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Baking Bread by Ashley Harris
Finalist in the Cambridge Theatre Challenge (International play-writing competition) 2014 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act drama with a single (park bench) set. |
| Synopsis | Bella is back at the bench by the lake, ready to feed the ducks. Before long John arrives and she can share the bread with him. But all is not as it seems, and soon Robin is there to tell Bella it's time to come home. It is a short, but emotive story. |
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| Bank Holiday Mondays and Other Ways to Kill a Marriage by Lorraine Forrest-Turner |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short two handed play, containing swearing. |
| Synopsis | Pippa and Jake are stranded in a traffic jam on their way home from Jake's parents' house. Worse, they don't have the bag with the baby things for little Josh. He's asleep for now, but surely things couldn't get worse? |
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Banter by Robert Scott
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comedy sketch with no set required. |
| Synopsis | John and Angie are having a quiet conversation before breakfast - or so it would seem. Luckily for us, they each have an interpreter on hand so we can understand what they are really saying. |
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BARF by Richard Moon
New BARF was one of the eight winners of the 2022 Ilkley Playhouse 8x8x8 Playwriting Festival and was performed at the Ilkley Playhouse in April 2023. |
| 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 | A funny sketch with a nicely grim twist. |
| Synopsis | Pauline's dishwasher is broken and Joe is confident he is the man to fix it for her. But why is Pauline so interested in Joe's private life? |
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| Battlefield Re-Enactment by David Lovesy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Characters Army 1 and Army 2 can be one person or several people each. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | An interviewer explores the exciting world of the amateur battlefield re-enactor. |
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| Beach Buddies 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, provided they look good in beachwear. (British people with long memories are invited to contemplate Les Dawson in this context.) |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch set in a pair of deck chairs. |
| Synopsis | Ange and Maxine are enjoying the benefits of a seaside holiday - the bracing air and the opportunity to sit in deck chairs grumbling about the men in their lives. |
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| A Beautiful Day for a Duel by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute comedy skit. Single set (with no specific requirements) and a pair as duelling pistols as the main props. |
| Synopsis | Andre arrives for his sixth duel of the year to find that his day is in danger of being spoiled by his inexperienced opponent. |
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| Becoming the Drop by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with a simple set. US English. Adult themes. |
| Synopsis | In a whistle-stop town in 1878, the hangman does his job, with the sheriff and the judge as witnesses, but takes his bragging too far and places himself in a questionable position. |
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| Beetlemania by Nicholas Richards |
| 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 Douglas could undergo gender reassignment with little pain! |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comedy sketch. No set or props required beyond a single handkerchief. |
| Synopsis | Douglas is delighted to hear that his old friend Michael has someone new in his life, but when they meet she's not what he expected... and it doesn't look like the relationship was meant to last. |
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| Behavioural Problems by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters are written male. This is consistent with their behaviour, but of course, they might not be. |
| Run Time | Around 1 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Very short sketch. No set or props required. |
| Synopsis | Returning from his suspension from school, Thompson is keen to show his Headmaster just how much he has improved. |
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