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| The Doctor And Mr Rogers by Kal B Sisson |
| 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 | A short dark comedy sketch set in a doctor's consulting room. |
| Synopsis | Mr Rogers takes some convincing, when the doctor tells him the bad news - that his condition means he has only minutes to live. |
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| Doctor Sleep by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy skit. The setting is a doctor's surgery - with the minimum of decor needed to convey that information, so could even be done front-of-curtain. No specific props required. |
| Synopsis | Mrs James needs some help with her insomnia, and Doctor Barlow needs her to go home so he can begin his evening. Nurse Popplewell is doing her best to help them both. |
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| Doctor, Doctor by Jonathan Edgington |
| 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 | Short comedy sketch. Includes adult themes! (No offensive language, but the occasional embarrassed cough...) |
| Synopsis | A man goes into his doctor's office and is startled to find a woman there. Despite his initial embarrassment, he reveals his personal problem and then becomes very embarrassed indeed when he discovers who she is. |
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| The Doctor by Gary Diamond & Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Mister Smedley would seem to be male. The doctor could be either. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | A man is called into his doctor's office for some very bad - and surprising - news. |
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| Does My Bum Look Big In This? by Johnny Grim |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act adult comedy set at a café table. Australian settings but with opportunities for customising to other locations. |
| Synopsis | Long-time Aussie friends Donna, Janice and Sharon meet for coffee, prior to Janice flying off to attend her sister's wedding. Their get together is suddenly interrupted with news that the wedding has been called off. |
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| The Dog Sitters by Sarah Cowan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and teenagers. (Could be played by that mix, or by teenagers with make-up!) |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single set. |
| Synopsis | A group of girls invited to house-sit and look after a dog for an evening take the opportunity for an impromptu party, during which there is a problem with the dog... |
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| A Dog Walk by Ginny Davis |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | One music track suggested, to be played alongside speech at a certain point in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A comedy monologue with no set required. |
| Synopsis | Ruth outlines the perils of taking a group of dogs walking and the disruptions that can arise out of the idiosyncracies of both animals and owners. |
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| Doggy Noire by Jamie Hope |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. All the characters are animals. (All literally, some figuratively.) The characters are nominally 4M, 1F, but in the context, there's a lot of flexibility. |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play in a single setting. Contains adult themes and language (although in the context of dogs, 'bitch' is not necessarily a term of abuse).
Noire as in 'bête noire' rather than 'film noir'. (No hard-boiled detectives.) |
| Synopsis | Bonzo the enforcer has brought Paulette the Poodle to the bridge, as arranged, but who is being set up for a fall? When Big Fido arrives, it turns out there may not be any winners, since the rats that come with him have grudges of their own. |
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| Don't Get Me Started... by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Poignant comedy monologue set in the aftermath of a party. |
| Synopsis | Marilyn, a middle-aged domestic goddess, has an expensive lifestyle to maintain. |
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| A Double Date with Uncle Martin by John Passadino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act comedy (possibly a boulevard farce) set in a restaurant. (Written in American English.) |
| Synopsis | Chris has lost track of the day, and accidentally lined up two dates on the same night, in the same restaurant. Can they really both be related to Martin Scorsese? |
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