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| Missing Links by Peter Harrison |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 47 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act farce with a split stage setting comprising two living rooms. |
| Synopsis | The inadvertent use of the wrong type of mushroom, causing temporary amnesia, leads to marital confusions for a friendly foursome who forget who is married to whom. |
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| Mister Right by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comic dialogue (no set needed). |
| Synopsis | Two geeky friends, Vincent and Harry, both reckon the other has no chance of keeping a girlfriend unless they get rid of their favourite wall poster. |
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| Mitigating Circumstances by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Ten on-stage characters plus an offstage voice (better done live, but easy to double) |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A dramatic story told in a single set but in non-chronological order. |
| Synopsis | Simon's death was certainly caused by his heart condition, but Emma swapping his meds for vitamins didn’t help. After the funeral, her friends gather and discuss things that might have driven Emma to murder. |
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| Mixed Massages by Alan Robinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One of the characters is a non-speaking role - the literal butt of some of the jokes! |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] Intended to be played at frantic pace, so possible to run in 50 minutes! |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act farce with a single 'health spa' setting. Intended to be taken at a frantic pace, so could well be done in 50 minutes. |
| Synopsis | It's a busy day in the relaxation spa, with New Girl Tina struggling to come to terms with her new job. It's all complicated by a number of clients who've arranged liaisons, or mistaken the premises for.. .some quite different establishment. It's steamy and hairy, but funny too. |
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| Mixed-Up Cinderella by Karen Doling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. The usual principal boy (to be played by a girl), two ugly sisters (played by men) and rather a lot of rats and a couple of bounty hunters with the strange names of Ant and Dec. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions (plus some original lyrics) provided in the Producer's Copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Cinderella pantomime with a few new twists - such as the arrival of a pied piper. |
| Synopsis | Cinderella is put upon by her ugly sisters and wicked stepmother, but that's not her only problem - there's a pied piper lurking, and he hasn't been paid... |
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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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| Mixed-Up Mother Goose by Karen Doling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. The chorus appears mainly for the opening and closing songs. (The director could choose to make greater use of the chorus with additional songs and dances or to dispense with it altogether.) Otherwise, the usual pantomime juxtapositions, plus a cat! |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for five songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime for a small(ish) cast. A gentle, modern interpretation of a traditional story. |
| Synopsis | The tale of Mother Goose, swindled out of her golden egg-laying goose by her own desire for youth, but aided this time by Dick Whittington, on his way to London. |
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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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| The Mixer by Glyn Blakeborough |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The two main characters are of retirement age, but by no means decrepit! Two of the characters are voices on the phone, so could, conceivably, be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play, single set (in theory a domestic kitchen, but could easily be done in a 'black box' presentation). Walks a careful line of bittersweet tragic-comedy. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Peter and Edna have been waiting for three weeks for their bins to be emptied. Peter helps old Mrs Thorburn by putting her rubbish into the correct bins for collection, but it turns out he's been getting it wrong, and Mrs Thorburn is under threat of legal action... |
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| Mizmaze by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play - with some strong language. |
| Synopsis | A short, spine-tingling play based on the legend surrounding the mysterious, three hundred year old maze at the top of St. Catherine's Hill, Winchester. |
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| Mo by Tyler Mathews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 27. No chorus. The characters are a mixture of teenagers and adults. Could be played to age or by a youth theatre company. |
| Run Time | Around 125 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length drama. Multiple settings, but locations indicated by minimal furniture rather than realistic sets. |
| Synopsis | Mo is the boy who thinks - knows - he can fly. With an exceptional IQ but a difficulty fitting in, he battles prejudice, a dysfunctional foster family, school bullies and himself. With imaginative staging and a vividly powerful, atmospheric plot the play describes Mo's tortuous journey of self-discovery. |
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| Modern Santa by Colin Calvert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Whilst the Chairman and Mr. McCrumm are written male, the author has no objection to their gender being reassigned. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute skit. No specific set requirements, and no requirement for movement. (Could be done as a party-piece or front-of-curtain during a set change). Contains mild swearing and adult humour. |
| Synopsis | Santa appears before a committee vetting his application for seasonal work. (They suggest that his contract needs additional clauses.) |
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