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| E for Easter by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are nominally gendered, they are symbolic, so take this as guidance only! |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short piece for young children, with an introduction to (largely the American sub-set of) Easter traditions. |
| Synopsis | The Easter animals led by rabbit Peter Cottontail present their account of the traditions surrounding Easter and their explanation of its meaning. |
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| The Easter Story by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 32. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script suggests the use of a couple of familiar hymns/songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Simple version of the Easter story as a play for children. Multiple locations (following the story!) but no specific set requirments. |
| Synopsis | A classroom/church group rendition of the Easter Story from the arrival in Jerusalem to Mary's encounter with Jesus outside the tomb. |
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| Echo and Narcissus by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Simple piano/vocal scores for four original songs are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | A fifteen-minute musical based on Ancient Greek myth. |
| Synopsis | Hera, the queen of the gods, is furious when she discovers that her husband Zeus has been unfaithful, and she takes it out on the object of his affections, the articulate Echo. Echo falls for the handsome Narcissus, but she cannot make him understand because of Hera's curse, which confines Echo to repeating the words of others, and meanwhile Narcissus is in love with his own reflection. (Not a happy lot, the Ancient Greeks!) |
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| The Elf and the Shoemaker by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute play for kids. |
| Synopsis | A shoemaker and his wife are amazed to find that their work is being completed for them whilst they are asleep at night. An investigation follows!
One of Peter Nuttall's Grimm Tales (for Little Horrors) |
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| The Elves and the Shoemaker [Verse Play] by Peter Bond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters include two elves. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming play. Single set (mainly a workbench). |
| Synopsis | A Grimm Fairytale brought to the stage.
An honest cobbler is helped to make ends meet by a pair of hard-working elves. |
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Every Pantomime That Ever There Was by Tony Domaille
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 50. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Whilst the author suggests that there should be a final song, he doesn't suggest what it shouldbe! Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | For youth theatre - a very short pantomime with large cast and minimal set. |
| Synopsis | This is a quickfire trip through pantoland, with many characters and much panto fun - in a short space of time! |
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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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| Everybody wants to be a Cat by Louise Arnold |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. The characters are all cats and dogs! There is an optional 'chorus' of cats - members of Daphne's coterie. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for kids about friendship. |
| Synopsis | A young cat makes an unusual friend, and then has to learn to deal with peer pressure and prejudice. |
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| Exam Results by Caroline Spencer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Four 18-year-old girls. (Intended to be performed by that age or younger.) |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short play. Single set, simple props. Part of the Emotions collection of shorts. |
| Synopsis | Four girls get their 'A-Level' results and though one doesn't get the grades she needed for University, perhaps she's not the one to pity in this subtle and well-observed piece.
(For readers outside England and Wales, 'A-Levels' are the equivalent of High School Graduation in the USA.) |
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| A Farewell to Annie Moore by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One traditional Irish song. Two uses of a well-known nursery rhyme with original lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act play for children on a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | At the end of the 19th Century, Annie Moore and her young siblings are to emigrate from Ireland to America to join their parents. They are visited by a number of characters from Irish history and culture to wish them luck. |
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| The Farmer and the Charuba Seeds by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short contemporary fable for children. No set requirements. A few simple props. Designed to be played on its own or as part of a broader entertainment. |
| Synopsis | A farmer tries to eke out a living from the land, whilst everyone around him believes that they know better. |
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