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| Up the Garden Path by Barry Blaize |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act farce. Single set - quite complex to stage but the rewards are worth it! Contains mild swearing and drug abuse. |
| Synopsis | When Susan agreed to be on the end of the phone for Marie during a quiz, she thought she'd be a help. But she didn't give the right answer, and now Marie's husband wants Susan and Trevor to cough up the sixty thousand she didn't win... |
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| Upgrades by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy skit. Single set. Some props for visual jokes! |
| Synopsis | Flushed with the success of his new invention, Alexander Graham Bell describes his plans for upgrading his phone to his assistant, Watson. |
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| The Ups and Downs of Father Jack by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. These are pantomime characters, so Jack could very well be played as a pantomime Principal Boy (so by a girl). The baby is nominally male. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch.
From the Laughter Lines collection. |
| Synopsis | Jack comes down the beanstalk again, and discovers that there have been some changes at home... |
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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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| A Very Modern Wedding by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Some flexibility of ages would be suitable - at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 2 song suggestions are included with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act satirical comedy with a single (church nave) setting. |
| Synopsis | A satire on modern society, particularly the rush to litigation, is played out - as Charlie and Fenella, who have known each other for three weeks attempt to take their vows. There is quasi-legal squabbling between Best Man and Maid of Honour, and an impatient Vicar... |
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| Viral Tune Life Form by Damian Trasler & David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 | Short comedy sketch. No set required. |
| Synopsis | Ever got a tune in your head that you just can't shift? Jim has, and his friend Paul tries to help. |
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Vision Impaired by Richard James
Tarrystone Players' performance of 'Vision Impaired' won the 'Best All Male Performance' award at the Maidenhead Drama Festival, 2007 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, very simple set (essentially a bare stage with two swivel chairs). |
| Synopsis | Two occupants of merciless alien costumes for a famous time travelling series discuss life, fame, and pressing problems for actors in their confined position! |
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| Voice of a Flea by Gill Medway |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | The fifth in Gill Medway's series of monologues about cleaning lady, Violet Brimley. Minimal set (a chair). |
| Synopsis | Violet's latest job finds her at the house of a celebrated actor, whose chances of a prestigious TV award are in serious jeopardy when he appears to jump into some very hot water. Can Violet's famous tact and diplomacy save the day? |
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