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Role Play by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters are 6 teenagers and a teacher. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch. Minimal set requirements. Simple props. Modern, realism. Includes mild innuendo, mild swearing and mild religious/ethnic intolerance. |
Synopsis | A teacher struggles to keep control of a role-playing exercise, confronting the issue of teenage pregnancy. |
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Romeo and Juliet's Final Half Hour by Juliet Devon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Performers either youth theatre or a mixture of adults and youth. Our reviewer noted that the role of Romeo is a 'low-stress part' on account of him already being dead. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] The run time depends on the time Juliet takes to remember her lines. |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch, set in a school hall (which need only be represented by a few items of furniture). |
Synopsis | Nikki, the drama teacher, is determined to get through this last rehearsal with her principals from Romeo and Juliet, but Juliet can't remember the right lines - even the right play - and there are constant interruptions. |
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Sardines Again? 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 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with a single setting. |
Synopsis | Mick's wife Christine is on yet another diet and, whilst sympathetic to her diets in the past, he has now been told by his doctor to reduce his cholesterol. Christine seems obsessed with their diet and when Mick is told he's got sardines again, he puts his foot down. |
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Saving India by Vithal Rajan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play, single set. |
Synopsis | A short political sketch in which three Indian government secretaries discuss their plans for the nation - and their own advancement - whilst puffing on their Cuban cigars. |
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Say it with a Sausage by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Whilst the two characters are women, they might be played as women by men in non-glamorous drag. (British people with long memories are invited to contemplate Les Dawson in this context.) |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch. From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | At the end of the working day, what could be better than a discussion of the relationship between slimming and happiness? (Especially when accompanied by cream cakes.) |
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Scripted by Brenna McBride |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Quirky comedy short on a coffee shop set. |
Synopsis | Coffee house waitress Jenny has written her own happy ending for herself and her favorite customer, Kevin - and she's hired the perfect director, Linda, to make her fantasy a reality. But what happens if life refuses to imitate art? |
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A Second Hand by Lucy Cooper |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The character is written as a male in his forties but could be played at a different age and, conceivably, could switch gender. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short telephone monologue, delivering dead-pan comedy. No set. Simple props. |
Synopsis | A salesman tries to buy a second hand car and ends up considering taking a second look at his chosen career. Originally published in 2009, revised in 2017. |
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Secrets by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-Minute comedy play. Single interior set. (Contains a little swearing.) |
Synopsis | A case of mistaken identity leads D.I. Dourbridge and Daphne, his probationary constable, to the home of Dafydd Jones, a home which Jones seems to be in a hurry to depart. |
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Shit Happens by Elizabeth Riley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The producer's script includes an alternate ending featuring two additional (gender non-specific) characters. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A dark comedy monologue on a kitchen set. |
Synopsis | Kath’s up earlier than usual to ensure her packages reach Australia for Valentine’s Day. It’s important to her, because her husband always set great store by Valentine’s Day. Shame he won’t see it this year... |
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The Shootout by Kenneth P. Langer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with no set requirements. |
Synopsis | In the town of Deadrock, two gunfighters agree to a duel to settle their families’ age-old feud, but playing by the rules was never for either gunslinger and the resulting showdown goes terribly awry. |
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