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| Tooling Around by Gene Washington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fifteen-minute monody - a play for one actor (so a monologue that is more than just a recitation). Comedy and pathos. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | The aftermath of a fatal attraction - in this case the attraction of the narrator's wife to the contractor they hired to renovate their house, or, more specifically, to his tool belt. Whilst grieving the loss of his wife, the narrator is determined to finish the renovation, despite it clearly being beyond his capabilities. |
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| The Tooth Fairy by Anthony Deacon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Cast includes a dinosaur. (And lots of fairies.) |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 5 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Original British Pantomime in two acts. |
| Synopsis | With Dino the friendly dinosaur, a wicked Queen, a knockabout Dame, a quartet of stupid henchmen and, of course, a handsome hero and a beautiful girl this original pantomime takes us to the land of the tooth fairies. Using children's teeth collected from beneath pillows they valiantly strive to fill a hole in their sky to keep out the evil ones who constantly chip away at the teeth. They are frustrated by the evil Queen Veneer, who is not what she appears, and her stupid henchmen Gum and Molar. As in all good pantomimes good defeats evil and Fairy Dentine weds his true love Fairy Fluoride. |
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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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| A Tour In The Vaults by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short light-comedy/drama. |
| Synopsis | A couple of tourists are waiting to take their tour in the city's vaults, unaware that the place is still haunted. |
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| Tourney by Paul Gisby |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. All the characters are adults. There are two non-speaking males (who dance in mediaeval armour!) who could be doubled by two other characters. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy drama (visual, physical, verbal). Simple sets - two basic locations. Simple props (if your idea of simple is swords and battleaxes). Fun for the wardrobe mistress, including armour! |
| Synopsis | It's a Mediaeval Re-enactment Society, so the constitution is based on feudalism. King Duncan is about to abdicate (to nurse his hernia) and has the right to appoint a successor. The choice comes down to Sir Roger, who has a pedantic obsession with the detail of mediaeval combat and Sir Eric, who wants to be Errol Flynn playing the Black Prince. And, with the connivance of Queen Veronica, it comes down to trial by combat. |
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| Towards the Light by Judith Ezekiel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One popular song suggested for diegetic use throughout the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act supernatural drama on a single set. |
| Synopsis | Twenty-year old Neil has given Poppy, a teenage runaway, shelter in his London flat. But Poppy senses the ghostly presence of a previous tenant and calls in a medium to exorcise the property. No-one quite realises the potency of Letitia, a heartbroken older spirit seeking reconciliation with her long-lost daughter. Love, laughter and dance bring in a final understanding between the two worlds and herald optimism for the future. |
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| Towser's Table by Pete Benson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 14. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 34. No chorus. A mixture of aduts, teenagers and a couple of slightly younger children. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy, structurally in one act, but with a run time that puts it into our full-length category. The author has combined satire, farce and affecting pathos to great effect. |
| Synopsis | A murder investigation with a difference sees Private Investigator Jack Doyle using narration and flashbacks in his quest to identify the perpetrator. |
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| Toxic by Chris Hicks |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. 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, dark, comic monologue. It's set in a bar, so might work particularly well in a sketch evening in a cabaret venue (tables and a bar), just by turning a spotlight on the actor at the bar. |
| Synopsis | Steven's criminal past would appear to be at odds with his new job, working in a pub. |
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Toys in Pieces - The T I P by Philip Bird (music Isabelle Michalakis)
Performance by Potteries Theatre Co. won the 'Originality and Imagination Award' at the Stoke-on-Trent Festival, 2010. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. Whilst there are twenty-five speaking roles, it would be possible to add additional toys and, particularly, rats. (Oh, and while we're at it, the characters include a seagull.) |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for three original songs (by Isabelle Michalakis) are supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Music play for performance by youngish children. |
| Synopsis | A daring group of toys set off on a mission to rescue a damaged toy from the Tip. They must race against the sunrise and a pack of hungry rats to succeed. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Traffic Stop by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short comedy play. Single set (or almost complete lack of set - the couple are, in theory, in a car, but this need only be indicated by a little movement), |
| Synopsis | An argumentative couple have difficulties with each other and a traffic cop on their way to an important appointment. |
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| The Traffic Warden by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch with no requirements for props or set (although could easily use a desk and a couple of chairs). |
| Synopsis | A candidate attends an interview for the role of Traffic Warden and is introduced to some details of the package on offer.
A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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