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Toxic by Chris Hicks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, dark, comic monologue. It's set in a bar, so might work particularly well in a sketch evening in a cabaret venue (tables and a bar), just by turning a spotlight on the actor at the bar. |
Synopsis | Steven's criminal past would appear to be at odds with his new job, working in a pub. |
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Traffic Stop by Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short comedy play. Single set (or almost complete lack of set - the couple are, in theory, in a car, but this need only be indicated by a little movement), |
Synopsis | An argumentative couple have difficulties with each other and a traffic cop on their way to an important appointment. |
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The Traffic Warden by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch with no requirements for props or set (although could easily use a desk and a couple of chairs). |
Synopsis | A candidate attends an interview for the role of Traffic Warden and is introduced to some details of the package on offer. A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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The Tragedie of Macbreth by Robert Hunter Allan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth with a single (dark moor) setting. |
Synopsis | Macbreth encounters three witches, who can satisfy his avaricious ambitions if he complies with their demands for unpalatable tasks. |
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Transplants by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. George and Wally are written male, but need not be. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. No set requirements. Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | An absurd look at the world of medical advances. |
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Trawling by Tony Benge |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute comedy monody (a play, rather than a monologue recitation). Single minimum set - a nightclub cloakroom. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | In a delightfully conversational and friendly way night club Cloakroom Attendant - or should that be 'Coat Hanger' or 'Personal Items Controller'? - Leanne Fishwicik gives us an amusing insight into her work as she trawls through items left at the cloakroom to give us a run down on her regular customers' lives and habits. We get a glimpse of her feelings for dreamboat boss, Simon prompted by her trawling through his 'personal item' left in her control. |
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Tree Audition by Hugh Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | An actress uses underhand tactics to put off a rival while waiting to audition for the part of Lady Macbeth. |
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Trick Or Treat? [Sketch] by Karen Fitzsimmons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch for teenagers. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
Synopsis | Esme has gone to the doctor for some help - she's being plagued by a vampire that only she can see. And this is no sexy teen vamp, it's a Bela Lugosi-style Prince of Darkness who is, frankly, annoying. The solution is pricey, but we can be pretty sure that it'll work.. |
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Triple Negative by Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play. Single set (a police interview room). Not so much a whodunit? as a who's going to get convicted for it? |
Synopsis | A harassed investigator tries to get to the bottom of a tricky murder, but he isn't helped by any of the three suspects, the evidence or the lawyer. |
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The Trophy by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Two mature gentlemen. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. No set. (In theory, the protagonists are looking at a notice board, but this need not be physical.) From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | A championship bowls match is in prospect, but what's coming to the winner? |
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