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| Rosie by Paul Bovino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Juliette is anxious for her feisty grandmother Rosie to meet and approve her new boyfriend, Jacob, who is considerably older then her. A previous connection between Jacob and Rosie is slowly revealed, much to Jacob’s consternation. |
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| Rossetti's Women by Joan Greening |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three roles. Written to be played by one actress, but could be performed by three. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | The three women describe their relationships and contrasting lives, shared with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Their emotions are gradually revealed - through which he captured their hearts and minds. In such a different era to the present day, the Pre-Raphaelites were a force to be reckoned with. |
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| A Round Turn & 3 Half Hitches by Nick Hibberd |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two-act farce - misunderstandings, unexpected revelation of secrets, sexual misconduct and all that - set on a cruise ship. (One main set, interspersed with front-of-curtain scenes.) |
| Synopsis | Nicola and her friend Tara are on a cruise ahead of Nicola's son's wedding. But it turns out a very old flame of Nicola's (who may be her son's father) is also on the cruise. Worse, his daughter is about to marry Nicola's son! |
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| Round, Round by Linda Stephenson and Alison Hudson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Chorus size may be adjusted at Producer's discretion |
| Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act fantasy adventure for children. |
| Synopsis | Step brother and sister Carl and Becky discover an old magical carousel, which takes them back in time to 1919. Their adventure enables them to rescue Lucy and Joe from the clutches of their evil step father. In the process they are able to reconcile themselves to their own new relationship. |
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| Royal Wedding Assembly by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute presentational play for a school class. |
| Synopsis | A potted history of the monarchy of Great Britain leading up to the Royal Wedding of William and Kate. |
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| Royals in Love by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Whilst the characters are nominally older, this is could easily be performed by a junior group. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Light romantic comedy. Two scenes, but requiring furniture only (assuming that the definition of stage furniture runs to a fallen tree). |
| Synopsis | It's not easy for Prince Gerald and Princess Wendy to accept the court's rigid protocol and whenever they can, they sneak away. When they meet, both conceal their true identity, but things get complicated when Gerald resolves to propose. |
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| Rubbish by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming comic monologue. No set or props required.
Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
| Synopsis | A review (part of a revue) of the changing attitudes to waste and recycling. |
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Rue De Cliché by Susie Casson
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch for two actors, set in a (minimalist) café. |
| Synopsis | Max and Alex have been friends for years, and when they catch up, they always have something new to say - though not necessarily new ways to say it. |
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| Rumpelstiltskin by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. The usual panto characters plus an unusual creature. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the arrival of the pantomime elephant. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 11 songs, plus a lyrical tweak. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with a story from the Grimm collection folded into a very satisfactory panto shape. |
| Synopsis | Donna wants to marry Justin Tyme, her watchmaker boyfriend, but thanks to her mum's boasting she's having to spin straw into gold for the greedy queen. Rumpelstiltskin helps her out, but she has to marry him unless she can discover his name before the wedding. |
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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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| Rumpelstiltskin - What's in a Name by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Thirteen speaking parts and one non-speaking. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for kids - a comic retelling the German folk-tale, Rumpelstiltskin. |
| Synopsis | Mirko the Miller faces a prison sentence for failing to pay his taxes. He tries to impress the King and Queen by claiming his sister, Anezhka, can spin gold from straw. She is brought to the palace to attempt the impossible feat, whereupon she meets a little man with magic powers who can help her out - but only if she offers him her first-born child... |
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