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| Chair of Truth - Tabitha Tritt 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 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch set in a Television Chat Show Studio (which is just a couple of comfy chairs and a coffee table). |
| Synopsis | Chair of Truth interviewer Chris P. Bacon explores the disordered life of heiress Tabitha Tritt. |
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The Chair by Geoff Bamber
Best Seller Performance by Hyde Little Theatre won the Andrew Winton Trophy (Best Performance, Under 15s) at the Greater Manchester Drama Federation one-act play festival, 2017. |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fable for children in one-act, populated with a variety of characters. |
| Synopsis | Follow the life of a chair and the fortunes of its various owners - from woodcutters to royalty and back again. |
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| Chances In The Rain by Robert 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 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act play, with a park setting. |
| Synopsis | Edward and Michelle are waiting for their dates in the same park. Both seem to have been stood up, yet they aren't very sympathetic to one another. But there are two other lonely people on hand, and things resolve neatly... eventually. |
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| Change of Career by Andrew Bawn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. During the sketch, Paul gives his year of birth and the length of his career. These can be adjusted to suit the age of the actor. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A witty sketch with some good deadpan humour. Easy to stage and would slot nicely into a sketch night. |
| Synopsis | Paul visits a careers advisor. He has twenty years' experience as a waiter, and twelve as a serial killer. |
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| Changes by Bob Tucker |
| 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 | Two-handed comedy sketch. Single simple set (table and chairs). |
| Synopsis | James arrives back from work to discover that his home has suddenly succumbed to an attack of minimalism! |
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| Changing Booms by TLC Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Nick, the presenter, is written male, but need not be so. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by Damian Trasler.) |
| Synopsis | The TV makeover show makes over Doris and Charlie's house! |
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| A Chaotic Christmas Carol by Richard Coleman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 23. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act verse play, rearranging Dickens. |
| Synopsis | 'A Christmas Carol' is given a huge twist to show Scrooge as a determined do-gooder, despite the machinations of wicked embezzler Bob Cratchit and the forlorn ghost of grasping Jacob Marley, plus assorted spirits. |
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Charlie to the Checkout Please by Robert Scott
Charlie To The Checkout Please - Best Play Legacy High School Theater, Las Vegas (2018) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. All roles are gender non-specific. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy set in a supermarket with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | It’s Riley’s first day on the checkout, and things are not going well: product returns, complaints, queue-jumping and an armed robbery! Charlie said he’d be on hand, but he’s not answering the PA. So Riley steps up. |
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| Charlie's Last Lap by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters written male, but Charlie, the ventriloquist's dummy, could be played by a girl dressed as a boy. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. Simple set - a chair.
From the Laughter Lines collection. |
| Synopsis | A ventriloquist settles down to watch Match of the Day, accompanied, as usual, by his dummy. |
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Charlotte Holmes - Future Detective by Richard James
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Option to double up roles of Narrators, Pupils and Guards |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for children |
| Synopsis | Young Charlotte Holmes may well be a 23rd century descendant of Sherlock and is eager to do some detective work. Her opportunity arises on a school trip to a museum when it is discovered that Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ painting has been stolen. |
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