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Does My Bum Look Big In This? by Johnny Grim |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act adult comedy set at a café table. Australian settings but with opportunities for customising to other locations. |
Synopsis | Long-time Aussie friends Donna, Janice and Sharon meet for coffee, prior to Janice flying off to attend her sister's wedding. Their get together is suddenly interrupted with news that the wedding has been called off. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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The Earthquake Drill by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | At a meeting of the Health and Safety committee, a demonstration of the earthquake drill is not quite what was expected. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Fast and Furious by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. A customer, a helpdesk operator and a voiceover (which could be recorded) |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch requiring a couple of desks. Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | A computer user tries to get help with a technical problem. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Final Motions by Jamie Hope |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as 2M, 1F, but that isn't important for the content, so any mixture could be used with appropriate tweaks to the way the characters are addressed. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short, dark, surreal comedy play. (If it had music, it would be a musical.) |
Synopsis | Doctor Schliersee has to deliver some bad news to Mr Whoston, who doesn't take it well. He also doesn’t appreciate the doctor's exhortation to make the most of his remaining time, rather than seek a cure. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Freshly Laid by Frank Gibbons Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch, set in a park - simple bench setting. |
Synopsis | The elderly ladies are catching up with the latest - on hens, ducks, and possible other roostings. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Freya's Necklace by Jonathan Edgington Selected for and performed at the 'Time For Something New' playwriting festival 2018 at the Bread & Roses Theatre, London. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with a single (charity shop) setting. |
Synopsis | Just a normal day in a charity shop? Probably, until Freya the Norse Goddess of Love and War enters on a bit of a mission. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Getting It Off by 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. [Estimated!] |
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 | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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Girls' Talk by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A collection of six comedy sketches, each with a cast of two women. |
Synopsis | Sketches tackling the difficulties of office life, men, gossiping and more men. (Each of the sketches is available individually.) |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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The Golf War Widows by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Single set (a bar), modern realism, analysis of character, behaviour and relationships |
Synopsis | Three women meet behind the scenes at a corporate Golf Tournament. Theresa is a wife who has built her own business in response to her husband's obsession with work and her own fading looks. Dotty has brought up a family despite the disinterest of her husband and Rachel... became a crime-fighter. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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In the Magic Shop by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | A customer seeking magic tricks enters a magic shop and suffers the consequences! |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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