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Digging Deep by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Characters' playing ages are 86 (Robert) and 77 (Elaine), but they are sprightly (not to say frisky). |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch set on a bench in a graveyard. Contains a naughty word. From the Laughter Lines collection. |
Synopsis | A chance meeting in a graveyard could well lead on to other things (starting with a cup of tea and a slice of apple pie). |
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Digging up the Past by Chris Hicks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A ten-minute dramatic monologue (featuring some black comedy). |
Synopsis | A building site manager struggles to cope when a body is discovered on school playing fields. When archaeologists turn up to excavate a Saxon burial ground, things take a turn for the worse. |
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Dobre Den, Mrs Wilson by Ged Quayle |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute comedy with distinctly adult themes. Minimal (kitchen) setting. An unusual set-up that allows for a unique form of bonding between the two characters, with cheeky comedy mixed with some emotional connection. |
Synopsis | Di Wilson meets Khristo, her son's husband-to-be. Just one problem - Khristo can't speak English, and Di speaks nothing but. Safe from understanding, Di confesses a shattering secret. |
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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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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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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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Double Deck Of Cards by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. 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 | Comedy sketch with a minimal set (but requiring two bus drivers' uniforms). |
Synopsis | Two bus drivers discuss why people say 'If he was run down by a bus' and nearly come to blows over some bad jokes. |
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Dream Job by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch set in an interview room (so a desk and a couple of chairs). |
Synopsis | A job interview for a man who has - and knows he has - a nasty streak. |
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The Duchess of Argyle by Chris Hicks |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Dramatic monologue with a simple (furniture-only) set. |
Synopsis | A middle-aged woman with a flamboyant alter-ego and expensive tastes, confesses to a theft in which she and her husband are complicit. |
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Duck by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Three ducks, three swans and three hunters! |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute comedy play. Single set (no real set requirements) |
Synopsis | Three different varieties of duck are arguing about which is the true Duck, when they are united by the threatening behaviour of the ruling swans. Sadly, before their revolution can get off the ground, three duck hunters arrive. |
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