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| The Devenish Curse by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 129 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length farce, in three acts, with a single set - a lavish 'Jacobean house' lounge. |
| Synopsis | Susie Devenish inherits Devenish Hall, but immediately realises that a large financial injection is needed to keep the house running. Her new boyfriend Jago has a scheme to help her... Unfortunately for Susie, of a nervous disposition, Devenish Hall is thought to have its own curse and that serious misfortune is about to strike someone in the house. Luckily Inspector Trench is on hand to put everyone's mind at rest. So we can all sleep easy, can't we? |
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| Devil in the Detail by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play, set in the less favourable regions of the afterlife. |
| Synopsis | Harry is newly arrived in Hell and he's not happy about it, but Claude De Ville isn't open to appeals. Harry is given an assignment to bring a soul back to Hell in exchange for eternity away from the Sulphur Mines. But the man in question has help on his side... |
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| The Diabolical Duplication of Daisy by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy. A modern take on the conventions of Victorian melodrama - innocent heroines, scheming wicked squires, that sort of thing. |
| Synopsis | Daisy, working with her mother in the kitchens, is trying hard to resist the grubby blandishments of Sir Odious Malpractice, who wants her to marry him. Unknown to Daisy, Victor Tallbody has arrived to tell her she has inherited a fortune, just in the nick of time. |
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| The Dial Conspiracy by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Stage crew - optimum number 2, are non-speaking roles. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short-ish one act comedy/farce, with a single (hotel room) setting. |
| Synopsis | A crime caper at a remote hotel in the Highlands of Scotland, where weird and wonderful stratagems are used - as a succession of unlikely characters including a surly porter and the driver of a lime green Ferrari, vie with National Security officers. |
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| Dialogue by Stewart Boston |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two characters are written as male, but could be played female without changing the nature of the piece. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Unnerving and disturbing, but gripping one-act play. Single simple set. |
| Synopsis | Two immortal beings argue about the pros and cons of passing the time by experimenting with creation. Eventually the one who has worked hard on his people and his vision has to admit it's all gone horribly wrong. The other is happy to bring things to a close. |
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| Diamond In The Sky by Mike Standing |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length drama with two simple settings |
| Synopsis | The Cosmic Eagle has been hurled through space and time from an alternative universe into the 21st century. The crew are confused when they land near a medieval battle taking place in mid-Wales. The Re-enactment Society are equally confused when they are beamed up to the spacecraft. |
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| Diamond Jubilee 2012 by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. Generally, the characters are fairly normal, although one of them is a football. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Revue - that is to say, a themed sketch show. Structured with a chairman (of the Music Hall sort) to introduce the act. Few set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A collection of twenty four sketches suitable for the celebration of Queen Elizabeth the Second's Diamond Jubilee (and probably other occasions).
Not a musical show as written, but structured so that musical numbers could easily be inserted between the acts. |
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| The Diary of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain adapted by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The voice of God could be a recording (as it so often is). |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play (adapted from 'The Diary of Adam Eve' by Mark Twain. Single set (representing the Garden of Eden and what lay beyond), simple props. |
| Synopsis | Alone in the Garden of Eden, Adam is bored and, though he doesn't realise it, lonely. Of course, God has the answer... What follows is told through the diaries of those involved. |
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| Dick Whittington - Eighties-Style by Mark Jack |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Variable chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 139 minutes. [Estimated!] Experiential run time (first production) 1 hours 50 minutes. |
| Music | Song suggestions for 11 songs are provided with the Producer's copy. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A pantomime set in the 1980s, with the usual ingredients and multiple sets. |
| Synopsis | Young Dick takes on the forces of King Rat to save good old London Town (and mostly Alice Fitzwaterman) from the dreadful rodent infestation. Aided by his trusty cat Tommy and the Fairy of Bow Bells, Dick is bound to save the day - in 80's style. |
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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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Dick Whittington [Version 10] by Julie Petrucci and Chris Shinn
Performance of Dick Whittington won Best Pantomime 2015 in NODA East District 4 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 101 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime with various settings. |
| Synopsis | Dick and his cat, Tommy assist the people of London Town with the rat problem led by the evil King Rat. The search for the rats takes them to the island of Mycoco where they and the gang led by Dame Sarah land up after their ship sinks. Fortunately Dick manages to defeat King Rat and all is well in the end. |
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