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Fantasy Games by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written as two children and their mother, but this is a comedy sketch, and could be equally funny played by all adults or all kids. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short skit. Single (minimal) set, but would be best costumed. |
Synopsis | Two teenage online gaming addicts are hassled to do their daily chores by their mother. |
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A Farewell to Annie Moore by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One traditional Irish song. Two uses of a well-known nursery rhyme with original lyrics. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act play for children on a minimal set. |
Synopsis | At the end of the 19th Century, Annie Moore and her young siblings are to emigrate from Ireland to America to join their parents. They are visited by a number of characters from Irish history and culture to wish them luck. |
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The Farmer and the Charuba Seeds by Geoff Bamber |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short contemporary fable for children. No set requirements. A few simple props. Designed to be played on its own or as part of a broader entertainment. |
Synopsis | A farmer tries to eke out a living from the land, whilst everyone around him believes that they know better. |
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Fashion School by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | It's the first evening of fashion school and the tutor is putting the new students through their paces. |
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Fast and Furious by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. A customer, a helpdesk operator and a voiceover (which could be recorded) |
Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch requiring a couple of desks. Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
Synopsis | A computer user tries to get help with a technical problem. |
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Feeding the Ducks by Paul Mathews |
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 play - a two-handed comedy with some serious edges and good acting opportunities. Simple set (a bench) and ducks brought to life by sound effects. |
Synopsis | Moira loves to feed the ducks, and has done so ever since her husband died. But Paul is an ornithologist on a mission to save ducks from those who clog their crops with damp bread! |
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Feeding the Pigs by Hilary Mackelden |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | An enjoyably grim monologue. |
Synopsis | Mara has killed her husband and needs to get rid of the body. She takes him, at dead of night, to a pig farm ten miles away to feed him to the pigs. She succeeds, but makes a potentially damning mistake. |
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A Fevver For Me 'At by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short rhyming monologue in a cockney accent! Designed to form part of a music hall entertainment. (No set, no props.) |
Synopsis | A lady who glories in the correct headgear (and the accessories for it) reveals the trouble she went to, preparing for tea with the vicar. |
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Final Curtain by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch, in a simple setting. |
Synopsis | A small drama group seem unhappy, but where did their problems arise - script, cast, audience? And what next... ? |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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The Final Eppy Log by Laurie Hornsby |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. One on-stage character plus an offstage newsread (single line) which might be recorded. |
Run Time | Around 17 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Dramatic monologue with a single bedroom set. |
Synopsis | On the night he is destined to die of a drug overdose, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, reflects on his life and career. |
Price | For scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost. For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here |
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