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Office Routine by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two on-stage characters plus a few more off-stage screams and howls than you might expect from the average office. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Absurdist comedy sketch in which the bizarre is treated as part of the daily grind of office life. |
Synopsis | A couple of employees discuss the various shortcomings of other members of staff, plus the annoyance of trying to get through a day's work despite distractions like bank robberies, tiger attacks and people falling out of the building. |
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Our Last Respects 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 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch, set in a graveyard. From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | Two women with what ammounts to not quite a graveside eulogy for their deceased friend. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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The Penguin Is Mightier Than The Swordfish by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One offstage voice, could be recorded. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with a single (cab office) setting. |
Synopsis | Clive and Barry are in a cab office waiting for a taxi, after spending a night out at the local pub watching a televised football match. Their football debate takes a different turn in the cab office. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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People Could Die 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 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch, requiring very little in the way of scenery and props. |
Synopsis | Dorothy and Sylvia are in the doctor's waiting room, contemplating their state of health (and everyone else's)... |
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Pet Rescue 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 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with a single (reception desk) setting. |
Synopsis | Derek wants an animal rescue centre to take on his unicorn when he just can’t care for it any more. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Plastered 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 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Satirical sketch for two actors. Set in a pub but can be played on an open stage. |
Synopsis | A rabbit goes into a bar for a quiet drink and encounters what he sees as discrimination. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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The Price Of A Goat Is Not What It Seems by Nikki Harmon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two characters are both written male, but they could be played by any combination of male and female. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play. No set or props required. Could be performed and enjoyed by a wide range of ages. |
Synopsis | A village headman tries to buy some goats for less than their worth, but the wily herdsman gets the better of him. |
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Reburying King Richard the Third by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Middle aged men. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch, minimal set, outdoors during a funeral procession. |
Synopsis | Dave and George are standing at the roadside watching the procession of King Richard The Third's remains, as it makes its way through the streets of Leicester. They chew over some history, enjoy commenting on the merits of a good send-off, and the spectacle of this occasion. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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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.) |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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The Second Amendment by Damian Trasler & Steve Clark |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The police officer could be male or female. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Five minute comedy sketch. Single set (a police interrogation room - so just a couple of chairs and possibly a table). |
Synopsis | A police officer explores a hunter's constitutional right to bear arms. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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