All these scripts are suitable for adults. (Look at our kids pages if you are after scripts for youngsters.)
This section is about stage works of less than 20 minutes.
Many works at this length are comedy sketches, but by no means all!
Currently, we have
981 scripts in this category, all of which can be read in full on this site.
Click on the underlined text to see descriptions of the scripts. (From there, clicking on a title will take you to the script.)
Click this link to
browse through the whole collection.
You can jump straight to our
best sellers, or our
newly-published plays. Follow the links below
to narrow-down the search (including the search engines at the foot of this page)...
Running Shorts
0 to 5 Minutes
6 to 10 Minutes
11 to 15 Minutes
16 to 20 Minutes
(Caution:
Run-times are estimates from word-count.)
Sketches and Short Plays by Numbers
Plays that can be performed by companies of...
Male:
+
Female:
Shorts for more than 9 Males (and any number of females)
Shorts for more than 9 Females (and any number of males)
Large-cast short plays (with a chorus)
Shorts by Genre
Comedy
Farce
Mystery
Thriller
Whodunnit
Melodrama
Drama
Rhyming Scripts (excluding panto)
Rhyming Pantomimes (a special case!)
Shorts by theme
Other themes are available! (Use the themes block in the search engine.) These are just a few we've noticed.
Dickens
Ghosts
History
Illness
Science Fiction
Shakespeare
Theatre
You can narrow down your search within the sketches, skits and short plays by using the
Find A Few search engine
Or if you have very specific requirements, then, of course there's also our
Sketch and short play search engine