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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