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Pub Lunch by Graham Andrews
Published: 29 August 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute monologue. (We're in Bennett territory, with enjoyably camp sass.) |
| Synopsis | Maurice recounts going out for a meal with his mother. It was bad enough when his portion of Thai green curry was disappointingly small, but then Mother dropped a revelation about her personal life. |
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Thrusting Edifice by Susie Casson
Published: 12 August 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. 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 gentle, enjoyable sketch that would fit comfortably into a variety night and is easy to stage - minimal furniture and two actors of any gender. |
| Synopsis | Two strangers meet at an art gallery and discuss the paintings and what they assume the artists intended. |
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Gallery Attendants by Simon Michael-Morgan
Published: 6 August 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two on-stage characters and a voice over a two-way radio (which, might be recorded, although it's a to-and-fro of dialogue which would be easier live). |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy - a funny satire on generational conflict - set in an art gallery. (A black box with paintings 'on the wall'.) |
| Synopsis | Two gallery attendants don't have much to do other than stand still. The younger attendant dreams of a better life - or at the very least, having a chair - while the older takes pride in his work and attempts to report his colleague's slovenliness. |
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Dobre Den, Mrs Wilson by Ged Quayle
Published: 5 August 2024 |
| 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 | Ten-minute comedy with distinctly adult themes. Minimal (kitchen) setting. An unusual set-up that allows for a unique form of bonding between the two characters, with cheeky comedy mixed with some emotional connection. |
| Synopsis | Di Wilson meets Khristo, her son's husband-to-be. Just one problem - Khristo can't speak English, and Di speaks nothing but. Safe from understanding, Di confesses a shattering secret. |
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Honeyrose and Hayseed by Ged Quayle
Published: 5 August 2024 |
| 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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A Peg or Two by Ged Quayle
Published: 5 August 2024 |
| 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 | This is definitely just for adults (and won't be to everyone's taste). For those who like this sort of thing, it's a fun, smutty comedy sketch with a sweet ending. |
| Synopsis | A married couple decide to experiment in the bedroom. It doesn't go quite as they'd hoped. |
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The Last Birthday Party by Susie Casson
Published: 2 August 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. All four characters are written female - a mother and her three adult daughters - but any could be changed to male with appropriate tweaks to the text. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A strong dramatic sketch with themes of grief, memories and mother-child relationships, which offers an opportunity for four actors to show some emotional range. Minimal set. |
| Synopsis | Jo, Chris and Sam are in the attic, sorting out the last box of their Mum's possessions on what would have been her birthday. They can’t figure out why she kept that strange old toby jug. |
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Early Grave by Tony Domaille
Published: 29 July 2024 |
| 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. |
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The Right One by Ged Quayle
Published: 17 July 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short drama, tinged with black comedy in a single, simple set (another starring role for the park bench.) |
| Synopsis | An unlikely couple meet at dawn in a park. One of them is a murderer, looking for a potential victim... |
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Grimm Sisters by Gill Medway
Published: 27 June 2024 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny sketch with some self-referential fourth wall-breaking humour and a playfully feminist twist on the Brothers Grimm. |
| Synopsis | It's 1812, and Johanna and Wilhelmina Grimm - under their pseudonyms of Jacob and Wilhelm - are hard at work on their latest tale. If only their characters weren't so hell-bent on sabotage, and if only their moustaches didn't look so suspiciously fake. |
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