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There's More to Love than Dog Meets Bitch by Rupert Haigh Shortlisted in the pint sized plays competition, 2014. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A satirical comedy sketch with a single (bar) setting. |
Synopsis | Two laddish dogs, Rex and Fido, are enjoying a pint or two in their local, when their boy's night out is interrupted by the glamorous and mysterious Paula. Her feminine guiles have a surprising effect on the lads' relationship - with unexpected results. |
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Three Across by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy on a single coffee shop set. |
Synopsis | Nathan is hoping for a peaceful morning as he tackles the crossword in his local coffee shop. But when a total stranger, Joanna, decides to share his table, and her ex, Grant, takes the next table along, he is drawn into her romantic tangles. |
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The Three Wise 'Men' by Croft & Barnett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A simple sketch requiring a minimal set. |
Synopsis | The three wise men arrive at Bethlehem and pick up their gifts, but one is less manly than expected. Could one of them be a wise... woman? |
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Time Travel Agent by Tony Domaille Best Seller Winner 2018 international Pint Size Plays script writing competition |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with a single (travel agent shop) setting. |
Synopsis | Brian would like to book a time travel holiday, but can't decide where and when to go. Meanwhile, Mr Jennings arrives back from his holiday with complaints. |
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Tom-Tom by John Peel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One of the characters is a synthesised voice that might possibly be recorded, though that requires a lot of cues to be executed well by the sound desk! |
Run Time | Around 18 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy play (an extended sketch which, with a bit of stage business, might just creep into the one-act play category). Minimal set - a couple of chairs to indicate a car. |
Synopsis | A couple struggle to reach their destination despite - or because of - the use of their sat-nav. |
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Traffic Stop by Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short comedy play. Single set (or almost complete lack of set - the couple are, in theory, in a car, but this need only be indicated by a little movement), |
Synopsis | An argumentative couple have difficulties with each other and a traffic cop on their way to an important appointment. |
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Try To Get It On Like Once Before by Kirsty Walker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A ten minute play with adult themes. |
Synopsis | In the far future, a man and a woman are being taught how to procreate the old-fashioned way, but the instructional video is somewhat odd. |
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A TV With Just One Button by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two men and a child. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Set indicative of a living room (seating, a television). Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | Mark and Bob grapple with a new television. |
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The Twelve Labours Exchange by Tony Domaille |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Hera is represented by an offstage laugh which might be recorded. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short Ancient Greek comedy - a riff on myth. |
Synopsis | Hercules (Heracles to the Greeks) is out of work and looking for a job at the Labour Exchange. Preferably one where Hera won't find it easy to continue trying to kill him. |
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Two Barmen by Damian Trasler & David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The barmen are written male (as you might expect). The third characters is a duck. There are also two disembodied voices. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch, set in a bar (which can be a minimal set or as elaborate as you can justify for a four-minute piece). |
Synopsis | You know the one where two men walk into a bar? Well, turns out it was this bar, where every baroom joke you've ever heard took place, along with quite a few you haven't heard. A duck walks into a bar and says 'Have you got any bread?'... |
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