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The Wrong Regulator by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy short in a single office setting. (Confusingly, the production notes include the features of a featureless office.) |
Synopsis | A routine stocktake reveals that the numbers of one important and resource-hungry item have risen enormously to eight billion. The control room team must find a way to reduce the number. |
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Yard Sale by Michael Paul |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Two main characters plus six others who could be played by two people. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, single set. |
Synopsis | Mark and Julie are holding a yard sale, but having strangers rummaging through their possessions brings some darker thoughts and feelings to light, and it's not long before their marriage is at crisis point. |
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You Are What You Eat by Hugh Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | There is a suggestion for an extract from an out-of-copyright Music Hall song. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A funny, efficient, and easy to stage sketch. |
Synopsis | A doctor has problems with a patient who has not responded to organic hummus and with another who has overdosed on Tuscan olives and sun-dried tomatoes. |
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You Will Go No More A-Haunting by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst the main characters are written 1M, 1F, the author would be happy if St. Gladys (the patron saint of bureaucrats) underwent gender reassignment. The two guards are non-speaking and only make a brief appearance. They are optional! |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch, of puns and strange ideas about the afterlife. Single office set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Sir Thomas Pickington has been happily haunting the same spot for 500 years, but now he's up against the new HSE - the Haunting Safety Executive, and they have some different ideas about how he should be doing his haunting. |
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You're A Robot, Miss Jones? by Jim Hollingsworth |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch for four actors on a minimal set, with sci-fi themes. |
Synopsis | In an obscure department of the British Civil Service, the office manager interviews Miss Jones to find out whether her job could be done by a robot. |
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