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It's Been A While by Bibi Berki & Mark Lingwood |
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 | Non-specific lift muzak is to be briefly played at one point in the scene. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A comedy sketch with a hotel set suggested by props and lighting. Adult content. |
Synopsis | A couple have booked a hotel room for the consummation of their clandestine love affair. Being inexperienced in this sort of thing, they find there is more to it than they first thought. |
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It's not the end of the World by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Minimal office setting |
Synopsis | One of the most important questions about the zombie apocalypse: what happens to the advertising industry? After all, it's not the end of the world... |
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It's Your Funeral by Barry Wood |
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 | A comedy sketch with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Rachel the funeral director is doing her best to help Lee arrange his mother’s funeral, but there’s a slight drawback - she’s not actually dead yet. |
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Jamie Freel's Halloween by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. 'Fairies' may be played by m or f, or a combination. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short adaptation of an Irish folk tale, with two simple settings. |
Synopsis | In this adaptation the wicked fairies kidnap Gracie, to imprison her in the castle. Jamie intervenes, and as a ransom Gracie is struck deaf and dumb. With a little magic and many travails, Jamie is at last able to re-unite Gracie with her parents. |
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The Jewel Of Lamjung by Richard Ward |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The cast includes an on-stage sound effects operator. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] (The original production, including dances, ran to 22 minutes.) |
Music | None. |
Style | Short Melodrama with a comedic edge (suitable for inclusion in a Music Hall evening, for example). Set in a regimental ballroom in Nepal in the days of British rule. |
Synopsis | The Music Hall Chairman takes us through the action as smooth blackguard Major Ponsonby adds the theft of the jewel of Lamjung to his many dastardly misdemeanours. He is finally undone as, following his daughter's lead, the Colonel sees that Ponsonby really is a cad, a bounder and a disgrace to the regiment. |
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Joan: The Movie by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | Cooper thinks his latest movie pitch is The One, but movie producer Letterson is not convinced. They discuss several anachronisms in this Joan of Arc Biopic. Starting with the elephants. |
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Job for the Boy by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All three protagonists are written male (as so many politicians are), but need not be played that way. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Single set requiring just a desk, a chair and a bin. |
Synopsis | The election results are in and it looks like Marcus will be Prime Minister, but he'll need another party to make sure, so he'll have to offer Chancellor of the Exchequer to Gilbert. Which is bad news for Barnabas, because he so wanted to be Chancellor.. |
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A Job for Un-life by 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 sketch. No set requirements, no props. |
Synopsis | An interview with a vampire! One of the bloodsucking undead attempts to recruit a new member. A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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A Job Lot by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun short comedy with a good set of characters, with a minimal kitchen set required, this should fit nicely into sketch nights. |
Synopsis | Wheeler-dealer Terry has mistakenly bought five thousand plastic ducks and won't be able to sell them or get his money back. While explaining the situation to his family, he hatches a cunning plan. |
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John Lennon Assembly by Sue Russell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 58. No chorus. Lots of cast flexibility! |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The script includes suggestions for musical interludes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | Short assembly piece for a full cast of children. No specific set requirements (give or take the representation of a bed!). |
Synopsis | A short review of the life of John Lennon, looking at where he fitted in to the twentieth century. Written to support the English National Curriculum Key Stage Two, History Unit 20 - What can we learn about recent history from studying the life of a famous person? |
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