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Bud and Jewel - Predictable by Carol Kline |
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 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Character comedy sketch (with some serious points). Single set (in theory, it's Bud and Jewel's home, but there's no real requirement for furniture). Contains very mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Jewel has called her husband home early on a work day to give him some bad news - she thinks they've become predictable. Bud argues, but she knows exactly what he's going to say before he opens his mouth, and she can prove it... |
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The Business Meeting by David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. 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 | A short comedy sketch |
Synopsis | Two motivated high flyers plan their strategies in a business meeting with a twist. |
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The Butcher by Terry Adlam |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters described as one male and one female. Could be played by 2M or 2F with minor modifications. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comic sketch, madcap style (think Monty Python), two characters simple set and props. |
Synopsis | A customer attempts to buy beef from a crazy butcher. |
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Careless Talk by Hugh Smith |
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 | Comedy sketch - a parody verging on the surreal. Set on a railway station, but really doesn't need any set. |
Synopsis | Two wartime spies meet at a railway station and talk nonsense. |
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Catapult by David Lovesy Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two on-stage characters and an offstage voice. Roger and Geoffrey are written male but gender is unimportant and names can be changed to fit the gender of the available actors. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch with no set requirements. |
Synopsis | Two medieval peasants try out a new, quick, cheap form of transport. |
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Catching Up 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 | Comedy sketch, set on a shopping centre bench. |
Synopsis | A couple of 'mature' ladies meet in a shopping centre. Gossip follows. |
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The Cautionary Tale of Miss Lucy Luckett by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. A monologue for two persons! The intention is that someone should recite the verse whilst the story is acted out in mime. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy monologue - a cautionary tale told in verse |
Synopsis | Desperate for a life on the stage, Lucy Luckett tragically over-stretches herself! |
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Chair of Truth - Tabitha Tritt 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 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch set in a Television Chat Show Studio (which is just a couple of comfy chairs and a coffee table). |
Synopsis | Chair of Truth interviewer Chris P. Bacon explores the disordered life of heiress Tabitha Tritt. |
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Changes 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 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Two-handed comedy sketch. Single simple set (table and chairs). |
Synopsis | James arrives back from work to discover that his home has suddenly succumbed to an attack of minimalism! |
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Charlie's Last Lap by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters written male, but Charlie, the ventriloquist's dummy, could be played by a girl dressed as a boy. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Simple set - a chair. From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | A ventriloquist settles down to watch Match of the Day, accompanied, as usual, by his dummy. |
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