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| Red Riding Hood [Version 3] by Luke Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. Chorus. Principal boy could also be female role. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Popular songs listed, for use at the Producer's discretion. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | This is a modern retelling of Red Riding Hood, with edgy and more adult humour than the original. |
| Synopsis | Grandma is trying to keep her rocking House Parties secret from Red and her brother Blue, so they don't stop bringing her free food. But trouble has arrived in the form of Mr Wolf and the wicked Razzi, his agent, who’s determined to get Wolf mega-star status by any means. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Red Riding Hood [Version 4] by Stephen Mercer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 24. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Variable chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 87 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Songs suggestions for 13 songs are provided with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A pantomime in two acts, with various settings. |
| Synopsis | A complete re-working of the traditional fairytale retains a nod to the original, in a fast moving show - with lots of pantomime ingredients! |
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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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Red Wine And Ice Cream by Karen Ankers
Production by Henlow Amateur Theatre Society won Best Actor award (Shayn Dickens) at RAFTA One Act Festival, 2017. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A powerful, serious one act play, staged on a simple single set. |
| Synopsis | Louise is having a lousy night out. After the theatre, her date abandons her when she won't commit to sleeping with him. Without money for a cab or bus, she's stuck in an alley behind the theatre... which just happens to be home to Chris - the son she gave up for adoption twenty years ago. |
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Red-Handed by Alan David Pritchard
WINNER, Miracle Makers International Film and Writing Festival, July 2021, Stage Play Category, Las Vegas, USA |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act drama on a single (school store room) set. |
| Synopsis | Four boys sneak into the storage area where the exam papers are filed, but one boy betrays the others and locks them in. The three incarcerated boys must face their own demons as well as their problems with each other. |
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| Redd by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. Some of the characters are written with specific genders which can easily be changed! No formal chorus but the cast includes an unspecified number of dancers and members of a rock group. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play for kids. No set requirements. (A modern and very different take on the story of Red Riding Hood.) |
| Synopsis | Redd. No Little, No Riding, No Hood. Just Redd.
Brenda Hudd longs to be a 'celebrity' and appear in 'Wow!' magazine. Despite having no discernible talent in any direction, she determines that she will succeed in fulfilling her ambition. She takes advice from a range of questionable role models and finds herself being represented by theatrical agent, Flavius Wolf, who is keen to point out that talent is hardly a qualification in Celebland. Will Brenda, now re-branded as 'Redd' (with two Ds) master any of the skills she attempts or will she have to depend on Reality TV to be her salvation? |
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| Redundancy by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very short comedy sketch, with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | A much-loved character learns that his employer is going to 'have to let him go'... |
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| Refuge by B.J. Edwards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act drama set in a hotel cleaning cupboard. (The script implies a functioning door, but the effect might be achieved by lighting, minimising the set requirements.) |
| Synopsis | During a terrorist attack on a hotel, guests David and Kate hide together in a cleaning cupboard. |
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| The Regency Matchmaking Match by Damian Trasler & David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun mash-up of two recognisable settings makes for a good sketch that would fit well into variety nights. |
| Synopsis | It's the final ball of the season and the last chance for the Regency gentry to find their perfect partner. The commentary follows the events of their attempted matchmaking in the style of a football (soccer) match. |
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Regret Rien by Jackie Carreira
Finalist in the Kenneth Branagh New Drama Award 2012, first performed at the Windsor Fringe Festival as part of that award. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama in two minimal scenes, an outdoor café and the top of the Eiffel Tower. |
| Synopsis | Sons Will and Bob accompany their widowed mother Iris to Paris to fulfil their late father's last wishes. Each of them experience much more than expected as old enmities disappear. |
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| The Rehearsal by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, set, as you might guess, on a stage. A comedy of character and situation. |
| Synopsis | Daniel is rehearsing a crucial scene from his new play, but Millie and Mike, the two leads, are not being very co-operative. They don't like his last minute changes to the text, and they keep wondering where the rest of the cast is. |
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