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Street Talk by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. No set requirements. From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | A case of shopping and... gossiping. |
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The Stubborn Little Girl and the Spider's Web by Jon Boustead |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Whilst there is no explicit chorus, there is a lot of flexibility in the numbers of Witches and Shrieks. |
Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Drama for the junior ranks of a youth theatre, a mix of narration and action with no specific set requirements. |
Synopsis | Isobel, a stubborn and rather rude girl, learns the error of her ways through encounters with a magical woodpecker, a vampire, witches, a spider and the awesome Shrieks. |
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Student Of The Year by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One male offstage voice, could be recorded. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch with a simple set. |
Synopsis | Proud parents are always sure their child is the best, but here the school secretary has a master card... |
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Substance Abuse by David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | Two British expats reminisce on what they miss from the old country. |
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Suffragette by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A simple sketch (for an Edwardian Music Hall). No set - could be done front of curtain. |
Synopsis | Edward discovers - to his horror - that his wife is leaving... |
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Summer Break by Caroline Spencer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Character (playing) ages are 11 (F), 15 (M) and adult (M). Intended for a company of teenagers. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play for and about teenagers. No set requirements. A difficult situation handled with grace and balance. |
Synopsis | Anna and Steve, a brother and sister, spend some quality time together, and Steve tells his little sister something he couldn't tell anyone else. |
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Sunny Side Up by Stephen Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both character written male but could be changed to female. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch. A dark comedy sketch. Simple set. |
Synopsis | Mr Cruthers is looking to sort out his stay at the Sunny-Side-Up campsite, but it's more than a little unusual. Not least because some of the helpful staff are a bit on the - er - dead side. |
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Superhero Holiday by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. No set requirements. (The audience have to imagine the palm-fringed beach...) |
Synopsis | There are times when a hard working super hero has to have a holiday... |
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Sweet and Spooky by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play (give or take a couple of minutes). A gently humorous teenage ghost story. |
Synopsis | Millie wants to be a writer, and she wants Pete, her handsome schoolfriend, to look through her latest work. The trouble is that Millie's ex-boyfriend is dead. Dead but not forgotten - his ghost haunts the attic room where she writes. |
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Sword Game by David Dean |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch on a single (office) set. |
Synopsis | Grace's agent Tony got her a role on the TV series Sword Game, but she’s not happy, despite the awards that have come her way. She wants something that will stretch her a little more, but Tony thinks she needs pushing... |
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