Sketches, Skits and Ten-Minute Plays

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To be honest, we're not sure where the boundary lies between Sketches, Skits and Short Plays; you'll have to make up your own mind. The one consistent theme is that each of the scripts present here is short! The scripts are aimed at a mix of age groups, and the fact that we say that something is aimed at children hasn't stopped it from being used by adults, and vice versa. We've divided them into Prose Scripts and short Verse Plays. If you don't want to browse the list, then try our short play search facility, or the complete play script search engine.

Prose Scripts


A Captivating Situation	Author	Damian Trasler
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 12 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Short play. Contemporary realism. Single set, simple props.
	Synopsis	Howie's having a bad day - he left the house for little shopping, now, a few hours later, he's holed up in an abandoned house with a hostage upstairs and a bullet in his stomach. Can he negotiate a solution with Police Officer Zip before the SWAT team arrives?
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

A Christmas Carol - The Real Story	Author	Colin Calvert
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Two characters required for performance as a simple duologue, a further 7 (nominally 5F, 2M) required if the action is staged.
	Run time	Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Essentially a duologue which could either be done without additional actors, (as an after-dinner piece) or be staged as a narrated mime. Minimal staging requirements. Makes no attempt to be 'politically correct'!
	Synopsis	Two narrators tell the story of a modern day Scrooge who's having the wool pulled over his eyes by dishonest Bob Cratchit and his gang of cronies.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

A Day at the Races	Author	Will van der Lande
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 6 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	A short, absurd sketch. No set requirements, a few props.
	Synopsis	It's the Duck Derby and an Aristocrat is exchanging small talk with the owner of today's favourite, Dangerous Dennis. Surely nothing can prevent a win for Dennis today?
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

A Lottery Ticket	Author	Gerald P. Murphy
	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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Ten-minute play, adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov. Single set, simple props (give or take a period telephone).
	Synopsis	Sylvia's lottery ticket matches the published part of the winning number. A single phone call well tell her of success or failure, but meanwhile she and her husband contemplate what might happen if she has won...
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

A Meeting on a Train	Author	Gerald P. Murphy
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are written as young adults.
	Run time	Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Ten minute play, based on the short story 'An Enigmatic Nature' by Anton Chekhov. Single set (train carriage, with no specific furnishings), minimal props.
	Synopsis	Meeting on a train, Ian tries to impress his travelling companion Ana. As it turns out, Ana impresses him in an unexpected way.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

A Monster Catch	Author	Ray Lawrence
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 5 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Five-minute comedy sketch. No particular set requirements.
	Synopsis	Two fishermen discuss a new theory on the nature of the Loch Ness Monster.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

A Piece of Cookie	Author	Yair Packer
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Short play, single set, simple props. Includes some swearing.
	Synopsis	George and Kelly are waiting in a hotel room whilst their partners are in the next room, consummating an adulterous affair!
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Across The Road	Author	Peter Lancaster Walker
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 6 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Short sketch. Single set. Several domestic props - at least at the start of the play.
	Synopsis	Mary and Henry are having a quiet afternoon at home, when Mary spots some strange goings on next door. It’s a pity she doesn't keep a better eye on her own house...
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

After the Matinee	Author	Damian Trasler
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two characters (1M, 1F) are young adults, the other two middle-aged.
	Run time	Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Ten minute play, with panto actors outside a pantomime - reflective, gently humorous.
	Synopsis	In between the Matinee and evening performances of the Panto an old hand explains Amateur Theatre to an enthusiastic Buttons.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Albert in the 21st Century	Author	Ray Lawrence
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 2 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Comedy monologue, in the style of - and referring to - Marriott Edgar's 'Albert and the Lion' (made famous by Stanley Holloway).
	Synopsis	You've heard how young Albert Ramsbottom At a zoo, for a lion, was chow Now here's a lament from Ray Lawrence Saying things like that don't happen now!
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

An Apple for Newton	Author	Ray Lawrence
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The perfect role for a wooden actor.
	Run time	Around 7 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Short prose monologue - no set requirements or props, but some ingenuity required for the costume!
	Synopsis	An apple tree gets to the core of Isaac Newton's most famous discovery.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

An Arrowing Experience	Author	Ray Lawrence
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The character is an arrow. (Presumably the acting style required is pointed - even barbed - but essentially wooden!)
	Run time	Around 4 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Short comedy monologue, no set, no props. Might even be regarded as educational (English Key Stage 3 history topic 'The Normans')
	Synopsis	The famous arrow that took King Harold in the eye at Hastings gives his (or her) side of the story. A humorous monologue with comedy accent.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

