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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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An Unlikely Event by James Harvey |
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 | Ten-minute play, single set (a park bench). |
Synopsis | What at first appears to be a whimsical exchange between two old men on a park bench takes a turn into more dangerous territory! |
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A Ventriloquist's Tale by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst this is presented as a monologue, it could also be performed by three people, playing narrator, ventriloquist and psychiatrist. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming comedy monologue (no set or props required). |
Synopsis | A Ventriloquist who fears he's being controlled by his dummy seeks professional help and gets some straight talking. |
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You'll Suit Just Fine [Short Version] by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy play, set in a tailor's shop. |
Synopsis | Kevin is in training, but he's not quite up to speed yet. A difficult customer wants to return a suit so Mr Green, the owner, has to step in to save the day. |
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