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| Heaven's Gate by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch intended for church groups. |
| Synopsis | Newcomers checking in at the gates of Heaven. (See also Hebrews 1, 1-3) |
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| Heaven's Waiting Room by Gary Diamond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy play. Single (rather white) set, simple props. Contains mild swearing and mild adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Martin Dexter is confused to find himself in a waiting room. He remembers breaking up with his girlfriend and... oh, yes, falling to his death. But where does he go from here? (It seems that there are two possibilities...) |
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| Hefty the Elephant 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 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch with no set required. |
| Synopsis | Ben and Jerry wonder where Hefty went after running away from the circus and whether he joined Nellie. |
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| Heir on a Shoestring by Ian Sharrock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Set in modern times, but rather a Woosterish central character! |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Monologue - a short black comedy, with no requirement for set or props. Contains limited swearing and dishonourable motives! |
| Synopsis | A dissolute young man tells a tale of woe, recounting how he tried to 'hurry along' his inheritance from his rich Great Uncle Silas. Trouble is, having a new companion gives the old boy a new lease of life, and he drives his grandnephew to distraction living it to the full. |
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| Hello, Nice To Meet You, Goodbye by Ashley Harris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Cast size can be reduced to six with doubling and costume changes! |
| Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act, large-cast comedy. |
| Synopsis | Various hilarious characters populate a fly-on-the-wall look at a speed dating evening. Gerald decides that a detailed account of his recent cricket match is the best way to woo a partner. Bryan delves into his recent toenail extraction to engage Beth before appropriately asking if she would like to eat. Whilst Alix is eager to find a man to test her martial arts skills on whether he wants her to or not. |
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| Help for Greek Heroes by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy,, part of the It's All Greek collection. |
| Synopsis | The Help for Greek Heroes counselling team are discussing their caseload, including Achilles' morbid fear of heel injuries and Oedipus being a mummy's boy. |
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Help Me Get Over You by Rollin Jewett
Finalist - 2018 Downtown Urban Arts Festival (DUAF), NYC. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy duologue sketch with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Having ended his relationship with Phyllis, John is having withdrawal difficulties. Much to Phyllis’ initial annoyance and incredulity, John enlists her help with his problem. |
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| Help! I've a Sausage Up My Nose! by Billy Doyle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very silly short sketch. Theoretically set in a pub, but really no set or props required. (Contains mild swearing.) |
| Synopsis | An old officer comes across his pal in a pub and perceives a problem with his probosis. |
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| A Helping Hand by Peter Hale |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Two strong roles for 1M, 1F (though Mary could be changed to male with only a few small alterations). |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy - wry, rather than laugh-out-loud, possibly more sinister undertones if subtly played. Easy to stage on one living room set. |
| Synopsis | Mary, a harassed social services official, is visiting the old people in her district to update the database. George, an apparently lonely widower, is initially uncooperative. When Mary finds herself staying longer than expected, the barriers come down - and Mary is taught not to patronise the elderly. |
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| Henry and the Rocket by Eseld Swift |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. The characters are male (apart from the storyteller and the cat, whose gender is unspecified), but that does not matter for casting purposes. Optional chorus of shipwrecked sailors. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with lead sheets (vocal line music) for the two songs which are intended to be sung unaccompanied. |
| Style | A one act historical drama for schools, with various (easily suggested) settings. |
| Synopsis | Based on the life and work of Henry Trengrouse and his invention of a Rocket Life-Saving Apparatus the consequences of lives lost at sea are brought vividly to life. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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