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| They Called Her Tante Anna by Elisabeth Marrion |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 57 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act historical drama suitable for educational use. Three simple settings.
First published June 2023, revised 2024. |
| Synopsis | From December 1938 until the outbreak of WWII, ten thousand Jewish children were evacuated from Nazi Germany to England on the Kindertransport. This is the story of some of those children. |
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| The Third Miracle by Howard Lipson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The characters are four adults and two children. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play with a Christian theme. Minimal staging requirements (though the stage is split into two acting areas for two locations/times). |
| Synopsis | A short play that tells of the successful campaign to have Father Damien canonised, as well as showing some of the work he did in the leper colony where he died. |
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Three Nil Down at Half Time by Jonathan Edgington
A production by Watlington Young Players won Best Youth Production at the 2013 Hunstanton Drama Festival and a production by Cathal Ferry School (in a translated version) won the all Ireland Gaelic language schools drama competition in 2007. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of adults and children (could be played by that mix, or all played by kids). There is opportunity for up to 11 additional characters (non-speaking), all female - the other members of the girls' football team. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single set (the touchline of a soccer game) Minimal set and props. Chiefly British English, though the play has been successfully adapted for American performers. |
| Synopsis | The girls' soccer team is on a losing streak - until a half-time bet leads to a change of management! |
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| Time Telescope by Kitty Harper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two pairs of roles are written to be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A 1990s pop track is required as opening music. The producer's copy of the script gives a suggestion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short drama with a single (classroom) setting. |
| Synopsis | Opposed to one another in their youth, Amy and Brian reminisce at their High School reunion and, in a time-slip sequence, relive a painful memory from the night of the leavers’ ball as they reflect on how their lives have turned out. |
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| A Toll Of Bells by Patricia Gay |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | With action jumping between time zones and crossing three generations, the play depicts people who are faced with huge events that are beyond their control. They must, however, continue the quest for survival in their more mundane lives. The three generations depicted in the play react in different ways to accomplish that goal. |
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| Tommy's Burglar by Rob Burbidge |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. One adult and one child. Both characters are written as male, but the child could easily be changed to female. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very short play for two actors (based on a short story by O. Henry). |
| Synopsis | Tommy is a sweet child, doomed to be in a story where he interrupts a burglar about his nefarious business and inevitably sets back on the road to righteousness. The burglar for his part, is disgruntled about endlessly burgling houses at the whim of the narrator only to be redirected by a succession of sickly sweet kids. A knowing comic sketch. |
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| Towser's Table by Pete Benson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. A mixture of aduts, teenagers and a couple of slightly younger children. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy, structurally in one act, but with a run time that puts it into our full-length category. The author has combined satire, farce and affecting pathos to great effect. |
| Synopsis | A murder investigation with a difference sees Private Investigator Jack Doyle using narration and flashbacks in his quest to identify the perpetrator. |
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| Treasure Island [Version 5] by Lou Treleaven |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 11 songs to be performed, and 1 to be danced to but not sung, are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novel. Can be produced on minimal or more elaborate sets. |
| Synopsis | The traditional tale of pirates and lost treasure, given a fresh spin for presentation as a panto, with new twists on old characters. |
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| Tremayne's Folly by John Garforth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Three adult males, three females and a thirteen-year-old boy. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A witty period script with some well-crafted characters. A single coastal setting. |
| Synopsis | In 1803, former soldier Parsons has taken up residence as the official hermit of Lord Tremayne's estate. But this simple life is threatened when he gets caught up in the extra-marital affairs of Sir William Pitt, and a dead Frenchman washes up on the beach. |
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| Trouble in Pantoland by Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. There is a pantomime dame, assumed to be played by a man, and a bunch of heroic princes who could be played by women as 'principal boys'. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 16 songs suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Parody lyrics supplied for two songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime, incorporating threads from many stories, but anchored in its own fairy tale. |
| Synopsis | It's the eve of Cinderella's wedding, and the evil wizard ('He Whose Name No-one Can Remember') has designs on taking over the kingdom. Already he's frozen all the heroes. All? Well, all-but-one, but can a humble frog save the day? |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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