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| A Haunted Haunting by Herb Hasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 106 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Two spirits, Mona and Edgar are bemused as to the manner of their deaths. Medium Mona uses her skills to summon up a host of oddball spirits to try to find the answer. Meanwhile a new family move into the house and many confusions ensue. |
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| The Haunting of Hardup Hall by David Lovesy & Steve Clark |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters are all adults, but could easily be played by kids. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short humorous ghost story told in verse |
| Synopsis | Lord and Lady Hardup are at their wits end. Their mansion is being haunted by a fearsome spook and soon they will be forced to flee! Mystic Maureen, psychic extraordinaire is called to save them from the spirits! |
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| Have You Any Bread? by Jos Biggs |
| 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 with a minimal set (a simulated shop counter). |
| Synopsis | A customer attempts to buy bread from the bakery, but ends up investigating the surprising hours of the village. |
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| He and She 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. Minimal domestic setting. Contains marital disharmony. |
| Synopsis | 'She' tries to explain to her husband that she has an attentive admirer. |
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| He Can't Tell You by George Freek |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. Single domestic set. |
| Synopsis | Bernie's low because he's just been laid off, but Alice has some good news - his old friend Earl is going to call round! Except Bernie's not so sure Earl was a friend, and maybe he's not going to be so pleased to see Bernie... Things certainly don't pan out as they expected. |
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| He's Coming To Dinner by JPS Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Cast are two adults and two teenage children. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama about family life! Single interior setting. |
| Synopsis | Marianne is trying to get her teenage children ready for an evening with the new man in her life. Her son is happy that it's anyone but his father, but his sister isn't convinced. When their Dad walks in, no one is quite sure how they feel about it. |
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| He's Dead by Peter John Cooper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length murder thriller. |
| Synopsis | Rose's horrific nightmares become reality when her friend Maria is fatally stabbed. As the plot twists and turns ulterior motives are gradually revealed. |
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| Heading Home by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst the characters are nominally gendered, they are, when all's said and done, two pigeons and a cat! |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch. The author suggests it could be performed as a radio play so that the anthropomorphic twist is not revealed until the right moment, but it could be staged. No set or props required, though if it is staged, costumes would be a good idea! |
| Synopsis | A pair of homing pigeons encounter difficulties finding their way home.
A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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| Health and Safety by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters - a schoolmaster and three boys - are written male, but need not be. They also need not be played by actors of appropriate age - it is, after all, a send-up. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. No set and no props - which is really the point of the sketch! |
| Synopsis | A cautious schoolmaster is keeping the Health and Safety bods happy by holding cricket practice with not bat, no ball and no netting. And all this practice is for the match next Saturday, where just to be extra safe, there'll be no opposing team...
It is, of course, Health and Safety gone mad. |
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| The Health and Safety Inspector by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by Steve Clark.) |
| Synopsis | The troops manning a dug-out in the front line receive a visit from the Brigade Health and Safety inspector! |
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