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! (By our reckoning, a maximum of 20 minutes) To limit the list, here we omit the short scripts written specifically for children.  (This is problematic, as some of them are suitable for adults!)  If you don't want to browse the list, then try our short play search facility, or the complete play script search engine.  (The latter will allow you to include the kids' plays in your search.)

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A 21st Century NativityAuthorPeter van der Sluijs
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus.
Run time Around 7 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music The producer's copy of the script suggests six carols to be interspersed between the scenes. (These would increase the run time to up to 30 minutes.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
Style Short nativity play (though considerably longer if the suggested carols are sung), with optional traditional nativity tableau. Six scenes, but minimal set requirements.
Synopsis What would the story of the birth of Jesus be like if it were to happen now?
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

A Beautiful Day for a DuelAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run time Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Ten-minute comedy skit. Single set (with no specific requirements) and a pair as duelling pistols as the main props.
Synopsis Andre arrives for his sixth duel of the year to find that his day is in danger of being spoiled by his inexperienced opponent.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

A Captivating SituationAuthorDamian 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 Children's Christmas CarolAuthorRichard James
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. 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 play. No set requirements.
Synopsis Charles Dickens' festive classic much abbreviated as a play for an audience of young children, to be performed by a cast of adults (or possibly by a company of older children.)
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

A Christmas Carol - The Real StoryAuthorColin 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 RacesAuthorWill 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 Double-Decker For Santa ClausAuthorOlivia Arieti
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 Fifteen-minute play, a modern Christmas Carol without the ghosts! Single set.
Synopsis Christmas doesn't mean much to Mr Howard - he just wants people to buy his cars, whatever the time of year. But now there's a customer in a red suit, looking to for something to replace his old sleigh...
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

A Fairy TrialAuthorRobert Scott
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus.
Run time Around 8 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Comic courtroom sketch.
Synopsis We are all entitled to a fair trial. Nursery rhyme characters get a fairy trial. In this case, Wee Willy Winkie is in the dock for indecency and causing a public nuisance. (Something like that.) His future looks bleak, but things look up when a prosecution witness goes to pieces. Without Humpty, is there a case against Wee Willie? Can the prosecution or defence sway the jury - played by the audience?
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

A Fantastic Feat of Muscular ManipulationAuthorStuart Ardern
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The main character is the strong and silent type! All the words are spoken by the Music Hall chairman.
Run time Around 3 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short comedy sketch for a Music Hall.
Synopsis A Victorian strongman performs a feat never before attempted on the Music Hall stage.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

A Frog Too FarAuthorNicholas Richards
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children. Could be played by the same, or by a company of either.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short comedy play set in a classroom - represented by the teacher's chair and her story book.
Synopsis Miss Primrose tries to tell her class their daily story - a tale of princess meets frog - with the aid of a small troupe of mimes. The children, shall we say, have bright enquiring minds...
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.

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