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Matchmakers by Robert M. Barr |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. A range of ages and plenty of opportunity for characterisation. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full length play set in the Jewish community in 19th century Eastern Europe. Clever and funny, with a plot that twists and turns. Multiple locations, but easy to realise without elaborate scenery. |
Synopsis | Reuven, the son of a Rabbi, is studying to be a Rabbi too. He needs a wife to support him, but also to prevent him being drafted into the Czar's army. Unfortunately he and his family have to move to another village where their matchmaker runs into another Matchmaker. |
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Murder in Check by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length play encompassing comedy, a who-dunnit, and some farce. A single, country house lounge set. |
Synopsis | When Harriet Downey's husband heads off to a Pacific island, leaving her with a mountain of debt, she looks for ways of raising funds to keep the family home, Downey Grange, up and running. Harriet's pet project is a chess weekend, bringing together enthusiasts who had only previously played each other online. As one of these enthusiasts is DCI Gareth Trench, enjoying some well-earned leave, it seems likely that some foul deed is in the offing. |
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Nursery Crimes - The Catnap Kidnap Caper by tlc Creative Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Whilst Puss-in-Boots is written male, he is, when all's said and done, a cat. Whilst this isn't a panto, Prince charming could be played by a girl as a pantomime Principal Boy. There's also a wolf... and a troll. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A daft detective story set in the worlds of Fairytale and Nursery Rhymes. A full length play addition to the popular Nursery Crimes series. Charles Perrault meets Raymond Chandler. |
Synopsis | When a trio of bears go missing in Fairytale land, Private Investigator, Puss in Boots is hired to track them down. But as other groups of three animal start to disappear, it seems that the case could be just the start of something much more sinister! Puss, and his assistant Mary Quite Contrary, try to unpick the mystery, meeting Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, Woodsmen, Trolls, Wolves, Soldiers and even Royalty along the way... |
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Occupational Hazards by Clive Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Offstage voices included, may be recorded. |
Run Time | Around 126 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy play with a single (Vicarage living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Reverend Bill Gould finds his church has been occupied by protestors - objecting to his involvement with a Financial Institution. The situation escalates as the press and the Bishop's press office become involved, and Bill struggles to deal with protestors, his churchwardens, his Banker brother, as well as his wife's infidelity. As far as we know - the clergy (and others) involved, swear more than the average cleric! |
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One Thing After Another by Steve Beeton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length comedy with an 80s setting. |
Synopsis | When Bert and Eric dig up an old box on the allotment, they hope it contains treasure that will change their lives forever. Changes ARE coming, but the whole family is in for a bunch of surprises. |
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Perseus - A Hero's Headhunt by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. Whilst there are nominally 25 roles, the piece is structured for flexibility - and could be played as a series of linked sketches with different actors playing the recurring characters. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] Add another 10 minutes for the optional songs. |
Music | Piano/vocal scores for two optional songs are provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Sword and sandals myth brought to the stage as a comedy play (or series of sketches) for schools (and anyone else), with a couple of optional songs. |
Synopsis | The story of Perseus is told with a mixture of narration and brief, dramatised scenes. The narration is delivered by the gods Athene and Hermes - who also take part in several scenes (because they want the hero to get a head.) |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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Pocket Panto by Mark Niel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and teenage children. Could either be played by teenagers, or by a mixture of adults and kids. |
Run Time | Around 85 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 | Two act play for teenagers (or a mix of adults and teens). Intended to be performed with minimal sets and simple props. The play itself is not a pantomime, but there is a panto inside the play! |
Synopsis | A school outing is derailed by mechanical trouble, leading to a night in a barn, where the drama group has to create its own entertainment - the pocket panto. (Pantomime as a play within a play!) Meanwhile there is a staffroom romance afoot (the course of which never does run smooth). |
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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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Read All About It by Colin Calvert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The minimum character count assumes that the driver doubles as D.I. Throgge. |
Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy Thriller. Single main stage set with additional car interior set in front of the main stage. Includes gun violence and mild swearing. |
Synopsis | It's a big day for McTaggart, the editor of The Biggleswick Bugle - he's meeting the mayor of the German twin town, and he's out to impress. Unfortunately, that means relying on his staff. There's Ted, the disillusioned hack, Britney who does the classifieds, Blodwen Jones - Jones the Death - the obituary specialist, Kevin the odd-job man and Mrs. Parmeter, the tea lady. And there's a madman on the loose. With a machine gun. Things just aren't going the way they were planned... |
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