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Great Moments in History, Number 5 by Jack Burgess |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Five-minute sketch. (Part of the Acting Funny collection of sketches.) |
Synopsis | The Sinking of the Titanic. Observed, with stiff-upper-lip, by two elderly gentlemen and by a steward. |
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The Greatest Invention In History by Damian Trasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Scientist is a gender-neutral description. |
Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch, no set, just a few props. (For those who don't have a matter transporter handy, teleportaion/materialisation may be represented by a sound effect.) |
Synopsis | A scientist about to reveal his world-changing invention has a number of unexpected interrupting visitors. |
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Greens with Envy by Ben Francis |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A comedy monologue with no set or props, just the imagination of the audience. |
Synopsis | What has been going on at the allotments? Newcomer Morgan has filled his plot with erotic garden gnomes and christened his shed 'The Love Pad'. And there has been a mysterious break-in at Ralph's shed. Then Ralph’s wife goes on holiday, and nobody knows where she is... |
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The Grilling by Barry Lambert |
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 | A comedy sketch for two people and a pub table. |
Synopsis | Flamboyant actor Gregory Walton sits in a pub hoping to be recognised by fans. He is approached by Ms Price, but discovers she is no fan when she starts to interrogate him about his past activities. |
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Guide to Survival by Gill Medway |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A fun prose monologue with the audience addressed as a tour group. No set required - bare stage or even front-of-curtain.. |
Synopsis | Tour guide Leonard is showing a group of people around a stately home - but complications in his love life turn out to be far more intriguing than the tour itself. And Leonard's way of dealing with his romantic dilemma may be a trifle risky. |
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Hack by Andy Haynes |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten minute comedy play, sending-up the pretentions of a writer and his agent. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Harold has written another play, just in time for a meeting with his agent Morty, who's dropped round to read him the reviews of his last play. It's not good news, but is Harold a man to be defeated by bad reviews? Maybe. |
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The Hang-Up by Helen Gent |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A very short sketch which is simple, funny and easy to produce. |
Synopsis | A couple are at the end of a long phone call, but she has more trouble disconnecting than he does. |
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Hannah the Horrible by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters are two adults and three children (aged 6 to 12). Whilst of course it could be played to age, it could also be performed by a youth theatre company (or even an adult company playing children). |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute (or so) comedy play. |
Synopsis | Hannah seems to be to blame for everything bad that happens in young Karen's class. Karen's mother confronts her teacher... |
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The Haunting of Hardup Hall by David Lovesy & Steve Clark |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters are all adults, but could easily be played by kids. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short humorous ghost story told in verse |
Synopsis | Lord and Lady Hardup are at their wits end. Their mansion is being haunted by a fearsome spook and soon they will be forced to flee! Mystic Maureen, psychic extraordinaire is called to save them from the spirits! |
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Have You Any Bread? by Jos Biggs |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch with a minimal set (a simulated shop counter). |
Synopsis | A customer attempts to buy bread from the bakery, but ends up investigating the surprising hours of the village. |
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