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The Fly by Karen Ince |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch for two actors which has both cerebral and slapstick humour. The Fly has no relation to George Langelaan's short story or the subsequent films. (No mad scientists were hurt during the creation of this sketch.) |
Synopsis | Mr and Mrs Brown reveal the secret sides of themselves, whilst concealing then from each other, through a pithy and witty script. |
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A Format Too Far by David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 1 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very, very short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | A new TV show format is pitched to a commissioning editor but is there a flaw in the concept? |
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Franny and Jonty’s Christmas Cook Off 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 | Comedy sketch. (Set in a kitchen, but only indicated by a table and a couple of chairs.) |
Synopsis | A charming bon viveur and his once celebrity chef wife are no longer feted by TV companies. To restart her career, Franny has agreed to front a cooking programme for a new streaming channel. After so long away from the limelight, Franny resorts to 'dutch courage' to calm her nerves. |
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The Frustrated Poet 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 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Simple set (desk and chair). Contains mild swearing. And poetry. |
Synopsis | A poet tries, but, sadly, fails, to write an ode to nightingales... |
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Geraldine's Fine Art by Frank Gibbons |
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 comedy sketch which turns on the nature of the props! From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | An antique dealer visits a car boot sale, hoping to snatch a bargain from under the nose of a stall-holder. |
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Getting Away From It All by Peter Lancaster Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch, single set (minimal indication of a travel agent's office). |
Synopsis | A tricky customer finally gets a holiday he's never tried before, but it's somewhere awfully familiar. |
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Give Me the Money by Stephen Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are an 18-year-old and a much older lady, but that's playing age, and there's plenty of scope for the wardrobe and make-up departments to accommodate actors of other ages. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun, punchy sketch. Easy to stage and could fit well into variety evenings. |
Synopsis | A youth attempts to rob a post office, but the elderly postmistress turns the tables on him. |
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The Gods by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with no set necessary. |
Synopsis | The Gods on Mount Olympus are fed up with modern humanity and wondering how it all went so wrong. |
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Going Down by Frank Gibbons |
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 | Short comedy sketch (with a lot going on under the surface). Contains peccadilloes. |
Synopsis | Sebastian wakes up in the passenger seat of his car to find that his wife, Elizabeth, has driven him to an unusual spot. |
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The Golden Years by Joe Starzyk |
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 short two-hander comedy sketch, with adult themes. |
Synopsis | Norman and Mabel have been together a long, long time, and they know the secrets to a happy marriage. More than that, Mabel knows all of Norman’s secrets too, as he finds out when he tries to tell her about them. |
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