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| Ramblers by Tony Domaille |
| 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 | Well-observed comedy short. No set required.
(Also available as part of the Love and Marriage collection of short comedies by Tony Domaille) |
| Synopsis | Jan and Ted are in a social rut and about to join a rambling club to make friends. But one of them is not so keen. |
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| Reading for Pleasure by Louise Wade |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short light comedy play with a single domestic setting. |
| Synopsis | It's Book club night and host Tina is nervous because she couldn't get through 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'. Fortunately her husband knows it well and writes her notes on some napkins. But she's not the only one who struggled. |
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| The Regency Matchmaking Match by Damian Trasler & David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun mash-up of two recognisable settings makes for a good sketch that would fit well into variety nights. |
| Synopsis | It's the final ball of the season and the last chance for the Regency gentry to find their perfect partner. The commentary follows the events of their attempted matchmaking in the style of a football (soccer) match. |
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| Saving India by Vithal Rajan |
| 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 | Ten minute play, single set. |
| Synopsis | A short political sketch in which three Indian government secretaries discuss their plans for the nation - and their own advancement - whilst puffing on their Cuban cigars. |
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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.) |
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| The Scary Tale of Frankenstein by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, rhyming Gothic horror comedy play for kids! Single laboratory set! |
| Synopsis | Professor Frankenstein creates a new life from recycled body parts. Unfortunately, his assistant, Egor, drops the brain, so a substitute has to be used. Whilst the brain seems to work, the locals see Frankenstein's creation as a monster and they really aren't happy! |
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| Schoolroom Sketch by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. Chorus. Pantomime dame (Male playing female) and class of children (of any age!) |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Sketch extract from English Pantomime - knockabout clowning and wordplay |
| Synopsis | A teacher contends with a disruptive class! |
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| The Script by Trevor Suthers |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen minute play. No set requirements, simplest of props (four scripts!). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A Producer, Director and Actor have called a meeting to tell the writer of a play that they loved it so much they want to change every aspect of it. |
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| Scripted by Brenna McBride |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Quirky comedy short on a coffee shop set. |
| Synopsis | Coffee house waitress Jenny has written her own happy ending for herself and her favorite customer, Kevin - and she's hired the perfect director, Linda, to make her fantasy a reality. But what happens if life refuses to imitate art? |
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| Searching by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute comedy play. Single set (a reception area, so little more than a coffee table and a couple of chairs). |
| Synopsis | David is going to be on a new television show where he picks from a selection of six women and dates them to determine his match. Trouble is, he seems to be scaring them off before the show even starts... |
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