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| You Will Go No More A-Haunting by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst the main characters are written 1M, 1F, the author would be happy if St. Gladys (the patron saint of bureaucrats) underwent gender reassignment. The two guards are non-speaking and only make a brief appearance. They are optional! |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch, of puns and strange ideas about the afterlife. Single office set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Sir Thomas Pickington has been happily haunting the same spot for 500 years, but now he's up against the new HSE - the Haunting Safety Executive, and they have some different ideas about how he should be doing his haunting. |
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| You'll Suit Just Fine [Short Version] by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy play, set in a tailor's shop. |
| Synopsis | Kevin is in training, but he's not quite up to speed yet. A difficult customer wants to return a suit so Mr Green, the owner, has to step in to save the day. |
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| You're A Robot, Miss Jones? by Jim Hollingsworth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch for four actors on a minimal set, with sci-fi themes. |
| Synopsis | In an obscure department of the British Civil Service, the office manager interviews Miss Jones to find out whether her job could be done by a robot. |
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| You're Not Wearing That by Steve Menary |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. A mother and two teenage children. (Could all, of course, be played by teenagers.) |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy play for and about teenagers. No set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A Sister and Brother try to explain the concept of cool to their mother. |
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| Young Tommy Atkins by Jon Tilley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Character ages of 17 and 27, but could be played by younger ages. |
| Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act drama with a single (World War One trench) set. |
| Synopsis | Three young soldiers, Harry a famous footballer in civvy street , new recruit Tommy and their officer Captain Jackson are pinned down in an abandoned First World War trench for several hours. Their relationship develops until the final poignant moments. |
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| Your Deal by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A dramatic sketch with a single (waiting room) setting. US English. |
| Synopsis | As her sister goes into labour, Joy waits with the husband's best friend, who is nervous about the imminently delivered baby. |
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| Your Mother's an Alien by David Dunn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play - set optional.
Part of the Aliens collection of short plays for youth people. |
| Synopsis | A group of aliens have been happily living a covert life on earth. An inadvertent slip by the mother of one of the boys may reveal their identity and the problem is made worse by bullying at school. |
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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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