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| Singulatitis by Troy Shearer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Dr. Swanson is written male but could be reassigned! |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute surreal comedy sketch, set in a doctor's surgery. |
| Synopsis | A man with extreme hiccups receives a strange and fateful diagnosis from his doctor. |
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| The Skateboard by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy/drama set on and around a bench. (An individual short play from the Chance Encounters collection.) |
| Synopsis | Two elderly ladies react to a skateboarder in the vicinity of their park bench. |
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| Skindeep Safari by David Lovesy & Brian Two |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch |
| Synopsis | Two tourists at the Safari park run into trouble and are helped by the park ranger |
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Skinny Cap to Go by Richard James
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch. Set in a coffee shop, but since there are no real set requirements, it could be done front-of-curtain to cover a set change in a sketch show. |
| Synopsis | A customer at a coffee shop just wants a coffee and a ham sandwich, but the barista has a few questions. Oh, and then a few more questions. |
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| A Slight Misunderstanding by Janet S. Tiger |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 0. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Easily stageable comedy skit, with minimal set/props and just two actors. Could make a good addition to a sketch night. |
| Synopsis | Many years ago, John’s wife Eleanor told him he should always strive to be the better man. He misheard it, and has strived to be the bitter man ever since. |
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| The Slim Blonde Beauty by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All characters are young adults. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short romantic comedy with two simple settings. |
| Synopsis | It starts with an ad in the free paper... Insecure Jack's search for the woman of his dreams has hit troubled waters. His friend Tom persuades him to try speed dating with hilarious (but ultimately satisfying) consequences. |
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Smokes by Mike Smith
Short-listed for the Sydney Short+Sweet festival, January 2009 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play - a mime with words. No props (which is rather the point!) The set is a door and a pile of chairs. Note that this is written in British English which differs from US English in one of its slang synonyms for 'cigarette'. |
| Synopsis | A man and woman discover one another while hiding from a book launch and looking for a cigarette. They resort to imagination for smokes and escape to the top of a mountain, before regaining their courage and rejoining the launch. |
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| So Long, Prince Charming by Molly McCluskey |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Max is written male, but the writer suggests that other interpretations would be possible. One of the female characters is a non-speaking cameo. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play. Genre? Well, George, the central character, wants this to be a romantic comedy, but Ingrid has other ideas. Single cafe setting. |
| Synopsis | George is a romantic, and determined to overcome Ingrid's reluctance with a muffin, his natural charm and a detailed explanation of his good points. Ingrid is in the cafe for the peace and quiet, but after a few minutes of George's company, she's ready to leave... with Max. |
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| Soccer School by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Additional extra cast members may be added in. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch, set in a classroom. |
| Synopsis | A privileged 'fly-on-the-wall' view of a classroom at Premiership Soccer School... |
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| Some People Like To Gossip by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Mabel and Ada do like to drink tea, eat cakes and exercise their vocal cords. |
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