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Pipkin and the Angel by Geoff Bamber
Production by Chelford Junior Players won the Best Junior Play at Chelford Drama Festival 2014 & Best Junior individual Performance (for Cappuccino Angel) at Wilmslow Guild One-Act Play Festival. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Some of the characters are written with specific gender but can be changed very easily. More flexibility in numbers is possible by expanding or contracting the number of villagers, mechanics and police. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. No specific set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Pipkin is down on his luck. He really should turn over a new leaf and give up a deeply unsuccessful life of crime. Can he change his ways when he accidentally meets the similarly luckless Cappuccino Angel? The answer would seem to be no, even with the Angel's boss on the case. |
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| A Piracy Pantomime by Giles Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Chorus size variable at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 104 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 7 songs are included with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A new pantomime-style piratical play, with songs and a variety of settings. |
| Synopsis | Dame Harriet and her son and daughter run The Happy Haddock restaurant, but the latest fish delivery also contains a mermaid clutching a treasure map. Soon the trio are off in search of Captain Pew's treasure! On the way they encounter pirates and parrots and cannibals, with lots of fun and good jokes! |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Pirate Princess by Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 88 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 15 songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script, with altered lyrics for 2 of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length pantomime with various settings. |
| Synopsis | Princess Aurora finally finds her one true love only to lose him after all the men in his village are pressganged by the Pirate King. There is only one thing any self-respecting - and ethical - Princess can do: steal Daddy’s flagship and go after the Pirate King. |
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| The Pirate Queen by Tim O'Brien |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 29. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with scores for 6 original songs (one of which is reprised). |
| Style | Time-travelling musical for kids with a healthy dose of piracy thrown-in. |
| Synopsis | Jack, Darrell and Sean are three students living in the shadow of their more successful peers. But when a freak storm during a fishing expedition causes them to be whisked back to the 18th century and they encounter a crew of pirate women, they may be about to change history! |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| The Pirates of Penrith by Andy Johnson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. Whilst the gender of some of the characters is implied by their names, there is lots of scope for variation! |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for a school class-sized cast. Packed with piratical puns. |
| Synopsis | A group of veteran retired pirates lead a motley chase across the oceans as they escape from their retirement home and go in search of the treasure of the Stinkas. A large cast comedy with some truly terrible jokes along the way. |
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| Pirates! by Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Lots of familiar characters, plus pirates (many of whom are female). There is also a pantomime cat and members of the Union of Sailing Ship Rodents. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 15 songs, together with one set of original lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with a nautical flavour. (Ah-arr!) |
| Synopsis | The wicked pirate Bluebeard likes getting married - he just doesn't like staying married. Now he's got his eye on Cinderella and if she doesn't watch out she'll walk the plank. Never fear, the Big Bad Wolf is on his way to rescue her from a watery end, so long as he doesn't get peckish along the way! |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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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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| A Play on Words by Matthew Lynch |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Unusually, the characters include the Stage Crew, although these are non-speaking parts (they get as far as nodding and rolling their eyes). |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play set amidst rehearsals for a theatre production. Lots of good jokes, both verbal and visual. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Clifford Pratt-Shore is directing his masterwork, a play about Wordsworth's life and love. Sadly, his leading man is a yob, his Assistant Director is more of a hindrance and the Vicar uses the Hall as a petty cash fund. As for the bit-players Marvin and Benny, how could they be any use to him? |
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| Play Safe by Paul A J Rudelhoff & Jane Hilliard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 118 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | All is not what it seems at the Fair Lawns home for retired entertainers. The combination to a safe has been hidden somewhere by one of the former residents, and two young criminals-in-training are in the house undercover to track it down. |
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