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| King Arthur by Jilly McNeil |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for twelve songs. (Others could be substituted at the discretion of the production team.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Off-beat British Panto (with a bit of post-modernism thrown in!). |
| Synopsis | Merlin and Mrs Merlin are told by the Lady of the Lake that a boy will draw the sword from the stone and become King, but Morgana is determined to prevent it. Can young Arthur win both the sword and the heart of Guinevere? |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| King Arthur - Crisis at Camelot by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids (with scope for improvisation - or not, at the discretion of the production!) |
| Synopsis | When King Arthur sets out for yet another distant battle, he does not realise that his brilliant idea of entrusting temporary care of Camelot to his cousin, Sir Mordred, is going to backfire. In Arthur's absence Mordred decides that he wants the job on a permanent basis and that includes taking Queen Guinevere as well. Now, as we all know, damsels in distress inevitably attract heroic rescuers. Cue would-be knight Sir Lancelot. What Lancelot lacks in knightly skills he makes up for in enthusiasm. Unfortunately he cannot overcome Mordred and even the returning Arthur needs to turn to the mystic legends of Avalon in order to reclaim Camelot and his Guinevere. |
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| King Arthur - The Panto! by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Characters include a dragon. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Arthurian romance cast as British pantomime with lots of audience participation, slapstick, corny jokes, heroes and villains. |
| Synopsis | The show gets off to a storming start as the evil Morgana and her dragon battle with the elderly and forgetful Merlin. A romp through the story of Arthur and the sword in the stone, a heroic Sir Laughalot and a soppy love story thrown in for good measure. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The King Arthur Show [90 Minute Version] by David Edkins |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. There's a lot of flexibility in who plays what, especially when it comes to Henry the bipedal horse and the The Questing Beast (a terrible monster, snake head and leopard body). Production notes include how to swap two female characters to male, |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] Run time assumes the use of 8 songs. |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 8 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length pantomime for a small cast. (A longer version for a larger cast is also available.) |
| Synopsis | All is peaceful in the Kingdom of Camelot. No naughty knights have tried to take over for ages. If only King Arthur would stop trying to get a sneaky look at his present and a sneaky taste of his cake before his birthday. However, the evil Morgana is being a bit mean again, and only a man whose name definitely isn't Wayne can stop her. But beware the Questing Beast! |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The King Arthur Show by David Edkins |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] (some songs and dances might be omitted if run time is an issue). |
| Music | 7 songs are suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. There is also the option of including 5 dance numbers. (Some might be omitted to constrain the run-time.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length pantomime with a variety of settings. (A shorter version for a small cast is also available.) |
| Synopsis | The country is at peace, so King Arthur has returned the sword to the stone. But Mordred is making another attempt to take the kingdom, and has stolen Merlin’s magic and memory. It’s up to disgraced ex-knight Gawain to save the day! |
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| King Boleslav the Bumbler by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids. Nominally in 5 acts, but of one-act length and can be played continously. |
| Synopsis | King Boleslav has a very relaxed attitude to ruling his country. So relaxed that he is in danger of losing it when the Kingdom Inspection Team, led by the dreaded Countess Zaria, pay him a call. If the Countess is hoping to find a vital and dynamic monarch, a loving royal family and a powerful army, Boleslav knows that she is going to be sorely disappointed. It’s just as well that an enterprising and ambitious traveller hatches a plan to rescue the situation. |
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| King Charles and the Cheese by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. The chorus - patrons of the Royal Oak and members of the Roundhead army - is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Historical (in the acurate as a Hollywood epic sense of the word) comedy drama for kids, set during the English Civil War. |
| Synopsis | King Charles And The Cheese is the entirely (give or take most of it) true story of how a simple piece of cheese altered the course of English history. The English Civil War rages on but, after a heavy defeat at the Battle of Worcester, the would-be King Charles II attempts to make his way to, hopefully temporary, exile in France. In hot pursuit are Charles' enemy Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of All England and his Roundhead army Charles takes cover at the Royal Oak Inn but Cromwell and his men are upon him in short order. Is Charles doomed or can salvation be found in the Royal Oak's larder? |
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| King Henry IV, Part 1 [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. Most of the doubled roles are male (so the numbers without doubling are 18M, 2F, 3 Either), but of course you can cast whoever you like. There are options to increase the cast size with non-speaking court retinue. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 60-minute abridgement of the Shakespeare history.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | King Henry, two years after seizing the throne, is looking less secure as his erstwhile supporters, principally the Percy family from Northumberland, turn against him. The play follows the course of their rebellion until the decisive Battle of Shrewsbury. |
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| King Henry IV, Part 2 [60-Minute Abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 60-minute abridgement of the Shakespeare history.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | After the Battle of Shrewsbury, Falstaff is sent with Lord John of Lancaster to deal with the rebellion in the north. King Henry, who has been ill for some time, dies after a reconciliation with Prince Hal, who, as Henry V, abjures his former friendships. |
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| King Henry V [60-Minute Abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 60-minute abridgement of the Shakespeare history.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | King Henry is intent on reclaiming his entitlement to France. He invades Harfleur and then, with his troops exhausted and ill, wants to take his army to the English-ruled Calais - but the French bar his way and engage him in battle. On the fields of Agincourt, Henry achieves a surprising victory. |
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