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| Rhyming Red Riding Hood by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. (Could involve more people by using multiple narrators or having the actors mime the actions and someone else speak their words.) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Not so much a pantomime as a humorous horror story for children! Told in rhyming couplets, including a brief nod to Monty Python. |
| Synopsis | Red Riding Hood is getting in her mothers way, and is sent off to visit her grandma. Unfortunately, a wolf gets to grandma's house first - unfortunately for the wolf, as he more than meets his match. |
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Rhyming Snow White by Richard Coleman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Numbers are very flexible. There are nominally seven gnomes (not dwarfs in this version!), but this number could be shrunk or expanded. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A simple, humorous rendition of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in verse. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | On the run from the wicked queen, Snow White becomes housekeeper to a bunch of diminutive miners. The queen finds her and poisons her, but Snow White is saved by a handsome prince. The sort of thing that could happen to anyone. |
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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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| Rhyming Storyteller by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple story, told in verse. Minimal set and props. |
| Synopsis | A group of children are bored with stories with moral endings. The Storyteller introduces the tale of the perfect girl who comes to an imperfect end. (Based on 'The Story Teller' by Saki.) |
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| Rhyming Three Little Pigs by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Characters are, as you might expect, all wolves and pigs! |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple verse play. No set requirements, a few simple props. |
| Synopsis | It's the age-old battle of wolf against pig, only nowadays all that huffing and puffing has stopped and the wolves have become confidence tricksters. Meanwhile, some of the pigs have become fat and lazy - easy pickings - but finally the wolves are confronted with a choice of fresh bacon or vegetarianism... |
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| Rhyming Three Sillies by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | The story of The Three Sillies told as a simple verse play. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A prince discovers that his fiancée comes from a family totally lacking in common sense. He resolves to marry her only if he can find three sets of sillier people. |
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| Rhyming Two Sisters by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Characters include a talking cow and, even more unusually, a talking tree! |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short morality tale, told as a verse play. |
| Synopsis | Joan and Jill are sisters, one helpful, one unkind
To seek their fortunes in the world is what they have in mind
But though they set out boldly, alas there is a hitch
Whilst out to see what they can do, they meet a wicked witch! |
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| Rick Risk P.I. by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A spoof detective noir comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | In an amusingly cliché ridden roller coaster way Private Investigator Rick Risk meets the glamourous Somer Field in his search for Mr Big. But is Miss Somer Field quite what she seems? |
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| A Right Old Scream by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch requiring only a couple of chairs (so could be performed front-of-curtain between more complex pieces). |
| Synopsis | Judith and Mavis are on a day out. They have an unexpected cultural experience whilst sheltering from the rain, when an art gallery gives them something to Munch on... |
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| The Right One by Ged Quayle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama, tinged with black comedy in a single, simple set (another starring role for the park bench.) |
| Synopsis | An unlikely couple meet at dawn in a park. One of them is a murderer, looking for a potential victim... |
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| Ring Finger by E. C. Chapman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dramatic monologue (not for the squeamish) in a single set (it really only needs a bedroom chair). |
| Synopsis | Elizabeth travels with a childhood friend to The Pyramids where the old moral to 'be careful what you wish for' takes a violent and unexpected turn. |
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