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Shoe Horn by Henry P. Gravelle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch with a single (shoe repair shop) setting. |
Synopsis | An elderly man examines the shoe repair shop he's inherited from his estranged brother and learns from a mentally challenged employee how to repair more than shoes. |
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Short Break by Andrew Bawn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The travel agent is written female but could be male. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch set in a travel agent's shop. |
Synopsis | Dorothy and Norman want to book a holiday, and the strangely behaved travel agent offers them a fantastic deal. |
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Shyfari by David Lovesy & Brian Two |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch |
Synopsis | Come on a Safari tour in the Kruger National Park: seeking those animals that are much harder to find! |
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Singulatitis by Troy Shearer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Dr. Swanson is written male but could be reassigned! |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute surreal comedy sketch, set in a doctor's surgery. |
Synopsis | A man with extreme hiccups receives a strange and fateful diagnosis from his doctor. |
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Sixth Wife by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two live characters plus a voicemail announcement which is assumed to be prerecorded (as is the nature of such things). |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A nice twist on the monologue format as the script jumps between Roy and Cathy's reflections on Roy's past wives and their upcoming marriage. A simple set, two good characters with fun, witty dialogue would make a good challenge for a pair of actors. |
Synopsis | No, not that sixth wife. Roy is about to get married for the sixth time. But do he and the bookish Cathy have that much in common? |
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Skindeep Safari by David Lovesy & Brian Two |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch |
Synopsis | Two tourists at the Safari park run into trouble and are helped by the park ranger |
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The Smell of Dirt by Henry P. Gravelle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play with no set necessary. |
Synopsis | The friends of a recently released thief confront him for their share of a heist gone bad. |
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Split Infinitives by JJ Crossley |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All three characers are written as male, but need not be! |
Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Simple-to-stage one-act comedy play (packed with sci-fi silliness.) |
Synopsis | An unscrupulous pair of business executives hatch a plan to establish once and for all the exact age of the universe, and reap the fame and rewards, by recruiting a test pilot for their recently acquired, but rather unreliable time machine. |
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A Spy With A View by Robert Scott The Maidenhead Drama Guild (UK) won Best Comedy and came 2nd in the Open Class at the Maidenhead Drama Festival. (2019) |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Paulo is written male but could be reassigned. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy thriller with a single hotel room set.. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | David and Vicky are on holiday, but the weather has trapped them in their hotel room. The monotony is broken by the delivery of a mysterious briefcase, with a recording that self-destructs! Where's the real spy? |
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Awards | Click here to see the awards won by (productions of) this script. |
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Stonehenge by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are a father and two teenage children. How you cast those ages is up to you! |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch with no requirement for set or props. |
Synopsis | An enthusiastic father takes his two teenage children to visit Stonehenge again and again and again. The teenagers think there have been too many agains. |
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