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Santa's Lost It by Peter Keel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Whilst the script specifies that the children are aged 10 and 8, we would advise that they should be played (for laughs, as kids) by considerably older actors. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | A family awaits the arrival of Santa Claus, but he's not what they were expecting. There's some tense negotiation before Santa realises his bad eyesight may have created a worse problem elsewhere. |
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Sardines Again? by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with a single setting. |
Synopsis | Mick's wife Christine is on yet another diet and, whilst sympathetic to her diets in the past, he has now been told by his doctor to reduce his cholesterol. Christine seems obsessed with their diet and when Mick is told he's got sardines again, he puts his foot down. |
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The Scary Tale of The Werewolf by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, rhyming Gothic horror comedy play for kids! Multiple locations, but not intended to be staged naturalistically! |
Synopsis | There's a Werewolf on the loose! But when the culprit finds out what happens to him by the light of the full moon, he seeks medical help (and hairdressing). |
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A Slight Misunderstanding by Janet S. Tiger |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 0. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Easily stageable comedy skit, with minimal set/props and just two actors. Could make a good addition to a sketch night. |
Synopsis | Many years ago, John’s wife Eleanor told him he should always strive to be the better man. He misheard it, and has strived to be the bitter man ever since. |
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Some People Like To Gossip by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch with a simple set. |
Synopsis | Mabel and Ada do like to drink tea, eat cakes and exercise their vocal cords. |
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Tommy's Burglar by Rob Burbidge |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. One adult and one child. Both characters are written as male, but the child could easily be changed to female. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A very short play for two actors (based on a short story by O. Henry). |
Synopsis | Tommy is a sweet child, doomed to be in a story where he interrupts a burglar about his nefarious business and inevitably sets back on the road to righteousness. The burglar for his part, is disgruntled about endlessly burgling houses at the whim of the narrator only to be redirected by a succession of sickly sweet kids. A knowing comic sketch. |
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Too Hot to Handle by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One of the characters sings a snatch from a 1970s pop song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A strong short with a good balance of comedy and pathos. Two well-written characters with a believably messy friendship. Would make a fun challenge for a pair of actresses. |
Synopsis | It's summer 1976 and Britain is roasting. Long-term friends Stella and Avril are now in their 40s and much divorced, but while Stella seems to have settled for the single life, Avril enthusiastically announces yet another engagement. |
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A TV With Just One Button by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two men and a child. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Set indicative of a living room (seating, a television). Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | Mark and Bob grapple with a new television. |
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The Ups and Downs of Father Jack by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. These are pantomime characters, so Jack could very well be played as a pantomime Principal Boy (so by a girl). The baby is nominally male. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | Jack comes down the beanstalk again, and discovers that there have been some changes at home... |
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Visitors by Heather Bryant |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two vampires (1M, 1F) and an elderly lady. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch for teenagers. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
Synopsis | Doris is enjoying a quiet night in front of the TV when two vampires burst in! Why doesn't she quake with fear and scream in terror? Well, Doris has a little secret that she might tell Vic and Vyla...as long as they promise not to laugh. |
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