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Santa Claus is Calling by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Cast of two teenage girls, their father and Santa Claus! (The last two might - just - be doubled.) |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Seven-minute skit. Single (minimal) set. |
Synopsis | Polly and Alice may not believe in Santa Claus any more, but Santa believes in them... |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Santa's Lost It by Peter Keel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Whilst the script specifies that the children are aged 10 and 8, we would advise that they should be played (for laughs, as kids) by considerably older actors. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | A family awaits the arrival of Santa Claus, but he's not what they were expecting. There's some tense negotiation before Santa realises his bad eyesight may have created a worse problem elsewhere. |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Sardines Again? by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with a single setting. |
Synopsis | Mick's wife Christine is on yet another diet and, whilst sympathetic to her diets in the past, he has now been told by his doctor to reduce his cholesterol. Christine seems obsessed with their diet and when Mick is told he's got sardines again, he puts his foot down. |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Saving India by Vithal Rajan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute play, single set. |
Synopsis | A short political sketch in which three Indian government secretaries discuss their plans for the nation - and their own advancement - whilst puffing on their Cuban cigars. |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Say it with a Sausage by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Whilst the two characters are women, they might be played as women by men in non-glamorous drag. (British people with long memories are invited to contemplate Les Dawson in this context.) |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch. From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | At the end of the working day, what could be better than a discussion of the relationship between slimming and happiness? (Especially when accompanied by cream cakes.) |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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The Script by Trevor Suthers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute play. No set requirements, simplest of props (four scripts!). Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | A Producer, Director and Actor have called a meeting to tell the writer of a play that they loved it so much they want to change every aspect of it. |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Scriptaholic by Billy Doyle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. Chorus. In the author's draft of the script, the 'New Member' is male and the 'Group Leader' female, but there doesn't seem to be any necessity for this! |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short comedy sketch with no specific requirements for set or props. |
Synopsis | When a new member joins Scriptaholic, a support group for script writers who have lost sight of the boundaries between fantasy and reality, even the group leader finds him too far gone for help. |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Scripted by Brenna McBride |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Quirky comedy short on a coffee shop set. |
Synopsis | Coffee house waitress Jenny has written her own happy ending for herself and her favorite customer, Kevin - and she's hired the perfect director, Linda, to make her fantasy a reality. But what happens if life refuses to imitate art? |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Scrooge Lives Next Door by Croft & Barnett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch, with a simple set. |
Synopsis | Jolly Jim was having a merry Christmas, until some unwelcome spirits pay him a visit and spill some unpleasant beans. |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Searching by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute comedy play. Single set (a reception area, so little more than a coffee table and a couple of chairs). |
Synopsis | David is going to be on a new television show where he picks from a selection of six women and dates them to determine his match. Trouble is, he seems to be scaring them off before the show even starts... |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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