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A Double-Decker For Santa Claus by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute play, a modern Christmas Carol without the ghosts! Single set. |
Synopsis | Christmas doesn't mean much to Mr Howard - he just wants people to buy his cars, whatever the time of year. But now there's a customer in a red suit, looking to for something to replace his old sleigh... |
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Dr Death by Croft & Barnett |
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 | Short comedy sketch set in a doctor's surgery. |
Synopsis | Mr Peters wants a cure for his bad back, and the doctor has a suggestion that will definitely prevent him feeling any pain... ever again! |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Dream Job by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch set in an interview room (so a desk and a couple of chairs). |
Synopsis | A job interview for a man who has - and knows he has - a nasty streak. |
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The Driving Test by Frank Gibbons |
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 | Short comedy sketch set in a car (which need only be a couple of chairs). From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | The aftermath of a driving test, which doesn't seem to have gone well. Could anything make it go better? |
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The Duchess of Argyle by Chris Hicks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Dramatic monologue with a simple (furniture-only) set. |
Synopsis | A middle-aged woman with a flamboyant alter-ego and expensive tastes, confesses to a theft in which she and her husband are complicit. |
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Duck by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Three ducks, three swans and three hunters! |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute comedy play. Single set (no real set requirements) |
Synopsis | Three different varieties of duck are arguing about which is the true Duck, when they are united by the threatening behaviour of the ruling swans. Sadly, before their revolution can get off the ground, three duck hunters arrive. |
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Duck Bread by Billy Doyle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are adults, but could easily be performed by teenagers. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch. Single (outdoor) set. The script includes mild swearing. |
Synopsis | A man is in the park, about to feed bread to the ducks. Unfortunately, it's the wrong sort of bread... |
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Dutch Courage by Elizabeth Bell |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A poignant monologue with a single (bedroom) setting. |
Synopsis | Maggie is preparing to leave for Holland where her husband Geoff, at his own request, will enter a euthanasia clinic. Her feelings and emotions bubble under the surface and gather tension as the transport arrives. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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E for Easter by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are nominally gendered, they are symbolic, so take this as guidance only! |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short piece for young children, with an introduction to (largely the American sub-set of) Easter traditions. |
Synopsis | The Easter animals led by rabbit Peter Cottontail present their account of the traditions surrounding Easter and their explanation of its meaning. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Early Grave by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch for two actors. No set needed. |
Synopsis | Jim is surprised to have a caller at his home to arrange his funeral at reduced cost, because he's clearly not dead. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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