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The Grilling by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch for two people and a pub table. |
Synopsis | Flamboyant actor Gregory Walton sits in a pub hoping to be recognised by fans. He is approached by Ms Price, but discovers she is no fan when she starts to interrogate him about his past activities. |
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The Hang-Up by Helen Gent |
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 very short sketch which is simple, funny and easy to produce. |
Synopsis | A couple are at the end of a long phone call, but she has more trouble disconnecting than he does. |
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Have You Any Bread? by Jos Biggs |
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 | Short comedy sketch with a minimal set (a simulated shop counter). |
Synopsis | A customer attempts to buy bread from the bakery, but ends up investigating the surprising hours of the village. |
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He and She by Frank Gibbons |
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 | Short comedy sketch. Minimal domestic setting. Contains marital disharmony. |
Synopsis | 'She' tries to explain to her husband that she has an attentive admirer. |
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Heading Home by David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst the characters are nominally gendered, they are, when all's said and done, two pigeons and a cat! |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch. The author suggests it could be performed as a radio play so that the anthropomorphic twist is not revealed until the right moment, but it could be staged. No set or props required, though if it is staged, costumes would be a good idea! |
Synopsis | A pair of homing pigeons encounter difficulties finding their way home. A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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Help for Greek Heroes by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. 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,, part of the It's All Greek collection. |
Synopsis | The Help for Greek Heroes counselling team are discussing their caseload, including Achilles' morbid fear of heel injuries and Oedipus being a mummy's boy. |
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Hi Santa, Remember Me? by Trevor Suthers Winner of the 'Pint-Sized Plays' competition, 2008 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The (silent) barman is written male, but need not be. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute dark comedy play. Single (simple barroom) set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Trying to have a quiet drink in his off-season, Santa is accosted by someone claiming to be his biggest fan, but who actually has a complaint to make... |
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Hit Man by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. 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 with no requirements for props or set. |
Synopsis | A 'Green' assassin for hire conducts business. A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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Horror-scopes by David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The male role is a phone-in voice. This might be better done live but it could conceivably be recorded. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Two minute comedy sketch with no specific requirements for set or props. (A couple of comfortable seats would help.) |
Synopsis | Tony calls the astrology section of a chat show and gets to learn a bit more than he expected about his future... |
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The Hot Tub by Brian Coyle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy with a single (bedroom) setting. Adult themes. |
Synopsis | Frank gets a shock when he looks out his window in the middle of the night. Who are those people in his hot tub and what are they doing? His wife Mary is not so shocked - she’s rather amused by their antics. What she really wants to know is - why don’t she and Frank use the hot tub anymore? |
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