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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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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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Skinny Cap to Go by Richard James Best Seller |
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 | Comedy sketch. Set in a coffee shop, but since there are no real set requirements, it could be done front-of-curtain to cover a set change in a sketch show. |
Synopsis | A customer at a coffee shop just wants a coffee and a ham sandwich, but the barista has a few questions. Oh, and then a few more questions. |
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Sleeping Dogs by Adam Croft |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short one act comedy with a single (bedroom) setting. |
Synopsis | Carol is unable to sleep because of the noisy neighbourhood party - to which she and husband James have not been invited. Her inability to settle has a deeper reason than at first appears, as her difficult childhood in Northern Ireland is revealed. |
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Smokes by Mike Smith Short-listed for the Sydney Short+Sweet festival, January 2009 |
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 | Ten minute play - a mime with words. No props (which is rather the point!) The set is a door and a pile of chairs. Note that this is written in British English which differs from US English in one of its slang synonyms for 'cigarette'. |
Synopsis | A man and woman discover one another while hiding from a book launch and looking for a cigarette. They resort to imagination for smokes and escape to the top of a mountain, before regaining their courage and rejoining the launch. |
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