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A Nice Cup of Tea by Jos Biggs |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. A middle aged couple. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act comedy play, single kitchen setting (needs at least a working kettle). |
Synopsis | Harold has just returned from his course, training to be Health and Safety Officer at his firm. Now that he's in the know, he's determined to prevent his poor wife Marian from exposing herself to unnecessary risk while making a cuppa. |
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Night Intruders by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama, with a single setting and simple prop requirements. |
Synopsis | Sam and Liz meet for the first time on the roof top of an apartment building. They are both there with the intention of ending it all by jumping from the roof. As their relationship develops, however, their intentions change. |
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The Night Shift by David Dean |
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. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Single (imaginary) set. |
Synopsis | Mrs Johnson has employed a builder. One of those foreign builders. He's very good, but she's slightly concerned that he only wants to work at night. |
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No Joy! by Barry Lambert |
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 dramatic sketch set in a railway platform cafeteria. |
Synopsis | When Joy chances to meet Bill, her estranged husband of many months, in a railway station cafeteria, they both learn that events have moved on in the life of the other. But which of them is now faring the better? |
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No Tongs by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Whilst the two characters are women, they might be played as women by men in non-glamorous drag. (British people with long memories are invited to contemplate Les Dawson in this context.) |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch, requiring very little in the way of scenery and props. |
Synopsis | Two women leaf through the magazines at a hairdressers. |
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The Non-Emergency Call by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The roles could be played m or f. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch requiring props. |
Synopsis | When in an accident, a call to the Emergency number should bring a response - and assistance, surely? |
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Nothing Extravagant by 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 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | A blind date where these two have figured it all out! |
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Notice How Young I Look by 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 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | A blind date turns into a commercial endorsement. |
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Oh Frabjous Day by Maeve Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama on a simple set. |
Synopsis | Emma visits her ex Mark in a hospice to tell him she had his baby when she was eighteen and kept it a secret from him. The girl, Alice, had been adopted but has now come looking for her biological parents. Mark, whose life could possibly be saved if a bone marrow donor is found, is angry at Emma’s deceit, not getting the significance that Alice could possibly be his saviour. |
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On Our Own by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters are in their late teens - at an age to be leaving home. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute romantic comedy play. Single interior set (which can be kept to a minimum of a couple of pieces of furniture). |
Synopsis | Josh and Debbie are finally moving in together, despite their mothers' misgivings. They're confident that they're ready for this step in their relationship, but before the boxes are unpacked, they run into some problems. |
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