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The Woofer and The Flagger by Ethan Bortman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy with a single (market stall) setting. |
Synopsis | Tourist, Larry comes across a simple market stall offering a free massage with purchases of bottles and sprays of various herbal products. As Maggie starts his massage he learns about her unconventional lifestyle. |
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Word Up by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Age difference essential. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act comedy, with a split (living room and office) set. |
Synopsis | Pensioner Ruby is having trouble with her computer and calls a computer helpline. The problem is eventually discovered, but will Ruby like the solution? |
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A Word with my Client by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Although the sketch is written with four male roles, with just minor adjustments Bland and/or Bentazza could easily be played as female. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch set in a police interview room. |
Synopsis | Detective Sergeant Hatchett has been assaulted whilst thwarting an attempted burglary and is about to interview the suspect along with his superior. The burglar has enlisted the help of a particularly slippery solicitor. Will he be able to convince the police of his highly dubious client's innocence? |
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The Wrong Regulator by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy short in a single office setting. (Confusingly, the production notes include the features of a featureless office.) |
Synopsis | A routine stocktake reveals that the numbers of one important and resource-hungry item have risen enormously to eight billion. The control room team must find a way to reduce the number. |
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Yes Dear by Jos Biggs |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedic sketch with a simple set. |
Synopsis | This henpecked husband hasn't many words for his wife, but he manages to convey quite a lot with just the two, and there's a surprise waiting when she talks herself into a corner. |
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Yes, but how was the play, Mrs Lincoln? by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Philosophical argument, set in a scrap yard! Single simple set. |
Synopsis | Does happiness come from going out and getting experiences or from appreciating what you have? (Or, come to that, from finding a distributor for a 1985 Ford Fiesta?) |
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You Should Have Told Me by Iris Winston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Could be played by a mixed-age group or as a youth theatre piece. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fifteen-minute drama for young audiences. (An issue-driven piece which might be used as a lead-in to classroom discusisons.) |
Synopsis | Teri is excited at the prospect of being a bridesmaid at her aunt's wedding. Joy turns to misery when she finds out that she is adopted and learns the truth about her relationship to the bride. |
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You Will Go No More A-Haunting by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst the main characters are written 1M, 1F, the author would be happy if St. Gladys (the patron saint of bureaucrats) underwent gender reassignment. The two guards are non-speaking and only make a brief appearance. They are optional! |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch, of puns and strange ideas about the afterlife. Single office set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Sir Thomas Pickington has been happily haunting the same spot for 500 years, but now he's up against the new HSE - the Haunting Safety Executive, and they have some different ideas about how he should be doing his haunting. |
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You'll Suit Just Fine [Short Version] by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy play, set in a tailor's shop. |
Synopsis | Kevin is in training, but he's not quite up to speed yet. A difficult customer wants to return a suit so Mr Green, the owner, has to step in to save the day. |
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Young Tommy Atkins by Jon Tilley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Character ages of 17 and 27, but could be played by younger ages. |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act drama with a single (World War One trench) set. |
Synopsis | Three young soldiers, Harry a famous footballer in civvy street , new recruit Tommy and their officer Captain Jackson are pinned down in an abandoned First World War trench for several hours. Their relationship develops until the final poignant moments. |
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