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| Russell at the Doctor by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. 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 comedy sketch with no requirements for props or set (although could easily use a desk and a couple of chairs). |
| Synopsis | Russell goes for a medical check up and discovers that he has been allocated a new Doctor
A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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| Saint Nicholas and the Three Purses of Gold by Timothy Hallett and Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. Technically, there are no characters - that is to say, it could be sung by a soloist. In practice, the intention is for the singing to be shared between several narrators and a chorus whilst the story is mimed by actors. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with a complete piano and vocal score. |
| Style | A sung story. (Technically, that makes it a Cantata, but don't let the fancy name put you off!) Does not require any set or props, but props could be used as part of a mime of the story. |
| Synopsis | Where does our modern Santa Claus come from? He's descended from legends of Saint Nicholas, the fourth century Bishop of Myra - legends such as this one! |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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| Sardines Again? 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 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Mick's wife Christine is on yet another diet and, whilst sympathetic to her diets in the past, he has now been told by his doctor to reduce his cholesterol. Christine seems obsessed with their diet and when Mick is told he's got sardines again, he puts his foot down. |
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| Say it with a Sausage 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 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch.
From the Laughter Lines collection. |
| Synopsis | At the end of the working day, what could be better than a discussion of the relationship between slimming and happiness? (Especially when accompanied by cream cakes.) |
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| Sealed With A Loving Kiss by Liz Dobson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama, single cottage living-room set. |
| Synopsis | Don arrives on Jill's doorstep twenty one years after their relationship ended. Can he explain why he never came back from the army? |
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| The Second Amendment by Damian Trasler & Steve Clark |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The police officer could be male or female. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Five minute comedy sketch. Single set (a police interrogation room - so just a couple of chairs and possibly a table). |
| Synopsis | A police officer explores a hunter's constitutional right to bear arms. |
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| Second Thoughts by Colin Calvert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. (The max. and min. numbers depend on whether the production follows the author's intention and uses a quartet of four female singers to punctuate the action. There are also a few lines addressed to passers-by who might or might not appear on stage.) |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play, single minimalist set - a bus stop. Few props. A study of an attempted mid-life affair. |
| Synopsis | Harold is waiting at the appointed spot, a bus shelter, for a meeting with his old school friend Patti, and wondering if he's up to having an affair, if that's even what's on offer. |
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| Service With A Sneer by Peter May |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with minimal set requirement. |
| Synopsis | A diner has trouble navigating the menu in an upmarket restaurant. The waiter grits his teeth and tries hard to apply the golden rule of service with a smile. |
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| She Came In Through The Bathroom Window by Jonathan Edgington |
| 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 | Short somewhat surreal comedy sketch, set exactly where you'd expect from the title. |
| Synopsis | Chap walks in and finds a strange woman in his bath. (Sort of thing that could happen to anyone.) |
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| Shopping Habits by David Lovesy |
| 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 doorstep caller gets more than he bargained for |
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