An Ice Mess You Got Me Into	Author	Ray Lawrence
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Erm, an Iceberg!
	Run time	Around 4 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Monologue. No set, no props.
	Synopsis	An iceberg complains about the unexpected results of being struck by a certain liner in 1912.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

An Inn Keeper's Tale	Author	Mike Sparks
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Modern version of a medieval mystery play. Single, minimal set, basic props.
	Synopsis	An Innkeeper relates the strange events surrounding a local crucifixion. Various members of the Easter Story drop in to give their view of the events.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

An Unlikely Event	Author	James Harvey
	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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Ten-minute play, single set (a park bench).
	Synopsis	What at first appears to be a whimsical exchange between two old men on a park bench takes a turn into more dangerous territory!
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Another Ice Mess You Got Me Into	Author	Ray Lawrence
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 5 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Short prose monologue. No set or props, though the speaker is required to dress as a ship! Contains mild swearing.
	Synopsis	A ship reflects on its brief association with an iceberg in 1912 from its position on the seabed.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Are We There Yet?	Author	Damian Trasler
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two adults and one child. The child is written as a boy, but could easily be chaged into a girl.
	Run time	Around 6 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	An allegorical sketch about Advent! (Minimal staging requirements)
	Synopsis	A family explore a different way to start their holiday. A play with an Advent theme.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

