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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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He and She by Frank Gibbons |
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 | Short comedy sketch. Minimal domestic setting. Contains marital disharmony. |
Synopsis | 'She' tries to explain to her husband that she has an attentive admirer. |
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Heading Home by David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Whilst the characters are nominally gendered, they are, when all's said and done, two pigeons and a cat! |
Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short sketch. The author suggests it could be performed as a radio play so that the anthropomorphic twist is not revealed until the right moment, but it could be staged. No set or props required, though if it is staged, costumes would be a good idea! |
Synopsis | A pair of homing pigeons encounter difficulties finding their way home. A sketch from the 'Bright and Shiny Radio Show' collection |
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The Health and Safety Inspector by TLC Creative |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. 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 sketch from the 'Skitskrieg' Second-World-War revue show by TLC Creative. (This sketch written by Steve Clark.) |
Synopsis | The troops manning a dug-out in the front line receive a visit from the Brigade Health and Safety inspector! |
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Hearts and Minds by E. C. Chapman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 11 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Monologue, set in a Northern Irish kitchen. |
Synopsis | Ulsterman Michael grew up in the Troubles and fears his beloved Belfast has failed to learn the lessons of the past. |
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Hefty the Elephant by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A short comedy sketch with no set required. |
Synopsis | Ben and Jerry wonder where Hefty went after running away from the circus and whether he joined Nellie. |
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Heir on a Shoestring by Ian Sharrock |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. Set in modern times, but rather a Woosterish central character! |
Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Monologue - a short black comedy, with no requirement for set or props. Contains limited swearing and dishonourable motives! |
Synopsis | A dissolute young man tells a tale of woe, recounting how he tried to 'hurry along' his inheritance from his rich Great Uncle Silas. Trouble is, having a new companion gives the old boy a new lease of life, and he drives his grandnephew to distraction living it to the full. |
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