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A Smell of Burnt Feathers by Paul Gisby
Winner of the 1999 Royal Mail 'Write Now' play award.
Production by Penrhos Players won Best Drama in the Hale One-Act-Play festival, 2012. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two characters are adult sisters of a similar age (assumed mid-thirties). |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Contemporary realism. One-act play, single modern set, simple props. (Contains swearing.) |
| Synopsis | Oriole is events manager for an important conference, and her detailed plans didn't involve the arrival of her sister Jenny, fresh from their father's funeral. However, Oriole has some surprises in store for Jenny. |
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| The Smell of Dirt by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with no set necessary. |
| Synopsis | The friends of a recently released thief confront him for their share of a heist gone bad. |
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Smoke and Mirrors by E. C. Chapman
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dramatic monologue recounted by a theatre director. |
| Synopsis | A director talks through the trials and tribulations on an outdoor production of one of Shakespeare's most celebrated plays. |
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Smokes by Mike Smith
Short-listed for the Sydney Short+Sweet festival, January 2009 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play - a mime with words. No props (which is rather the point!) The set is a door and a pile of chairs. Note that this is written in British English which differs from US English in one of its slang synonyms for 'cigarette'. |
| Synopsis | A man and woman discover one another while hiding from a book launch and looking for a cigarette. They resort to imagination for smokes and escape to the top of a mountain, before regaining their courage and rejoining the launch. |
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Smokin' Cinders by Leo Finn
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Characters change role within the action. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short rhyming modern pantomime, with a basic set. |
| Synopsis | A potted-panto version of the Cinderella story in three short scenes, with a feisty Cinders and with minimal effects. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Snakes and Ladders by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, 'furniture' only. |
| Synopsis | After a secret liaison, Malcolm and Karen find themselves trapped in the office storeroom. |
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| The Snow Queen [Version 2] by Tina & Robert Burbidge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Strong female cast. Whilst 'Granny' might be played by a male as a pantomime dame, this is not essential to the part. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of suggested songs is provided in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Hans Christian Andersen's tale of 'The Snow Queen' delivered as an English pantomime - with jokes, songs, and the occasional accident with a large pie. |
| Synopsis | The wicked Snow Queen captures a boy, Kay, and takes him to her ice palace. Kay's friend Gerda sets out to rescue him, with the (unexpected) help of her grandmother, Annie, the village handiwoman and Summer, the Snow Queen's good sister. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Snow Queen [Version 3] by IgLou Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. It's a panto - make up your own mind as to who does what. The chorus includes a number of speaking roles. (The number is nominally 12, but these could easily be reassigned to as few as three.) |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for three original songs are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. All other songs are at the discretion of the producer. |
| Style | Short British pantomime, very loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen story. [Oriiginal edition published 2009. This edition published 2011.] |
| Synopsis | Just as Rufus comes of age and is about to take his throne and marry his peasant girl love, the Snow Queen swoops, freezes his heart and persuades him to marry her instead. The lovely Sophia must rescue him, aided by her fearsome mother and the courtly Rene. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Snow Queen [Version 4] by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 28. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | In two acts, this is a new look at the Hans Christian Andersen tale. |
| Synopsis | When the Snow Queen breaks her magic mirror, shards fly out into the world. She'll only see herself as ugly in every mirror, unless she retrieves every last shard from the hearts and eyes of men... Kay has the last two shards and the Snow Queen takes him prisoner, so Gerda must rescue her love from the queen. |
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| The Snow Queen [Version 5] by Andrew O'Leary |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Includes penguins and the Wild Boys who are yeti look-alikes. (This assumes that you know what a yeti looks like.) |
| Run Time | Around 90 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 | Full-length pantomime riffing on the Hans Christian Andersen story. |
| Synopsis | The evil Snow Queen needs more children to work in her snow mine to fulfil her plan to dominate the world by turning it into a land of ice. Her bumbling henchmen, led by Jack Frost, set out to kidnap all the children but their plans are thwarted by Dame Rosie ably assisted by escaped penguins Pete and Percy. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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