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| Santa Claus is Calling by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Cast of two teenage girls, their father and Santa Claus! (The last two might - just - be doubled.) |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Seven-minute skit. Single (minimal) set. |
| Synopsis | Polly and Alice may not believe in Santa Claus any more, but Santa believes in them... |
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| Santa's Lost It by Peter Keel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Whilst the script specifies that the children are aged 10 and 8, we would advise that they should be played (for laughs, as kids) by considerably older actors. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | A family awaits the arrival of Santa Claus, but he's not what they were expecting. There's some tense negotiation before Santa realises his bad eyesight may have created a worse problem elsewhere. |
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| Sardines Again? by Cheryl Barrett |
| 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 | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Mick's wife Christine is on yet another diet and, whilst sympathetic to her diets in the past, he has now been told by his doctor to reduce his cholesterol. Christine seems obsessed with their diet and when Mick is told he's got sardines again, he puts his foot down. |
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| Saving Angeline Palmer by Maia Kinney-Petrucha |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 28 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act drama for schools with various simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Recalcitrant history student Justine is transported back to 19th century America where she learns about the horrors of slavery. Along with the citizens of a small town, Justine is able to save Angeline Palmer from being sold as a slave. |
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| Saving India by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play, single set. |
| Synopsis | A short political sketch in which three Indian government secretaries discuss their plans for the nation - and their own advancement - whilst puffing on their Cuban cigars. |
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| Say it with a Sausage by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Whilst the two characters are women, they might be played as women by men in non-glamorous drag. (British people with long memories are invited to contemplate Les Dawson in this context.) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch.
From the Laughter Lines collection. |
| Synopsis | At the end of the working day, what could be better than a discussion of the relationship between slimming and happiness? (Especially when accompanied by cream cakes.) |
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| Scary Miss Muffet by Raymond Blakesley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters include a spider, a fly, a bookworm, a sunbeam, various flowers and a loquacious weed. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for kids. Single (minimal) set. A weaving of the tales of Jack and Jill and Miss Muffet. |
| Synopsis | Jill Muffet wants to sit on her tuffet, have her brother Jack at her beck and call and be appreciated by all around her, but the flowers in her garden don't find her so appealing. |
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| The Scary Tale of Count Dracula of Transylvania by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, rhyming Gothic horror comedy play for kids! |
| Synopsis | Count Dracula has got dental problems - his once proud fangs are wearing down. Could dentures be the answer? |
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| The Scary Tale of Frankenstein by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, rhyming Gothic horror comedy play for kids! Single laboratory set! |
| Synopsis | Professor Frankenstein creates a new life from recycled body parts. Unfortunately, his assistant, Egor, drops the brain, so a substitute has to be used. Whilst the brain seems to work, the locals see Frankenstein's creation as a monster and they really aren't happy! |
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| The Scary Tale of The Mummy's Curse by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. (Whilst the script doesn't require a chorus, there are options for dances and for 'extra' roles. The narrator role could be split amongst a group.) |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short, rhyming horror comedy play for kids! |
| Synopsis | An archaeologist in search of treasure finds the mummy of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh in a cursed tomb. (A good time is had by all.) |
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