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| Singulatitis by Troy Shearer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Dr. Swanson is written male but could be reassigned! |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute surreal comedy sketch, set in a doctor's surgery. |
| Synopsis | A man with extreme hiccups receives a strange and fateful diagnosis from his doctor. |
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| Skindeep Safari by David Lovesy & Brian Two |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch |
| Synopsis | Two tourists at the Safari park run into trouble and are helped by the park ranger |
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Skinny Cap to Go by Richard James
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. 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 a coffee shop, but since there are no real set requirements, it could be done front-of-curtain to cover a set change in a sketch show. |
| Synopsis | A customer at a coffee shop just wants a coffee and a ham sandwich, but the barista has a few questions. Oh, and then a few more questions. |
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Smokes by Mike Smith
Short-listed for the Sydney Short+Sweet festival, January 2009 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play - a mime with words. No props (which is rather the point!) The set is a door and a pile of chairs. Note that this is written in British English which differs from US English in one of its slang synonyms for 'cigarette'. |
| Synopsis | A man and woman discover one another while hiding from a book launch and looking for a cigarette. They resort to imagination for smokes and escape to the top of a mountain, before regaining their courage and rejoining the launch. |
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| Something Off The Menu by Rupert Haigh |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Off-beat ten-minute comedy play. Cafe setting (little more than a table and chair). |
| Synopsis | The customer is always right, but this one isn't quite sure what he wants. The waitress has plenty to offer, but he's only interested in things that aren't on the menu. After a side trip to the cafe storeroom, he reveals his true identity, but the Waitress is a match for him. |
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| Soul Bargain by David Lovesy |
| 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 | A short comedy sketch |
| Synopsis | About to end it all, a Human is offered a chance to turn it all around by a Demon, but at what price? |
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| The Spa by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch with minimal set. |
| Synopsis | Brian is not keen about the spa but soon discovers that the treatments might not be too bad... |
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| Standards by Bob Tucker |
| 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 | Two-handed sketch. Simple set. |
| Synopsis | Penelope tries to help Philip come to terms with his middle age! |
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| Stonehenge by Robert Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are a father and two teenage children. How you cast those ages is up to you! |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch with no requirement for set or props. |
| Synopsis | An enthusiastic father takes his two teenage children to visit Stonehenge again and again and again. The teenagers think there have been too many agains. |
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| Stonewinge by Peter May |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. 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 comedy sketch with no set necessary. |
| Synopsis | A traveller walking alone in Southern England happens upon a man moving large blocks of stone and engages in conversation with him. |
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