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Love Is Blind by Andrew Bawn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. 1 necessary gender non-specific character and 2 or more optional characters. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch on a simple set. |
Synopsis | Gary and April meet on a blind date in a restaurant. There is an age gap between them, and they quickly realise they are not well matched. |
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The Love Potion by Robert M. Barr |
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 sketch for two actors |
Synopsis | Jennifer is seeking a solution to her tangled love life and turns to the enigmatic Lazlo to assist. The potion he prescribes yields surprising results. |
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Lucky Break by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch with a simple set. |
Synopsis | A coffee break for four, or something more? |
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Lust Amid The Strawberries by Rosemary Frisino Toohey Voted Audience Favorite of the 10 winners of Sky Blue Theatre's 2016 British Theatre Challenge in London. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A ten minute play. |
Synopsis | It’s a dull day at the greengrocers until Tracey walks in. All she wants is some strawberries, but Jon's imagination takes off with warp speed. An everyday encounter is transformed into a study of exquisite torture by two narrators, who convey the inner thoughts and feelings of a humble grocery clerk encountering unexpected beauty. |
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Make This Go Away by Robert M. Barr |
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 | Ten minute play with a single domestic setting |
Synopsis | When a stranger turns up, breaking into his house in the middle of the night, Fred pulls out his gun to defend his wife and property, but if the stranger is a locksmith sent by the bank... and if the house has been foreclosed, what then? And what does Fred’s wife, Alice, have to do with it all? |
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Making up the Make-Up by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. The characters are written 1M, 2F, but that could be changed. (Donna probably works better female, but make your own mind up!) |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch with a theatrical bent. No set or props required, but the costume and make-up is essential to the comedy! |
Synopsis | New make-up girl Donna is not quite what the director expected... |
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The Man Who Mis-Sold The World by Chris Brannick |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A ten minute comedy play |
Synopsis | Major Tom is in trouble, drifting through space and expecting death. What he gets is a visit from two parking attendants because his ship is on a double-yellow asteroid belt. Luckily, he has an idea about paying the fine. |
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The Man Who Would Be Shirley Temple by Jacob M. Appel |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short, absurd comedy sketch. (US English.) |
Synopsis | Pretentious actor Reginald Pants (pronounced Pontse) visits a casting director, hoping to land the lead role in a remake of Bright Eyes - even though the director was hoping to cast a five-year-old girl. |
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Marigolds by John Chambers |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Middle-aged couple! |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Hilarious fifteen-minute comedy. Simple single set. Simple props. Contains swearing. |
Synopsis | Harry is having trouble with his piles, and needs his wife Margaret to... take the problem in hand, so to speak. She's reluctant to use her lovely washing-up gloves for such a personal task, but he is adamant. While they struggle to... rectify... the problem, a few other things pop out that Harry had no idea about. |
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The Marrying Kind by Frank Gibbons |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short sketch, in a simple office setting. |
Synopsis | Paul is looking for something in the store, but he seems to have gone into the wrong department... |
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