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| Lucky Break by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | A coffee break for four, or something more? |
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| Lucky Penny by Carol Kline |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The coach and robber are written male. Could, possibly, be female. Two of the characters - including the central character, Bench Man - are silent. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Sketch with a single set - a park bench. |
| Synopsis | A man sitting on a bench finds a penny at his feet. Picking it up, he suddenly finds himself the recipient of three doses of good fortune. See a penny... |
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Lunch Break by Frances A. Lewis
Performance by The British Players gained an 'Oustanding Production' award at the Eastern States Theatre Association Original Works Festival, 2010 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play with a simple set.
First published in December 2012, republished with minor changes in June 2024. |
| Synopsis | Two very different people meet on a park bench - a man of the road and a music lover. Can they find enough common ground for the music lover to explain his fascination with 'The Phantom of the Opera'? |
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Lust Amid The Strawberries by Rosemary Frisino Toohey
Voted Audience Favorite of the 10 winners of Sky Blue Theatre's 2016 British Theatre Challenge in London. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A ten minute play. |
| Synopsis | It’s a dull day at the greengrocers until Tracey walks in. All she wants is some strawberries, but Jon's imagination takes off with warp speed. An everyday encounter is transformed into a study of exquisite torture by two narrators, who convey the inner thoughts and feelings of a humble grocery clerk encountering unexpected beauty. |
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| Magic Marge by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
| 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 | Monologue from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, furniture only. |
| Synopsis | Marjorie is an elderly lady who has lost interest in love and companionship and decided to spend her life in bed. |
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| Make Me a Celebrity - Now! by Trevor Suthers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The only stipulation about the character is that she is under 30. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Monologue. No set, no props. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | A rant about the desire for fame. |
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| Make This Go Away by Robert M. Barr |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play with a single domestic setting |
| Synopsis | When a stranger turns up, breaking into his house in the middle of the night, Fred pulls out his gun to defend his wife and property, but if the stranger is a locksmith sent by the bank... and if the house has been foreclosed, what then? And what does Fred’s wife, Alice, have to do with it all? |
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| Making up the Make-Up by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written 1M, 2F, but that could be changed. (Donna probably works better female, but make your own mind up!) |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent. No set or props required, but the costume and make-up is essential to the comedy! |
| Synopsis | New make-up girl Donna is not quite what the director expected... |
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| The Man Who Mis-Sold The World by Chris Brannick |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A ten minute comedy play |
| Synopsis | Major Tom is in trouble, drifting through space and expecting death. What he gets is a visit from two parking attendants because his ship is on a double-yellow asteroid belt. Luckily, he has an idea about paying the fine. |
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| The Man Who Would Be Shirley Temple by Jacob M. Appel |
| 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 | Short, absurd comedy sketch. (US English.) |
| Synopsis | Pretentious actor Reginald Pants (pronounced Pontse) visits a casting director, hoping to land the lead role in a remake of Bright Eyes - even though the director was hoping to cast a five-year-old girl. |
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