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| The Interview by Bob Tucker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy play. An unusually updated, piece of Dickens. |
| Synopsis | An excerpt from David Copperfield - except that a lot has changed since the nineteenth century. David takes his good friend Traddles to discuss with the Misses Spenlow the matter of his engagement to their niece, Dora. |
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| Is That You, Clint? by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy monologue with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Brenda muses about the obscene phone calls her social worker, Shardonnay - with an S - has been receiving. And then about her own calls, after a date-disaster and a no-show, and would it be Clint? |
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| Is This A Sketch? by David Lovesy & Brian Two |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. 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 | A short comedy sketch |
| Synopsis | Two comics wonder if they are performing a sketch. |
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| It Never Rains But It Pours by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One song, to be played over the closing actions, is suggested in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with minimal set requirements.
(Previous version published in 2019, revised edition published 2021.) |
| Synopsis | The ark has sprung a few leaks and Noah and his family have been bailing out water. Noah’s wife tells Noah to ask God to stop the floods. They soon discover that they need to make an appointment to speak to God, which isn’t as easy as they first thought. |
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| It'll All End In Tiers by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Beverley is described as 'an older woman', but without a specific age, so there's considerable flexibility. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short prose comedy monologue. |
| Synopsis | Beverley, an older lady who lives alone, has found a novel way to combat loneliness - attending weddings uninvited. |
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| It's A Funny Old Game by Cheryl Barrett |
| 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 | Whimsical two-men-in-a-pub sketch. |
| Synopsis | Dave and George spending a night out at the local pub watching a televised football match. They get philosophical after the final whistle. |
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| It's About Time by James P Brosnahan & Joseph S Kubu |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One character is an offstage voice, optionally recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act, light comedy, play. |
| Synopsis | Nick has brought Kim to the museum to look at art, but also to propose. Unfortunately they are interrupted by Nicholas who seems to know a lot about art and the two of them. He is actually a future version of Nick, and has his own plans for the evening. |
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| It's All Greek by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Collection of short comedy plays featuring Ancient Greek heroes and god. A set of riffs on myths. |
| Synopsis | Five funny plays, each with a cast of two or three, Locations include Troy, Mount Olympus, the skies and a couple of unexpected Ancient Greek offices. |
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It's Deja View... Again by The Stannington Scribbler
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 118 minutes. [Estimated!] The original production run time was between 95 and 100 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play in a single set. (Mainly a living room set, with the option of separate areas at either side of the stage for two telephone operators.) |
| Synopsis | Peter has been tied up and robbed, as well as hit on the head. Getting justice is just as hard as getting the insurance money, and then he's robbed again, and accused of the robbery! Can the Neighbourhood Watch help catch the real crook? |
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| It's Not Brain Surgery! by Jamie Hope |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy (on the boundary between a one-act play and a short) in a single set, most of which is a hospital bed. |
| Synopsis | A parody doctor with a very questionable bedside manner has to fill in a patient on the unusual results of the operation to re-attach his severed thumb. |
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