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Invisible Fingerprints by Howard Lipson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both the characters are written male, but could probably be played female with a few minor tweaks. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play with a Christian theme. Minimal staging requirements. |
Synopsis | Ben has spent four years battling depression and addiction, but thanks to his new-found faith he's back at his screenwriting job with a new script. Sadly for Ben, Stan the Producer isn't blown away by the script. He talks Ben into trying more worldly material, but has sinister reasons... |
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Is This A Sketch? by David Lovesy & Brian Two |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch |
Synopsis | Two comics wonder if they are performing a sketch. |
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Joan: The Movie by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. 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 comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | Cooper thinks his latest movie pitch is The One, but movie producer Letterson is not convinced. They discuss several anachronisms in this Joan of Arc Biopic. Starting with the elephants. |
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Kippers Can’t Swim by Jamesine Cundell Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short drama from the Three Little Words collection. Single set, furniture only. |
Synopsis | Teenager Alex gets talking to elderly Gladys in a hospital waiting room. |
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The Little Magic Man by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Whilst the two characters are women, they might be played as women by men in non-glamorous drag. (British people with long memories are invited to contemplate Les Dawson in this context.) |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch. From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | More gossip at the end of the working day. (Husbands, cream cakes and Paul Daniels are all involved.) |
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Lost! by Mary Portalska |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. 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 with an outdoor setting. |
Synopsis | A story of sweet revenge as sisters Debs and Sarah, lost on a walking trip, take out their ire on the WI. |
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Meet the Inventor by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are written male, but could be played male or female. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A very short sketch. Set requirements: two chairs |
Synopsis | An interview with the inventor of a time machine explores just some of the paradoxes inherent in time travel. |
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Monkeying Around by Peter May |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with a single (zoo enclosure) setting. |
Synopsis | Two of the older residents of the zoo’s monkey enclosure are watching the public from a high tree branch. |
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Mother and Daughter by Christina Simpkin |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The daughter has a playing age in the early twenties. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short one-act play - a gentle comedy. Single set, representing a living room. |
Synopsis | Ruth is off out on a date, but first she's got to answer all her mother's questions. Will mother ever approve of a man met over the internet? And why does she want Ruth to leave her computer on when he goes out? |
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Mother of the Bride by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Either a rhyming monologue or a piece for a cast of five! No set requirements, no props. |
Synopsis | A mother of four (unwed) daughters bewails the lack of matrimonial bliss in her family. |
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