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Nails By Auntie Em by Toni M Wiley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with a single (Manicure Salon) setting. |
Synopsis | Whilst working from her Manicure Salon, sweet Aunt Em sells everything under the sun via her 'phone - including vitamins, psychic fortune telling, and more. Customers need to be wary or they might get nailed by Aunt Em! |
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A National Treasure - A Lifetime's Interest by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Part one of a three-part monologue series. No set necessary. |
Synopsis | Violet Brimley is a Northern charlady with rare insight, a heart of gold and a broadminded outlook on life. Her encounter with her client Mr Ranwell and his highly salacious collection of books confirms her opinions about the transient quality of beauty - and the yardstick by which a gentleman should be judged. |
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A National Treasure - Lady with a Fan by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Part three of a three-part monologue series. No set necessary. |
Synopsis | Violet Brimley is a Northern charlady with rare insight, a heart of gold and a broadminded outlook on life. Violet enters the world of art and culture, and makes the acquaintance of a beautiful portrait. But something tells our shrewd charlady that nothing is quite as it seems. |
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Nelson's Driving Test by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch, with verbal and visual gags and anachronisms. Single set (can be very simple). |
Synopsis | A young Horatio Nelson prepares to take his Naval Captaincy Proficiency Test in front of an eager TV crew. |
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New Cat by Deborah Heath |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One (female) character is an offstage voice only and could be pre-recorded. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy with a single (kitchen) setting. |
Synopsis | Fang and Tom live a peaceful life with kind owners and a lovely garden. One day, they notice an intruder spraying their favourite shrub. When it looks like Ginger is going to threaten their cosy existence, they discover that he is just trying to survive during a terrible life change of his own. |
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A New Job For The Wicked One by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. As you might expect from the title, one of the characters is a bit of a devil. The other is Mr Shufflebotham, but it could equally be Mrs Shufflebotham. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch set in a job centre. |
Synopsis | Just another regular day in the Little Noddingsbury Jobcentre - or so it seemed. Now Mr Shufflebotham has a very peculiar client - Satan himself has come up from the realms of Hades and is looking for a new job. |
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A Nice Cup of Tea by Jos Biggs |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. A middle aged couple. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act comedy play, single kitchen setting (needs at least a working kettle). |
Synopsis | Harold has just returned from his course, training to be Health and Safety Officer at his firm. Now that he's in the know, he's determined to prevent his poor wife Marian from exposing herself to unnecessary risk while making a cuppa. |
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No Idea by Charles Dennison New |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch set in a farmhouse kitchen. |
Synopsis | Fred and Mavis are enjoying a quiet morning in their farmhouse, when a visitor calls in the hopes of finding some antiques of value to purchase. He doesn't really fancy the non-matching candlesticks, but he's very taken with a painting left by the farmer's grandfather. |
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Non-Sequitur by S. J. Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch in the absurdist mode with no set necessary. |
Synopsis | A number of characters interchange absurd conversations with a surprising conclusion. |
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Not Another Nativity by Paul Cockcroft |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Genders for parts are nominated, but could be altered as required. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act nativity play with rehearsal settings. |
Synopsis | Teacher becomes increasingly impatient (whilst retaining some, perhaps misplaced, optimism) as the cast rehearse for the forthcoming school nativity. Numerous interruptions and bored children abound in a refreshing new slant on the traditional. |
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