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Hit Man by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch with no requirements for props or set. |
Synopsis | A 'Green' assassin for hire conducts business. A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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Hit or Miss by Barry Lambert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 56 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy with a single (study) setting. |
Synopsis | Barbara has engaged 'Mr Smith' to dispose of husband Tony so she can go off with new boyfriend Freddie. However, things take an unexpected turn when the surprisingly compassionate hit man finds Tony in a state of deep depression over his failing marriage and talks him out of his proposed suicide. |
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The Hitchhiker by David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch. It is possible that David Lovesy has been reading too many children's books... |
Synopsis | Simon picks up a hitchhiker and is shocked to learn Perry's secret identity. |
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Ho Ho Ho by Ged Quayle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun, filthy sketch with a non-judgemental depiction of sex work and a sweet edge to it. Requires nothing in the way of set or props. (Contains adult themes and language. In our view, this is unsuitable for minors.) |
Synopsis | Lucy runs her own very successful 'adult entertainment' studio. She's hired well-known star Rex to play Santa to her naughty elf, but when they meet in the rehearsal room, she realises he is her old English teacher. |
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The Hobby Room by David Lewis |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 49 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act mystery play, set initially in an empty room - which gradually becomes furnished. |
Synopsis | Sisters Florence and Josie inherit a large old house and decide to convert the top floor into a space for their hobbies. The atmosphere becomes tense and heightens as they make some surprising discoveries about the previous occupants. |
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Hold the Arsenic by Marilyn Ollett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Five live actors and one dead body. (This could be a live actor playing a dead body, or it could be a dummy.) |
Run Time | Around 102 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length comedy play in a single domestic set. (Originally set in New Zealand, but could be customised to any locality.) |
Synopsis | Angela's partner has conned her out of half a million and run off, leaving her in desperate need of money. With the women from her book club, she comes up with a scheme - to run an escort agency that will meet the needs of elderly single men. All goes well until a client dies in the middle of Coronation Street. |
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Holding Up A Mirror by Wally Smith |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute play. No set requirements (unless three chairs count as a set - in this case, I would count them as props). Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | A discussion about theatre and the nature of drama... but are you watching them, or are they watching you? |
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Hole in the Wall by George Douglas Lee |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 57 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act thriller with various simple settings. US English. |
Synopsis | Successful accountant and bibliophile Arthur is driven to desperate measures to deal with his wife’s constant infidelity. He decides to turn to his hero Edgar Allan Poe for inspiration in murdering not only her but her many lovers as well. |
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Holiday by Colin Calvert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act farcical comedy. Single set with practical door. Simple props. |
Synopsis | Donna is trying to hold the fort at the travel agency where she works, but her co-worker Linzi has run off to be a mud wrestler in Morocco and there's an inspector coming from Head Office. New recruit Sandra finds herself thrown in the deep end and experiencing the weird and wonderful folk who come looking for a holiday. Have the pair been nice enough to their customers to pass the inspection? |
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Holiday Lets by Jenny Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 26 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy on a compound set (two adjacent hotel rooms). |
Synopsis | Sharon and Ray are enjoying their hotel room, much to the chagrin of Donald, in the next room with his wife Noreen. But Ray’s not so pleased about Sharon going to see strippers, and nor is Donald that Noreen’s gone with her. |
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