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The Driving Test by Frank Gibbons |
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 | Short comedy sketch set in a car (which need only be a couple of chairs). From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | The aftermath of a driving test, which doesn't seem to have gone well. Could anything make it go better? |
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Easywings by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy, part of the It's All Greek collection. |
Synopsis | Icarus has just passed his flying test, but now he's been stopped by a traffic cop. If he gets a ticket, he’ll be banned and his dreams of starting an airline are over. |
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Eat Me by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy horror sketch! Single set - the foyer of an up-market truck-stop! |
Synopsis | 'Eat Me' has a most surprising and unexpected ending, particularly for widowed Thelma, the joint owner of transport café, 'Bertram's Brekkies'. Customer Dave looks, sounds and acts in an odd way, but neither we nor Thelma can quite put our fingers on what it is that makes him so weird. Until that is he finally reveals himself with dire consequences for Thelma! |
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Evil Laugh by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. 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 | A job applicant with an unfortunate 'disability' attends an interview. A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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The Facts of Life by Mark Niel |
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 | Five minute comedy sketch in which the audience is cast as an embarrassed teenager!. Single set (in theory a living room, but in practice this can be minimal). |
Synopsis | Some hands-on parents dealing with an embarrassing discovery. Well, if their son wants to learn about sex, then they'll tell him everything. In fact, better than that... |
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The Family Planning Clinic by Damian Trasler |
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 comedy play, single set (or four pieces of furniture to indicate a set). |
Synopsis | When Suzie visits her local Family Planning Clinic, the advice she receives is not quite what she expected |
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A Fantastic Feat of Muscular Manipulation by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The main character is the strong and silent type! All the words are spoken by the Music Hall chairman. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch for a Music Hall. |
Synopsis | A Victorian strongman performs a feat never before attempted on the Music Hall stage. |
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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. |
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Feeding the Ducks by Paul Mathews |
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 two-handed comedy with some serious edges and good acting opportunities. Simple set (a bench) and ducks brought to life by sound effects. |
Synopsis | Moira loves to feed the ducks, and has done so ever since her husband died. But Paul is an ornithologist on a mission to save ducks from those who clog their crops with damp bread! |
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Fine on the Outside by Jonathan Edgington Shortlisted for the 2015 Pint Sized Plays' international playwriting competition. Selected for and performed at The Salisbury Fringe's 'Short Cuts' playwriting festival in 2019. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | In this duologue between husband and wife, the conversation is dominated by the obsessive fitness regime he has undertaken. |
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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