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| Sunny Side Up by Stephen Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both character written male but could be changed to female. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch. A dark comedy sketch. Simple set. |
| Synopsis | Mr Cruthers is looking to sort out his stay at the Sunny-Side-Up campsite, but it's more than a little unusual. Not least because some of the helpful staff are a bit on the - er - dead side. |
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| Sword Game by David Dean |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch on a single (office) set. |
| Synopsis | Grace's agent Tony got her a role on the TV series Sword Game, but she’s not happy, despite the awards that have come her way. She wants something that will stretch her a little more, but Tony thinks she needs pushing... |
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| T'um Fu Society Demonstration by Jack Burgess |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters written as one adult and one child. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short skit. Contains mild swearing. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) |
| Synopsis | A demonstration of martial arts by a Great Warrior (Stanley Ramsbottom) and his young assistant. |
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| Take a Hike by Cheryl Barrett |
| 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 | A comedy sketch with no set required. |
| Synopsis | Sarah is fed up with everyday routine and wants to make a few changes to her life. Sarah’s husband Richard thinks she is having a mid-life crisis and humours her ever-changing moods. When Sarah suggests an outdoor picnic, Richard is only too happy to oblige. |
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| Take Me To Your Leader by Caroline Spencer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch, set in a school headteacher's office.
Part of the Aliens collection of short plays for youth people. |
| Synopsis | Mr Golightly has a strict rule for his school - there is no such thing as an Alien Being. Is his insistence on enforcing this rule a device to hide his own identity? |
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| A Teenage Christmas Carol by Richard James |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. Very flexible casting - there are 11 narrators, who could ultimately be condensed to one role, and other doubling would be possible. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute play in a mix of verse (from the narrators) and prose (from the rest of the cast). No set requirements, simple props. |
| Synopsis | The great granddaughter of Ebenezer Scrooge needs to be taught the same lessons he learned - and in a very similar fashion! |
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| Ten Minutes Left by Bart Meehan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with minimal set requirements. Some strong language. |
| Synopsis | A couple’s previously staid relationship blossoms as they wait, knowing there are only ten minutes before an unknown catastrophe arrives. Is there time to remember their first meeting? |
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| Territorial Actors by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute skit, no set requirements. Single prop (a field telephone) |
| Synopsis | A drill sergeant takes a set of rookie part-time actors through their paces. |
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| That Sinking Feeling by David Dean |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A monologue-sketch with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | A customer service call-taker deals with an unhappy customer - who is dealing with a situation on board the Titanic, and wants to know if the company will compensate her... |
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That's Amore by Arnold Kane
Winner of the Cambridge Theatre Challenge, International Playwriting Competition, 2014 |
| 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 | A short comedy in a single (hotel bedroom) set. |
| Synopsis | A couple have retreated to a hotel room - a Film Director and a meek Librarian. There is playful banter, flirting, and plenty of champagne... Who can doubt what will come next? Apart from the phone call, of course. |
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