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| Do Me A Favour 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 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play. It needs to be performed in its entirety, but because of its structure - a series of seven prison visits - it could be performed front of curtain as part of a sketch show. Contains extreme swearing. |
| Synopsis | Bill's banged up inside, and Ben is his regular visitor. Since Ben owes Bill, it's only natural that he should carry out any instructions the senior villain gives him. Even if they are a bit... iffy. eventually Bill gives one order too many and a little while later their positions are reversed. |
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| Do You Come Here Often by Richard Hills |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, requiring little more than a bench. (Oh, all right, some actors as well.) |
| Synopsis | Two men meet when they both retreat from their wives to a peaceful bench. They swap tales of woe, then retire to the pub just before their wives enter and give each other the other side of the story. Domestic bliss! |
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| Do You Mind by Allan Williams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play set in the stalls of a theatre. |
| Synopsis | As the audience settle down in the auditorium to watch a play they find that their lives are all inter-connected in some way This is welcome to some but causes embarrassing difficulties for others. |
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| Do You Remember? by Frances Bartram |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] In the original performances, it ran between 25 & 30 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short drama, with an informal set - furniture and a few props. |
| Synopsis | In this poignant examination of the effects of dementia we see Doris, who is not as young as she used to be, descend into a confused world through the eyes of her granddaughter Anna as they relive past events. |
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| Dobre Den, Mrs Wilson by Ged Quayle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy with distinctly adult themes. Minimal (kitchen) setting. An unusual set-up that allows for a unique form of bonding between the two characters, with cheeky comedy mixed with some emotional connection. |
| Synopsis | Di Wilson meets Khristo, her son's husband-to-be. Just one problem - Khristo can't speak English, and Di speaks nothing but. Safe from understanding, Di confesses a shattering secret. |
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| The Doctor And Mr Rogers by Kal B Sisson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short dark comedy sketch set in a doctor's consulting room. |
| Synopsis | Mr Rogers takes some convincing, when the doctor tells him the bad news - that his condition means he has only minutes to live. |
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| Doctor Hoof by Diana Kimpton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. All characters are animals behaving as humans (with options for any mix of gender). Flexible singing chorus (from none to lots). |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Choruses set to traditional tunes are included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short play for children. (It might be described as a light comedy or a light morality play.) Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Doctor Hoof only treats other horses. When he moves to a new town, he finds he's the only horse around, so there's no one for him to treat. Helped by the other animals, he gradually learns they are not as different from him as he thought. |
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| Doctor Sleep by Nicholas Richards |
| 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 | Ten-minute comedy skit. The setting is a doctor's surgery - with the minimum of decor needed to convey that information, so could even be done front-of-curtain. No specific props required. |
| Synopsis | Mrs James needs some help with her insomnia, and Doctor Barlow needs her to go home so he can begin his evening. Nurse Popplewell is doing her best to help them both. |
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| Doctor, Doctor by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. Includes adult themes! (No offensive language, but the occasional embarrassed cough...) |
| Synopsis | A man goes into his doctor's office and is startled to find a woman there. Despite his initial embarrassment, he reveals his personal problem and then becomes very embarrassed indeed when he discovers who she is. |
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| The Doctor by Gary Diamond & Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Mister Smedley would seem to be male. The doctor could be either. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | A man is called into his doctor's office for some very bad - and surprising - news. |
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