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| Two Authors by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short two-handed comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | Two authors meet and attempt to outdo one another with tales of their success. |
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| Two Barmen by Damian Trasler & David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The barmen are written male (as you might expect). The third characters is a duck. There are also two disembodied voices. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch, set in a bar (which can be a minimal set or as elaborate as you can justify for a four-minute piece). |
| Synopsis | You know the one where two men walk into a bar? Well, turns out it was this bar, where every baroom joke you've ever heard took place, along with quite a few you haven't heard.
A duck walks into a bar and says 'Have you got any bread?'... |
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| Two Cops by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Fixed number, flexible gender! |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy skit with no set or prop requirements - therefore suitable for performing front-of-curtain to cover a scene change during a sketch show. |
| Synopsis | Two police officers meet and indulge in a sort of bragging contest for who has the funniest police stories. |
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| Two Farmers by Damian Trasler & David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters are farmers, hence the title. (Could be male or female.) |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch with no set and no props (give or take an implicit farm gate!) |
| Synopsis | Two farmers converse! A thinly disguised string of dreadful farmyard-related jokes! |
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| Two Gentlemen of Verona by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Flexible numbers of soldiers and outlaws |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A humorous retelling of Shakespeare's story as a modern-language one-act play. |
| Synopsis | When Proteus follows his best friend Valentine to fashionable Milan, he finds himself attracted to the Duke of Milan's daughter, Silvia, upon whom Valentine has already set his sights. Hatching a plot to remove Valentine from the scene and move in on Silvia, he does not realise that he is being followed by Julia, the girl he left behind in Verona and to whom he has sworn everlasting devotion. Will the faithless scoundrel succeed with Silvia or will his efforts founder? A no-brainer, really. |
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| The Two Igors by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch for five performers. |
| Synopsis | On the verge of creating new life, Doctor Frankenstein has to face complaints from his hunchbacked assistant. |
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| Two Surgeons by Damian Trasler & Steve Clark |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | Two surgeons converse while performing an operation. Cue a string of dreadful medical jokes! |
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| Two Weddings and a Conference by Karen Doling |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Eleven speaking roles and an unspeakable photographer. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play. Single (hotel reception) set. Structurally in two acts, but in length it's on the boundary between a one-act and a two-act (it could occupy a whole evening's theatre or be accompanied by a shorter piece.) Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A double-booked wedding reception at a hotel causes havoc for the brides, grooms, manager, receptionist, and the attendees of a conference that is supposed to be happening at the same time! However, it soon transpires that the double-booking is not the only coincidence they will have to deal with. |
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| UFO Hotline by John Passadino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Two on-stage characters and three offstage voices, two of which might be recorded (Ellen would be better live). |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch with two possible endings. |
| Synopsis | Ron and Grace's second date is going well until a flying saucer lands nearby and the occupant begins to approach them. Attempts to call for help see them redirected to the UFO Hotline, which is not as useful as they'd hoped. |
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| The Uncomfortable Announcer 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 | A short two-handed sketch, with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | A hardware store decides to increase its sales figures, with some new in-store announcements... which seem to have a certain amount of innuendo. |
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