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Christmas on The Law by Martyn Chapman
Published: 15 July 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Poignant, humorous family drama structurally in two acts, but of one-act length. Multiple locations, but only two require furniture, one needs a backdrop and several might be played front-of-curtain. |
| Synopsis | A family gathers at their Scottish home to celebrate Christmas, including their annual hike up 'The Law', a local volcanic hill. They will meet Rhona's boyfriend, hear Oliver's news, and finally talk about the missing James. |
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Wordsworth's Harem by Joan Greening
Published: 15 July 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act historical, emotional drama in a single livingroom set. |
| Synopsis | In 1801, William Wordsworth is in love with his sister Dorothy. To hide their forbidden relationship, the siblings plan a marriage for William. |
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In Whose Eyes? by George Kappaz
Published: 12 July 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Justice Peter and Abaddon are written male and Gabriella female, but casting that way is not essential. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy for the script suggests a couple of pices to be played over the opening of two of the scenes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act drama in a single, simple courtroom set. Historical images are intended to be projected during the show. The script has two endings, determined by the audience. |
| Synopsis | In a court where everything is at stake, the life and actions in the colourful career of Major Charles Derudio are challenged and defended. Are his reasons for the lives he has taken sufficient to earn forgiveness? His final destination hangs in the balance. |
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Frankenstein, A Musical Comedy by Gerald P. Murphy
Published: 8 July 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the score comes complete with piano & vocal scores for five original songs. |
| Style | Playful, farcical version of the Mary Shelley story with eight silly songs, in one act. Modern jokes but in keeping with the gothic setting. |
| Synopsis | Victor Frankenstein creates a creature out of dead body stew, against the advice of his mentor, Professor Gabriella Waldman, and declares himself a god. The creature, spurned by its creator, enacts its revenge, leading to a long game of follow the leader - and a surprising happy ending. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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I'm Not Dead Yet by Graham Andrews
Published: 8 July 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Alex, the manager is written male (by means of the occasional pronoun) but could be played female. |
| Run Time | Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play in a single (residents' lounge) set. |
| Synopsis | The manager of Sleepy Pines, a small nursing home, appears to be involved in a dodgy deal with a ruthless developer to get rid of the residents. Can the residents find a way to stop the deal going through or will they all have to leave by one means or another? |
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Augustin Homes and the Lost Juliet by Bob Hammond
Published: 3 July 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in a single office set. The third in the series of Augustin Homes cases. |
| Synopsis | Barrat Homes, an actor, shows up at the office of his brother, World-Famous Detective Augustin Homes. He's up for an audition to play a detective and wants some advice. But Augustin is out and when a client walks in, Barrat sees an opportunity to do some method-style research. |
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Goldilocks And The Three Bears [Version 3] by Warren McWilliams
Published: 3 July 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 37. Chorus. The authors notes suggest that performance with a cast of 15 is possible, but would require losing some of the circus performers from act 2, with redistribution of their lines. Otherwise the minimum would be 21. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] The run-time assumes the use of the 14 suggested songs. |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 14 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length pantomime straying a long way from the original folk tale with plenty of unusual characters and pantomime silliness. It's a fast-moving panto with plenty of good jokes. |
| Synopsis | Goldilocks, with her brother Billy and their mother Dame Gertie Gemmell, ventures into the woods to recruit a new act for their circus. They find one that's just right - three dancing bears. But the twisted debt collector Mr De Ville is set on closing down all circuses. |
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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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Grimm Sisters by Gill Medway
Published: 27 June 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny sketch with some self-referential fourth wall-breaking humour and a playfully feminist twist on the Brothers Grimm. |
| Synopsis | It's 1812, and Johanna and Wilhelmina Grimm - under their pseudonyms of Jacob and Wilhelm - are hard at work on their latest tale. If only their characters weren't so hell-bent on sabotage, and if only their moustaches didn't look so suspiciously fake. |
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Lucy Locket by Ian Cartwright
Published: 25 June 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Ten principal roles, cameos and chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] The run-time assumes the use of the 16 suggested songs. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 16 songs with some parody lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length pantomime, inspired by the nursery rhyme of the same name. Includes lively characters, physical and verbal comedy and lots of songs. |
| Synopsis | When Demon Debt introduces a magic coin into circulation via Lucy's lost pocket, all manner of havoc is wreaked at the Locket, Stocket and Barrel bank,with Nanny Fanny Fisher being accused of stealing the bank's assets. Helped by Fairy Frugal and security guards Nick and Knock, the heroes head for Switzerland to recover the stolen money. |
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The Invitation by Juliet Devon
Published: 24 June 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama. In theory there are four sets (three individual locations and a composite), but it's actually stageable in a single set with changes of lighting and props. |
| Synopsis | Eve is working hard on her wedding plans, which seem to involve doing everything her mother wants, regardless of how Eve feels about it. Eventually Eve's creativity takes over and the plans change in rather surprising ways. |
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