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| Psychic Babble by Stephen Scheurer-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy on a single hotel bar set. Can be performed alongside, and share a set with, its sister play One Mistake. |
| Synopsis | Aspiring psychic Jim joins his new girlfriend Sandra and her friends Vera and Marjorie for a pub quiz, and tries to predict the answers. He hopes to impress Sandra enough for her to invest in his business. |
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| The Psychotherapist In Spite Of Himself by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comical farce in one act and one (simple, domestic) set. |
| Synopsis | Ronald wants to marry Janey, but he thinks she's worried about his acting career. He poses as a psychotherapist to see if he can convince her that he's a good actor - and ends up taking on her entire family's emotional problems in one very busy day. |
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| Pub Lunch by Graham Andrews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute monologue. (We're in Bennett territory, with enjoyably camp sass.) |
| Synopsis | Maurice recounts going out for a meal with his mother. It was bad enough when his portion of Thai green curry was disappointingly small, but then Mother dropped a revelation about her personal life. |
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| Puppycock's Demons by Graham Dillistone |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 88 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length supernatural comedy on a single (living room) set. Adult themes. |
| Synopsis | John and Mary live with Mary’s mother, a stalwart in the church of the Universal Tabernacle. Mary’s always hoped John would assert himself a bit more, but now it seems that something demonic has got into him. |
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| Puppylove dot con by Sarah Cowan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 30. Minimum Female roles = 18. Minimum total with doubling = 48. Minimum total without doubling = 50. No chorus. Characters are 12 members of staff and 36 (or more) pupils. (Obviously could be played entirely by kids or could be mixed as per the script.) |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The play suggests 17 musical tracks to accompany the show. (Some of these cover scene changes, others are background or are for dances. How they are used will affect the run time!) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Secondary school comedy. One-act structure but could be split by an interval. Contains some bad language and occasional less-than-flattering views of teachers! |
| Synopsis | An hilarious glimpse into the goings on in a school preparing for the annual school dance. Once the usual staffroom grumbles are over the teachers get down to their favourite break time activity of browsing dating websites. Discovering what the staff are up to, the pupils are inspired to create their own in-school dating agency to provide partners for the dance The resultant manipulation and mix ups finally bring organiser Hazel and lovelorn Eric together in a spectacular finale which includes a comic comeuppance for school bully James. |
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| The Purse by E. Bert Wallace |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 53 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act commedia dell’arte play on a single (village square) set. US English. |
| Synopsis | In a small Italian town in days of old, Arlecchino, a happy but none-too-bright servant, tries to keep the peace between his miserly master, Pantalone, and Dottore, a tipsy scholar. Dottore’s son Fabrizio returns from the University and promptly falls in love with Pantalone’s beautiful young wife, Isabella. Meanwhile, the bragging Capitano and his villainous sergeant Brighella arrive, seeking to con the town. |
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| The Pursuit Of Perfection by Anna Tyrie |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act fantasy play |
| Synopsis | Told through the eyes of twins and their mother, the play examines prejudice - set in an Orwellian world in which the 'natural crop' becomes dominated by those of 'perfect' genetically modified breeding. |
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| Puss in Boots (Full Cast) by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. Characters include an ogre, a talking cat and a pantomime donkey! Dame assumed to be played by Male, Principal Boy by Female. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music to two songs and a set of simple fanfares supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. Other songs suggested in the production notes. |
| Style | British Pantomime. Strong characters, packed with puns, sight gags, running jokes and slapstick. |
| Synopsis | Tom, the hero, is bequeathed a cat in his father's will. An unusual cat. A cat with the gift of the gab. A gift for getting Tom into trouble - and out of it again in his quest to marry a princess. |
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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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| Puss in Boots (Small Cast) by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. King can double as the Ogre. We assume that Harry (the hero) is played by a man and puss is played by a woman. (But this is pantomime, so make your own mind up!) |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One original song score provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. Other song spots listed in the script, to be used at the discretion of the producer. |
| Style | Traditional pantomime, with jokes, slapstick and magic. |
| Synopsis | Harry, the miller's youngest son, inherits the magical talking cat (who refuses to answer to 'Tiddles'). Harry falls for the princess, but to win her hand, he has to confront the ogre in a battle of magical transformations. |
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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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| Puss in Boots [10-Minute Version] by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Nine on-stage character and the off-stage voice of an ogre. Some of the characters are written with a particular gender but it's a pantomime, so anyone can play anything. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for two songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short, pacy, funny pantomime treatment of the traditional story. Two song suggestions. |
| Synopsis | Schrodinger the cat is inherited by miller's son Norris, and soon puts into action a plan to win his master the hand of a princess, all while dealing with a shape-shifting ogre. |
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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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