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And Now, For My Next Trick 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 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy sketch with minimal set requirements. |
Synopsis | The Great Marvelloso, an ageing and incompetent Magician, is training a rather star-struck and talkative young woman to be his assistant. Taciturn and pessimistic by nature, his patience is pushed to the very limits. |
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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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The Angry Doctor by Robert Scott Best Seller |
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. |
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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Annie's Love by Robert Scott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A serious prose monologue with no required set, but a few essential props. |
Synopsis | Annie is speaking into a camcorder, recording a message for the future - for someone she loves very much. |
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Another Day, Another Gossip 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 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch. Simple set representing a living room. |
Synopsis | A couple of 'mature' ladies take in tea, cakes and gossip. |
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Another Ice Mess You Got Me Into by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short prose monologue. No set or props, though the speaker is required to dress as a ship! Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | A ship reflects on its brief association with an iceberg in 1912 from its position on the seabed. |
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Anything to Declare? by David Lovesy & Steve Clark |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The characters are both written male, but the customs officer could easily be female. |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. Requires a table and a suitcase (the contents of which can either be hidden from the view of the audience, or revealed for greater comic effect). |
Synopsis | A traveller has his bags checked at Customs and some unusual items are discovered! |
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An Apple a Day 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 | Comedy sketch (bordering on a very short play) for a cast of two. |
Synopsis | Serial dieter Laura is on yet another diet but is struggling to maintain her willpower. Will her sister Nikki be able to get her back on track? |
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An Apple for Newton by Ray Lawrence |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. The perfect role for a wooden actor. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short prose monologue - no set requirements or props, but some ingenuity required for the costume! |
Synopsis | An apple tree gets to the core of Isaac Newton's most famous discovery. |
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Appropriate Clowning by David Lovesy & Brian Two |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A high value short sketch. |
Synopsis | A clown new to the profession seeks advice from a veteran performer. |
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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