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Deja Deja Vu by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch with a surreal edge. Single set (the minimum required to indicate a living room). |
Synopsis | You know the feeling you get that something has happened before? Well Derek's had that feeling before - and for good reason. |
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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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The Deposit by Henry P. Gravelle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with a single (bank vault) setting. US English. |
Synopsis | Three rookie thieves believe they've pulled off the heist of the year until one forgets the most important rule - stay focused. |
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The Depot by Henry P. Gravelle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A tightly scripted one-act comedy with good characters and wordplay. comedy. US English. |
Synopsis | The ticket agent and porter at a desolate train station in the 1900s become concerned over a growing odor within the stacked freight and decide to solve the mystery rather than await the Sheriff's arrival. |
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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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Detour by Kev Salter |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Four characters must be played by the same (male) actor. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act comedy with a single airport lounge setting. |
Synopsis | Stranded in a remote Latvian airport as their plane undergoes a bizarre series of repairs, a group of passengers regret choosing a budget airline. |
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The Devil of a Job by Stewart Boston |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, single set, divided into earth and hell (as so many sets are). |
Synopsis | Mephistopheles and Lucifer plan to corrupt the soul of an intellectual former demonologist. The demonologist recognises what Mephistopheles is trying to do and succeeds not only in turning him away, but convinces him to do some charity work. |
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The Dial Conspiracy by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Stage crew - optimum number 2, are non-speaking roles. |
Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short-ish one act comedy/farce, with a single (hotel room) setting. |
Synopsis | A crime caper at a remote hotel in the Highlands of Scotland, where weird and wonderful stratagems are used - as a succession of unlikely characters including a surly porter and the driver of a lime green Ferrari, vie with National Security officers. |
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Diamond Jubilee 2012 by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 38. No chorus. Generally, the characters are fairly normal, although one of them is a football. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Revue - that is to say, a themed sketch show. Structured with a chairman (of the Music Hall sort) to introduce the act. Few set requirements. |
Synopsis | A collection of twenty four sketches suitable for the celebration of Queen Elizabeth the Second's Diamond Jubilee (and probably other occasions). Not a musical show as written, but structured so that musical numbers could easily be inserted between the acts. |
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