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| He and She by Frank Gibbons |
| 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 | Short comedy sketch. Minimal domestic setting. Contains marital disharmony. |
| Synopsis | 'She' tries to explain to her husband that she has an attentive admirer. |
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| Heir on a Shoestring by Ian Sharrock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Set in modern times, but rather a Woosterish central character! |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Monologue - a short black comedy, with no requirement for set or props. Contains limited swearing and dishonourable motives! |
| Synopsis | A dissolute young man tells a tale of woe, recounting how he tried to 'hurry along' his inheritance from his rich Great Uncle Silas. Trouble is, having a new companion gives the old boy a new lease of life, and he drives his grandnephew to distraction living it to the full. |
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| Help for Greek Heroes by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy,, part of the It's All Greek collection. |
| Synopsis | The Help for Greek Heroes counselling team are discussing their caseload, including Achilles' morbid fear of heel injuries and Oedipus being a mummy's boy. |
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| Help! I've a Sausage Up My Nose! by Billy Doyle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A very silly short sketch. Theoretically set in a pub, but really no set or props required. (Contains mild swearing.) |
| Synopsis | An old officer comes across his pal in a pub and perceives a problem with his probosis. |
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Hi Santa, Remember Me? by Trevor Suthers
Winner of the 'Pint-Sized Plays' competition, 2008 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The (silent) barman is written male, but need not be. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute dark comedy play. Single (simple barroom) set. Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Trying to have a quiet drink in his off-season, Santa is accosted by someone claiming to be his biggest fan, but who actually has a complaint to make... |
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Highly Strung by AJ Deane
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fun sketch that offers an interesting challenge to two female actors - playing marionettes and acting out the different games a child plays with them, as well as doing a few different voices. |
| Synopsis | In between their usual child-led activities, two marionettes attempt to discuss the nature of fate and self-determination. |
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| Hissed Off by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch, with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Two senior citizens exchange ideas on what makes, or deserves, a hissing... |
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| A History Lesson for Turkey Boy by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play for young children - a simple history of the Thanksgiving festival. No set or props required. |
| Synopsis | Mr Corn, Mrs Sweet Potato, Mrs Pumpkin and Mrs Squash make sure the young Misses Apples and especially Turkey Boy know their History before Thanksgiving is celebrated. |
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| Hot Air by Mary Portalska |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A funny and fast sketch. Easy to stage with something resembling the front of a hot air balloon basket as a set - this could be as simple as a table with a bit of cloth, or a cardboard cut-out. |
| Synopsis | When their hot air balloon takes off without a pilot, two bickering sisters find themselves adrift. And then they find the pilot, dangling on a rope below the basket. |
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| The Hot Tub by Brian Coyle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy with a single (bedroom) setting. Adult themes. |
| Synopsis | Frank gets a shock when he looks out his window in the middle of the night. Who are those people in his hot tub and what are they doing? His wife Mary is not so shocked - she’s rather amused by their antics. What she really wants to know is - why don’t she and Frank use the hot tub anymore? |
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