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Word Up by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Age difference essential. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act comedy, with a split (living room and office) set. |
Synopsis | Pensioner Ruby is having trouble with her computer and calls a computer helpline. The problem is eventually discovered, but will Ruby like the solution? |
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A Word with my Client by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Although the sketch is written with four male roles, with just minor adjustments Bland and/or Bentazza could easily be played as female. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch set in a police interview room. |
Synopsis | Detective Sergeant Hatchett has been assaulted whilst thwarting an attempted burglary and is about to interview the suspect along with his superior. The burglar has enlisted the help of a particularly slippery solicitor. Will he be able to convince the police of his highly dubious client's innocence? |
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Working for the Great Novelist by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | A reporter discovers uncomfortable truths about how a great novelist works. |
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The Worst Day of My Life by Margaret Histed |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst there are only four named characters, the setting is a classroom, so there is an option for extras as 'other members of the class' |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short play. Single set, simple props. Part of the Emotions collection of shorts. |
Synopsis | Zoe isn't having a good day, what with her brother, her diet and then her ruined German homework, but it turns out her day isn't half as bad as her classmate Holly's. |
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The Wow Factor by Jonathan Edgington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act play for youth theatre or schools. Part of the Aliens collection of short plays for youth people. |
Synopsis | Two officials conduct an unusual interview with a newly-arrived alien... |
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The Wrong Regulator by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy short in a single office setting. (Confusingly, the production notes include the features of a featureless office.) |
Synopsis | A routine stocktake reveals that the numbers of one important and resource-hungry item have risen enormously to eight billion. The control room team must find a way to reduce the number. |
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Yes Dear by Jos Biggs |
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 | A short comedic sketch with a simple set. |
Synopsis | This henpecked husband hasn't many words for his wife, but he manages to convey quite a lot with just the two, and there's a surprise waiting when she talks herself into a corner. |
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Yes, but how was the play, Mrs Lincoln? 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 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Philosophical argument, set in a scrap yard! Single simple set. |
Synopsis | Does happiness come from going out and getting experiences or from appreciating what you have? (Or, come to that, from finding a distributor for a 1985 Ford Fiesta?) |
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You Are What You Eat by Hugh Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | There is a suggestion for an extract from an out-of-copyright Music Hall song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A funny, efficient, and easy to stage sketch. |
Synopsis | A doctor has problems with a patient who has not responded to organic hummus and with another who has overdosed on Tuscan olives and sun-dried tomatoes. |
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You Should Have Told Me by Iris Winston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Could be played by a mixed-age group or as a youth theatre piece. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fifteen-minute drama for young audiences. (An issue-driven piece which might be used as a lead-in to classroom discusisons.) |
Synopsis | Teri is excited at the prospect of being a bridesmaid at her aunt's wedding. Joy turns to misery when she finds out that she is adopted and learns the truth about her relationship to the bride. |
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