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Motor Mouth by Richard James
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters are written male, but could be either
Run TimeAround 4 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleComedy sketch, requiring something to represent a dentist's chair. Family-friendly, light-hearted humour. Would fit easily into a community revue evening or an event of similar tone.
SynopsisA man shows-up for a dental appointment only to find that his usual dentist is participating in a government-sponsored job swap...
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Mum! by Geoff Parker
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. One female character is a non-speaking cameo role.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA monologue-style short play, with a single, old folks' home, setting.
SynopsisEver since his mum had gone into the old folks' home Colin and his wife Iris made sure that they visited her every day. They did not realise that their visits were not as important to Mum as they thought, and we learn exactly what she thinks about life in general. The inevitable end is respectfully handled by Colin.
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Night Intruders by Olivia Arieti
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 9 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short drama, with a single setting and simple prop requirements.
SynopsisSam and Liz meet for the first time on the roof top of an apartment building. They are both there with the intention of ending it all by jumping from the roof. As their relationship develops, however, their intentions change.
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Nuisance Call by David Dean
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 4 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short comic monologue with minimal set requirements.
SynopsisA medieval phone help line is offering advice and comfort to victims of the plague.
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Nursery Crimes by Damian Trasler
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 10 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort dramatic pastiche of hard-boiled private eye genre, aimed at young teenagers (but frequently used by older groups).
SynopsisDid he fall or was he pushed? That is the question on everyone's lips! Rumours are rife. The theories are wild and fanciful and no-one is above suspicion! However Bill, the Private Eye is on the case. Can he and Goldie solve the puzzle?
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Oh Frabjous Day by Maeve Edwards
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 12 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short drama on a simple set.
SynopsisEmma visits her ex Mark in a hospice to tell him she had his baby when she was eighteen and kept it a secret from him. The girl, Alice, had been adopted but has now come looking for her biological parents. Mark, whose life could possibly be saved if a bone marrow donor is found, is angry at Emma’s deceit, not getting the significance that Alice could possibly be his saviour.
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People Could Die by Frank Gibbons
RolesMinimum 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 TimeAround 5 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort comedy sketch, requiring very little in the way of scenery and props.
SynopsisDorothy and Sylvia are in the doctor's waiting room, contemplating their state of health (and everyone else's)...
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Questions by Susan Vesey
Winner of the Gloucestershire Theatre Association Playwriting Competition 2013
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Newsreader could be a recorded voice.
Run TimeAround 18 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA short play, with a minimal set.
SynopsisEdward is getting annoyed with the nurse who is giving him his home visit check-up. She's asking all sorts of silly questions when he knows that he's perfectly fine. But not everything is as Edward remembers it.
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Russell at the Doctor by TLC Creative
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 2 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort comedy sketch with no requirements for props or set (although could easily use a desk and a couple of chairs).
SynopsisRussell goes for a medical check up and discovers that he has been allocated a new Doctor
A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection
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The Sacrifice by Rebecca Preen
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 15 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleEmotionally powerful fifteen minute drama that manages to examine the effect of trauma on a whole family without stepping outside the hospital room of the patient.
SynopsisBeth is in a coma, and her family wait by her bedside, but as time passes it becomes clear Beth is not going to wake up. Her Mum is the most reluctant to move on, but even she can't fool herself any longer. But they can't hear what's happening inside Beth's head...
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