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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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| 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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| Puss in Boots [Version 6] by Bob Heather |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Music or song suggestions for 12 (out of 13) pieces are included in the Producer's copy of the script, with amended lyrcs provided for 2. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length traditional family pantomime. Originally released 2013, revised 2019. |
| Synopsis | Puss is instrumental in devising a plan for Mark, the poor Miller's son, to marry the beautiful Princess Rose. This is despite objections from the mean Queen and the evil deeds of Squire Skweezum. |
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Puss in Boots [Version 7] by Julie Petrucci and Chris Shinn
Performance of Puss In Boots won Best Pantomime 2014 in NODA East District 4 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Variable chorus size at the discretion of the production. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 15 Song suggestions 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, fun Pantomime - the traditional story with 21st century updates, and in various settings. |
| Synopsis | With his feline cunning and a bit of magic, Puss supports Jim as he takes on the persona of the Marquis of Carrabas - to defeat the evil giant Ogre and his sidekicks who are holding the villagers, and the Princess in his wicked grip. Assisted by Dame Delia and the Fairy, Jim is able to win the hand of the beautiful Princess... |
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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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| Puss in Boots [Version 8] by Stephen and Rachel Humphreys |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. The character numbers assume that two people play Daisy the cow. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script lists suggestions for 5 songs (including one nursery rhyme with alternative lyrics embedded in the script.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime with an original take on the traditional story of the talking cat. |
| Synopsis | Since Jack defeated the giant at the top of the beanstalk he and his mum Dame Doris are affluent at last. However, Mittens the evil cat who can think and talk is planning to take over the Kingdom which threatens their wealth and King Edgar's throne. His evil intentions are thwarted by the resourceful Puss in Boots aided by Daisy the talking cow. |
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| Pussycats by Kathleen Grotzinger |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama offering a thoughtful take on women in a male-dominated workplace, touching on serious issues while never feeling too grim. Well developed characters in a majority female cast. |
| Synopsis | In Missouri in the 1970s, Lori works as a 'Mama Cat' - a manager for the Casanova Club. She's been waiting for her opportunity to break the glass ceiling and become an executive, and that opportunity finally arrives after one of the 'Kittens' is assaulted at a party - but can she bring herself to do everything she's asked? |
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| Putting it About by Sue Gowers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy. A single-set British farce, complete with multiple practical doors, behind which lurk multiple practical (and emotional) problems! |
| Synopsis | Though married, Danny is keeping a harem of ladies on the boil, including his step mother in-law. They all arrive at the house on the same afternoon, and he manages to keep them separate until his younger brother Matt arrives to throw a spanner in the works. |
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| Pyramus and Thisbe by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Characters include a wall, a lioness, a statue and a mulberry tree. Aside from that, they are all normal. (Whilst there are three female characters - four if you count the lioness - they could, in Shakespearian fashion, be played by lads.) |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama (played for comedy) in which the protagonists speak Latin and the narrators, where necessary, translate. |
| Synopsis | The story of Pyramus and Thisbe is most familiar to modern audiences through Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' - rehearsed during the play and performed by the Mechanicals at the end. The Latin tale - from which Shakespeare drew his story - is from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
The story is of two lovers separated by their parents and a wall. Arranging to meet, but dying in the process. |
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| Quadrille by Robert Kibble |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama in a single simple set (the ubiquitous park bench). |
| Synopsis | Andy and Cassie recently met Rich and Yvonne on holiday, and they all began straying away from their partners. Over one afternoon in Green Park, the various relationships meet their resolutions. |
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| The Quality of Mersey by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 41. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very flexible one-act play for kids. No specific set requirements. A series of historical episodes, linked mainly by character and place (so some episodes might be skipped). Opportunities for music and dance to be added. |
| Synopsis | A comic dramatisation of the history of Liverpool (European Capital of Culture 2008) - from Mammoth-skin Moccasins to Shopping in Pyjamas. |
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| Quanto Sei Bella by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | How to categorise this? Short drama? A play about relationships with a mild dose of magic realism? Single (minimal) set and a few props. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Dave is managing the kids' football team while Pete's off sick, and he's glad Carol has popped into the changing room to pick up her son's boots, because he has something odd to ask his old friend. How will Carol react when she finds out Dave has got something back that everyone thought had been lost forever? |
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