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T'um Fu Society Demonstration by Jack Burgess |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters written as one adult and one child. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short skit. Contains mild swearing. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) |
Synopsis | A demonstration of martial arts by a Great Warrior (Stanley Ramsbottom) and his young assistant. |
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Take a Hike 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 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with no set required. |
Synopsis | Sarah is fed up with everyday routine and wants to make a few changes to her life. Sarah’s husband Richard thinks she is having a mid-life crisis and humours her ever-changing moods. When Sarah suggests an outdoor picnic, Richard is only too happy to oblige. |
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That's Amore by Arnold Kane Winner of the Cambridge Theatre Challenge, International Playwriting Competition, 2014 |
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. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy in a single (hotel bedroom) set. |
Synopsis | A couple have retreated to a hotel room - a Film Director and a meek Librarian. There is playful banter, flirting, and plenty of champagne... Who can doubt what will come next? Apart from the phone call, of course. |
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Tilapia by Rosemary Frisino Toohey Tilapia was named Finalist in the Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Competition in 2009. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are middle-aged or above. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play. Single dinner table set (only needs to be indicative). |
Synopsis | An elegant couple discuss their meal, the recent past and some very peculiar events that took place during an abortive dinner party that very evening. What the protagonists don't understand soon becomes clear to the audience! |
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Tom-Tom by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One of the characters is a synthesised voice that might possibly be recorded, though that requires a lot of cues to be executed well by the sound desk! |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy play (an extended sketch which, with a bit of stage business, might just creep into the one-act play category). Minimal set - a couple of chairs to indicate a car. |
Synopsis | A couple struggle to reach their destination despite - or because of - the use of their sat-nav. |
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Tommy's Burglar by Rob Burbidge |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. One adult and one child. Both characters are written as male, but the child could easily be changed to female. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A very short play for two actors (based on a short story by O. Henry). |
Synopsis | Tommy is a sweet child, doomed to be in a story where he interrupts a burglar about his nefarious business and inevitably sets back on the road to righteousness. The burglar for his part, is disgruntled about endlessly burgling houses at the whim of the narrator only to be redirected by a succession of sickly sweet kids. A knowing comic sketch. |
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Transplants by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. George and Wally are written male, but need not be. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. No set requirements. Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | An absurd look at the world of medical advances. |
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Try To Get It On Like Once Before by Kirsty Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A ten minute play with adult themes. |
Synopsis | In the far future, a man and a woman are being taught how to procreate the old-fashioned way, but the instructional video is somewhat odd. |
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The Twelve Labours Exchange by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Hera is represented by an offstage laugh which might be recorded. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short Ancient Greek comedy - a riff on myth. |
Synopsis | Hercules (Heracles to the Greeks) is out of work and looking for a job at the Labour Exchange. Preferably one where Hera won't find it easy to continue trying to kill him. |
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Two Cops by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Fixed number, flexible gender! |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy skit with no set or prop requirements - therefore suitable for performing front-of-curtain to cover a scene change during a sketch show. |
Synopsis | Two police officers meet and indulge in a sort of bragging contest for who has the funniest police stories. |
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