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Mutants Anonymous by Peter Keel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short quirky comedy sketch with a simple single setting in a meeting room. |
Synopsis | At a meeting of Mutants Anonymous, new member Tim who has suddenly acquired super powers, is sceptical as the other members outline their questionable status as mutants. |
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My Hero by Tony Domaille Winner of the Pint Sized Plays (Script Slam) Best Script competition 2020. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Domestic superhero skit. (Also available as part of the Love and Marriage collection of short comedies by Tony Domaille) |
Synopsis | Superhero Man and Superhero Woman's marriage is on the rocks because Superhero man takes her for granted. So, when fantastic displays of heroics aren't enough to keep love alive, what is? |
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The Nature Trail of Class 3B by Andrew Hull |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Intended to be adults playing children. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with no set requirements (an imaginary set!) |
Synopsis | Teacher is taking her class on a nature trail. The children (played by adults) and their naughty antics lead Teacher to take drastic action. |
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Never Be Late by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The characters are of high school age. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short play about a first date - with some laughs and some surprises. Simple set (a couple of tables, three or more chairs). |
Synopsis | Jim's just dropping into his favourite cafe when he sees his friend Sally waiting for her blind date to arrive. When she won't let him sit with her, he moves on to another girl waiting for her beau. Mistaking him for her date, she starts to fall for him, but it all goes wrong, and not just for Jim. |
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The Newest Oldest by Janet S. Tiger |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two characters are ancient. It's comedy, so the actors need not be. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch. Written in American English (so, for British readers, when Emiline walks in carrying a large purse, she is actually sporting a handbag). |
Synopsis | The oldest woman in the country is paid a visit by the second oldest, who wants to claim the number one spot. |
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The Night Shift by David Dean |
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. Single (imaginary) set. |
Synopsis | Mrs Johnson has employed a builder. One of those foreign builders. He's very good, but she's slightly concerned that he only wants to work at night. |
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The Ninth Wonder of the World by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. The Treasurer is written female, but if fact all the committee members could be either gender. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch set at a council committee meeting (so just a table and chairs). |
Synopsis | An Upper Carworthy Council committee meeting is interrupted by a local resident who has big plans... |
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No Tongs by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Whilst the two characters are women, they might be played as women by men in non-glamorous drag. (British people with long memories are invited to contemplate Les Dawson in this context.) |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch, requiring very little in the way of scenery and props. |
Synopsis | Two women leaf through the magazines at a hairdressers. |
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Nursery Crime Scene Investigation by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Another 'film noir' parody - a ten minute play with minimal set requirements and few props. |
Synopsis | Tommy is a Nursery Land CSI officer, charged with investigating the death of Solomon Grundy - who seems to have lived his life in something of a hurry... Could this be a case of identity theft, and can Tommy unmask his killer? |
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Nursery Crimes by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 | Short dramatic pastiche of hard-boiled private eye genre, aimed at young teenagers (but frequently used by older groups). |
Synopsis | Did he fall or was he pushed? That is the question on everyone's lips! Rumours are rife. The theories are wild and fanciful and no-one is above suspicion! However Bill, the Private Eye is on the case. Can he and Goldie solve the puzzle? |
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