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| The Golden Touch - And Other Tales by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 54. Chorus. Apart from the Narrators there are 52 separate parts (25M, 26F), but more usefully there are 34 major parts (19M, 15F) |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of dramatized Greek myths told in a light hearted and highly accessible form, bringing the tales to life. |
| Synopsis | The stories of Phaethon, King Midas (he of the golden touch, but also the ass's ears), the origins of winter, Echo and Narcissus, Erysichthon, Minerva and Arachne and finally Pygmalion and the Statue. |
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| Journey To The End Of The Rainbow by Sian Nixon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Additional cast members can be included in the non-speaking roles. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A family fantasy show with colourful settings. |
| Synopsis | Young Lenita's quest to find the end of the rainbow is prompted by her family's poverty. Her fantasy journey through the colours of the rainbow takes her through various lands and dangerous adventures, ultimately fulfilling her dreams. |
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| The Jungle Book [Play] by Hugh Farey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. Since most of the characters are animals, whilst they are written male they could be played by either gender. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length adaptation of Kipling's Jungle Book stories (faithful to the originals, rather than playing for comedy) for school or youth theatre production. Minimal sets. |
| Synopsis | Mowgli, a child separated from his village by Shere Khan, the tiger, is found by a company of wolves. Bagheera the panther persuades the wolves to protect the child, and Mowgli is brought up in the jungle - where he has both friends and enemies. |
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| The Magdalen Whitewash by Valerie Goodwin |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Optional female chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama. Multiple locations, but simple set requirements, with main scenes played on the full stage and smaller scenes downstage with a few pieces of furniture. |
| Synopsis | In 1946, teenage Nancy tracks down her birth mother Mary to one of the many 'Magdalen laundries' set up in Ireland to house women shunned by society for unmarried pregnancies. But why doesn't Mary want to leave with Nancy? Sixteen years earlier, during Mary's first days at the laundry, she and the other women deal with isolation, pregnancies, and mistreatment from the nuns and priests. |
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| Perfect Pupil by Mark Billen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children - either to be played by children or by a mix of adults and kids. Whilst the roles are biassed towards the male, it could be adjusted to other mixes. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play for schools. |
| Synopsis | Fed up with dreadful reports of failing schools, the Department for Schools comes up with a brilliant idea - develop a robot pupil to carry out inspections and provide reports, but make it incapable of writing a bad report. Of course, it doesn't take long for things to go wrong. |
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| Port Out, Starboard Home! by Richard James |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. There are opportunities for 'walk-on' parts for other passengers on the cruise. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play with a single (cruise ship) set. |
| Synopsis | Miriam hopes that taking her son Stewart on a cruise will help him find Miss Right, when actually, he's looking for a Mr.
Jackie's on the cruise for her health, though she's actually only sick of her husband, and Amanda's a washed up actress, taking any job going. |
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| A Princess For Christmas by Jeff Bray |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. 7 actors, with a choir of 3-4 singers. |
| Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with a single retirement home setting. |
| Synopsis | Grumpy old widower Reg gets the shock of his life when his ex-mistress Diane, who he abandoned many years ago, is admitted to the Retirement Home After a stormy beginning and with the tender help of the staff and other residents, they are able to rekindle their relationship. |
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Professor Thyme and the History Mystery - The Play by Richard James
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy Caper for Kids. Structurally in two acts. (A slick production could be run in the time of a one-act play.) |
| Synopsis | When the dastardly Count Downe uses Professor Thyme's Time Machine to travel into the past and change history, it's up to the Professor and his gang to follow him and put things right before the damage is done... |
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| Seeking Sleeping Beauty by Mark Billen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play, subverting Sleeping Beauty and various other fairytales. |
| Synopsis | Prince Florimund and Nomdeplume are lost in the forest when they meet Lilac the Fairy and learn of the Princess sleeping an enchanted sleep. On their way to rescue her they meet Red Riding Hood, a wicked witch, a vampire and Rapunzel, and some other folks too. |
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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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| Shah Jahan by Subrata Das |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 16. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 31. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 160 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | At the discretion of the Producer Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length translation and adaptation of D.L.Roy's epic saga of the Mughal Empire. |
| Synopsis | The retelling of last turbulent years of Shah Jahan's reign are brought to life in this powerful and gripping play, written in the spirit of a Shakespearean tragedy. |
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