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The Actress 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 | Comedy prose monologue. Single set (a table and a phone), so could be performed front-of-curtain. |
Synopsis | A phone call to the director of the village Harvest Festival pageant from an experienced actress who feels, yet again, that she has been mis-cast . |
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Skinny Cap to Go by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy sketch. Set in a coffee shop, but since there are no real set requirements, it could be done front-of-curtain to cover a set change in a sketch show. |
Synopsis | A customer at a coffee shop just wants a coffee and a ham sandwich, but the barista has a few questions. Oh, and then a few more questions. |
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All This Time... by Jack Hutchinson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Easy-to-stage comedy sketch, requiring only two chairs. Takes audition gossip to a new level of cattiness. |
Synopsis | Two ageing amateur dramatic divas have auditioned for the same role in this year’s pantomime. As they await the director's decision, they snipe and argue with each other over past glories. |
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The Angry Doctor by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Perkins is written male but could be either. The doctor sounds male, but also could be either. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Single set (a desk to represent a doctor's surgery). Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | An anxious patient meets a doctor whose bedside manner is, to say the least, unusual. |
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The Crime Done in Rhyme by tlc Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Rhyming skit (parody of Dr. Seuss) no set requirements, a few common props. |
Synopsis | There's been murder afoot, but who can have done it? If there's a prize for rhymed mystery, this one has won it! The victim's a cat, but much more than that, He's a cat that has often been seen in a hat. A detective is called and a Mistress is found, (while the corpse of the cat is left there on the ground). It's funny, irreverent and won't take much time, and the best of it is, every line is in rhyme! |
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On the Way to Mars by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Science fiction sketch, single simple set. |
Synopsis | On the first manned mission to Mars, the boredom and monotony of the long space flight is taking its toll. How long before the crew finally crack? |
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Accountant from Hell by Barry Wood |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy short, with an unexpected take on exorcism. Minimal set. |
Synopsis | Father Murphy has been summoned because Karen appears to be possessed, and possessed by the spirit of an accountant. Worse still, it's an accountant Father Murphy knew in life. |
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First Night Nerves by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent. |
Synopsis | It's first night of a new show and the nerves are showing... |
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Anger Management for Dogs by Rupert Haigh |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The two characters are both dogs. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Bawdy sketch! Single set, with no specific requirements (in theory a pub - indeed could well be done in a pub). Includes mild swearing though in the context, the word 'bitch' is entirely non-pejorative. |
Synopsis | Rex and Fido are having a drink in their local and discussing the week they've had. It's hard to keep your cool in Cat Tolerance Classes, especially when you have issues with abandonment. |
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Murder At Merryweather Mansion by Lauren Jones |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Sketch-length murder mystery parody. In theory, two sets, but the opening scene could be delivered front-of curtain or in a spotlight to one side of the stage. |
Synopsis | When the odorous Mike Merryweather is murdered in his own living room, Detective McGloclyn is left with a roomful of suspects and more than a few clues and motives. His keen detective sense may not be up to unmasking the killer. |
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