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| Henry VIII Meets His Match by Roger Hurn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An assembly piece for schools with simple settings, based on an old folk tale. |
| Synopsis | Henry VIII decides to make an example of an Abbot living the high life so sets him the task of solving three riddles within a year and a day. The Abbot hasn't a clue, so sends a clever shepherd, who is his double, to answer for him. |
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| Henry's Magic Jam by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions - female playing principal boy, male playing dame - plus a pantomime dog. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of suggested songs is provided in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Original story, but traditional pantomime format - lots of jokes and a pantomime dog! |
| Synopsis | Henry Logg's jam has a magic ingredient that stops people aging - and the villainous Ebenezer Grunge is after the formula. It's down to Tom, the hero, to save the day (and win the hand of Henry's daughter, Anna) with the help of Billy, the apprentice, Dame Lucy Lastic and Hopsack, the pantomime dog! |
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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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| Here I Sit All Alone, I Think I'll Play My Xylophone by Martin Alcock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice. |
| Run Time | Around 135 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length drama, with a single (theatre dressing room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Once famous comedy duo Wild and Wooley have been relegated to dead end provincial panto. They are excited to learn that their new agent has negotiated a possible television show for them when their erstwhile, crooked agent turns up - to rain on their parade with secrets from the past. They deal with his blackmail in a surprisingly shocking way, after which they are able to come to terms with the past and go forward to a brighter future. |
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| The Heretic Queen by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two of the characters are boys (age unspecified). |
| 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 Eight in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. The painter El Greco challenges the Lord High Admiral of the Spanish navy to a chess match on the eve of the launch of the Armada to invade Queen Elizabeth's England. (The other El Greco - the chess master - takes notes!) |
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| Herself by Joanne Higginson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama with a single (hospital room) setting. Some strong language and adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Teenager Brooke is in a coma and family and friends are encouraged to talk to her but feel that she can’t hear them. On the contrary, she hears them clearly and is frustrated that she is unable to speak or react to them. |
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Hi Santa, Remember Me? by Trevor Suthers
Winner of the 'Pint-Sized Plays' competition, 2008 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The (silent) barman is written male, but need not be. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute dark comedy play. Single (simple barroom) set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Trying to have a quiet drink in his off-season, Santa is accosted by someone claiming to be his biggest fan, but who actually has a complaint to make... |
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| Hickory Dickory Dock by Luke Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. It's a pantomime, make your own mind up as to who plays what, especially as the characters include mice and spiders. (The chorus numbers are very flexible, including the Grand Old Duke of York's regiment.) |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 14 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with a neat original story built around nursery rhyme characters and a wicked spider. |
| Synopsis | People and animals are going missing, and it's up to Little Miss Muffet, brilliant detective, to find them! Before long it's clear that Arachnia, the evil Spider Queen, is behind the disappearances and has her sights set on world domination! |
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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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| High Hopes by William Campbell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. For a tall actress. (But in the absence of a tall actress, just saw the legs off the furniture.) |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A monologue, in which the actress takes on various roles. |
| Synopsis | Leonora is a significantly tall woman who has experienced frequent verbal abuse in the workplace because of her height. She relives past incidents, both imaginary and real as she prepares for her next job interview. |
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| High School Hindsight by Scott Haan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. The central character appears at three different ages - adult and two younger selves. Others appear at two ages. Lots of flexibility in the way this could be presented, but the basic assumption is school-aged performers! Extras could be added. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play. Three locations, but simple to stage. |
| Synopsis | Bobby is having a hard time at High School, particularly with the bullying antics of Dirk, but an adult called Robert is here to help him out. He explains Bobby is dreaming his day, but Robert is Bobby from the future, to give him some words of wisdom that will help and surprise him. |
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High Steaks by Andrew Bawn
Production by Chelford Players won the Adjudicator's Award at the Wilmslow Festival of One-Act Plays 2019 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Three characters are written as female, but can be male. One character is an off-stage voice only. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with two simple (park and garden) sets, suitable for adult or child actors. |
| Synopsis | Buster the dog fancies himself as a criminal mastermind, despite being slightly dim. With some help from his friends - Roxy, Max, and Smokey the cat - he might get away with daylight robbery. |
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