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| A Right Royal Mess by S. J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act, humorous play suitable for 9-12 year olds. No set requirements. |
| Synopsis | The King and Queen are trying to select a husband for their daughter unbeknownst to her. If only they wouldn't keep being interrupted by auditioning Wandering Minstrels, unhappy Jesters, angry chefs and a very mischievous wicked fairy. |
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Rings Around The World by Keith Badham
Premiere production won Best Youth Production and Best Youth Male awards at the Bedfordshire One Act Play Festival 2013.
(50% of author's royalties are donated to 'Ambitious about Autism'.) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. Sign Language is also used in this play. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggested music is by The Super Furry Animals and Gruff Rhys. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act drama with music, dance and multiple simple settings suggested by the cast. |
| Synopsis | Young Mark is autistic and we are swept into his world in this moving and satirical picture of his short life. |
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| Ripping Off Angels by Nigel Holloway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Whilst there is no formal chorus, there is a call for an unspecified number of police constables, and there could be other 'extras'. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play. Simple sets (actually one set from two different perspectives!) Contains swearing and adult themes. (In this context, adult implies 'morally questionable', which seems to be the opposite of adult, but never mind!) |
| Synopsis | The Off-the-Wall Theatre Company have problems. Money problems - there isn't any. Even worse than that, they owe money to the bank and their old friend the bank manager, who was waiving all bank charges, has just retired. Desperate fundraising measures are called for, and the usual questions are asked such as 'do they have to be legal?' Being thespians, they take their ideas from various sources of entertainment, including 'The Producers' and 'The Full Monty', but will they succeed? Find out, when the Off-the-Wall Theatre Company go Ripping Off Angels! |
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The Ripple Effect by Robert Scott
Glantawe Theatre Company won Best Production and Best Individual Performance at South Breconshire One Act Play Festival, UK in 2018 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama in reverse chronology. |
| Synopsis | There’s no doubt that Eva has murdered Timothy - she’s still holding the gun. But what drove her to kill? Was it fate, or the random collision of people and circumstances? Who, ultimately, is to blame? |
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| Rising Blue by Jason Jawando |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play in a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Margaret Thatcher joins Brian Clough in the waiting room for heaven, with predictable yet productive abrasiveness from both. |
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| Robbins And Caruso by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Optional chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Six song suggestions are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime, with island-based settings! |
| Synopsis | In this departure from the more traditional panto, successful scientist Robbins quits the rat race - to settle on a desert island, accompanied by his faithful friend, gorilla Caruso. A passing ship makes landfall and the evil Lord Ruffbottom and his scurvy crew disrupt their idyll. The action-packed script provides fun for all ages. |
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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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| Robby Nudd by Bill Tordoff |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. All the characters are adults, assumed to be played by children or a mixture of adults and children (with particularly the role of Sheriff and Friar open to adults). |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music (Lyrics and music by Chris Donovan, additional music by Adrian Watts) for 7 songs plus two reprises is included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | A sideways look at the Robin Hood legend! |
| Synopsis | Robby Nudd has become an outlaw because he's too small to join the police! Robby and his band of outlaws haven't robbed anyone in a long time and the women they have brought to the forest are sick of being cooks. The girls rebel and leave the forest. The men go to Nottingham Fair to try and win the archery contest, win the bag of gold and buy the girls some proper ingredients to cook with. The resulting clash with the Sheriff has an unexpected resolution. |
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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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| Robin Hood by Bob Heather and Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 26. Chorus. Since this is a pantomime, Robin Hood's Merry Men need not actually be men! This principle may well apply to other characters. Includes a pantomime horse. |
| Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] (Timing allows for 16 songs!) Plaza Theatre production, directed by Bob Heather, ran to 2 hrs. |
| Music | The script includes place-holders for 17 songs and dances. The Producer's Copy of the script includes specific suggestions for some of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime - a family show packed with heroes, villains, damsels in distress, and foolishness of many kinds! |
| Synopsis | When Robin Hood returns to Nottingham after a stint in the crusades, he meets the Sheriff's ward, Maid Marion and falls in love, only to find out that the Sheriff himself has designs on er. Marion isn't the only thing the Sheriff desires, the whole of Sherwood Forest is under threat of his evil plans when Robin's outlaws discover plans for the forest to be chopped down for the Sheriff's new money-grabbing venture. Robin and his band of Merry Men with the aid of Holly Jockey-Sticks, the woodland Fairy, Nellie Scarlet (Marion's nanny) and her son Wally set out to thwart the evil Sheriff once and for all to ensure good will always win over evil. |
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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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| Robin Hood - An Investigation Into His Life And Times by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script suggests the use of one song! Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short, risqué sort of British Pantomime. (Adult humour and something of a parody of the genre, rather than a straight retelling of the story.) |
| Synopsis | The narrator uses modern technology in his attempt to make sense of the legend of Robin Hood. He has to revert to traditional methods as Robin and his Merry Men, along with a comely Maid Marion, come to life to help him. |
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| Robin Hood - The Pantomime by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. Many characters are written male, but this is a pantomime, so the casting is very flexible! The minimum male set is the Sheriff, Lord Knowse, Tuck, Euphonia and Richard (doubling a Villager), with Robin Hood, Marion and Ruth the Sooth played by females. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | There are places for songs in the script, but no songs specified - therefore all music is at the discretion of the production team. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with strong characters and drama peppered with jokes. |
| Synopsis | The eternal battle between Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham, played-out against the background of a missing king and an impending wedding. A tale of argumentative outlaws, talking trees and a pantomime dog! |
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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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