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The Panto Puzzle by Mary Portalska
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. There are 13 named characters, but four are off-stage voices (could be recorded or played by anyone who isn't on stage at the time), one actor is intended to play three on-stage roles and another could play three. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A mixed-up pantomime adventure. (Non-musical, though there would be nothing to stop a production adding songs at appropriate points.) |
| Synopsis | Dame Dolly and Cheeky Charlie turn up at the theatre to find out that the pantomime has been cancelled this year. The caretaker shows them the boxes containing previous pantos, to discover that three things have been stolen from Cinderella's box by the sorceress Evilena. Dolly and Charlie must visit three other pantomimes to get them back. |
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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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Pantomania by Mike Sparks
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Whilst Cinderella and the fairy are nominally female, this is a pantomime, and it doesn't really matter who plays which gender. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script suggests the use of one (optional) song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short rhyming pantomime with no set requirements. |
| Synopsis | There's Cinderella, Jack (of beanstalk fame), a dame, a comedy character, an evil henchman and a fairy. All the ingredients of a pantomime, but which one? |
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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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| Parish Politics by Anne Graham |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act historical drama with various simple settings. |
| Synopsis | It is 1663. The Civil War may be over but personal battles are still being fought in this English village, whilst ever-harsher laws and severe punishments breed fear, greed and superstition. An illegitimate child born to a single mother is a potential burden on the parish, so apart from the loss of her good name, the mother faces a public thrashing, particularly when the new petty constable is driven by personal revenge. |
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| Pawn by Brian Marchbank |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 72 minutes. [Estimated!] Experiential run time (first production) 1 hour, 2 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Character comedy structured as a thriller. Single pawn shop setting. On the boundary between a full-length and a one-act play. |
| Synopsis | The robbery of a Manchester pawn shop goes wrong and becomes a hostage situation, trapped together the hostages and hostage takers realise there is history between them, the resulting friction requires the novice police negotiator to deal with both volatile groups to resolve the situation. |
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| A Pig is a Pig is a Pig by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Nominally three men and three women, but the genders of the characters are not integral to the story (and have been changed from the original short story), so they can be switched around as required. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play. Single set (the front desk of Acme Express Shipping Company). |
| Synopsis | When Mary Flannery receives a shipment of guinea pigs, she is forced to keep them whilst a dispute over shipping fees is settled. Guinea pigs breed quickly, however, and soon she has more than she can handle...
Based on an original story by Ellis Parker Butler. |
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| Plain Women, Forgotten Men by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 49 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A trio of short one act plays with single (simple) settings which could be performed separately, or together as a set. |
| Synopsis | In 'Baggy Trousers' - elderly Sid relives his youth and poignantly remembers his late wife in conversation with an, at first, uninterested Social Worker. 'Two Left Feet' sees sad divorcee Jo find her salvation from depression, and the approbation of sister Carole on the dance floor. In 'Out of Print' - formerly famous children's book writer Erica - now in her eighties - finds that her works are no longer published, but finds encouragement by a letter from a fan. Each play is available to buy separately. |
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| The Play Of The Year by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. One M and one F voice are offstage, could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy, with a fairly simple set. |
| Synopsis | The committee tasked with choosing the winner of the 'Play of the Year' competition really has their work cut out, and they also have to contend with being both helped and hindered by the building janitor and tea lady. A comedy drama with twists - which may keep the audience misled until the last moment! |
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| Playing Out by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. 3 characters are children played by adults. 2 characters are offstage voices only, which can be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama with no set required. |
| Synopsis | Susan Trent, a woman in her seventies, looks back on her childhood in post-war London, and the friends she loved - and hated. Her childish love for Stanley endures throughout her life, despite an early tragedy. And her intense rivalry with Stan's older sister, Sandra, will probably never be resolved. If we could meet our younger selves - just once - what would we say to them? |
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| Poles Apart by John Furse |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 66 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Farce, structurally in two acts, but in length somewhere on the boundary between one-act and full-length play, set in the constituency office of a Member of Parliament. |
| Synopsis | MP Jerry Underwood has had a great night, meeting a wonderful girl who happens to be a pole dancer. The press are thrilled, but mistake the woman for a Polish diplomat's daughter, who is also a dancer. Confusion reigns. |
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| Potted Austen: Emma by Lou Treleaven |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma. |
| Synopsis | A short, humorous adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, covering all of the relevant events and characters with minimal staging requirements. |
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