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Demons by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch. (Minimal set and simple props.) |
Synopsis | A pair of rough, tough policemen prepare for some rigorous physical training. |
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A Desirable Location by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Whilst James is written male, he could be a she without |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch set in an estate agent's office. |
Synopsis | Can James the estate agent find the right house for Ruth? |
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Desperate Gallery by Sophie Chapman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute comedy play set in an art gallery. Contains mild swearing (and art). |
Synopsis | Camelia is a young artist is displaying her work in a local art gallery in the hope of achieving her first sale. Two inept art thieves are the only 'customers' and in her desperation for artistic fame she explores various strategies with them. The arrival of snooty art critic Jorgen Tyson interrupts their planning and his disparaging remarks become increasingly annoying - with fatal consequences! However in a witty final twist his presence may help Camelia to achieve her goal after all. |
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Diary Of A Squirrel Hunter by Peter Stallard |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. This is essentially a monologue. The final offstage police voice could easily be a recording. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch - exhibiting the comedy of bad taste! Minimal set (could easily be done as a front-of-curtain piece). |
Synopsis | Dave the squirrel hunter has passed on, under unusual circumstances, but his friend Tyrone has found Dave's diary and is taking the opportunity to read out some of the final passages at the funeral. |
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The Dieter's Lament by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One song suggestion is included with this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A comedy monologue, with a simple (table and chair) setting. |
Synopsis | Amy has been dieting on and off for almost a year but has only lost a few pounds. As she attempts to eat yet another salad, she relates her difficulties. |
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Digging Deep by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters' playing ages are 86 (Robert) and 77 (Elaine), but they are sprightly (not to say frisky). |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch set on a bench in a graveyard. Contains a naughty word. From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | A chance meeting in a graveyard could well lead on to other things (starting with a cup of tea and a slice of apple pie). |
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Digging up the Past by Chris Hicks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A ten-minute dramatic monologue (featuring some black comedy). |
Synopsis | A building site manager struggles to cope when a body is discovered on school playing fields. When archaeologists turn up to excavate a Saxon burial ground, things take a turn for the worse. |
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The Doctor And Mr Rogers by Kal B Sisson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short dark comedy sketch set in a doctor's consulting room. |
Synopsis | Mr Rogers takes some convincing, when the doctor tells him the bad news - that his condition means he has only minutes to live. |
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Doctor Sleep by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute comedy skit. The setting is a doctor's surgery - with the minimum of decor needed to convey that information, so could even be done front-of-curtain. No specific props required. |
Synopsis | Mrs James needs some help with her insomnia, and Doctor Barlow needs her to go home so he can begin his evening. Nurse Popplewell is doing her best to help them both. |
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A Dog Walk by Ginny Davis |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One music track suggested, to be played alongside speech at a certain point in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A comedy monologue with no set required. |
Synopsis | Ruth outlines the perils of taking a group of dogs walking and the disruptions that can arise out of the idiosyncracies of both animals and owners. |
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