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| Keeping Mum by Barry Blaize |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single domestic set. Includes mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Hetty nursed her Mum through a long illness, and now the old lady has died Hetty's sisters, Freda and Marion are there. Marion has come over from Spain for the funeral, but her companion, Carlos, arouses suspicions, as do rumours about Hetty's nursing. |
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| Keeping Up Appearances by Elizabeth Bell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play set in Dora Irvine's kitchen during the First World War. |
| Synopsis | Set in the early years of the Great War the play poignantly examines the devastating effects the war had on the womenfolk left at home whilst their loved ones were fighting and dying.
Based on JM Barrie's two-act play 'The Old Lady Shows Her Medals' (first performed 7th April 1917). |
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| Kids in Tights - The Musical by Bill Siviter with Music by Jonny Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Whilst there isn't a formal requirement for a chorus, there is plenty of opportunity for adding Montagues, Capulets and ball guests. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and Vocal scores for nine songs are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Romeo and Juliet told, as an irreverent verse play, by the protagonists and by narrators. A good introduction to Shakespeare's story! (The specified run-time is the minimum - extending the ball and the fight will add time!) |
| Synopsis | Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet condensed into a short verse play for kids, then lengthened because everyone gets so excited that they need to sing about it.
Boy meets girl, love overcomes the family feud - but only for the lovers. Swordplay turns rivals into kebabs. Mistakes are made and the heroes die. (You see, it's a soppy love story.) |
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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Kill-Joy by Mike Rouse
Partington Theatre Glossop 2018, Best Actress award, Rachael Hope, under original title of Mirror Image. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. In addition to the two on-stage characters, there is a radio announcer's voice at the start. This is likely to be a recording. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] First production timed at 27 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act thriller. Single set (which may be very simple). Contains swearing and adult themes. |
| Synopsis | A man and a woman stumble into an alley behind a club. It’s clear what his intentions are, but she’s not going along with him. Not here, not now, not with a serial killer on the loose. |
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| The Killers by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One male character is voice only so could be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act farce with a single (apartment) setting. US English. |
| Synopsis | Struggling artist George and his partner Paulie are presented with a golden opportunity to transform their perilous financial situation when their landlord’s wife needs a hitman to dispose of her brutish husband. A burglar, a policeman and a malfunctioning toilet enter the fray as the plan goes awry. |
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| The Killing Of Richard by Roger Mathewson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 77 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A two act drama with a single (rehearsal stage) set. |
| Synopsis | Casting is in progress for Shakespeare's Richard III. Obnoxious leading actor Richard is auditioning for the part of King Richard, in opposition to Harry Richmond. In a subtle mirroring of the Bard's work we witness Richard's end. |
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| The Killings at Snowball's Drift by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. A (male) newsreader appears in the opening prologue. Could be doubled with the Police Inspector or could be done as a voice over. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two-act murder mystery set in 1948. Single interior set (with the stage split into two or three rooms). Simple props. |
| Synopsis | Snowball's Drift is the home of Sir Gerald Mooncast, head of the Mooncast publishing empire. Authors are gathering at the house for the announcement of the annual Mooncast literary prize. In addition to the artistic tensions, there's skulduggery within the publishing house, romantic rivalries for the affections of Sir Gerald and a family feud involving his estranged sons. The stage is set for murder! |
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| King Arthur by Jilly McNeil |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for twelve songs. (Others could be substituted at the discretion of the production team.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Off-beat British Panto (with a bit of post-modernism thrown in!). |
| Synopsis | Merlin and Mrs Merlin are told by the Lady of the Lake that a boy will draw the sword from the stone and become King, but Morgana is determined to prevent it. Can young Arthur win both the sword and the heart of Guinevere? |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| King Arthur - Crisis at Camelot by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids (with scope for improvisation - or not, at the discretion of the production!) |
| Synopsis | When King Arthur sets out for yet another distant battle, he does not realise that his brilliant idea of entrusting temporary care of Camelot to his cousin, Sir Mordred, is going to backfire. In Arthur's absence Mordred decides that he wants the job on a permanent basis and that includes taking Queen Guinevere as well. Now, as we all know, damsels in distress inevitably attract heroic rescuers. Cue would-be knight Sir Lancelot. What Lancelot lacks in knightly skills he makes up for in enthusiasm. Unfortunately he cannot overcome Mordred and even the returning Arthur needs to turn to the mystic legends of Avalon in order to reclaim Camelot and his Guinevere. |
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| King Arthur - The Panto! by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Characters include a dragon. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Arthurian romance cast as British pantomime with lots of audience participation, slapstick, corny jokes, heroes and villains. |
| Synopsis | The show gets off to a storming start as the evil Morgana and her dragon battle with the elderly and forgetful Merlin. A romp through the story of Arthur and the sword in the stone, a heroic Sir Laughalot and a soppy love story thrown in for good measure. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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