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Zoo by Terry Adlam
Performance by Biggleswade Amateur Theatrical Society won three awards at Bedfordshire Drama Festival, 2011, & performance by Little Eyases won 'Best Comedy' at The 38th Wellington Drama Festival, 2011 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Five characters appear on stage, with a further eleven as radio or telephone voices. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Hilarious one-act comedy. Single set. Contains a little swearing, a little physical violence and a penguin. |
| Synopsis | It's an important day for the zoo manager - financier Sir Norman is coming for an inspection, and nothing must go wrong. So it would be a bad time for the gibbons to hijack a car, the tractor to run into croc lake and the tiger to take up residence in the coffee shop. And don't ask about the penguin. |
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| Zoocatraz by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. One adult (zoo keeper), one child (but this is a comedy sketch, and the child could be played by an adult). |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. No set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A visitor to the zoo discovers a strange secret... |
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| Zum Speisen mit der Langewörtergesellschaft by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Whilst it the characters are given masculine or feminine names (or titles, in the case of Herr Ober), it could be reassigned with the change of names and pronouns. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dinner with the Society for Long Words - comedy skit in German with English commentary!
Intended as a light piece for a school language class, but clear and funny enough to form part of a general sketch show. |
| Synopsis | It's a meeting of the German Society for Long Words in their favourite cafe. Can they keep the words shorter than the waiter's temper? Apparently not. |
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