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| Witch Hunt by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. All the characters are adults, but the play is intended for teenagers. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for one original song supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | One act play with very basic props and no requirement for scenery. Lots of work for the chorus. |
| Synopsis | When an old woman moves into a cottage, she is initially greeted with hostility, however her knowledge of basic medicine gains her the respect of the local community. Trouble starts when there is famine and sickness, and the old woman is accused of witchcraft. |
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| Witch/Ghost by Giles Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy in a single set. |
| Synopsis | Graham just wants to get his presentation sorted, but he's being plagued by the ghost of a genuine witch from the 1600s who wants his help escaping her diabolical contract, and his own diabolical wife whom he can't escape. |
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| Witchwood by Mark Rudd |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 15. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with suggestions for seven songs plus a simple piano score for an overture. |
| Style | Darkly comic fantasy for a (mixed-age) company of kids. A world of goblins, elves and talking trees. |
| Synopsis | Would you go down to the woods today?
Hannah is trying to evade some bullies when she runs into the Wood and finds she can't get out. Befriended by a woodcutting Goblin and pursued by witches, Hannah has to cope with some very trying times before she can find her way home.
I talk to the trees and in this case, they answer! |
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| With Friends Like These... by Pat Baker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. The setting is a school re-union, so whilst there is no formal chorus, there could be other actors milling-about, doing whatever it is people do at school re-unions. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act murder mystery play. Single set (school hall with no specific features). Contains mild swearing. (Also contains murder.) |
| Synopsis | A bunch of old classmates meet at a school reunion. Classmates, but not necessarily friends. Everyone seems to hold a grudge against Carol, but whose thoughts have turned to murder? |
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| With Garibaldi In Rome by Peter Parkinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Most of the characters are adults, with one eleven-year-old boy. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Historical drama with multiple locations in Rome indicated largely by lighting and furniture. |
| Synopsis | Eleanor Chadwick is in Rome, looking for answers to her husband's death as the city is liberated from the Pope's authoritarian rule. But the French besiege the city and Eleanor finds more than the answers she sought. |
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Within Required Parameters by Kelly Read
Production by Woodhouse Players won the 'Best Stage Presentation' award at the 2014 Waltham Forest Festival of Drama. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two on-stage characters plus an off-stage voice. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama set in the side-room of a hospital ward. |
| Synopsis | Martin is in hospital, awaiting surgery that will prevent another heart attack, but he's more worried about his wife. She has Alzheimer's, and his niece is trying to look after her. He needs his operation, and he needs to get home, but there's a problem with his insurance... |
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| Without Trace by Mark Seaman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act thriller with adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Sixteen year old Amy Mason is missing from her family home. Her parents, Claire and Brian, are discussing Amy's disappearance and their relationship with her as they wait for the police to arrive. Is it just the rebellion of a frustrated teenager that has led to Amy leaving, or is there a more sinister reason for her disappearance? |
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| The Wizard of Oz [Version 2] by Adrian Barradell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Aunt Em is the pantomime dame role (so usually played by a man). The chorus is assumed to include a number of children (playing the Munchkins). |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | All songs are at the discretion of the production. Please note that this is not the MGM musical of the Wizard of Oz, and the music from that version can only be used with the MGM script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English pantomime treatment of the L. Frank Baum Story. |
| Synopsis | The classic and much-loved tale if Dorothy's trip to the land of Oz, and her quest to return to Kansas (with the help of Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion, and, of course, the Wizard of Oz) is given a panto spin while keeping the charm and (mostly!) the plot of the original. |
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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 Wizard of Oz [Version 3] by J. Thaddeus Chesher |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 32. Minimum total without doubling = 40. Chorus. Variable chorus size at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 103 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for 8 songs are included in the Producer's copy of the script. Please note that this is not the MGM musical of the Wizard of Oz, and the music from that version can only be used with the MGM script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime with assorted settings. |
| Synopsis | Subtitled 'The Amazing Adventures Of Dorothy Gale In The Middling Kingdom Of Oz', this show was originally produced at Beijing Playhouse, and the land of Oz seems to have gained a distinctively Chinese flavour.
A refreshing new look at the old story, with many panto ingredients and characters, plus a talking Toto and an ever-present Aunt Em, the Dame character!
A free pack of artwork and subtitles is available to go with the script. (Remarkably, this translates toto's Barking into English.) |
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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
** Free Zip file containing artwork and subtitles for 'The Wizard of Oz [Version 3]' by J Thaddeus Cheshire. (Only for use with this script.)
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| The Wizard of Oz by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. The chorus is assumed to include a number of children (playing the Munchkins). |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for songs and dances. Please note that this is not the MGM musical of the Wizard of Oz, and the music from that version can only be used with the MGM script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Family show, with songs, visual jokes, physical comedy, wordplay. (Not strictly a British pantomime, but contains many panto elements, so would be at home in a panto season or at any other time!) |
| Synopsis | A tornado sends the farmhouse occupied by Dorothy Gale on an impromptu flight to the land of Oz, where she encounters Munchkins, witches, a scarecrow, a tin man and a lion in her quest to find the Wizard of Oz and return to her home in Kansas. |
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