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| Bottoms Up! - The Panto by Hilary Ayshford |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 117 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy contains suggestions for nine songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime. |
| Synopsis | A full length panto take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mixing Shakespearean quips with modern day humour, the play features spells going awry, misplaced love and plenty of confusion, culminating in a wedding to remember. |
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| A Bouquet For Bethany by Jim Hollingsworth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The vicar is written male, but could be female (the author suggests a name change for that casting). |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun one-act comedy with good roles from 7 actors and a single interior set. |
| Synopsis | On the eve of her wedding, Bethany sends her brother to buy two bouquets - one for herself and one for their grandmother's grave. But when Ethan lays the wrong bouquet on the grave, he must retrieve it without being mistaken for the local graveyard robber. Matters are complicated by visits from the vicar and the police and Bethany getting drunk on her surprise hen night. |
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| The Bourbons and Other Crackers by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. Characters are mainly adults, intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A rolling series of humorous sketches - no specific set requirements, simple props (give or take Bonny Prince Charlie's boat). |
| Synopsis | A complete history of monarchy, in entirely the wrong order and with all the boring bits left out. King Alfred does a turn as a TV chef, Mary Queen of Scots does porridge, Elizabeth goes shopping, Henry V takes a holiday, Tutenkhamen gets a visit from the architects and Ethelred never quite makes it. |
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| The Box by Alan Tibbles |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. In addition to the seven human characters, there is a crucial role for Winnie the cat! |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy drama set in an English kitchen in the 1960s. Contains a modicum of swearing. |
| Synopsis | Mr and Mrs Parker want to move into a smaller house so the children will get their own places, and the kids wonder if they dare move out or whether the parents would miss them too much. Is the mysterious box Dad found in the garden the answer? Or is it just some old junk Grandad hid? |
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| Boy by Janice Sampson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy duologue with a simple single setting in a park. |
| Synopsis | Featuring Boy, a rather foul mouthed assertive West Highland Terrier, and the timid young woman who is dogsitting whilst his owners are away. Disgruntled with the way in which he is being cared for, Boy deliberately disobeys the young woman and, using very adult language, lets the audience know just how he feels. As the tussle for superiority progresses the roles become reversed ending in a newly subservient Boy being dominated by the young woman who, as a result of Boy's behaviour, has found a new self-assurance. |
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| A Boy and A Snow Ball by Susan Vesey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. This is a pantomime. You can make your own mind up about which gender of actor plays which character! |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for songs (but not sheet music). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime based on an original interpretation of the story of Snow White and the Seven something-or-other. Jokes, slapstick and mayhem! |
| Synopsis | Many years ago tragedy struck the Kingdom of Snowdonia, leaving baby Princess Snow White an orphan. The beautiful but wicked Queen who took over as Regent now plans to trick Snow White into signing over her kingdom permanently when she marries Prince Kevin. There is only one problem: Snow White and Prince Kevin can't stand the sight of each other so the Queen comes up with another plan involving a poisoned apple. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| A Boy and His Cat by Susan Vesey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 33. Chorus. Lots of pantomime juxtapositions possible, plus cat, dog, rats, woodland creatures and the appearance (possibly the first) of the pantomime octopus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs, including some original lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime. |
| Synopsis | The story of Dick Whittington re-told in Panto style with a dog, a cat and numerous rats.
A novel (science fiction!) twist on the story, in which Dick is tricked into a body exchange and has to clear his name and regain his own body in time to marry his true love. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| A Boy and Some Beans by Susan Vesey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Characters include the usual pantomime assortment (Dame, usually played by a man, Principal Boy, usually played by a girl) and a pantomime cow. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Eight songs suggested. Original lyrics to some of the songs are included in the producer's copy of the scripts. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British Pantomime (magical characters and events, parodies, silliness and general mayhem!). Note that some of the scenes are optional and can be left out without harming the plot! |
| Synopsis | To pay the rent on the family home, Jack has to sell the beloved cow. On the way home he gives the money to a crone in exchange for a magic bean and falls in love with the daughter of the Baron who's demanding the rent in the first place. Fast forward to the next day and the whole crowd are up the giant beanstalk to discover a smallish giant who hasn't been eating the girls sent up to him on their twenty-first birthdays, but has been treating them in his theme park, Ogreland. Thus Jack's long-lost sister is now, in fact, the Giant's wife, and even the Baron's wife is still alive and kicking. She redoes the Baron's accounts and finds enough money that everyone is let off rent for a year and Jack can marry his girl. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Boy Band by Margaret Histed |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters are all vampires and all members of a 'boy band'. (So, whilst there are only four of them, offstage there are hordes of screaming fans!) |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for a teenage cast. Single (minimal) 'back-stage dressing room' set. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
| Synopsis | The four members ofO Positive are talking after their latest gig - should they be higher in the charts than number forty nine after two hundred years together? Should they wear something other than black? Should they have let their fifth member leave? Pop is hard on vampires too... |
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| Boysenberry Park by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Two adult couples, each with a teenage child. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play about teenagers and their long-suffering parents! Single set (indicative of a forest clearing). |
| Synopsis | Two families find themselves sharing the same clearing on a camping trip, and things quickly deteriorate between them. The peacemakers come as a surprise. |
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