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| Trouble 07 - Licensed to Panto! by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Five songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length pantomime with two sets (office and street). |
| Synopsis | In this 'James Bond meets Dick Whittington' spoof, Agent 0007 must go undercover as Dick to thwart evil organisation SPHINCTER, whose aim is to bring an end to pantomime as we know it. |
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| Trouble at Inverbraw by Alan J. Laing |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. The main characters include English, Scottish and American accents. There are 6 'hotel workers' whose numbers could be cut a little if needed, plus two silent 'elves!' There is also an optional 'prelude' to allow speaking roles to other actors. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes a list of suggested songs (plus original lyrics set to two traditional tunes). There are also opportunities for dances. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids. Single (simple hotel) set, with imaginary bus probably played front-of-curtain. (One-act in length, two-act in structure!) |
| Synopsis | Jenny and Jack run a hotel in financial trouble. There's a chance that some of the new guests may want to buy the place and solve the problem, but of course, things are never that simple in the hotel business. |
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| Trouble in Pantoland by Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. There is a pantomime dame, assumed to be played by a man, and a bunch of heroic princes who could be played by women as 'principal boys'. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 16 songs suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Parody lyrics supplied for two songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime, incorporating threads from many stories, but anchored in its own fairy tale. |
| Synopsis | It's the eve of Cinderella's wedding, and the evil wizard ('He Whose Name No-one Can Remember') has designs on taking over the kingdom. Already he's frozen all the heroes. All? Well, all-but-one, but can a humble frog save the day? |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Trouble in Troy! by Mark Ash |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 15. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very funny comedy play for kids, set amidst the Trojan war. Simple sets. |
| Synopsis | Spectakles (pronounced in the Greek way!) the slave has a hard life in Troy, but the siege has made it harder. The King won't listen to any of his war machine inventions, and now Helen herself is causing him trouble too. Sent to the Greeks as an envoy, he gets them mad at him too. Can he survive the war? |
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| Trouble With Freddy by Joseph A. Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy/farce. Single box set. |
| Synopsis | Freddy and Edith have enough trouble with their two daughters and Freddy's Orchid obsession, but then the Delia White show reunites Edith with her long lost sister Joyce and opens a whole new can of worms. |
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| Troublesome People by Jill Haas |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Two characters are offstage voices. |
| Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Some music suggestions are included in the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length drama, with a minimal setting in the kitchen and environs of a farm. |
| Synopsis | The internment of refugees on the Isle Of Man during the early years of World War Two, and the effect on them and the local population is examined as characters poignantly come to life and develop both tense and loving relationships. |
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| Troy Story by Graham Milton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for schools - ideal as a classroom or assembly piece. |
| Synopsis | A comic take on the story of the Trojan War, with a rapping and bloodthirsty Greek chorus keeping the audience up to date. This short play covers argument between Achilles and Agamemnon over two captive women, through Achilles' sulk and Patroclus' sacrifice, through Hector's and Achilles' death, to the destruction of Troy via Odysseus' stratagem of the Wooden Horse. |
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| Truant by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Freda occurs as a character in other Gill Medway plays. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama for two and a bench. |
| Synopsis | Fourteen-year-old Evie has bunked off school to escape her bullies, and takes refuge on Freda's favourite park bench Meeting Freda for the first time, she's frightened and hostile at first, but Freda's irreverent take on life gradually helps her confidence to blossom. |
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True Reflection by Peter Stallard
Performance by West Midlands group won Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Overall Performance, Best Set and Peoples Choice awards at HASSRA Annual Drama Competition, 2013 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Single domestic interior set. (Contains mild swearing.) |
| Synopsis | Joe Parry is being harassed by his wife for lending money to his feckless friend, Dai German. He is sent to retrieve the cash, but returns instead with a mirror. To avoid more scorn, he convinces his wife it's a revolutionary dieting aid, and a few minutes in front of the mirror can remove pounds. While she sits in front of it, he fiddles the scales to give the correct result, and it's not long before all the local women are dropping in to check out the rumour. Meanwhile Joe has brought Dai round to sort the problem before the truth comes to light - but the result is a confrontation which ends with the mirror in shards... with an unexpected revelation. |
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| The True Story of Richard Whittington Esq. by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple one-act pantomime (generally intended for performance by kids, but don't let that limit you!) |
| Synopsis | Dick Whittington, an orphan, heads for London to seek his fame and fortune. Accompanied by his faithful cat, known as Cat, he gains employment in the home of Lord and Lady Fitzwarren, where he, predictably, falls in love with the daughter of the house, Miss Honoria. Lord Fitzwarren is beset by debts and the predatory threat of the villain of the story, King Rat, who has designs on claiming the family's home. A fanciful scheme to pay off the debts fails and the Fitzwarrens fall into the clutches of the Rats. As Dick desperately tries to think of a solution, the situation is rescued by Cat, returning from an interesting excursion to foreign parts and now armed with special powers, those of the mystic phenomenon known as the Tsobaki! |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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