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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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** 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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| 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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| Puss in Boots [Short Version] by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Includes a cat and an ogre, so nothing out of the ordinary. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy (not really a pantomime treatment, though this is frequently a panto subject). Several different locations, but no real set requirements, so can be staged very simply. |
| Synopsis | Jack, the Miller's youngest son, finds himself cast out when his father retires and hands over the business to his other two sons. With only a burning ambition to be a magician, a dream of marrying a princess and his cat for company, he sets out to make his fortune. After an inauspicious start to his great adventure, a misfiring trick results in the cat being far more useful than Jack could ever have imagined. |
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Puss in Boots [Version 2] by tlc Creative
Best Seller Performance by Huncote Amateur Theatrical Society won several 'Pantomime Alliance' awards in 2008 (including 2nd place in panto of the year). |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 31. Chorus. The usual pantomime juxtapositions are assumed - the Principal Boy is played by a girl, the dame is played by a man. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions with new lyrics are included in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length traditional British pantomime - a struggle between good and evil, a leavening of magic, a lot of jokes, a bit of slapstick and a talking cat. That sort of thing. |
| Synopsis | Jack, the miller's son has been left with just the family cat in his father's will and although he has great ambitions it is unlikely he will amount to much! Things soon change with the arrival of his Auntie Hettie and the revelation that Puss can talk (and look pretty fetching in a pair of boots)! Soon Jack, Auntie and Puss are embroiled in a complex scheme to persuade the King and Queen that Jack (masquerading as the Marquis of Carabas) is suitable husband material for the beautiful Princess. But first they will have to contend with a jealous noble suitor a pair of dastardly henchmen, and a hideous shape-shifting Ogre! |
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| Puss in Boots [Version 3] by Dave Jeanes |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. Cast include the usual pantomime juxtapositions (Dame played by a male, principal boy by a female) plus, of course, the hero is a talking cat! |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for songs (but not sheet music). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime, complete with a magical cat! Some complex - but rewarding! - plots and routines. |
| Synopsis | Swindled out of his rightful inheritance by his older brothers, Peter is left with a handful of coins and the mill cat. He rescues Princess Pamela from a kidnap attempt and becomes the Marquis of Carabas to win her hand. |
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| Puss in Boots [Version 4] by Lorraine Mason |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 12 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Funny British Pantomime - comedy, chaos and a communicative cat! |
| Synopsis | Fairy Poppins is in trouble - the Ogre Olaf has stolen her wand, and she's left with just a potion that'll make an animal talk. Lucky for Jack the miller's son, she chooses his cat, and soon he's on his way to riches, fame and true love. |
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| Puss in Boots [Version 5] by Luke Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. Variable chorus size at the Producer's discretion |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 12 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 full length pantomime. |
| Synopsis | A 'new look' Puss takes control in this staging of the story, and helps good defeat evil whilst allowing peasant boy Charlie to marry the Princess. |
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** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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