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| A History Lesson for Turkey Boy by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for young children - a simple history of the Thanksgiving festival. No set or props required. |
| Synopsis | Mr Corn, Mrs Sweet Potato, Mrs Pumpkin and Mrs Squash make sure the young Misses Apples and especially Turkey Boy know their History before Thanksgiving is celebrated. |
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| Hit Man by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch with no requirements for props or set. |
| Synopsis | A 'Green' assassin for hire conducts business.
A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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| The Hitchhiker by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch. It is possible that David Lovesy has been reading too many children's books... |
| Synopsis | Simon picks up a hitchhiker and is shocked to learn Perry's secret identity. |
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| Holding Up A Mirror by Wally Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Fifteen-minute play. No set requirements (unless three chairs count as a set - in this case, I would count them as props). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | A discussion about theatre and the nature of drama... but are you watching them, or are they watching you? |
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Hologram by Jonathan Edgington
Selected for and performed at DK Delight Production's DELIGHT NIGHT 2 playwriting festival in London in 2019. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script suggests one piece of incidental music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A very short play set at a bar in a restaurant. |
| Synopsis | Pensioners William and Barbara are on a blind date. Things are a little frosty until William demonstrates a new app on his phone which gives them a glimpse of their past - or is it their future? |
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Honeyrose and Hayseed by Ged Quayle
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. In the original draft, Agg was written female and Enna male, but it doesn't really matter. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A horror short, with a fun twist on expectations. (Contains considerable levels of gore.) |
| Synopsis | In a seemingly post-apocalyptic Britain, two young people talk of the terrible dangers they face - and of a forbidden trip to a city. |
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| Horror-scopes by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The male role is a phone-in voice. This might be better done live but it could conceivably be recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two minute comedy sketch with no specific requirements for set or props. (A couple of comfortable seats would help.) |
| Synopsis | Tony calls the astrology section of a chat show and gets to learn a bit more than he expected about his future... |
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| Hot Air by Mary Portalska |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny and fast sketch. Easy to stage with something resembling the front of a hot air balloon basket as a set - this could be as simple as a table with a bit of cloth, or a cardboard cut-out. |
| Synopsis | When their hot air balloon takes off without a pilot, two bickering sisters find themselves adrift. And then they find the pilot, dangling on a rope below the basket. |
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| The Hot Tub by Brian Coyle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy with a single (bedroom) setting. Adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Frank gets a shock when he looks out his window in the middle of the night. Who are those people in his hot tub and what are they doing? His wife Mary is not so shocked - she’s rather amused by their antics. What she really wants to know is - why don’t she and Frank use the hot tub anymore? |
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| House Rules by Jos Biggs |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Dave and Shirley are tired after shopping, and craving a tea, but there’s a problem: the head waiter won’t allow Dave into the tearoom. House Rules on attire are the issue, but Dave has a cunning plan to circumvent them. |
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