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| Mrs Santa Claus's Tea Party by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. One of the few stage plays to offer lines to talking pies. Whilst many of the characters have a specific gender, it doesn't really matter for the purposes of casting. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for seven songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act (largely secular) Christmas play for children with no set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Mrs Santa Claus invites familiar Christmas characters to her annual tea party. Everyone joins in the spirit of Christmas as they sing and dance their way through the preparations for the big day. |
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| Mrs Smith Monologue - At Centre Parcs by Dominique Vaughan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Mrs Smith is a lady of uncertain years but definite opinions. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short character monologue. No set or props required. |
| Synopsis | Mrs Smith recounts her adventures on a family holiday to Centre Parcs |
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| Mrs Smith Monologue - Language by Dominique Vaughan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Mrs Smith is a lady of uncertain years but definite opinions. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short character monologue. No set or props required. Contains mild swearing and mild adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Mrs Smith has overheard some local gossip, which she is happy to share - along with her opinions on the art of appearing not to be listening, and her annoyance at the way meanings change. |
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| Mrs Smith Monologue - Michelle's Diet by Dominique Vaughan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Mrs Smith is a lady of uncertain years but definite opinions. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short character monologue. No set or props required. |
| Synopsis | Mrs Smith reviews timekeeping and her daughter's approach to a healthier lifestyle. |
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| Mrs Smith Monologue - My Day Out by Dominique Vaughan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Mrs Smith is a lady of uncertain years but definite opinions. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short character monologue. No set or props required. |
| Synopsis | An account of Mrs. Smith's holiday - a day trip to the Bluewater shopping centre. |
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| Mrs Stonely's Solution by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Victorian Melodrama (with a few contemporary references!) Simple sets, few props. A good vehicle for introducing children to melodrama! |
| Synopsis | Whilst Mr. Stonely spends his meagre wages at the pub, his children are desperately eating crumbs, and his wife is harassed by the rent collector. Forced to go out to work, Mrs. Stonely finds a cunning route to their salvation. |
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| Much Ado About Nothing [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Abridgement of William Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing', with every word remaining Shakespeare's.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Don Pedro, prince of Aragon, comes sweeping into town - along with his wayward brother, Don John, who is bent on making mischief. He finds his opportunity when he seeks to spoil the romance between Claudio (one of the Prince's knights) and Hero, the daughter of their host. Meanwhile, Claudio and Hero try to kindle a romance between Hero's cousin Beatrice and Claudio's friend Benedick, who everyone thinks made for each other - if they can ever get beyond their endless verbal sparring. |
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| Much Ado About Panto by Barry Wood |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 22. No chorus. Characters include a dancing bear and a pantomime horse called Graham. |
| Run Time | Around 117 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for six songs with Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with an original story incorporating characters (and an incredible number of lines) from Shakespeare's plays. |
| Synopsis | Borrowing characters and situations from the best of the Bard, this story presents a pair of star-crossed lovers, a king mistrusting his wife, girls disguised as boys (or foxes), a man with an ass's head and love triumphant. |
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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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| Much Ado About W... by Leo Finn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short panto-like, adult-themed farce. |
| Synopsis | Quickfire gags, mistaken identities and outlandish new fashion designs confuse the King into believing his unmarried daughter, Princess Grace is pregnant. Is effeminate fashion designer Sir Pryze at the bottom of this? And what has assistant Watt been up to? |
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| Much Ado About William by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Could be played by kids or by a mixed group of adults and children. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy play. |
| Synopsis | A harassed Shakespeare tries to complete a play while his Stratford family bring noise, combat and teenage strife into the room where he works, until the silent Bard can take no more. |
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