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| An Elliot Steinway Mystery by Gary Diamond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length farce, a parody of murder mysteries with labyrinthine plots! Contains mild swearing and many shots in the dark. |
| Synopsis | Henri Gilbert is dead, and his will asserts that he was murdered. Unless all those who stood to gain for his death remain at his mansion for a fortnight, his money will go to charity. During those two weeks, Elliot Steinway, the TV detective (or rather, Donald Smart, the actor who portrayed him) must unmask the murderer and win the fortune for himself. Aided only by the solicitor and his faithful sidekick Badger, he struggles through labyrinthine plots to get to the truth... probably. |
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| The Elves and the Shoemaker by JPS Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. The characters include a pantomime cow, otherwise the usual panto juxtapositions apply. |
| Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for 10 songs are included in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime. |
| Synopsis | The evil empire-building Freeman Hardly-Lykely is taking over Tommy Cobbler's shoe-making business. Only a last minute deal can save the shop and the Cobblers home, and maybe win Joe Cobbler the hand of lovely Clementine into the bargain. |
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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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| Emma by Jane Austen dramatised by Michael Baulch |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 150 minutes. [Estimated!] A slick production should be able to reduce this considerably! |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length period drama. Three locations created by simple variations on a single physical set. |
| Synopsis | Dramatization of Jane Austen's work, capturing the essence of the period as we see Emma's intriguing matchmaking unfold and her own marital future fulfilled. |
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| Emotions by 10 x 10 Writers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 42. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of adults and children of various ages, intended to be played either by that mixture or by youth theatre groups. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of eleven short plays. Basic sets, a few simple props. |
| Synopsis | The collection was commissioned for a Youth Theatre workshop.
Each play is for four actors or fewer, playing a mixture of adults and children, and intended - as you might deduce from the title - to demonstrate emotions.
The plays are not designed to be performed in any particular order. |
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| Emotions 2 by 10 x 10 Writers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of adults and teenagers, intended to be played either by that mixture or by youth theatre groups. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of eight short plays. Basic sets, a few simple props. (Some of the scripts include swearing, as do some teenagers.) |
| Synopsis | Scripts designed for Youth Theatre groups.
Each play is for six actors or fewer, playing teenagers or a mixture of adults and teenagers, and intended - as you might deduce from the title - to demonstrate emotions.
There is no particular order to the presentation of the scripts |
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| The Emperor's Last Victory by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are Ramanujan Varadachary, an old Indian story-teller - a sutradhari, as he is called in Indian drama tradition, an Indian museum curator, the Emperor Napoleon, Napoleon's Aide de camp and his wife. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
| Synopsis | Game Two in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Napoleon, exiled on St. Helena, uses a chess game with Bertrand, his aid de camp, to review his career, philosophy and military strategy. |
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| The Emperor's New Clothes [Version 2] by PL McQueen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The usual panto juxtapositions apply. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Producer's copy of the script includes a list of 9 suggested songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British panto. |
| Synopsis | Tired of being Emperor, his Majesty is off to become the next World's Top Model, but he needs a stunning outfit. The winning designer gets the kingdom and the hand of Daisy, the Emperor's daughter. Sir Spicious and Lady Vil have a wicked plan, but Taylor Tayler the Tailor and his friends will stop them. |
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| The Emperor's New Clothes [Version 3] by Jilly McNeil |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 88 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 14 songs 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 various settings. |
| Synopsis | The fable is turned into a pantomime with the usual characters - this time including a recalcitrant Fairy and two comedy duos, as good defeats 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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| The Emperor's New Clothes by Philippa Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 39. Chorus. Designed for a mixed cast of adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 19 songs, with new lyrics for several of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Traditional pantomime. Simple sets, with scene changes created by the cast (largely using a set of posts!) |
| Synopsis | Vain Emperor Montague Preen is obsessed with clothes, and he's set up a competition to furnish his next set. Conman Fabulo Fetuccini sets out to humiliate the Emperor and to relieve him of his fortune. To the rescue comes Dame Nellie Nimby, her daughter Amelia and Clover, the pantomime cow. |
| Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
| 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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| The Emperor's New Nose by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 58 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Family show in one act, very loosely based on the work of Hans Christian Andersen. |
| Synopsis | A lively adaptation of 'The Emperor's New Clothes' introducing many new characters who, through a series of mishaps, ensure that the rightful Emperor is restored to his throne and is able to marry his one true love. |
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