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| The Twelve Labours Exchange by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Hera is represented by an offstage laugh which might be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short Ancient Greek comedy - a riff on myth. |
| Synopsis | Hercules (Heracles to the Greeks) is out of work and looking for a job at the Labour Exchange. Preferably one where Hera won't find it easy to continue trying to kill him. |
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| Two Cops by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Fixed number, flexible gender! |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy skit with no set or prop requirements - therefore suitable for performing front-of-curtain to cover a scene change during a sketch show. |
| Synopsis | Two police officers meet and indulge in a sort of bragging contest for who has the funniest police stories. |
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| Two Farmers by Damian Trasler & David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters are farmers, hence the title. (Could be male or female.) |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch with no set and no props (give or take an implicit farm gate!) |
| Synopsis | Two farmers converse! A thinly disguised string of dreadful farmyard-related jokes! |
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| Two Surgeons by Damian Trasler & Steve Clark |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | Two surgeons converse while performing an operation. Cue a string of dreadful medical jokes! |
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| The Uncomfortable Announcer by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short two-handed sketch, with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | A hardware store decides to increase its sales figures, with some new in-store announcements... which seem to have a certain amount of innuendo. |
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| The Vacuuming Sketch by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. Minimal set with vacuum cleaner. |
| Synopsis | An allegorical comedy sketch where the genders have been reversed to make it more metaphorical... (So much so that a voiceover anounces the fact at the start!) |
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| Van Rental by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two-handed comedy sketch, with the two parties at either end of a telephone line. |
| Synopsis | An undertaker has a transport problem, but renting a van to get the coffin to the crematorium is proving harder than he expected. Curse those bureaucratic types! |
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| A Ventriloquist's Tale by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst this is presented as a monologue, it could also be performed by three people, playing narrator, ventriloquist and psychiatrist. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming comedy monologue (no set or props required). |
| Synopsis | A Ventriloquist who fears he's being controlled by his dummy seeks professional help and gets some straight talking. |
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| Waiting for the Unicorns by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy, requiring little more than a clipboard, a large rock and two actors. (The two animals of every kind are optional.) |
| Synopsis | Noah seems very well organised. He's built the boat thing, all the animals are more or less in alphabetical order, and he's got a list. All that's missing are those infuriating unicorns. Fortunately, his wife has the good sense to grasp the concept of myth and legend. |
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| We Have To Talk by Don Lowry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. If the three scenes were to be played separately, the three couples could be played by the same pair of actors with changes of costume and style. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play comprising three short sketches on one theme. Written to be played continuously, but the three could be spaced out through an evening of short pieces. No set, so could be played front-of-curtain. |
| Synopsis | Three relationships have reached the point where the couples need to talk. It's curtains for two pairs, but the third might just make it... even if it's for the strangest of reasons. |
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