At the Bus Stop	Author	Damian Trasler
	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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Simple one-woman sketch!
	Synopsis	An old lady rambles to a bus stop, and carries on rambling.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Back in the Bookshop	Author	Damian Trasler
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 5 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Short comedy sketch. Simple props - books!
	Synopsis	People go into a bookshop and.. um.. buy books. Or not. (This is not a sequel to the TLC Creative sketch 'In the Bookshop', but it could very easily be the same store, whence the title.)
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Billy Goat Gruff - Play	Author	Gerald P. Murphy
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The troll is nominally male. One male goat and two female goats. The narrators are elves.
	Run time	Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Simple play for young children. Basic stage set (a bridge!). Costumes, but no props.
	Synopsis	Overweight goats meet greedy troll. The troll's dinner menu changes when Billy Goat butts in.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Birds, Bees and Gooseberry Bushes	Author	Ray Lawrence
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One adult and two teenagers.
	Run time	Around 5 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Short sketch, no set requirements, simple props
	Synopsis	A father struggles to overcome his embarrassment long enough to explain the facts of life to his teenage son while they are on holiday.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Blanket Boy	Author	Jack Moskovitz
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. All characters are adults. Three are broadly 'senior'.
	Run time	Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Fifteen-minute play, single contemporary set. Simple props. Contains violence.
	Synopsis	Mae is due to catch a late night bus, and Jack comes to see her off, and gets into a confrontation with the Blanket Boy who inhabits the bus station. A confrontation with unforeseen consequences for all concerned.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Bright - A Play About Heaven	Author	David Webb
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Ten minute play with a Christian theme delivered in a direct style. No specific set - requires only a bench.
	Synopsis	A man suffering after his second heart attack meets a friend in a beautiful garden, where the air makes him feel better than the doctors have managed. Then he remembers that friend was badly hurt in an accident and begins to realise where he is.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Casual-ty	Author	Jack Burgess
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 5 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Five-minute sketch spoofing surgical soap opera. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.)
	Synopsis	An operation is in progress, and the outlook for the patient is bleak...
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Caught Out	Author	Steve Shaw
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Ten minute comedy play. Single, simple set.
	Synopsis	Two burglars break into Mrs. Forester-Brown's House, but their noise attracts attention. Meanwhile, Mrs. Forester-Brown's husband has gone missing...
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Celebrating Saint Patrick's	Author	Olivia Arieti
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Ten-minute play. Single pub set.
	Synopsis	Larry is out to celebrate Saint Patrick's day, but his drinking partner is a little unexpected.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Changes	Author	Bob Tucker
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 5 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Two-handed comedy sketch. Single simple set (table and chairs).
	Synopsis	James arrives back from work to discover that his home has suddenly succumbed to an attack of minimalism!
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Cheers	Author	Bob Tucker
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 12 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Very short comedy play (or a long sketch) with a single West Country pub setting. [This sketch has nothing to do with the TV show of the same name.]
	Synopsis	Graham returns home after years away and goes looking for a pint. He asks the landlord what he recommends, and Annie the barmaid certainly gives him something to think about...
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Contact	Author	Bob Tucker
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 7 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Sketch, simple set (a park bench) no props.
	Synopsis	In the park, Simon and Alice are both waiting...
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Count Ferdinand Von Finkelstein's Fabulous Freak Show	Author	Jack Burgess
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Cast of three adults and two children (or two small adults). The children should look identical, give or take the effects of having been fired from a cannon.
	Run time	Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Ten-minute comedy sketch. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.)
	Synopsis	Count Ferdinand Von Finkelstein introduces his Fabulous Freak Show and circus, including the not-so-strong man, the non-so-bearded lady and Mickey the Meteorite (who has the temerity to want payment for the privilege of being fired from a cannon).
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Couples	Author	Bob Tucker
	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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	A very short farce (mistaken identity, mistaken intentions, that sort of thing). Single set. All characters are adults.
	Synopsis	A proposal of marriage is on the cards - but the cards seem to have got a bit shuffled.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Cube Farming	Author	Damian Trasler
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are both nominally male, but could easily be changed to female.
	Run time	Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Ten minute comedy play. Single set, Simple props.
	Synopsis	It is Marvin’s first day at work, where Simon introduces him to his cubicle or PWE (Personal Work environment).
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Dad's Revenge	Author	Archie Wilson
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 3 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Comedy sketch, single set (a living-room indicated by the presence of an armchair), simple props.
	Synopsis	Natalie is sixteen and trying hard to drive her Dad round the bend. She wants him to drive her and her boyfriend out for their night's clubbing, but can he put a stop to it?
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Difficult People	Author	Gerald P. Murphy
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two parents and their student son.
	Run time	Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Fifteen minute play, single set, simple props, adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov.
	Synopsis	A family disagreement over how the money should be spent - or is it?
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Dog in the Manger	Author	Raymond Blakesley
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. Characters include a dog, a camel, a donkey, three stars and a flock of sheep!
	Run time	Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Simple Nativity play for young children, told from the point of view of the animals! (No set or prop requirements.)
	Synopsis	A dog, a camel a donkey and a star are all complaining about their lot in life, but they have important roles to play in Bethlehem.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Double Walker	Author	Henry P. Gravelle
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Ten-minute play, single interior (psychiatrist's office) set.
	Synopsis	Bruce Arnold is referred to Psychiatrist Maria Dobbs after being linked to a series of deaths. He claims it is his shadow, his doppelganger that kills people who make him angry. Can the Doctor get to the truth... or is it already too late?
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Duck Bread	Author	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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	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...
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Echo and Narcissus	Author	Gerald P. Murphy
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus.
	Run time	Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	Simple piano/vocal scores for four original songs are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script.
	Style	A fifteen-minute musical based on Ancient Greek myth.
	Synopsis	Hera, the queen of the gods, is furious when she discovers that her husband Zeus has been unfaithful, and she takes it out on the object of his affections, the articulate Echo. Echo falls for the handsome Narcissus, but she cannot make him understand because of Hera's curse, which confines Echo to repeating the words of others, and meanwhile Narcissus is in love with his own reflection. (Not a happy lot, the Ancient Greeks!)
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Emporium	Author	Bob Tucker
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Ten-minute comedy play. Single set (simple shop). Simple props.
	Synopsis	No matter what the problem, our happy smiling staff are always here to blame the customer!
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Emporium 2	Author	Bob Tucker
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Fifteen-minute comedy play, single (simple) set, simple props.
	Synopsis	The Emporium has been broken into overnight (after the staff closed the shop at 5:37 the previous evening) and P.C. Bromley is sent to investigate. Ms. Dressoir, the shop owner, has some specific ideas about how the investigation should continue and how P.C. Bromley should stay away from her daughter Michelle. (Set in the same establishment as 'Emporium', so could be played stand-alone or as a sequel.)
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

