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| Rick Risk P.I. by Tony Domaille |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A spoof detective noir comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | In an amusingly cliché ridden roller coaster way Private Investigator Rick Risk meets the glamourous Somer Field in his search for Mr Big. But is Miss Somer Field quite what she seems? |
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| A Right Old Scream by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch requiring only a couple of chairs (so could be performed front-of-curtain between more complex pieces). |
| Synopsis | Judith and Mavis are on a day out. They have an unexpected cultural experience whilst sheltering from the rain, when an art gallery gives them something to Munch on... |
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| Role Play by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters are 6 teenagers and a teacher. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Sketch. Minimal set requirements. Simple props. Modern, realism. Includes mild innuendo, mild swearing and mild religious/ethnic intolerance. |
| Synopsis | A teacher struggles to keep control of a role-playing exercise, confronting the issue of teenage pregnancy. |
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Romeo and Juliet - Sped Up! by Hannah Thomas
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. Most of the speaking is done by the two narrators. There are six other speaking parts (some of whom have as much as a word) and other named roles played by people stepping out of the chorus (usually to be brushed-off or stabbed). |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute reduction of Romeo and Juliet. No set requirements, just a few props, love and death. |
| Synopsis | Shakespeare's tale of young love and tragedy given short shrift in this heavily condensed version. |
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| Romeo and Juliet's Final Half Hour by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Performers either youth theatre or a mixture of adults and youth.
Our reviewer noted that the role of Romeo is a 'low-stress part' on account of him already being dead. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] The run time depends on the time Juliet takes to remember her lines. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch, set in a school hall (which need only be represented by a few items of furniture). |
| Synopsis | Nikki, the drama teacher, is determined to get through this last rehearsal with her principals from Romeo and Juliet, but Juliet can't remember the right lines - even the right play - and there are constant interruptions. |
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| Room with a View by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A dramatic sketch with a single (hotel room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Four thieves meet in a high rise hotel room after a botched bank heist. The situation only gets worse. |
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| Santa Claus is Calling by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Cast of two teenage girls, their father and Santa Claus! (The last two might - just - be doubled.) |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Seven-minute skit. Single (minimal) set. |
| Synopsis | Polly and Alice may not believe in Santa Claus any more, but Santa believes in them... |
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| Sardines Again? by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Mick's wife Christine is on yet another diet and, whilst sympathetic to her diets in the past, he has now been told by his doctor to reduce his cholesterol. Christine seems obsessed with their diet and when Mick is told he's got sardines again, he puts his foot down. |
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| Saving India by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten minute play, single set. |
| Synopsis | A short political sketch in which three Indian government secretaries discuss their plans for the nation - and their own advancement - whilst puffing on their Cuban cigars. |
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| Say it with a Sausage by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Whilst the two characters are women, they might be played as women by men in non-glamorous drag. (British people with long memories are invited to contemplate Les Dawson in this context.) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch.
From the Laughter Lines collection. |
| Synopsis | At the end of the working day, what could be better than a discussion of the relationship between slimming and happiness? (Especially when accompanied by cream cakes.) |
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