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How On Earth by Patricia Gay |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fifteen minute sketch for four actors. |
Synopsis | How (short for Howard) has been told by his mum that he was given to her by a celestial being. Now, the workman building the house extension reveals that the greater power in question actually works for The Opposition. How is left to consider his place in the astral conflict. |
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How Will I Know You? by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with a single (park bench) setting. |
Synopsis | Armed with a red rose and a book of poetry, eternal spinster Rosalie hopes to meet the man of her dreams. His on-screen photo may look like Brad Pitt, but will the real guy measure up? And can a chance meeting on a park bench save Rosalie from a Date Worse then Death? |
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Howdy by Henry P. Gravelle Honorable Mention - Berlin Flash Film Festival, script competition, August 30, 2018 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Bluegrass or banjo at curtain rise and close. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short comedy sketch set in a motel reception. US English. |
Synopsis | Two hillbilly outsiders need to find a resting place for the night. They are amazed and a little apprehensive by the modern wonders of a motel. |
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Human Relations by Mark Niel Winner in the Marie Curie One Page Play Competition competition, 2008 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The waiter is written male, but could easily be a waitress. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute comedy play, single (restaurant table) set, simple props. |
Synopsis | Paula thinks she's just meeting her boyfriend for a pleasant evening out together, but he's an HR manager, and its been a year since they started going out, so there's got to be an annual review! |
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Hunting Yetis by Andy Haynes |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Michael is definitely male. The Yeti seems to be male, but it's hard to tell owing to the Yeti costume. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute comedy play, single set (mainly a couch). Simple, funny and touching. |
Synopsis | Michael wasn't expecting anyone to call, certainly not wearing a yeti suit. But this yeti comes bearing gifts - a pair of binoculars, a butterfly net and a letter Michael wrote when he was small, about how he was off to hunt yetis. Oh, and there’s a ticket to the Himalayas too... |
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I 'Aven't The Foggiest by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Brenda is a gauche, middle-aged Yorkshirewoman. (Make your own mind up as to what that means.) |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short prose monologue with no need for a set. |
Synopsis | Brenda recounts the day she went for a walk and got a lot more than she bargained for. |
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I Am Not Marilyn Monroe by Fiona Scott Patrick |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy monologue, with plenty of acting challenges. |
Synopsis | Zara is a twenty-something who has trouble sleeping and uses alcohol to help her. Her alcohol infused confusion becomes her reality and her love of old movie stars puts her in a fantasy world. She plays at being Marilyn Monroe. On being Marilyn, she comes across a new confident in the form of a six-legged spider whom she very appropriately decides to name Bobby Kennedy! |
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I Googled You by Jonathan Edgington Selected for and performed at the 2017 Salisbury Fringe 'Short Cuts' playwriting festival. Shortlisted for the 2018 Actor Awareness Intergenerational Night. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play for two actors. Can be performed on a minimal set. |
Synopsis | Felix and Truly meet for the first time on a blind date. Felix is at first taken aback by Truly’s antics in her garden but the date goes ahead. Afterwards, the pair give a surprising final assessment. |
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I Licked My Cat's Brain by Matthew Taylor |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 stand-up comedy sketch, two people, no scenery, no props. |
Synopsis | Well, the title says it all! |
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I Pledge Thee by Tony Domaille |
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 | Comedy sketch. Minimal set requirements, so could be performed front-of-curtain. (Also available as part of the Love and Marriage collection of short comedies by Tony Domaille) |
Synopsis | Jeff wants to renew his wedding vows with Rose, but when they meet with the Vicar to make arrangements, things don’t go as Jeff imagined. |
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