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Howdy by Henry P. Gravelle Honorable Mention - Berlin Flash Film Festival, script competition, August 30, 2018 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Bluegrass or banjo at curtain rise and close. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A short comedy sketch set in a motel reception. US English. |
Synopsis | Two hillbilly outsiders need to find a resting place for the night. They are amazed and a little apprehensive by the modern wonders of a motel. |
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Human Relations by Mark Niel Winner in the Marie Curie One Page Play Competition competition, 2008 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The waiter is written male, but could easily be a waitress. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute comedy play, single (restaurant table) set, simple props. |
Synopsis | Paula thinks she's just meeting her boyfriend for a pleasant evening out together, but he's an HR manager, and its been a year since they started going out, so there's got to be an annual review! |
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Humbug by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol presented as a short comedic play for kids. |
Synopsis | When Jacob Marley dies he keeps his promise to come back and haunt his mean-spirited business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge has a particularly parsimonious attitude to Christmas and this reflects itself his treatment of his long-suffering employees, Bob and Molly Cratchit. In case Jacob's efforts to get Ebenezer to change his ways don't meet with success, he enlists the help of three ghostly friends. Will Christmas still be humbug or will Ebenezer see the light? |
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Hunting Yetis by Andy Haynes |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Michael is definitely male. The Yeti seems to be male, but it's hard to tell owing to the Yeti costume. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute comedy play, single set (mainly a couch). Simple, funny and touching. |
Synopsis | Michael wasn't expecting anyone to call, certainly not wearing a yeti suit. But this yeti comes bearing gifts - a pair of binoculars, a butterfly net and a letter Michael wrote when he was small, about how he was off to hunt yetis. Oh, and there’s a ticket to the Himalayas too... |
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I Am Hamlet by Richard James Performance by Portree ADS won the Wakefield Quaich Award for Presentation, Scottish One Act Festival, 2011, Performance by Thurso Players won Best Play award at the SCDA One Act Play Festival, 2012, |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy thriller, single bare-stage set. |
Synopsis | An amateur actor auditions for the lead role in a local production of Hamlet. There is some fun to be had as the director puts him through his acting paces, but slowly we learn that the actor has more in common with the Prince of Denmark than meets the eye... |
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Exclusions | Due to professional performances, this script is not available for performance in the following places at the following times:- Spain, ES from the first day of January, 2022 to the last day of January, 2026 50 mile radius of Mexico City, MX from the first day of April, 2024 to the last day of October, 2024 |
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I Licked My Cat's Brain by Matthew Taylor |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. 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 stand-up comedy sketch, two people, no scenery, no props. |
Synopsis | Well, the title says it all! |
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I Now Pronounce You by David Titchener |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Five on-stage characters plus the off-stage voice of a police officer (who might be recorded). |
Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play in a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Eddie, Big Chris and Jono are preparing for the upcoming double wedding of Eddie to Trudy and Big Chris to Maureen, but they need to cut costs. Surely getting Jono to perform the ceremony couldn't backfire, could it? (The core characters appear in Flaming Liberty and The Next Big Thing. The pieces are independent, but could be used together.) |
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I sold my soul to Santa by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One character is thousands of years old, but probably doesn't look it. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch, highlighting the importance of korect spling. |
Synopsis | Steve and April have concerns over Billy's spelling and writing skills. |
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I'm Not One To Gossip But... by Cheryl Barrett |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | Brenda has met up with her old friend Sharon for lunch and a friendly gossip at Phillip's café. Through the gossip, a few skeletons in Phillip's cupboard are revealed. |
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I'm On A Train by Graham Jones |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A neat, simple monologue that could be comedy gold in the right hands. (Minimal set requirements.) |
Synopsis | It's a tough day for businessman Tom Wright, as he races to Edinburgh in a last-ditch attempt to save his company. Sadly, things are not destined to go his way, and the phone calls he makes and receives on that journey reveal the scope of the disaster that unfolds. |
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