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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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Dad's Revenge by Archie Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch, single set (a living-room indicated by the presence of an armchair), simple props. |
Synopsis | Natalie is sixteen and trying hard to drive her Dad round the bend. She wants him to drive her and her boyfriend out for their night's clubbing, but can he put a stop to it? |
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David and Goliath by Ian Sharrock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two onstage actors and one offstage voice, which could be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedic sketch based on the Biblical tale. |
Synopsis | David and Goliath as observed from a tent in the camp of the Philistines. Dagon is a loyal, battle hardened warrior who's fed up of waiting for something, anything, to happen. Sandra is one of the girls concerned with feeding the army and also tired of the prolonged period of inactivity. For forty days, Goliath has called out his challenge to the Hebrew army and no champion has stepped up to face him... until now. |
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A Day at the Races by Will van der Lande |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short, absurd sketch. No set requirements, a few props. |
Synopsis | It's the Duck Derby and an Aristocrat is exchanging small talk with the owner of today's favourite, Dangerous Dennis. Surely nothing can prevent a win for Dennis today? |
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Deja Deja Vu by Robert Scott |
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 surreal edge. Single set (the minimum required to indicate a living room). |
Synopsis | You know the feeling you get that something has happened before? Well Derek's had that feeling before - and for good reason. |
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The Deposit by Henry P. Gravelle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with a single (bank vault) setting. US English. |
Synopsis | Three rookie thieves believe they've pulled off the heist of the year until one forgets the most important rule - stay focused. |
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Diary Of A Squirrel Hunter by Peter Stallard |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. This is essentially a monologue. The final offstage police voice could easily be a recording. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch - exhibiting the comedy of bad taste! Minimal set (could easily be done as a front-of-curtain piece). |
Synopsis | Dave the squirrel hunter has passed on, under unusual circumstances, but his friend Tyrone has found Dave's diary and is taking the opportunity to read out some of the final passages at the funeral. |
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Digging Deep by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters' playing ages are 86 (Robert) and 77 (Elaine), but they are sprightly (not to say frisky). |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch set on a bench in a graveyard. Contains a naughty word. From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | A chance meeting in a graveyard could well lead on to other things (starting with a cup of tea and a slice of apple pie). |
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The Diva by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent (and chocolate). |
Synopsis | It can be hard work coping with a Diva! |
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The Doctor And Mr Rogers by Kal B Sisson |
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 | A short dark comedy sketch set in a doctor's consulting room. |
Synopsis | Mr Rogers takes some convincing, when the doctor tells him the bad news - that his condition means he has only minutes to live. |
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