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Securing the Sponsor by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst Leonard and the director have masculine names, any of the characters could be played female. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent. |
Synopsis | For many shows, securing a sponsor to help finance the production is a crucial task. It doesn't always go as well as this... |
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Shakespeare Lite by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short historical play. |
Synopsis | An Elizabethan narrator introduces three Saxon 'mechanicals' who discuss their lives and the state of their country in the aftermath of the Norman invasion. |
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Shakespeare's Last Act by Joan Greening |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three male characters (so possibly a counterpoint to the three female characters in Joan Greening's Three Women and Shakespeare's Will.) |
Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Witty one-act comedy play in a single set (and not much of that), with plenty of Shakespeare references and a poignant ending. |
Synopsis | Shakespeare is working on his final play, Henry VIII, collaborating with John Fletcher. The working relationship is tetchy. Shakespeare's friend, Richard Burbage, assumes he will get the lead, but Fletcher has other ideas. Shakespeare comes up with a plot to get his friend the part. |
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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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The Shootout by Kenneth P. Langer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with no set requirements. |
Synopsis | In the town of Deadrock, two gunfighters agree to a duel to settle their families’ age-old feud, but playing by the rules was never for either gunslinger and the resulting showdown goes terribly awry. |
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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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Soldiers by Louise Wade |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short WW1-set drama on a simple set, suitable for adults or teens. |
Synopsis | Three soldiers find themselves in a holding cell as dawn breaks during the First World War: one on a drunk charge, one held for assaulting an officer, and one a conscientious objector. |
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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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Stairway to Heaven by Johnny Grim |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three middle-aged blokes, one of whom is the Archangel Gabriel. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, single set (or lack of set, since it takes place at the the ultimate ephemeral location - just outside the pearly gates). Australian in tone, but universal in humour. |
Synopsis | Robbie, a biker, meets Alfred, a civil servant, outside the gates to heaven. Unpredictably, they get on quite well, but there's been a bit of a mix-up, and the angel Gabe isn't sure if either of them should be going in... |
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Symphony Dreadful by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. 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 for three performers |
Synopsis | The TV show Talent Today presents a guest who has several of the attributes of the great Ludwig Van Beethoven. But it’s the one that’s missing which causes the problem. |
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