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A Job for Un-life by David Lovesy |
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 sketch. No set requirements, no props. |
Synopsis | An interview with a vampire! One of the bloodsucking undead attempts to recruit a new member. A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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A Job Lot by Cheryl Barrett |
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. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun short comedy with a good set of characters, with a minimal kitchen set required, this should fit nicely into sketch nights. |
Synopsis | Wheeler-dealer Terry has mistakenly bought five thousand plastic ducks and won't be able to sell them or get his money back. While explaining the situation to his family, he hatches a cunning plan. |
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The Joke Centre by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen minute skit. Single office setting. |
Synopsis | It is Sylvia's first day in the new job. All she has been told is that it is a sort of call centre and that she'll pick it up as she goes along... |
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Joseph's Dream by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The angel is written male, but could be either. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch intended for church groups. |
Synopsis | Joseph receives a visit from an angel. (Matthew , 18-25) |
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Josh's Wall by Ian Elmslie |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Teenage cast recommended. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A thought-provoking short play, for GCSE level students. |
Synopsis | Three friends meet up on Christmas Day to discuss the death of their friend. What does it mean, and why did they not know it was coming? And what would people say about them if they died? |
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Just a Bit of Fun by Angelika Nielsen |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short black comedy with a single (restaurant) setting. Adult content and strong language. |
Synopsis | Frank is confronted by a sexual harassment incident from his past which devastated Lisa’s life. She is at last able to challenge her abuser and, using some revealing photos of him, enact her revenge. |
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Just Good Friends by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fifteen-minute play around a simple set. |
Synopsis | Jane has just broken up with her latest boyfriend, and as usual, Tim is waiting to console her. But maybe this is his chance to step out of the friend zone and admit his feelings to her? |
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Just Stop It by Katharine Earley and Hugh Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch that crosses modern satire with an edge of surrealism. Easily staged (the art gallery can be an empty stage) with a good balance of roles. |
Synopsis | A man with a grievance against self-service tills arrives at an art exhibition armed with a tin of tomato soup. Does anyone have a tin opener? Can his daughter stop him damaging a valuable abstract painting? And, in any case, what’s it supposed to be? |
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Keep Taking The Tablets by Frank Gibbons |
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 | A short sketch with a simple set. |
Synopsis | Nurse is trying to diagnose the problem, with a therapeutic chat... |
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Keeping Fit by Archie Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three of the characters (1M, 2F) are described as being in their late fifties/early sixties. Make up your own mind! |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute play, set in a fitness room. |
Synopsis | Two old friends are working out whether they need to work out at the gym, and discussing life and love while they're about it. A gentlemen enters, but will he come between them? |
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