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Coffee Morning Chaos by Jessica Sandys-Clarke |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute comedy play. Minimal set and props. |
Synopsis | Some lady volunteers are preparing for the hoards who are about to descend - any moment now! - on a coffee morning. Fun with flapjacks, more scorn than scones and just as much gossip as you'd expect - but when is everyone going to arrive? |
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The Coffee Shop by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Whilst the script specifies three characters, two of them are played in different eras, so could be done by different actors. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Set in a coffee shop, but without need for any particular set. Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | A coffee shop customer has another encounter with the tyranny of choice! |
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The Colonel's Wife by Bob Hammond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch with two characters. Adult humour. |
Synopsis | Set in an Officers’ Mess in India during the Raj. Major Parker has been caught 'in delecto flagrante' with the Colonel’s wife. To head off disgrace and ruination of his career, the Major decides to make a full confession to the Colonel - with unexpected results! |
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The Commandments by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A very black comedy, satirising the world of work and petty rules. |
Synopsis | Four guards on their coffee break debate what rules should govern their lives - before their supervisor returns... |
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Confessional by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are one adult and one teenager (both male owing to the particular nature of the teenager's concerns, and the traditions of priesthood). Could be played by two teenagers or two older folk with one acting as a teenager. (It's comedy.) |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Set in a confessional booth, though a physical set is unnecessary, the location need only be indicated. |
Synopsis | A stressed teenager visits a Priest to discuss his concerns... |
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Contact by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch, simple set (a park bench) no props. |
Synopsis | In the park, Simon and Alice are both waiting... |
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The Contestant by Allan Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy monologue with a simple (TV studio) set or can be played with no set. |
Synopsis | Jake is a contestant on a TV quiz show. He obviously has a high opinion of himself and his abilities, but it soon becomes clear he is not as smart as he thinks he is. |
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Contract Killer by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch for two actors. Set in a pub but can be played on an open stage. |
Synopsis | Pub cat Tink's comfortable life is at risk when the owners call in a mouse-catching cat who wants to take his/her place. |
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Cops and Robbers by David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. One adult and one child (but it's comedy, so the age needs to be played, not necessarily actual). |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. No set required. |
Synopsis | Barry explains to his dad how the kids today play cops and robbers... |
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The Corruption of Patience Undercroft by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Four on-stage characters and an off-stage voice (that could be recorded). |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Modern pastiche of a Victorian melodrama (the same ingredients, but playing-up the comedy, rather than the Victorian sentimentality). Designed for a black-box set. Could easily be played as part of a Music Hall evening. |
Synopsis | During a village celebration for Queen Victoria's jubilee, sweet, innocent Patience Undercroft has ventured out to a barn, summoned by a note from an admirer. She is hoping that it comes from her childhood sweetheart, Victor Knightly. Little does she know that it is the wicked Squire Grimly Blackheart who lies in wait... |
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