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| Great Moments in History, Number 3 by Jack Burgess |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Script includes a parody of the title song from Oklahoma. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Musical skit, parodying the creative process! (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) |
| Synopsis | The Rogers and Frankenstein Story! Richard Rogers and his collaborator, Oscar Frankenstein III, ponder the creation of a new Broadway musical, whilst eating pizza. |
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| Great Moments in History, Number 4 by Jack Burgess |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. 1 (female) Angel and Three Shepherds |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute skit. Contains mild swearing. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) |
| Synopsis | Christmas - The Untold Story. In which an angel takes a wrong turning... |
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| Great Moments in History, Number 5 by Jack Burgess |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Five-minute sketch. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) |
| Synopsis | The Sinking of the Titanic. Observed, with stiff-upper-lip, by two elderly gentlemen and by a steward. |
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| The Great Outdoors by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act drama with a single (older teenage boy's bedroom) setting. |
| Synopsis | Set in the future, we see the consequences of the present-day trend of young people retreating to a virtual world, brought to life in this acerbic look at how society may develop into an Orwellian world. |
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| The Greatest Form of Flattery by Amelia Armande |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Either a short full-length play, or a long one-act play! Figurative sets (scenery kept to the minimum needed to indicate the location) but props include a set of shop-window dummies. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Brendan is a struggling artist who is horrified to see someone he went to Art College with hit the big time with an exhibition of work that looks terribly familiar. When the centrepiece of the exhibition gets stolen and turns up in Brendan's studio, potential disaster is turned to success for everyone. |
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| The Greatest Invention In History by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Scientist is a gender-neutral description. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch, no set, just a few props. (For those who don't have a matter transporter handy, teleportaion/materialisation may be represented by a sound effect.) |
| Synopsis | A scientist about to reveal his world-changing invention has a number of unexpected interrupting visitors. |
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| Grecian Cat by Erica Glenn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A snappy short play about four twenty-somethings. One set (the kitchens of two adjoining apartments). |
| Synopsis | Amber's Grecian cat figurine guards the front of her apartment and she believes it guards her fortune too, so when her new neighbour crushes it with his car, she wants revenge. The two adversaries and their roommates learn a lot about each other and themselves. |
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| The Green Bikini by Alexis Coward |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A dark comedy monologue with no set necessary. One example of adult language. |
| Synopsis | A woman discusses the change of her holiday plans and how they have affected her. Distracted by carpet stains and visitors, she incriminates herself. |
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| Green Things in Space by Paul Gisby |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. In addition to the on-stage characters, two people appear on video and there are several voice-overs. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play. Simultaneously comic and poignant. Stage (and action) split between a modern hospital and the deck of a sci-fi spaceship! |
| Synopsis | Stan is in hospital, suffering from the effects of years of working with asbestos, but he lives on in his unpublished science fiction epic - an unintentionally hilarious account of a galactic war. |
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| Greens with Envy by Ben Francis |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy monologue with no set or props, just the imagination of the audience. |
| Synopsis | What has been going on at the allotments? Newcomer Morgan has filled his plot with erotic garden gnomes and christened his shed 'The Love Pad'. And there has been a mysterious break-in at Ralph's shed. Then Ralph’s wife goes on holiday, and nobody knows where she is... |
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