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| Penny Black by Rob Wellington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An action packed farce that takes us to 221B Baker St in 1898 and to a secret house just roundthe corner. |
| Synopsis | The story of how Holmes Hardy, the postman, became Sherlock Holmes, the world famous detective. It tells of how he managed to get the money to support his opium and violin habit without having to work, of how Dr Watson Hardy, Holmes's hapless brother, sex therapist and practitioner in the treatment of sexual deviancy, became his partner and how Maurice (Morrie) Hardy, the older, evil brother became Holmes’s arch enemy. The desperate search for a secret formula written on the back of a Penny Black stamp involves not only the Hardy boys but their dotty parents and the sinister Russian Misha Ivanovich, who all have secret pasts which unfold before us with increasing riotous action. |
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| People Could Die by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Whilst the two characters are women, they might be played as women by men in non-glamorous drag. (British people with long memories are invited to contemplate Les Dawson in this context.) |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch, requiring very little in the way of scenery and props. |
| Synopsis | Dorothy and Sylvia are in the doctor's waiting room, contemplating their state of health (and everyone else's)... |
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| The People's Act of Literature by Rupert Haigh |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play - a comedy drama. Single simple cafe location. Contains swearing (and acting). |
| Synopsis | Two friends get into a discussion about theatre after one of the men starts learning to write from a local author. Set in a diner, they attempt some improvisation and, after getting some help from the waitress, life begins to imitate art and vice versa. |
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| Perceptions by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play set on a park bench. This would be a romantic comedy, if only Alan and Dianne would let it. |
| Synopsis | Alan sits on a park bench next to Dianne. They both have misleading impressions of the other until, awkwardly at first, they begin a conversation. Things develop between them in completely different directions from their first impressions. |
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| Percy and The Holy Grail by Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Variable chorus size at Producer's discretion |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A pantomime with a good take on the Arthurian storyline. |
| Synopsis | When King Arthur is poisoned by his evil half-sister Morgana, only a drink from the fabled Holy Grail will save him. With all the knights proving unequal to the task, can young Percy master his urge to ask questions, find the Grail and win his girl? |
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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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| The Perfect Couple by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch, set in a living room. |
| Synopsis | Whilst comparing their idyllic marriage with that of other couples' relationships some surprising home truths come out. |
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| Perfect Duck by Paul Gisby |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Two of the characters have brief non-speaking roles. All characters are adults. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full length drama with a lot of comedy. Mainly one set, with an episode in another location (which could be created by lighting and props). A couple of unusual props! Contains swearing and mild adult themes. |
| Synopsis | JJ and Bobby are trying to build up their hotel business. She's the New Age consultant, running life-changing courses with the help of Sam the beauty therapist. He's the chef, preparing the gourmet food and trying to breed the perfect duck. The trouble is, something keeps stealing the ducks, and the hotel guests are in for more than they bargained for - with the possible exception of Ivan, who is in danger of leaving with less than he brought... |
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| The Perfect Princess and the Wonky Wizard by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One of the characters is a unicorn. For the purpose of counting roles, we have assumed this requires one actor, but of course it might be played as a full skin costume, like a pantomime horse. (The narrator might double as the unicorn.) |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | An optional song is suggested in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short fairytale for children's theatre, with an original story. |
| Synopsis | Wilhelmina the Wicked Witch is holding Spoony the Uni, a unicorn, prisoner in an enchanted forest - which is no longer enchanted due to Walter the Wonky Wizard casting the wrong spell! Two owls, Joey and Snowy, and a young crow, Pickles, team up with Princess Arabella on her quest to rescue Spoony. |
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| Perfect Pupil by Mark Billen |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children - either to be played by children or by a mix of adults and kids. Whilst the roles are biassed towards the male, it could be adjusted to other mixes. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play for schools. |
| Synopsis | Fed up with dreadful reports of failing schools, the Department for Schools comes up with a brilliant idea - develop a robot pupil to carry out inspections and provide reports, but make it incapable of writing a bad report. Of course, it doesn't take long for things to go wrong. |
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| The Perils at Peddler's Cove by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Murder mystery peopled with eccentric - and suspicious - characters. One set with additional front-of-curtain scenes. |
| Synopsis | Letters from a lawyer summon a group of people to a remote island, apparently for a weekend house-party, but then one of the guests is murdered. |
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