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| Ali The Barber and the Forty Thieves by Hugh Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Thirty-seven of the forty thieves remain off-stage. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes a suggestion for a closing song. (This isn't essential.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A sketch-length pantomime or a pantomime-themed sketch. |
| Synopsis | A gang on work experience hide swag stolen from a barber's shop in a secret cave. The barber’s brother stumbles across it and hatches a plan to trap them in the cave. |
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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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Alice In Wonderland [10 Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 2 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short prose panto based on the Lewis Carroll story. 4 different settings, all achieved with simple furniture. |
| Synopsis | Alice is bored one day when she encounters the White Rabbit and pursues him into Wonderland. Here she meets a variety of fantastic creatures and confronts the Queen of Hearts. |
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| All the President's Turds by Bernard Scahill |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Whilst most of the characters are written male, adjustment would be easy. There are nominally five reporters in the White House press corps, but their lines could easily be combined. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute comedy play - a parody of war-mongering and political coalition building. |
| Synopsis | The President of the USA needs a distraction as he comes up for re-election, so he 'finds' a new Al-Qaeda base, but he needs a coalition to lead. Bob and Jay can only find one country to go along with it - the newly formed Turdistan. |
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| All Your Future Endeavors by Molly McCluskey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Lynn has a playing age appropriate to someone who has put in 20 years at the workplace. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute bitter-sweet comedy. Single (implied) workplace setting. Contains very mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Lynn's being let go after twenty years with the company. Downsizing, they call it, but even though they've sent Joseph the security guard to escort her off the premises, she's not going quietly. |
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| All's Will That Ends Will by Barry Wood |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The cast are written as 1M, 2F, but with minor adaptations, this could be changed to any combination that fits the plot. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy skit set in a doctor's office. |
| Synopsis | Jessica takes her husband to the doctor with a medical emergency - he won't stop speaking in Shakespeare quotes. Sadly, the doctor is a Shakespeare fan and finds it more alluring than annoying. |
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An Almost Correct Christmas Story by James O'Sullivan
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Most of the characters are written male, but since their activities are gender-neutral, reassignment would not change the piece. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light hearted take on the Nativity. |
| Synopsis | Following the gospels relatively closely with a few whimsical modifications, the play makes for a humorous end of year festival production with the added benefit of being suitable for performance as a satirical piece by adults or as a tongue in cheek comedy by children and youth groups. |
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Alternative Life by Vladislav Nenchev
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two-handed satirical comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | Chiropractor Vicki rushes to the chemist to get some medicine for an injured patient. She finds her usual pharmacist has been replaced by homeopathic practitioner Bert, whose suggestions for alternative medicines don't impress her. |
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| Art's Gallery by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy drama |
| Synopsis | Art lover Amy takes philistine Jeff to a small art gallery to give him an appreciation of the value of art. Gallery owner Art soon dispels any pretensions Amy has and the tables are turned. |
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| At the Gates of Valhalla by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute comedy play. Single set (a reception desk and three chairs). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A group of Vikings arrive on the threshold of the afterlife, expecting quaffing and carousing and more enjoyment than they get from a single Valkyrie with a clipboard... |
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| The Audition by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play, single set (café interior). Simple props. |
| Synopsis | Whilst their daughters audition for a ballet, a group of mothers assembles in a café for a backbiting competition! |
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