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Great Moments in History, Number 2 by Jack Burgess |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Historical skit in one short scene. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) Contains mild swearing and a telescope. |
Synopsis | The Spanish Armadillo. A Lady finds a fully paid-up Fool on look-out duty. |
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Green Things in Space by Paul Gisby |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. In addition to the on-stage characters, two people appear on video and there are several voice-overs. |
Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play. Simultaneously comic and poignant. Stage (and action) split between a modern hospital and the deck of a sci-fi spaceship! |
Synopsis | Stan is in hospital, suffering from the effects of years of working with asbestos, but he lives on in his unpublished science fiction epic - an unintentionally hilarious account of a galactic war. |
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The Health and Safety Inspector by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
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 Steve Clark.) |
Synopsis | The troops manning a dug-out in the front line receive a visit from the Brigade Health and Safety inspector! |
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Keeping up with the Andersons by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
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 | Jimmy's dad thinks he has built the perfect Anderson air raid shelter, until he hears about his neighbour's. |
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The Land Army by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. There is no formal requirement for a chorus, but additional Land Girls could be added at the discretion of the production. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by Steve Clark, David Lovesy and Rick Adams.) |
Synopsis | During a routine inspection of a squad of Land Army girls, the visiting officer has some suspicions that all is not what it seems... |
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Military Intelligence by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Whilst the characters are written male, this is a comedy sketch and the author would not be alarmed if women were cast! |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by Mark Niel.) |
Synopsis | Two German spies report back to their superior on their failed mission to London and blame the map provided. |
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Nelson's Driving Test by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch, with verbal and visual gags and anachronisms. Single set (can be very simple). |
Synopsis | A young Horatio Nelson prepares to take his Naval Captaincy Proficiency Test in front of an eager TV crew. |
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The Not So Great Escape by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 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 | Three POWs discuss possible escape plans in a World War 2 camp. |
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Now Is Not The Time by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Death, War, Pestilence and Famine, and Mr. and Mrs Lamb - a couple from Yorkshire. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Twelve-minute comedy skit. Single set (though the location is largely conveyed through dialogue). |
Synopsis | A couple are trying to get their guest house ready for a party of four when four horsemen arrive. The Four Horsemen. The couple have to explains that they've no vacancies and the End of the World simply isn't convenient at this moment in time... |
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The Scramblings at Spriggly Torch by Richard Coleman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comic play - a Second World War mystery. One set, divided into three locations. |
Synopsis | It is 1943, and enemy plans for a new fighter aircraft have fallen into the hands of British intelligence, but a traitor is suspected of attempting to retrieve them. |
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