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| Redundancy by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very short comedy sketch, with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | A much-loved character learns that his employer is going to 'have to let him go'... |
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| The Regency Matchmaking Match by Damian Trasler & David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun mash-up of two recognisable settings makes for a good sketch that would fit well into variety nights. |
| Synopsis | It's the final ball of the season and the last chance for the Regency gentry to find their perfect partner. The commentary follows the events of their attempted matchmaking in the style of a football (soccer) match. |
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| Responsible People, Good Work Ethic by Gerald P. Murphy |
| 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 | A short comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | A blind date finds two people who are very well matched - but only to each other! |
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| Rest, Ye Merry Gentleman 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 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun sketch that fits within a Christmas theme while avoiding all the usual cliches surrounding the season, this would be a novel addition to any festive evening of entertainment. |
| Synopsis | An elderly gentleman is sitting on a comfy armchair in an upmarket department store. His reverie is disrupted when he is taken to task by an irate woman. In a case of mistaken identity, can he convince her that he isn't who she claims he is? |
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| Retail Therapy by Cherol Filbee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (shop) setting. |
| Synopsis | A wife employs retail therapy to take sweet revenge on her serial cheating husband and his gold-digging mistress. |
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| The Return Of Lady Bracknell by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. One of the female characters is intended to be doubled (hence there are seven roles for six people). |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, messing with theatre and reality. The action takes place on a rehearsal stage, so little required in the way of set. Contains very mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | It's two weeks to the production of 'The importance of being Earnest' and Rebecca has flu, so there's no one to play Lady Bracknell. Except... this strange lady, dressed for the part, who knows all the lines and stays in character all the time... |
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| The Reunion by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 125 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy/farce in a single drawing room set. (Inevitably, this includes French windows.) |
| Synopsis | In its heyday the now decayed Marton Vale Village Hall was the hub of the community and, as headquarters of the Marton Vale Youth Association, a Mecca for the young people of the area. Local worthy Lady Lucinda Somerton is looking to revive both hall and community by organising a reunion - for those with happy memories of the Youth Association stretching back decades. A generous benefactor will be guest of honour. But how will that benefactor be received by those who can remember how things were in days gone by? |
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| The Rhyming Diary Of Mrs Pepys by Carolyn Kain |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 52 minutes. [Estimated!] Original production ran to 70 minutes with suggested music. |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for seven intermission pieces. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A rhyming historical comedy (lots of period detail and lots of laughs). Structurally in two acts, but possible to stage as a one-act in the sense of half an evening's entertainment. |
| Synopsis | Mrs Pepys takes her husband’s famous diary and reveals the legacy of King Charles II's womanising. The rivalries of his numerous mistresses are depicted with historical accuracy. |
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| Rhyming Treasure Island by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. More major female roles than the original tale. (It should be noted that female pirates were not unknown!) There is a chorus of three pirates which could be expanded to as many pirates are aboard your ship. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming comedy (with some of the characteristics of a British panto). |
| Synopsis | Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of buried treasure adapted for the stage as a verse play. |
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| Rick Risk P.I. by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A spoof detective noir comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | In an amusingly cliché ridden roller coaster way Private Investigator Rick Risk meets the glamourous Somer Field in his search for Mr Big. But is Miss Somer Field quite what she seems? |
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