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| Once More Unto the Breeches by Peter May |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with minimal set requirement. |
| Synopsis | Darren and Sharon are having a quiet evening at home. The television is being repaired so they are both reading. Darren criticises Sharon’s choice of novel. |
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Once Upon a Time by Paul Barron & Sarah Dyson
Best Seller Performance by Oswestry Musical Theatre Company awarded NODA West Midlands (District 2) best panto, 2015. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 28. Chorus. Usual pantomime juxtapositions - dame played by a man, principal boy by a girl. After that, you can make up your own mind! |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Some songs suggested in the Producer's copy of the script - others are left to the native wit of the production team. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Two-act English Pantomime (physical comedy, jokes, cross-dressing, that sort of thing.) |
| Synopsis | The daughter of Cinderella is about to marry the son of Snow White, banishing evil from Pantoland forever or so the ancient prophecy says. Naturally the baddies aren't taking this lying down! Evelyn, the wickedest of wicked witches, spirits Princess Lottie and her two idiot helpers Nick and Nack away from the palace and drops them on the edge of Pantoland in the hopes that Prince Marvellous will despair and abandon his plans to marry her. Of course, the Prince embarks on a rescue mission, but what lies in store for him? |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Once Upon A Time In Fairyland by James O'Sullivan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play for kids. |
| Synopsis | When the magic mirror tells the Queen she's not as fair as Snow White, the miffed monarch sets off to the Seven Dwarfs' bar where the mirror says Snow is working, only to find Goldilocks hiding out from the three bears there. Will Snow White be at the Prince's Ball? The hunt is on... |
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| Once Upon a Time NOT in Bollywood by Subrata Das |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 19. Minimum Female roles = 15. Minimum total with doubling = 34. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Many characters may be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 86 minutes. [Estimated!] Dependent on the songs used. |
| Music | Suggestions for 8 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length play with music and dance, in five acts - although two act length, and with many settings. |
| Synopsis | This play portrays the kinds of struggles moderates face within the left and right-wing political parties in India. Malati and Praveen, have had opposing political views since their days growing up together in a village, but enjoyed a romantic relationship. Despite his love for politics, Praveen still dreams about being a Bollywood actor... and the play explores the voices of rich, middle class, and poor people, obstacles within families for women in politics, and extreme political rhetoric. |
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| Once Upon A Witch by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Characters include a dragon and a hand puppet! |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for six songs, with new lyrics to a couple. (Others could be substituted at the discretion of the production team.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime - a fantasia on fairytale themes! |
| Synopsis | Once upon a time, Fairyland is in a financial pickle and has had to downsize its workforce, meaning there can be only one prince, princess, wolf and witch to tell every story. To make matters worse, the Fairyland storybook is missing and all the tales are getting tangled together. In the midst of this muddle, the wicked witch spies an opportunity to magic up a bad ending, but she can't do it alone... Could her spellbinding new apprentice, Aurora, hold the key to her destiny or does the girl have her own wish to fulfill? |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Once... by Raymond Blakesley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. Opportunity for large 'Greek chorus' delivering commentary on the action. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fable, partly narrated by newspaper reporters (in the style of The Times and The Sun), commentary by the chorus. Simple sets, simple costumes, emphasis on participation. |
| Synopsis | Upset at receiving a late invitation to Princess Rainbow's party, Beldesire curses the postman's son: his first kiss will turn him into a toad. That same postman's son later rescues the Princess from a Dragon, but how will they live happily ever after? |
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| Oncology by Stephen Scheurer-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. The chorus is a wating-room full of patients. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy drama fuelled by family (and medical) tensions. |
| Synopsis | Set in a clinic where Edna and her daughter wait for the results of a recent test, surrounded by a madcap collection of patients and relatives who have an underlying serious story to tell. |
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| One Breakdown Too Many by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A sketch, with a single simple set. |
| Synopsis | Hannah, and her tipsy friend Mary, have broken down on their journey home. Unfortunately for the man on the other end of the phone line, Mary is determined to help her friend make the call to the breakdown service. |
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| One Foot Under by Jordan Handford |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Reverend Goodwinks is presumed male but could be female. |
| Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy with a single living-room set. |
| Synopsis | Michael's already tense relationship with his in-laws is put under further strain at a funeral with a surprising finale. |
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| A One Hearse Town by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming monologue. |
| Synopsis | An Irish village is bereft of a spiritual centre since the Priest departed with a lady named Bridget. Luckily, the Pub now stands in the church's stead, offering solace, groceries, community and, of course, whiskey. |
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