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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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| Silas Marner by George Eliot adapted by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act historical drama, adapted from George Eliot's novel of the same name. A serious play, with a moral |
| Synopsis | Silas Marner has been cast out by his home community and has moved to Raveloe. He continues his weaving business, but becomes a recluse and a miser. His life is changed by two events - the theft of his fortune and the arrival on his doorstep of a foundling whom he names Eppie. |
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| Silver Linings by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 23 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama with a single (clifftop bench) setting. |
| Synopsis | A young man has had an argument with his girlfriend and has spent the night on a bench. The old tramp who usually uses the bench, in a fatherly fashion, draws out the difficulties the young man has had throughout his life and identifies a silver lining for himself. |
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| The Silver Nutmeg by Chris Bradley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. It's a pantomime. There's a lot of flexibility in who plays what. |
| Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] The timing assumes the performance of 11 songs. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 11 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Large-cast, full-length panto - heroes, villains, immortals, ghosts, a camel and a couple of talking snakes. |
| Synopsis | The magic tree that grows a silver nutmeg and a golden pear each year protects and enriches the land. But the wicked Princess Isabella and her sidekick Don Fernando intend to steal both, unless Saladin and his friends can stop them. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Silver-Tongued by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch set in a bar. |
| Synopsis | Dave and George are spending a night out at the local pub. George is seeking advice from Dave about his silver wedding anniversary. |
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| Simple Simon by Ian Cartwright |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] The timing assumes the use of 17 songs. |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 17 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime, starting from a nursery rhyme character and veering off into a fun original story that provides everything you want in a panto - adventure, humour, lots of songs, baking incidents, and dancing penguins. |
| Synopsis | A Fairy grants Cora Crust a potion that makes her cooking irresistible. Along with her son Simon, Cora builds a bakery empire that threatens to put Peter Pie and his daughter Penny out of business. The fairy decides things have gone too far and threatens to expose Cora unless all can work together as a team and complete four unusual tasks. |
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| Sin by C Henchley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The play is written for two characters, but there is an option of adding a crowd of silent extras. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Unusual, short holocaust drama in a single minimal set. |
| Synopsis | Two men on their way to Belsen debate the morality of lying to a couple wanting to marry. Is the joy they can impart before the horror of the camps worth the cost to the liar’s immortal soul? |
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| Sinbad by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. A mixture of principal roles with cameos, camel and chorus! |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for 10 original songs supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Pantomime with something for everybody - spectacle, physical comedy, visual jokes, verbal comedy and slapstick. Alternates between full-stage sets and front-of-curtain scenes. Some interesting props and special effects! |
| Synopsis | Sinbad wants to marry Shaheen, daughter of the Caliph of Warezit, but there are a few obstacles. For a start, there's the villainous Al Capone and his evil genie, then there's the quest the Caliph has set. Sinbad has to bring back a rok (a dangerous giant bird), braving shipwrecks, a whale, sharks and pirates on the way. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
** A CD of backing tracks for all the songs from the pantomime 'Sinbad'
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| Sinbad - The Eighth Voyage by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Some flexibility in the roles, as the comedy duo appear in various guises throughout the show - and therefore could be played by the same two actors, or could be split amongst more. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Ther are place holders for songs in the script, but all songs are at the discretion of the production team. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime with an original story, packed with visual and verbal humour. |
| Synopsis | The previously untold tale of Sinbad's final adventure. Join him as he travels to London for an audience with the Queen and then tracks the baddie across the oceans, in pursuit of the Crown Jewels and his kidnapped Princess. Will he survive the shipwreck and the pirates and the jokes and the mysterious swamp creatures? Then, of course, there is George the sea monster! |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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