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Cholesterol by Charles Stott |
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 | A comedy sketch for three men in a pub. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Old mates, Tom, Dick and Harry , meet as usual at their local pub. Over a convivial pint or two, they discuss Tom's problems with his cholesterol levels and the consequences for his life style. He fondly remembers the fish and chips, bacon butties and especially wife Stella's famous cauliflower cheese sauce. Fond memories and some regrets... |
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Clerical Terrors by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch set in an office canteen (or a table and two chairs, as we say in the set design department). |
Synopsis | The vicissitudes of office life reviewed over a mug of tea. |
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The Coffee Shop by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Whilst the script specifies three characters, two of them are played in different eras, so could be done by different actors. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Set in a coffee shop, but without need for any particular set. Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | A coffee shop customer has another encounter with the tyranny of choice! |
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Cold Case by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Written as 3M, 2F, but the waiter could easily become a waitress, with a few minor tweaks. |
Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, one-act comedy (with a crime drama lurking in the background). Single simple restaurant/bar setting. |
Synopsis | Emma and Simon are celebrating their wedding anniversary in Tenerife when Emma recognises a man from a jewellery store robbery she investigated for the police thirty years ago. Tom was an employee at the store, but Emma always thought he knew more than he let on. She plucks up the courage to finally confront him. |
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Contract Killer by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch for two actors. Set in a pub but can be played on an open stage. |
Synopsis | Pub cat Tink's comfortable life is at risk when the owners call in a mouse-catching cat who wants to take his/her place. |
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Couples by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A very short farce (mistaken identity, mistaken intentions, that sort of thing). Single set. All characters are adults. |
Synopsis | A proposal of marriage is on the cards - but the cards seem to have got a bit shuffled. |
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Cupid's Pie by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The 2 F need to be same size. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with a single (coffee bar) setting. |
Synopsis | The local coffee bar has become known as a meeting place for blind dates and waitress Harriet has become familiar with the procedure. As Kelly arrives ready for her blind date, Harriet sees an opportunity to find herself a man with surprising results. |
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Custom Shrunk by Dave Walklett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act drama, set in the aftermath of a production of 'Measure for Measure'. |
Synopsis | It's the party after the last night of the show, and Jonathon is celebrating his directorial debut. Stan, the drama group chairman, is more concerned with how ticket sales worked out, and his daughter Moira is wondering if her performance might be the start of a new career. |
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Dating by Jonathan Edgington A winning entry in the Chesil Theatre's 10x10 playwriting competition, 2010. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. 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 (minimal set representing a corner of a wine bar). Lots of character work built from a very short script. |
Synopsis | Eve and her friend Hope are comparing war stories of dating, even though Hope already has her man sorted. Just as Eve seems to have given up, she literally runs into Peter, an associate of her ex-husband. But is he too good to be true? |
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Death on Dartmoor by Angela Lanyon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 101 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length thriller with a single (pub) setting. |
Synopsis | Two newlyweds emerge from the thick mist into a remote Dartmoor inn. Why is the landlady so unwelcoming and what is the chef concealing? How long will it be before hidden agendas are revealed and someone is driven to murder? |
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