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The Willow Tree by Geoff Bamber
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Zhongwen's soldiers, are the chorus (in the sense of having indefinite numbers) but are non-speaking.
[As far as I can remember, this is the only story in which the hero is an accountant.] |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Humorous one-act play for kids, based on the legend of The Willow Pattern Plate. Multiple settings but minimal sets. |
| Synopsis | When Renshu the merchant finds himself seriously in debt to the fierce Island Traders, he decides to marry off his daughter Mingmei to the entirely disagreeable but extremely rich landowner Zhongwen. But Mingmei is in love with Chang, her father’s humble accountant. Mingmei and Chang flee to a remote island but soon Zhongwen, Renshu and the Island Traders are heading for the same island. Can Renshu's inventive servant, Ping, and the sorceress Li Hua give the course of true love a fighting chance? |
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| Willy Wonga by Connie Scott |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. 20 roles, though most are gender non-specific and can be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short modernised adaptation of A Christmas Carol, in rhyming form. |
| Synopsis | The tale of A Christmas Carol brought up to date and presented in a rhyming form, starring Willy Wonga, the unrepentant Payday Lender who's keen to get every last penny out of everybody he meets. Until, that is, this Christmas night... |
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| Wilma Tell - The Swiss Miss by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Eleven speaking parts and an unspeaking chorus of unspeakable townsfolk. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comic twisting for kids of the Swiss sixteenth century legend. A one-act play in length, though structurally in three acts. |
| Synopsis | Wilma Tell and her brother Johann travel to the prosperous Swiss town of Altdorf to make their fortunes. Unfortunately their arrival coincides with that of the forces of an expanding Austrian Empire, represented by the cruel Governor Gessler. Wilma, more by accident than design, soon finds the whole town depending on her to resist Gessler's attentions. |
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| Wind in the Willows - Or A Toad in a Hole by Lee Baddock & Chris Kirby |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Whilst most of the characters are nominally male, they are mostly animals, so you can make your own mind up as to who plays what! |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 9 songs and further pieces of incidental music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Staging of the Kenneth Grahame story, with some elements of British pantomime. |
| Synopsis | The classic tale retold panto-style, complete with Toad's caravan, the stealing of a motor car and the battle for Toad Hall, but with a few new faces along the way. |
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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 Windfall by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One (gender non-specific) character is voice only and can be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length farce with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | When an intruder drops dead in their Sudbury flat, Laura Barrett passes off the corpse as husband Neville and claims the life insurance, thereby solving their multiple financial problems. In return for a cut, neighbour Peter supplies a car so Neville can take refuge in Yorkshire while Laura deals with the sale of their flat. Long-suppressed feelings between Laura and Peter soon come to the surface, but all efforts to ‘cement their relationship’ seem doomed to end in frustration at the hands of the emergency services. |
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| Windmills and Millstones by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters and the offstage voice of their author. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play, exploring the life of fictional characters in the great maybe - before they have been committed to the page. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Three characters wait in the mind of an author who has abandoned their stories. They are joined by a new character who doesn't know her name or story. They try to prepare her for her new existence, not knowing she knows more than she's telling. |
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Window Pain by Patricia Gay
Performance by Buccaneer Theatre won the Douglas Hunter Rose Bowl in the Moray Firth District round of the 2023 SCDA one-act drama festival. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A bitter sweet comedy with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Brenda sits at her window, all morning, all afternoon and in the lighter summer evenings. She knows what the neighbours get up to, and all their secrets. But her neighbours have their own stories to tell, and those stories are very different to any of Brenda’s preconceived ideas. |
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| Windy Hollow by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Twelve Principals plus chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for seven songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Family show, designed to fill a similar slot to a British panto (but not sharing all the features of panto). 'Windy Hollow' is a show for all the family and for companies of all abilities with lots of opportunities for adults and children. |
| Synopsis | A wonderfully enchanting tale of woodland folk who allow us humans a glimpse into their world. This is a special gift as humans in the shape of supermarket developers are intent on destroying their habitat with their plans for a new superstore. Will Enoki's magic potions and Puffball's fairy charms frustrate these evil humans or will the woodland folk need human assistance in the form of the beautiful Chanterelle? Even the villainous Stinkhorn and her inept stooges Blewitt and Blusher have to put aside their wicked mischief to join the fight against the humans so that everyone can live happily ever after. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| The Wine Tasting by Ronnie Dykstra |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 31 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy thriller with a single (cottage interior) setting. |
| Synopsis | Unknown to his neighbours and acquaintances, Wesley harbours a deep grudge against them. He hosts an annual get-together to sample his large collection of wines, but this year the conviviality is particularly strained and Wesley uses his pharmaceutical knowledge to dole out his revenge. |
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| Wink by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute romantic comedy. Single simple set (just a table and two chairs to simulate a small café ). |
| Synopsis | Ted is waiting nervously for his 'wink' - a sort of pre-date date. His nerves are soothed by a helpful waitress who lets him in on some of the mysteries of womankind. When his wink doesn't even stay for coffee, Ted finds love anyway... |
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