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| I've Been Expecting You, Mr Smirk by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Smirk, Kazmarov and Starkley are male. Grainger and Lee are written male but might have female counterparts. Tremaine, Ramona and Goodpenny are female. All other characters could be either gender. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy spy spoof for youth theatre. Lots of locations but not much set! |
| Synopsis | When Anatoly Kazmarov, recently convicted head of international criminal gang STINK, is sprung from a top-security escape-proof prison, it is obvious that someone even more fiendish than Kazmarov is involved. This is clearly a job for The Secret Department's top man, the suave, debonair (but largely inept) Dirk Smirk. It's just as well that the impossibly beautiful Captain Tremaine is on hand to help him out as a plot to bring the world order to its knees gets underway. |
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| The Iceberg by Dawn Cairns |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. One male and one female character are voice-only so can be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Three tracks, to be played but not performed by cast, are suggested in the producer's copyof the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (doctors’ waiting room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Doctors’ receptionist Paula believes all patients are time-wasters and is known as ‘The Iceberg’. She resents the arrival of new manager Michelle, who intends to implement a patient-friendly regime, and trainee receptionist Debbie. But Debbie and Paula soon hit it off and Michelle’s plans are thwarted. |
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| If You Go Down To The Woods Today by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. Several of the characters are written male but could be played either. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. Single (lack of) set. |
| Synopsis | When the royal teddy bear goes missing during a bout of palace spring cleaning, the Princess is distraught, particularly as this disaster befalls her on the eve of her birthday party. The task of finding the bear falls to the King and the Prime Minister whose progress sees them one step behind the Princess's favourite toy even when it fortuitously finds its way back to the palace. |
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| Illusion/Delusion by David Pollard |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 78 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A collection of three one-act plays, all of which are also available separately. |
| Synopsis | Three stories which question the reality of their situations. In 'Can Malone Die?', a best-selling author is confronted by his character brought to life. In 'Aspects of a Betrayal', Dolly is visited by a colleague of her late husband, who was a spy and defector. And in 'Clause Fourteen', aging actor Clifford finds himself playing opposite his ex-wife in a production which, against all probability, is a smash hit. |
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| Imagination by Garry R. Keane |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. The characters are mainly children, but there are two adults, so it could be played either by a youth group or by a mixture of adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for a school group. Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | Sally's life has been in turmoil, with a change of house, and school, but it's the events at the end of sixth grade that really affected her. Now she's happier with her imaginary friends and parties, but that has to change too. |
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| Imelda and the Magic Dust by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Characters include a pantomime cat. Twelve principals and a chorus - nominally 8 roles, but these could be spread more thinly or thickly! |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 7 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with an original story. |
| Synopsis | As the eldest daughter, Imelda feels she should be the one marrying the wealthy Belgian, Jean-Claude Van Eyer, but he only has eyes for her younger sister Rosie. With the help of a wicked fairy and some magic love dust, Imelda disposes of Rosie and bags Jean-Claude... For a while, anyway. |
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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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| Impatience and Improbability by Nic Dawson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single (hotel terrace) setting. A witty and clever intertwining of the mannered world of the eighteenth century and modern day mores - with a bit of farce thrown in. |
| Synopsis | This diversion in One Act, dedicated with respectful admiration to Miss Jane Austen - with humble apologies for any liberties taken - sees Julia providing eighteenth century elegance and ambience in her unique hotel. The idyllic, mannered world descends into infidelity and recrimination as the modern day intrudes. |
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| The Importance Of Being Belinda by John Garforth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single (garden) setting. Adult themes and strong language abound! |
| Synopsis | The feminist Sapphire Theatre Collective is in final rehearsal for Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’. Wilde’s script has been revised and updated to cater for an all female cast and political correctness by Belinda. The opening is in doubt as Belinda has been arrested for gross indecency on stage during a previous performance, but the show must go on! |
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| The Importance Of Being Earnest [45 minute abridgement] by Oscar Wilde abridged by Gerald P Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The two narrators are written female but could be played male (especially if their names were changed to something more masculine than Agnes and Doris). |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy, abridged (and slightly adapted) from the play by Oscar Wilde. A couple of narrators are used to set scenes so that the piece can be played with minimal (furniture only) sets. |
| Synopsis | Bachelors, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, use convenient fictions when they wish to escape the more tedious aspects of society life. They both fall in love and become engaged, but their deceptions lead to much confusion. And Lady Bracknell has a lot to say about it all. |
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| The Importance Of Peaches by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single setting |
| Synopsis | The Southbury Players Committee is meeting to discuss the group's poor record of success. Members are looking for a big idea to revive the group's fortunes, but when all seems lost, salvation comes from an unexpected source. |
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