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Two Surgeons by Damian Trasler & Steve Clark |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. 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 | Ten-minute comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | Two surgeons converse while performing an operation. Cue a string of dreadful medical jokes! |
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Undercover Boss by Hugh Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A funny set-up makes for a good sketch that doesn't outstay its welcome. Needs a desk and two chairs. |
Synopsis | The new owner of a ballet company and its principal male dancer meet to discuss a recent performance of Giselle, at which the boss had gone undercover. |
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up & down by Rob Ricards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. There is one speaking character. A second character makes two appearances to bring on props. (This might be done by a member of the stage crew.) The character is written as male, but could be played female with just a couple of name changes. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute play - essentially a monologue - set on the step ladder that is life! |
Synopsis | A character reviews the events of his (or her) life, using a handy step ladder as a metaphor. |
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Utopian Rhapsody by Howard Lipson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 play, containing a Christian message. |
Synopsis | Charles Dickens and Washington Irving trade views and ideas over port in New York, leaving Dickens with a fine outline for a new holiday novel. |
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A Ventriloquist's Tale by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst this is presented as a monologue, it could also be performed by three people, playing narrator, ventriloquist and psychiatrist. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming comedy monologue (no set or props required). |
Synopsis | A Ventriloquist who fears he's being controlled by his dummy seeks professional help and gets some straight talking. |
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Villains by Shari Gledhill |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 15-minute drama on a single office set. A good, easy to stage, two-person play with the shifts in power dynamic providing some good material for the two actors to work with. |
Synopsis | Hardened criminal Reid is summoned to the office of prison governor Dawson. Dawson intends to blackmail Reid into assisting him with a personal problem, but Reid is not so easily coerced. |
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Viral Tune Life Form by Damian Trasler & David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. No set required. |
Synopsis | Ever got a tune in your head that you just can't shift? Jim has, and his friend Paul tries to help. |
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Water Under The Bridge by Trevor Suthers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama play. |
Synopsis | Louis and Tony meet unexpectedly after a long separation. Time has passed, but it soon becomes clear that not enough water has flowed under the bridge, and some memories are still sharp enough to cause pain. |
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What A Way To Go! by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 sketch for two men, with a simple set. |
Synopsis | Two men are lost while orienteering. It turns out the one with the map is not quite as experience as he claimed, and it might be a long walk home... If they can find it. |
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What Goes Around... by Vicki Lloyd |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. 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 fun concept for a sketch. Entertaining interaction between the two characters, which builds to a suitable pay-off. Unusual set - a tall plant, a model of a castle and a giant shell - but probably cardboard cut-outs. |
Synopsis | Two goldfish are circling in their bowl. One recalls their early life with a huge family in the ocean. The other thinks they're making it up. |
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