End of the Road Pub - a play about Hell	Author	David Webb
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as Australians, though there is no reason that they couldn't come from other places.
	Run time	Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Ten-minute play with a Christian perspective on the riskier areas of the afterlife. (Single public bar setting, simple props.)
	Synopsis	Marty and Jim stagger into a pub after a nasty car crash. They have a drink to steady their nerves but soon notice something strange about the pub. It turns out that crash was nastier than they thought and they've got their own lock-in, forever!
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Enlightenment	Author	Bob Tucker
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One of the characters (Jim) is written as male but could easily be Jennifer.
	Run time	Around 8 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Comedy sketch. Single set (the interior of a filling station), simple props.
	Synopsis	Victor is seriously depressed - until a chance encounter in a filling station sends his life in an unexpected direction!
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Feeding the Ducks	Author	Paul Mathews
	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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Ten-minute play - a two-handed comedy with some serious edges and good acting opportunities. Simple set (a bench) and ducks brought to life by sound effects.
	Synopsis	Moira loves to feed the ducks, and has done so ever since her husband died. But Paul is an ornithologist on a mission to save ducks from those who clog their crops with damp bread!
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

For Both of Us	Author	Peter Vincent
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two characters are an ageing mother and her (adult) daughter.
	Run time	Around 5 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Short play. Minimal set, minimal props.
	Synopsis	Lisa tries to deal with her mother's increasing symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. A story of love, loss and compassion.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Getting It Off	Author	Ray Lawrence
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The Waiter could easily be a Waitress
	Run time	Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Ten-minute comedy play. Single (café) set. Simple props.
	Synopsis	Shirley and Tracey reflect on the struggle for weight loss in a café.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Goodbye, Again	Author	Molly McCluskey
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 8 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Sketch/short play. Single simple (restaurant) set - one table. Simple props, although the waiter brings two pasta dishes to the table!
	Synopsis	He thinks he knows what he wants... She knows.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Great Moments in History, Number 1	Author	Jack Burgess
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 6 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Historical skit in three short scenes. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.)
	Synopsis	The Norman Conquest. Up-to-the-minute news reports from the Battle of Hastings, using state-of-the-art news-gathering tapestry...
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Great Moments in History, Number 2	Author	Jack Burgess
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 3 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Historical skit in one short scene. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) Contains mild swearing and a telescope.
	Synopsis	The Spanish Armadillo. A Lady finds a fully paid-up Fool on look-out duty.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Great Moments in History, Number 3	Author	Jack Burgess
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus.
	Run time	Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	Script includes a parody of the title song from Oklahoma. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
	Style	Musical skit, parodying the creative process! (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.)
	Synopsis	The Rogers and Frankenstein Story! Richard Rogers and his collaborator, Oscar Frankenstein III, ponder the creation of a new Broadway musical, whilst eating pizza.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Great Moments in History, Number 4	Author	Jack Burgess
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. 1 (female) Angel and Three Shepherds
	Run time	Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Ten-minute skit. Contains mild swearing. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.)
	Synopsis	Christmas - The Untold Story. In which an angel takes a wrong turning...
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Great Moments in History, Number 5	Author	Jack Burgess
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
	Run time	Around 5 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Five-minute sketch. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.)
	Synopsis	The Sinking of the Titanic. Observed, with stiff-upper-lip, by two elderly gentlemen and by a steward.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Guilt	Author	Robbie Flowers
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. One of the characters is nominally a child, but the role is unlikely to be within the range of many children of the appropriate age. The author suggests that it should be played with 'an obvious air of innocence'.
	Run time	Around 15 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	A short emotional, possibly edgy, play. Minimal set, but a significant prop (a chest). Contains mild swearing.
	Synopsis	Angela is suffering for something she did. Until she agrees to talk about it, Sally won’t let her out of the box. As Angela opens up, we find that Sally has more than a passing involvement in Angela's suffering.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Halloween in the Lighthouse	Author	Olivia Arieti
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. All the characters are teenagers
	Run time	Around 12 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	Short spooky play for a cast of teenagers. Single set, halloween props and costumes.
	Synopsis	Seven girls plan a creepy Halloween party in a lighthouse, but it gets creepier still when a bunch of boys turn up dressed as Pirates. Their captain is creepier than they are, and things take a chilling turn when he meets the girl dressed as a princess...
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Halloween Party Time	Author	Olivia Arieti
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters are teenagers.
	Run time	Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
	Music	None.
	Style	A ghost story set in a High School gym. Single set, simple props.
	Synopsis	Nick's and Pat's preparations for the High School hallowee party are disturbed by a couple of strangers.
	Price	Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

Help! I've a Sausage Up My Nose!	Author	Billy Doyle
	Roles	Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
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