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A New Job For The Wicked One by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. As you might expect from the title, one of the characters is a bit of a devil. The other is Mr Shufflebotham, but it could equally be Mrs Shufflebotham. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch set in a job centre. |
Synopsis | Just another regular day in the Little Noddingsbury Jobcentre - or so it seemed. Now Mr Shufflebotham has a very peculiar client - Satan himself has come up from the realms of Hades and is looking for a new job. |
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No Idea by Charles Dennison |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch set in a farmhouse kitchen. |
Synopsis | Fred and Mavis are enjoying a quiet morning in their farmhouse, when a visitor calls in the hopes of finding some antiques of value to purchase. He doesn't really fancy the non-matching candlesticks, but he's very taken with a painting left by the farmer's grandfather. |
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Non-Sequitur by S. J. Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch in the absurdist mode with no set necessary. |
Synopsis | A number of characters interchange absurd conversations with a surprising conclusion. |
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Nothing Exciting In Little Noddingsbury by Nicholas Richards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. All the characters are written male, but could easily be changed (although female bank robbers are an under-represented minority). |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short comedy play (or a long sketch) with a single set - the minimum necessary to indicate a bank. |
Synopsis | Two bank robbers hold up a small town bank - only to find that the clerk and manager are a little more relaxed than they were expecting. |
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Nothing Is What It Seems by Martyn Chapman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A dark, dramatic monologue, and a challenge for an actor. |
Synopsis | He looks like a rough sleeper, but the man on the bench warns the audience not to make assumptions. He could be a police officer, working undercover. Or his story could be much darker and more tragic. |
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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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Nursery Crimes - The Egg's Files by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Another 'film noir' parody as a 15-minute play, with minimal set requirements and few props. |
Synopsis | Business is slow for Fairytale PI, Puss in Boots. All that changes when he is handed a set of files belonging to the late Humpty Dumpty Puss is drawn into a complex web of intrigue and conspiracy involving the FBI (Fairyland Bureau of Investigation), the 3 Pigs Construction Empire and the Big Bad Wolf. |
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Oh Frabjous Day by Maeve Edwards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short drama on a simple set. |
Synopsis | Emma visits her ex Mark in a hospice to tell him she had his baby when she was eighteen and kept it a secret from him. The girl, Alice, had been adopted but has now come looking for her biological parents. Mark, whose life could possibly be saved if a bone marrow donor is found, is angry at Emma’s deceit, not getting the significance that Alice could possibly be his saviour. |
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The Old Apprentice by Gary Diamond |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play, single office setting. |
Synopsis | A 65-year-old applicant for the TV programme 'Find Me An Apprentice' is interviewed by the surprised producer. |
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On A Street Corner by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are 'Man, Boy and Girl' with an implication of relative ages, but not absolute ages! |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Fifteen-minute play. Single set (representing a street corner, but no real set requirements). |
Synopsis | Street corner preaching meets the Da Vinci code in a brief examination of religious truth and meaning. |
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